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.
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.
There’s also Pierce Brosnan providing the voice of the Simpsons’ computerized house, but it’s pretty clearly sentient.
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.)
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.
Yeah…that’s the one!!!
As homage to Alien’s Mother, there’s a “countdown until you’re dead” computer voice in the abysmal Prometheus.
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”
Oddly enough, Neil deGrasse Tyson commented on this phenomena today. Neil, are you there?
He wasn’t running a program. He was using a voice synthesizer 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.