History WebVideo / Crossed

* AcceptableTargets: In-universe, Creator/UweBoll seems to be a target of choice, as Karim ripped four of his movies − with good reasons, mind you. Lampshaded in the ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'' review:
-->'''Karim:''' Well, to be fair [[Creator/MichelleRodriguez she]] isn't a bad actress and didn't star in any *cue ''Film/BloodRayne'''s poster with a zoom in on Uwe Boll's name* oh shit... it's this guy who hates me, seriously!

* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, he spends the first 2 minutes of the ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'' review praising the filmography of Creator/PaulThomasAnderson, a director he loves, and feigning surprise at the poor quality of today's film. Until the other Karim points out that said film was directed by [[Creator/PaulWSAnderson Paul]] '''[[Creator/PaulWSAnderson WS]]''' [[Creator/PaulWSAnderson Anderson]], whose filmography is far less stellar. At the end of the review, he confuses him with yet another director, Creator/WesAnderson.

* ''Film/SuperMarioBros''

* InNameOnly: A few of the adaptations he reviews, obviously (beginning with ''Film/SuperMarioBros''), but this is usually not his main complaint − but rather the fact that these films still try to throw winks and references to the original game despite having little connection to them. He actually liked ''The Spirits Within'' for ''not'' trying to do that.

* ''Film/DoubleDragon''

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: [[invoked]] While he admits that the faces in ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' often go in the UncannyValley, he still wants to remind us that the movie was technically way ahead of its time.

* FilkSong: Gilles' "Attention Dino Danger" ("Beware Dino Danger") in the ''Film/WarGames'' episode.

* The film adaptation of ''{{VideoGame/Postal}} 2''

* TakeThat: PlayedForLaughs in the quick summary of the first ''Film/MortalKombat'' movie.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: It's part of what makes ''Film/StreetFighter'' unwatchable to him − too many characters are there just for the sake of PanderingToTheBase, and we don't care about any of them. ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' is even worse in that regard.

* ''Film/StayAlive''

* ''Film/ResidentEvil''

* AcceptableTargets: In-universe, Creator/UweBoll seems to be a target of choice, as Karim ripped four of his movies − with good reasons, mind you. Lampshaded in the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' review:

* JumpScare: In the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' episode, Karim complains that the horrific part of the movie is so bad that the moviemaker added this trope everywhere. The episode features a couple of parodic {{Jump Scare}}s with a smiling Jérémy appearing while quietly saying "Booh".

* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, he spends the first 2 minutes of the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' review praising the filmography of Creator/PaulThomasAnderson, a director he loves, and feigning surprise at the poor quality of today's film. Until the other Karim points out that said film was directed by [[Creator/PaulWSAnderson Paul]] '''[[Creator/PaulWSAnderson WS]]''' [[Creator/PaulWSAnderson Anderson]], whose filmography is far less stellar. At the end of the review, he confuses him with yet another director, Creator/WesAnderson.

* ''G@mer'' (a French film, not [[Film/{{Gamer}} this one]])

* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1562871/ Ra.One]]'' ("Voltage" in France)

* TheCameo:
** The episode focused on the ''Film/{{Doom}}'' movie contains a scene involving [[WebVideo/WhatTheCut Antoine Daniel]].
** Karim and Gilles appear as Infogrames developers in the ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'' episode about bad Disney games. Karim (without the other team members) also appear in other episodes (as the bomb seller in the ''Papy Grenier'' about the ''Zelda'' franchise, as Franchise/{{Tintin}} in the bad Creator/DCComics adaptations episode, and as himself in the bad fighting games episode). Note that Karim is one of the ''Joueur du Grenier'' writers since 2013.

* AcceptableTargets: In-universe, Uwe Boll seems to be a target of choice, as Karim ripped four of his movies − with good reasons, mind you. Lampshaded in the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' review:

** Karim calls special forces in movies "lones" since the review of ''Alone in the Dark'' and him [[SarcasmMode sarcastically]] explaining to his French audience that the film is true to his title since [[NeverTrustATitle "alone in the dark"]] means in French [[GoodBadTranslation "lot of cops fighting monsters"]].

* AcceptableTargets: In-universe, Uwe Boll seems to be a target of choice, as Karim already ripped four of his movies − with good reasons, mind you. Lampshaded in the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' review:

* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, he spends the first 2 minutes of the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' review praising the filmography of Creator/PaulThomasAnderson, a director he loves, and feigning surprise at the poor quality of today's film. Until the other Karim points out that said film was directed by [[Creator/PaulWSAnderson Paul]] '''[[Creator/PaulWSAnderson WS]]''' [[Creator/PaulWSAnderson Anderson]], which filmography is far less stellar. At the end of the review, he confuses him with yet another director, Creator/WesAnderson.

* {{Plagiarism}}: In the middle of the ''Ra.One'' review, he notices that the movie is a ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' rip off and then stops the plot's summary, only stating that doing so would only spoils the latter movies for the couple of watchers who might not have seen it.

* ''Gamer'' (a French film, not [[Film/{{Gamer}} this one]])

!!Movies reviewed in ''Chroma''

* ''Film/{{Troll 2}}''
--> What is a [[SoBadItsGood (bad/good)]] film?
* ''Film/{{Rollerball}}'' (the 2002 remake)
--> [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical All films are political.]]
* ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening''
--> A fictional film has a [[WorldBuilding diegesis]].
* ''Film/{{Signs}}''
--> Films are screens. And [[AlternateAesopInterpretation we are the projectors]].
* ''Film/ParanormalActivity''
--> A good film is a film that uses pertinently [[CameraTricks the tools specific to the moving pictures medium]].
* ''Film/MacAndMe''
--> The meaning of a film shouldn't be altered by [censored] [[EnforcedPlug monetary reasons]].
* ''Film/{{Vidocq}}''
--> Just because a film is [[StylisticSuck unpleasant to look at]] doesn't mean it's a failure.
* ''Film/KnockOff''
--> The movies we love say a lot about who we are.

