Line #48 WebVideo/Crossed


1	->''All the films presented here will have as a common denominator, a link to video games. Be it a mere adaptation, or a film which reflects on the video game media. Men, women, children: welcome to'' Crossed.
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3	''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.
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5	Little sketches often intervene, featuring his two sidekicks Gilles Stella (the show's image and sound manager) and Jérémy Morvan, or Kamel Debbiche, a double of him who is implied to be [[TalkingToThemself his second personality]][[note]]However, ''WebVideo/{{Chroma}}'' reveals that he's actually an AlternateSelf.[[/note]]. The show is pretty fast-paced, and often draws its humour from it. Crossed'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]].
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7	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.
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9	If you're curious but don't speak French, here's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KToRMJyJSfk first episode]] subtitled in English.
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11	Not to be confused with the Creator/GarthEnnis [[ComicBook/{{Crossed}} comic series]].
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13	!!Movies reviewed in ''Crossed'':
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15	* ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993''
16	* ''G@mer'' (a French film featuring Creator/SaidTaghmaoui)
17	* ''Film/SilentHill''
18	* ''Film/TheKingOfKong''
19	* ''Film/HouseOfTheDead''
20	* ''Film/TheLastStarfighter''
21	* ''Film/MaxPayne''
22	* ''Film/StayAlive2006''
23	* ''Film/FutureCops''
24	* ''[[Film/AloneInTheDark2005 Alone in the Dark]]''
25	* ''Film/WarGames''
26	* ''Film/DoubleDragon1994''
27	* ''Film/{{Doom}}''
28	* ''Film/StreetFighter''
29	* ''Film/{{eXistenZ}}''
30	* ''Film/Postal2007''
31	* ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' -- known as ''Le Cobaye'' ("the Guinea Pig") in France
32	* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin''
33	* ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation''
34	* ''Film/{{Brainscan}}''
35	* ''Film/ResidentEvil2002''
36	* ''Film/DOADeadOrAlive''
37	* The other ''Film/{{Gamer}}'' movie ("Ultimate Game" in France)
38	* ''Film/{{Hitman}}''
39	* ''Film/RaOne'' ("Voltage" in France)
40	* ''Film/TheWizard''
41	* ''Film/{{Tron}}''
42	* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''
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46	!Tropes found in ''Crossed''
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48	* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Karim mentions it very-briefly during his hyper-fast enumeration of the graveyard fight scene's flaws in ''House Of The Dead'' (where the Asian girl uses her martial art skills), noting this trope is actually awfully racist. Similarly, in his review of ''Ra.One'', he awkwardly points out that the movie's sole Chinese character is the one who knows martial arts the best.
49	* AntagonistTitle: In the ''Ra.One'' episode, he mentions that the original title is the name of the movie's villain. But it has been changed in the French version, which is known as "Voltage" in France (which is the altered name of the ''hero'').
50	* ArchEnemy: Karim regards Creator/UweBoll as his, as he reviewed three of his movies and condemns his despicable behavior in his review of ''Postal''.
51	* AudienceSurrogate: Kamel often plays this role.
52	* BrickJoke:
53	** At the beginning of the review of ''G@mer'', Karim notes that the director Patrick Lévy changed his name to "Zak Fishman" for this film, and wonders if he should take a cool sounding English name himself. The end credits of the episode feature him as [[AwesomeMcCoolName "Superman Rockfeller"]].
54	** At the start of his ''The Lawnmower Man'' review, Kamel mentions that he always thought control over wood would be a better superpower than MagnetismManipulation. At the end of the review Karim throws a tree at Kamel, admitting that it ''is'' useful.
55	* TheCameo: The episode focused on the ''Doom'' movie contains a scene involving [[WebVideo/WhatTheCut Antoine Daniel]].
56	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Karim once warns Kamel that if he insults him once more, he will turn him into Jeremy Morvan eating a sandwich. It's not an empty threat either.
57	* CurseCutShort: In the ''Brainscan'' review:
58	--->'''Karim:''' So the whole time, I was [[RootingForTheEmpire rooting for the cops!]][[invoked]]\
59	'''Kamel:''' That's funny!\
60	'''Karim:''' Why is that?\
61	'''Kamel:''' Well because you're an ara-
62	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In the ''Silent Hill'' review, every sequence taking place in the real world starts with "Meanwhile, in the true real world of actual reality..."
