I’m doing a little research and need examples of movie scenes where computers or machines speak instructions or warnings. You know, the typical “30 seconds to impact” or “15 seconds until self-destruction”. In The Amazing Spiderman there’s a serum-making machine that says something like “30 seconds until serum completion.”
I’m not looking for sentient robots or computers like Data from “Next Generation”, Ash from Alien or Jarvis from Iron Man. Just machines that give vocalized status updates.
There’s an extended bit/gag where they ask the computer questions about the power supply for the ship, and then the main female character repeats everything the computer says.
At the end they’re going to disable something or else the ship explodes or something like that. I haven’t seen it in a long time, so my memory may be conflated with something else, but I thought there was a countdown.
Lasciel, I love that part, where the computer only responds to her like it did on the TV show.
WALL-E might be an interesting example as it has robots and computers. Here’s a clip of a computer letting a robot know that it’s now OK to move around the cabin but not for very long: Wall-E and Eve escape from the Axiom ship - YouTube
I wonder if Logan’s Run counts. I’m pretty sure the computer responses were all generated by the questions asked or the objects scanned, so was not a sentient computer.
Although pointedly, the Ship’s Computer in Star Trek Next Gen was, if not sentient, pretty damned close. The computer in Galaxy Quest is presented as being much less capable, so I was more comfortable posting it as an example.
Husband suggests that the Austin Powers movies might have them, as they’re pastiches of James Bond. Likewise James Bond itself, but he can’t remember any specific examples.
Blade Runner might have, likewise Minority Report, the Aliens movie series might also have a few places.
He remembers a specific Twilight Zone episode that’s post-fallout, and a character gets information from a computer in a cave. It might not SPEAK - he doesn’t remember.
Likewise original Star Trek also has instances of “intelligent” computers that might talk.
Ultraviolet has the “firearms present - many” scene.
Fifth Element has talking computers.
If animation qualifies, Incredibles has the little flying spoon that reports back to Syndrome, and the Jetsons has lots of computers talking. He also seems to remember one in Final Fantasy Spirits Within, but he admits he might easily be wrong on that one.