!Tropes found in ''Chroma''

* AgentScully: Karim acknowledges that this trope can be used to help the audience accept the supernatural explanation by making the down to Earth explanation increasingly unlikely, but he criticizes its use in ''Film/{{Signs}}'' (where the policewoman is just a dick about it) and ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' (where Micah ''does'' believe there is something supernatural going on, but [[ArbitrarySkepticism doesn't trust demonologists]] and [[BullyingADragon does his best to antagonize the demon]]).
* AlternateAesopInterpretation:
** {{Invoked}} for ''Film/{{Signs}}'', where Karim and Kamel are indentical in everything... except their opinion about the film. Karim thinks the film fails because he forcefully passes plot devices as "divine signals", which can fool the characters but not the viewers. Kamel points out that nothing in the film actually proves that the aliens are hostile, and that the characters who perceive divine signals might just as well be completely wrong; but the viewer is still led into adopting their point of view.
** Mocked in the review for ''Film/MacAndMe''. When Jeremy starts doing the same thing with the aliens from the movie, theorizing they were evil, Karim openly calls it bullshit.
* AlternateUniverse: Different parallel universes are featured, the one Karim lives in being apparently devoid of any of the greatest movies ever produced in the real world.
* AnAesop: Each of Chroma's episode contains one in relation with the movie the episode is about.
* BaitAndSwitch: The seventh review starts with Creator/OrsonWelles telling Karim to review [[Film/CitizenKane a film that revolutionized cinematic techniques, where the titular character dies early on and where we learn what happened through flashbacks recounted by people who knew him.]] Karin proceeds to review ''Film/{{Vidocq}}''.
* BullyingADragon: Karim mocks the tendency of Micah in ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' to deliberately antagonize the supernatural presence in his house in a sketch where Jeremy is playing a threatening demon who is being bullied by Gilles like he's a little kid.
* TheCameo: Several of Karim's friends appear in episode 6, notably the JoueurDuGrenier, whose own episodes Karim is writing.
* CensoredForComedy: The film's countless product placements and Kamel's {{Precision F Strike}}s are censored by a melodica note and a blurring machine in the ''Film/MacAndMe'' review. Of course, by the end the blurring machine breaks and Kamel asks the melodica man to stop it already.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Karim always refers to the demon in the ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' review as some variant of "the devilish demon from infernal hell".
* DullSurprise: Discussed in the ''Film/{{Signs}}'' review, which seems to be a contest of who can act the least. Not the worst, just… the least.
-->'''Karim:''' "...Yes? Ah, sorry, it seems Creator/MelGibson has crashed. Can someone reboot him? Quick, he's starting to have flashbacks!"
* EvilTwin: The alternate Jérémy is apparently up to no good.
* FramingDevice: Each episode of Chroma not only focuses on a movie, but also presents an overarching plot in which the greatest movies ever made are [[RetGone disappearing from existence]] and similar movies of far worse quality have become notorious in their place.
* ImNotDoingThatAgain: In the ''Troll 2'' review, he notes that the only way to be scared by the film would be "to watch it on a smartphone, chased by twenty hungry wolves." Before adding "And that's something I'll never do again."
* NamesTheSame: [[invoked]] The ''Film/Troll2'' review starts with a mention of ''Casa 5'', from the same director, and a long and confusing list of films that have similar names and serial numbers without being related to each other. He later notes that ''Film/Troll2'' isn't a sequel to ''Film/{{Troll}}'' either. And then the list continues.

Little sketches often intervene, featuring his two sidekicks Gilles Stella (the show's image and sound manager) and Jérémy Morvan, or Kamel Debbiche, [[TalkingToThemself a double of him]] from an AlternateUniverse. The show is pretty fast-paced, and often draws its humour from it.

The show's run wasn't very long, as Karim hadn't planned on making more than 25-30 episodes, to avoid a situation [[EndingFatigue where he would have always been repeating the same things after a while]]. However, in January of 2016, Karim and his friends started a new show, ''WebVideo/{{Chroma}}'', that can be considered a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Crossed'' minus the video game topic, with longer episodes and the analytical aspect pushed further.

* ImNotDoingThatAgain: In the ''Troll 2'' review, he notes that the only way to be scared by the film would "to watch it on a smartphone, chased by twenty hungry wolves." Before adding "And that's something I'll never do again."

''WebVideo/{{Crossed}}'' is a French WebVideo series hosted by Karim Debbache, that ran from February 2013 to April 2014. The topic is simple: films that are either adapted from video games, or are about video games. They can be old or not so old, bad, good or okay, but Karim has a lot of things to say on every one of them, [[MotorMouth and only 10-15 minutes to say them.]] While the tone is humoristic and often sarcastic, it is usually peppered with detailed analyses of what did and did not work in said film, as well as comments on its (or its director's) history, or on cinematic techniques in general.

* BaitAndSwitch: The seventh review starts with Creator/OrsonWelles telling Karim to review [[Film/CitizenKane a film that revolutionized cinematic techniques, where the titular character dies and where we learn what happened through flashbacks recounted by people who knew him.]] Karin proceeds to review ''Film/{{Vidocq}}''.