63	* DesignatedHero: InUniverse, Karim explains in the ''Brainscan'' review that he views the main protagonist as a teen {{Jerkass}} deprived of any redeemed quality, partially explaining why he despises this movie.
64	* {{Detournement}}: Karim often parodies scenes from the reviewed films by replacing the dialogue with his own jokes.
65	* ExcusePlot: While a few of the movies reviewed have this, Karim notes that ''Mortal Kombat Annihilation'' goes beyond that point by ''not having a plot at all'' and being basically just a succession of random fights.
66	* FreezeFrameBonus: Some of the latest episodes have a long subliminal message that appears for a split-second and is always hilarious to read if you pause at the right moment.
67	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: In the ''G@mer'' review, when Kamel calls him out for lying when it seems like the film has nothing to do with video games.
68	-->'''Kamel:''' Do you mean you're an asshole who doesn't keep his promises?\
69	'''Karim:''' Of course not, young viewer, I'm an asshole who does keep his promises!
70	* InNameOnly: A few of the adaptations he reviews, obviously (beginning with ''Super Mario Bros''), 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.
71	* JumpScare: In the ''Resident Evil'' 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".
72	* MaliciousMisnaming: When Karim fears he's mispronouncing Anubhav Sinha's name in the review of ''Ra.One'', Kamel decides to misname Karim for the rest of the review to compensate.
73	* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: In the ''Street Fighter'' episode, he says that about half of the characters are useless and only there for PanderingToTheBase[[invoked]]. He then adds that he could make movies himself with this recipe, then shows a short (barely) animated sequence featuring [[Franchise/DragonBall Son Goku]], [[Music/GunsNRoses Slash]], [[Anime/MyNeighborTotoro Totoro]], Franchise/{{Batman}}, [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], and [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial ET]], hanging out in the street before being arrested by [[Film/DirtyHarry Harry Callahan]].
74	* MusicalisInterruptus: The music often stops in the middle of an explanation of the movie's plot, just the time for Karim to insert a sarcastic remark, before starting again.
75	* NWordPrivileges: In the ''Brainscan'' review, Kamel calls Karim a "bougnoule", which is a derogatory term for people of Arabic descent in France.
76	* NoodleIncident:
77	** In the review of ''Alone in the Dark'', Karim claims to be a [[TheVietnamVet Vietnam veteran]]. When Gilles accuses him of lying, he answers "there are many [[MysteriousPast things you don't know]] about me, Gilles".
78	** In the review of ''Hitman'', Jérémy claims he's bald because of the "radiation", without elaborating.
79	* ObligatoryJoke: Karim has to angrily order Kamel to stop singing ''[[Music/TheBeeGees Stayin' Alive]]'' during the review of ''Stay Alive''.
80	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: {{Invoked}}, while he admits that the faces in ''The Spirits Within'' often go in the UnintentionalUncannyValley, he still wants to remind us that the movie was technically way ahead of its time.
81	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The late part of the ''Doom'' episode has Camille Saint-Saëns' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM Danse Macabre]]'' as a musical background.
82	* QuestionableCasting:
83	** InUniverse, during the ''Alone In The Dark'' review, it is how Karim reacts to Creator/TaraReid being the archaeologist Aline Cedrac.
84	** He has the same reaction to Arielle Dombasle's casting as a game designer in ''G@mer''.
85	** This is also how he reacted to Creator/ChristopherLambert not reprising his role as Raiden in ''Mortal Kombat Annihilation''. Because Lambert was working on ''Film/Beowulf1999'', [[EpicFail probably the worst film of his career]].
86	* RunningGag
87	** In the ''Mortal Kombat Annihilation'' review:
88	-->'''Karim:''' When suddenly…\
89	'''Kamel:''' Brawl!\
90	'''Karim:''' Brawl, yes, but [laconic description of the fight]
91	** Gilles is a big fan of ''Film/JurassicPark'', and will bring it up at every opportunity. Karim is also a fan and often brings up how many years before or after it a movie with bad [[ComputerGeneratedImages CGI]] was released.
