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Inescapable Duck posted:Because Russia, probably. It's really funny that they've made a game where you can play as Ron Perlman, Shartlo Copley, and not-Keanu-Reeves together in the same session.
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Taintrunner posted:It's really funny that they've made a game where you can play as Ron Perlman, Shartlo Copley, and not-Keanu-Reeves together in the same session. And now sort-of Scarface. It's like some kind of vague crime movie Smash Bros. Pity that it's pain to play with anyone but friends.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:why does hardcore henry focus so much on the drab slavic landscape of dying buildings they're cheaper to shoot in.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Which High Voltage then turns on its head by recreating the scenario, but removing all sexual agency from Chelios whatsoever and almost flipping the script. Crank is edgy as gently caress, but it knows what it's doing and is going for something with it. Doesn't he molest an old lady in Crank 2 for comedy?
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Ape Agitator posted:The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas... is the darkest thing in a movie that they knew tons of kids were going to see. The only thing barely comparable is the advertisements for Pan's Labyrinth tricked a lot of parents who didn't notice the R rating into showing a very brutal real world wraparound story to their kids before they got up and left. But most would have peaced out when the subtitles rolled so I still put Gremlins on the top of the list. That monologue is straight up mean. I love when Gremlin 2 recreates the moment but someone gently leads Kate away mid-monologue while the other characters roll their eyes.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:why does hardcore henry focus so much on the drab slavic landscape of dying buildings Because it's filmed and set in Russia.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Doesn't he molest an old lady in Crank 2 for comedy? He treated her like his hot little whore!
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He needed the friction of her sweater to cause static electricity so he could recharge his internal battery.
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The horrified old lady being rubbed by this man is played for goofs though.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Doesn't he molest an old lady in Crank 2 for comedy? Yeah, literally right before that scene I mentioned, and it's framed as a pathetic weirdo groping randos rather than a Manly Badass exercising his sexual power. It's a deliberate inversion of his behavior in the first film, culminating in Amy Smart riding him in the middle of a race track while giant horse dicks pass overhead. I don't know if I can really fully unpack it, but High Voltage at least has quite a bit to say about the type of character Chelios is. e: to clarify, you're not supposed to be laughing at the old lady being horrified- the joke in the scene is that Jason Statham as Chev Chelios is acting like a complete weird goon.
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I'm laughing at all of it because all of it is absurd.
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Ah that's exactly where we stopped watching. Even if the joke was at his expense we didn't particularly want to see it.
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CelticPredator posted:I'm laughing at all of it because all of it is absurd. I agree! That doesn't make it a worthless exercise to figure out what they were going for.
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CelticPredator posted:Like how many games, especially first person shooters have a hot chick be your girl, and you have to save her because she's your girl. I actually can't think of many. It's all about dying for your country these days.
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Samuel Clemens posted:I actually can't think of many. It's all about dying for your country these days. Yeah, I'm curious what games CelticPredator is referring to.
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There's that Resident Evil where you save the president's daughter and, uh...?
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Die Hard Arcade and Dynamite Cop. Though that's also the Presidents Daughter, not your hot girlfriend.
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It's mostly a beat-em-up thing, yeah.
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Perhaps the ultimate expression of the masculism/patriotism overlay is rescuing the President's hot teenage daughter even though she is not your girlfriend.
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Or maybe carrying a printer all the way to the White House for her.
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Modern Warfare 3 subverts this by having you rescue the Russian President's Daughter.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:There's that Resident Evil where you save the president's daughter and, uh...? That was RE4 and the escort missions were *sighs and unsheathes chicago typewriter* not good. I mean, saving Ivanka from the head  Inquisition was really something.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:But is she hot? She looks like she's 16 so 
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Yeah, I feel like "go on a killing rampage to rescue your girl" stopped really being A Thing in video games during ... I don't know, the 16-bit era? Certainly the PS1 era by the latest.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Or maybe carrying a printer all the way to the White House for her. Someone make a beat 'em up where you can't even attack, you just have to maneuver the long walk to the White House with the printer, avoiding contact with everyone in your way, and when you get there the president's daughter is making out with printer repairman.
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syscall girl posted:That was RE4 and the escort missions were *sighs and unsheathes chicago typewriter* not good. RE4 was actually actually the best escort mission game because you had a button to make her hide in a dumpster whenever enemies popped up.
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Ashley will come back as a playable character in Re8ident Evil (but with highlights on the 8 to look like an S) and rescue Leon Kennedy.
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Duke Nukem 3D had you saving abducted women from aliens but that was just part of their invasion of Earth that you were trying to stop in general.
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Mario still recuing the princess later this year by violence. Zelda still rescuing unnamed princess of Hyrule too.
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Even if videogames don't rescue many princesses anymore, I kinda saw it more as like a dig on the whole Shadows of Mordor type intro where it's like baldly trying to create some emotional connection for the player....HERE IS YOUR HOT WIFE WHO U HAVE ALWAYS LOVED. PRESS F TO GIVE HER ROSES. OHHH NOOOO SHE'S UNDER ATTACK!!!! then you find out it really is just a programmed motivation. He moves from GPS marker to GPS marker, engaging in setpiece battles, accompanied by his always respawning NPC comrade I'd never rate Hardcore Henry as higher than the Crank films though, since Hardcore Henry really worked with a couple beers and a movie theater screen whereas I never really needed that to enjoy the Crank films. I'm kind of afraid revisiting them in 2017 they might just seem more mean-spirited and forced edgy, especially some of the stuff in High Voltage, but they're still close to my heart and Crank 3 is one of those Kotor 3 type things I wish would happen but seems like it never will.
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I super enjoyed XxX Return of Xander Cage. Fully half the scenes were characters coming up to Vin Diesel and telling him how they've heard of him and he's the coolest guy ever and they would like to have sex with him now. The other half are him being upstaged by much cooler and much stupider characters. They have a "wild card" character whose super ability is he crashes every thing he drives. When Ice Cube shows up a character literally exclaims "That's Darius Stone, the XXX of 2005!" A hot hacker agrees to help Xander Cage, but only if he can first have sex with seven of her handmaidens. It's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen and basically what Suicide Squad would look like if it were a good movie.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Even if videogames don't rescue many princesses anymore, I kinda saw it more as like a dig on the whole Shadows of Mordor type intro where it's like baldly trying to create some emotional connection for the player....HERE IS YOUR HOT WIFE WHO U HAVE ALWAYS LOVED. PRESS F TO GIVE HER ROSES. OHHH NOOOO SHE'S UNDER ATTACK!!!! Yeah, fridging the wife early on felt a little unnecessary when the setting and premise of the story already was about Sauron, orcs, and evil taking over the land. Not like you really need a reason to want to stop the spread of evil, though to be fair I think the personal link was to help explain why when you die you are able to come back or link with your Elven Casper buddy.
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Fried Watermelon posted:In RE4 you even reject her advances after you complete the game In another QTE, I presume.
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Even the Tomb Raider game with rape-dodging qte's has Lara fighting hundreds of men to rescue a princess
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Grendels Dad posted:In another QTE, I presume. Ashley asks Leon if he wants "overtime  " and he's all, "No, I'm pining over a woman I've known for a total of four hours "
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Mario still recuing the princess later this year by violence. Zelda still rescuing unnamed princess of Hyrule too. I laughed
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Mario still recuing the princess later this year by violence. Zelda still rescuing unnamed princess of Hyrule too. You almost got me with this.
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