History SchizoTech / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/DarkCity'' includes elements of this to reflect the fact that [[spoiler:the city's builders just kind of yanked technology off of Earth for the city's inhabitants (humans) to play with]]. The makers of the movie did this simply to enhance the FilmNoir elements of the movie. It also provides hints that the city is [[spoiler:somehow displaced in time]], which is kind of true.

* In ''Film/{{Paddington}}'', the Geographer's Guild has a pneumatic tube system for its archives, ''controlled by computer'' and obviously tied into an old legacy database system. (Which might seem redundant in an era when such archives are generally digitized.)

* ''Film/ThePrestige'' takes place in the 1890's and everything is at that level except the machine that duplicates/teleports people.

** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Starlord's advanced starship includes a 1980's era tape deck, and he uses a walkman as a personal music player, meanwhile Ronan wears war paint and uses a huge hammer as a melee weapon, and his ship doesn't even have artificial lights. Justified since Starlord was abducted from Earth as a child in TheEighties and therefore doesn't have any digitally stored music, and Ronan is a religious fundamentalist who shuns advanced technology.

** Asgard has CrystalSpiresAndTogas next to spaceships and lasers. The second installment of the Thor films cranked this UpToEleven. Not to mention CallARabbitASmeerp. It reaches new levels in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', which has the Asgardians using [[{{Magitek}} laser turrets alongside spears and magic war hammers]], against [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien elves who are using black hole grenades, spaceships high tech laser guns]]. In doing so, it inverts ElvesVsDwarves.