Have you ever noticed that when you see someone playing video games on TV or the movies, very often you can see they are clearly not actually playing the game?  Like, you can see the person's hands on the controller, and the way they're randomly mashing the buttons you just know that this controller isn't even connected to anything.  Maybe I'm making too big a deal of this, but watching these people frantically flicking the analog sticks from side to side, I wonder: Has this person ever actually played a video game before?  I mean, don't actors usually research their roles?  How hard would it be to learn how to properly use a controller?

I notice the same thing in scenes with “musicians” playing their instruments.  I hear the music and I see the way the guitarist is moving his fingers and it's so obvious that he doesn't really know how to play guitar.  Of course, it takes years to learn an instrument.  But how long would it take to learn to use a game controller, or at least fake it more convincingly?  You'd think that filmmakers would make more of an effort to make their video game sequences look authentic.

So come on directors!  The next time you're filming a scene with gamers, how about popping in a real game?  May I suggest God of War III?  Man, that game is so good, you'll forget that you have filming to do!  Hmm… maybe that's not such a good idea.  Come to think of it, forget I said anything.  Carry on.