# Movie buffs, I need your help. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422 "2013-06-07T20:47:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422/41 "2013-06-11T19:00:12Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > 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. The atomic bomb in \*\*Goldfinger \*\*has a countdown clock, but it doesn’t talk. Naturally, it stops at 007. Seems like one of the Roger Moore’s would have this trope, but I don’t think I’ve seen many of those. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422/42 "2013-06-12T01:42:38Z")
Are TV scenes allowed? There’s one from _The Simpsons_ where there’s a meltdown about to happen at the nuclear plant; a recorded voice is counting down how much time is left, but everyone is asleep. Finally a dog walks up to a console (probably Homer’s) and pulls down a lever with its mouth. The voice says “nuclear meltdown averted. Good boy.” Can’t find it on youtube. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422/43 "2013-06-12T01:45:44Z")
There’s also Pierce Brosnan providing the voice of the Simpsons’ computerized house, but it’s pretty clearly sentient. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422/44 "2013-06-12T01:47:46Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The atomic bomb in \*\*Goldfinger \*\*has a countdown clock, but it doesn’t talk. Naturally, it stops at 007. **Trivia:** That was a last-minute change in the film by the director (I think) who just couldn’t resist it. Originally, the clock showed 003, and if you listen carefully you’ll hear Bond say “Three more ticks and Mr Goldfinger would have hit the jackpot!” In other words, the number was changed, but Connery’s line wasn’t. (In cinemas, it was drowned out by laughter at the sight gag.) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422/45 "2013-06-12T07:24:58Z")
Star Trek III The detonation sequence is counted down by the ship’s computer. Not what the OP is looking exactly but my favorite part of 2001 is when Dave is in the pod and as he clearly starts overriding and setting things on the pod to do something it isn’t supposed to do a veritable symphony of alarms and klaxons builds and builds until we go to that moment of silence and then sound again as the air builds up in the lock. ---
**Author:** ![PeacePlease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422/46 "2013-06-12T10:18:15Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > Wargames? Yeah…that’s the one!!! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422/47 "2013-06-13T14:01:48Z")
As homage to _Alien_’s Mother, there’s a “countdown until you’re dead” computer voice in the abysmal _Prometheus_. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422/48 "2013-06-13T23:05:05Z")
_Aliens_ has been mentioned in passing, but in case you’re looking for specifics, the computer voice in Aliens (note the ‘s’) is broadcast in the atmosphere processors after the cooling lines are ruptured. The repeating phrase was “_Attention. Emergency. All personnel must evacuate immediately. You have x minutes to reach minimum safe distance_” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422/49 "2013-06-14T14:16:52Z")
Oddly enough, Neil deGrasse Tyson [commented on this phenomena today](https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/345374260358955008). Neil, are you there? ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422/50 "2013-06-14T15:48:29Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > It’s actually _WarGames_. > > The most ridiculous thing about the voice of “Joshua” is that we first hear it when David runs a program on his crappy little home computer to generate the voice (and a lot better than it could really be done at the time). But, later at Cheyenne Mtn., we hear the _same_ voice from SAC’s sophisticated computers. Had David previously stolen the source code for voice generation from SAC and adapted it to his computer? He wasn’t running a program. He was using a [voice synthesizer](http://pc-museum.com/046-imsai8080/wargames.htm) attached to his computer. Second picture from the bottom shows Ally Sheedy with it. Of course, the voice in the movie wasn’t a real synthesized voice. It was the actor who played Professor Falken’s voice processed to sound electronic. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422/51 "2013-06-14T16:52:03Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > Space balls. “have a nice day” “10, 9, 8, 6…” “Six!? What Happened to seven?” “Just [kidding](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UunQXXxAWY).” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-buffs-i-need-your-help/660422.md?page=2)