Hollywood’s angry with its public. Sick of all the illegal downloads and the pesky statistics that repeatedly say videogames are making more money, the moguls of Tinseltown have forced us to wear magical glasses while we watch their films. Ugly, plastic spectacles that make cinema goers look like welders, and force people who already wear spectacles to wear another pair of spectacles over the top of them, pushing the spectacles underneath into the skin around their nose and ears in particularly uncomfortable fashion.

Hollywood executives go on about how 3D movies are the future, and how one day 2D films will be about as fashionable as basket weaving, but I don’t believe them.

La-La land is losing its grip on popular culture, and it’s not happy. So, in a final, parting shot of defiance, the sinister studio execs are forcing us all to pay an extra four quid to wear shades in the dark that give us headaches, cause the bridges of our noses to grow sore and make the screen look washed out.

Anyway, on the subject of films, here’s a list of eight films that have influenced the way games have looked and played over the past thirty or so years – and there’s not a pair of 3D specs in sight…