92	** 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"]] [[BlatantLies translates as "lots of cops fighting monsters" in French]].
93	** Kamel often gets the names of the film directors [[AccidentalMisnaming wrong]], for instance he confuses Creator/OrsonWelles with Creator/HGWells. In one case, Karim is the one who gets the name wrong when he confuses ''Resident Evil'''s director Creator/PaulWSAnderson with Creator/PaulThomasAnderson, but he blatantly does it on purpose to introduce the audience to the latter, whom he admires much more than the former. At the end of the review, he [[BrickJoke also]] confuses him with Creator/WesAnderson.
94	* ShoutOut:
95	** In the first episode, Karim greets his audience with "[[Film/GroundhogDay okay, campers, rise and shine]]".
96	** In the review of ''Starfighter'', during a scene involving a FlyingCar, Karim quips that where they're going, [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 they don't need roads]].
97	** The opening of the review of ''Ra.One'' references the song ''Voyage, voyage'' by the French singer Desireless. Similarly, the opening of the review of ''Doom'' references the song ''Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!'' by Music/{{Vengaboys}}, and the opening of the review of ''eXistenZ'' references the song ''Résiste'' by the French singer France Gall. In the latter review, he also references the song ''Et Vice Versa'' by Creator/LesInconnus.
98	** In the review of ''The Lawnmower Man'', when Karim explains why he chose to review it, he says "[[Film/Ghostbusters1984 I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never, ever possibly destroy us... and it just popped in there]]".
99	** The opening of the review of ''G@mer'' is a homage to ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''.
100	** The fake behind-the-scenes segments of the review of ''King of Kong'' are a homage to ''Series/TheOfficeUS''.
101	** Karim mocks a fight scene in ''Future Cops'' by playing ''[[Series/TheBennyHillShow Yakety Sax]]'' during it.
102	** To mock the constant ProductPlacement in ''The Wizard'', Karim puts sunglasses on and announces the episode will switch to "[[Film/TheyLive Roddy Piper-vision]]".
103	* SoBadItsGood: [[invoked]] What he thinks of ''Future Cops'' and ''Mortal Kombat Annihilation''. At the end of the latter's review, he even throws a long monologue about what this kind of film can bring to us.
104	* SophisticatedAsHell: While he usually keeps a polished speech, he's not above dropping a PrecisionFStrike here and there.
105	* {{Spoiler}}: The reviews usually have a summary of the whole plot, including the ending. When this is a film about videogame which has a twist ending, he precedes said spoiler by a warning screen advising the viewer to stop the video here if they want to watch the movie and discover the ending by themselves.
106	** Averted in the ''Ra.One'' episode. He stopped the plot's summary in the middle of the review after stating that the movie was basically a ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' rip off, and that describing it any longer would just spoil the latter movie.
107	* TalkingToThemself: The show treats the gags where Karim talks to Kamel as this, although this is [[{{Retcon}} contradicted]] in ''WebVideo/{{Chroma}}'', which establishes that Kamel is actually Karim's AlternateSelf from an AlternateUniverse.
108	* TakeThat: PlayedForLaughs in the quick summary of ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie''.
109	-->'''Karim:''' So Liu Kang kicks Shang Tsung's ass because it's not very nice to kill people's brothers, [[Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest is it, Mr.]] Creator/HenryFonda?
110	* ToiletHumor: Mocked in the review of ''House Of The Dead'', where he cheers with his friends at each element of the sacred trinity - a puke joke, a pee joke, and a crap joke.
111	* TropaholicsAnonymous: The review of ''Gamer'' starts with Karim solemnly declaring that he has a problem he wants to talk about... he likes ''Film/{{Crank}}''. Then Jeremy starts talking about his drinking problem but Karim stops him with "It was a joke dude, it's not an actual meeting."
112	* VideoGameMoviesSuck: [[invoked]] The show's whole point is to study why.
113	* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In the ''Dead Or Alive'' review, Karim points out that the characters constantly use "shinobi" with the meaning of "traitor", while it is in fact just a synonym of "Ninja".

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