Mr. Payback (1995) clips
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2025
- Mr. Payback was billed as the world's first "interactive movie". It was written by Bob Gale and starred Billy Warlock. This was not a product for a videogame system, but actually released to a few movie theaters around the country which specially equipped one of their small auditoriums with 3-button joysticks on each seat. It used technology provided by the company Interfilm which ran the movie off of 3 NTSC LaserDiscs. Learn more about the Interfilm system here:
www.joeredifer....
One night I snuck one of the LaserDiscs home to see how it would act in a normal player. The video was presented in a very nonlinear format. I managed to record a couple of minutes to a Super VHS videotape. I recently found that tape, and that's what this video is from. The black slates and whatnot are directly from the disc, I did not insert them. This is all the video I have, I wish I had more.
I love how the guy at the right says "Eat my shorts" twice.
I can't believe you have this. I love FMV games. It's too bad no one ported this to current consoles, given the Digital Pictures upgraded releases.
I liked Billy Warlock a lot more in _Society._
I saw this movie in Middletown Ny (60 miles from NYC). I recently remembered this movie and tried to explain to someone what the movie was. I said it was like a choose your own adventure movie. We had buttons on the arm of our chair and whichever one was chosen the most is what would happen.People thought I was crazy and said I probably dreamed it. I finally figured it out through my internet searching. I live in Vermont now so it probably wasn't realesed here and thats why no one knew about it.
No version has ever been released for any home format.
That’s Billy Warlock and Holly Fields! Christopher Lloyd is also in this! So cool!!
They released a Sega CD game in theaters?
I remember this film well. The price of admission gave you two tickets, so you could try twice. At the beginning it said something along the lines of, "please feel free to shout, talk and yell as you see fit" I'm guessing so that people could influence the voting. The votes were tallied on screen and the popular choice was taken. The thing was that you could vote any number of times within the allotted time, so button mashing was pretty much necessary. One guy in our crowd was trying to direct us all to a 'perfect ending'... Needless to say, we didn't reach that particular ending, or maybe it didn't exist. Most of the story is a blur at this point seeing as I was 10 when I saw this, but I distinctly remember the guy going Edward Scissorhands on a bad guy's underwear in once scene and bending a bike up in another.
I am literally the 69th liker of this video right now.
I remember seeing this...with my church youth group. I kid you not.
There was another one of these called Ride for Your Life released the same year.
Someone really needs to release these on DVD, they might find a new life there.
release this on Netflix
This would have worked better as a video game, on Laserdisc/DVD, or as an amusement park attraction
They could release this on Netflix.
The sad thing is that the director for this movie was the writer for one of the best movies of the 1980's: Back to the Future.
Brilliant move getting a Laserdisc from back then. I won tickets to see this at the Tropicana Cinema in Las Vegas, NV. Went back the next night because the audience voted to see a clip with Frank Gorshin (Riddler) instead of Robert Englund. Come On Audience! Thanks for posting. So few people remember this. Would love to hear Bob Gale to a commentary for this!
The premise was his, and he wrote the sequels alone.
Oh, I know he's actually talented, but not only would you not know it from this, you would actively believe him to be some form of protozoic, possibly single-celled life.
Eddie
That's really fascinating!
It doesn't hurt Back to the Future.
@Joeredother At a theater in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.
This is awesome! Ever since i saw Blankman on tape i wanted to make a movie like this in school!
I actually went to see this. It was a fun idea, but the movie was just too short.
I remember seeing the trailer on the Blankman VHS. soooooon nostalgic. is there an upload to the trailer anywhere?
Very nice! I remember seeing a preview for this when I rented Blankman. I had no idea that laserdiscs were involved with this movie and after checking LDDB, it doesn't look like they released a home version on LD. Was any home version released? I've always been fascinated with this concept.
Keranu lol blank man I remember that
They should release this on DVD! It should be the same controls as another movie I have on DVD called "James Spawn" where you have different choices to make.
Roger Ebert called this film the worst idea for a movie ever back when it was released.
Well, this went nowhere, of course. The thing is we don't want to interact with films, we want them to act on our asses. We have to make the choices, pay us instead of the writers of this.
How would this work on VHS?
And this was an awsome idea! Screw what Roger Ebert thinks.
No, but I used to work at Greenwood Plaza 12 at the same location. ;)
A small wave of the future. It's pretty interesting how you've got a hold of this footage and movie, Joe Redifer. It's all in its 1990's-style cheese, too. Its overall style in terms of story, it seems, doesn't fully appeal to me, as much as I have a fasination in machines. I wonder a bit on how the joystick and its 3 buttons would work, too. Somehow, I'm reminded of the Sega Saturn when I see this.
wasn't this movie only 20 minutes long?
you use to work at greenwood village 12 on arapahoe?
@4thtroika Where did you see it?
This movie is so worthless that I haven't seen it mentioned once in any worst movie list in my life.
20 minutes is way too short to go watch a movie where you can vote on how different scenes may be. I think this clip made the movie seem like a less serious RoboCop/Terminator rip-off.
Then I guess the next question to ask is WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FOOTAGE!?
This was actually my pick for the worst film of the 90's. This is an absolutely dreadful idea.
Read the "About This Video" information. Click on "More".
Why did this thing suck so badly? Well, it's HORRIBLY ACTED... for one thing. They give you these multiple choices--and not a one of them leads to anything entertaining. Christ, this is wretched! It looks like a bad Saturday morning sit-com. A pilot for the show that the network had the common sense not to greenlight!
It sucked because it doesn't work as a film. You don't want to make choices in a film. This would work more as a video game, not a film.
It's actually listed as a video game on IMDB. It does have more in common with the FMV 'choose your path' sort of videogames that were common on the Sega CD and 3D0 back in the 90's.
Wow. This really was a load of old shit. Makes you wonder what Bob Gale contributed to Back to the Future.