History WebVideo / Crossed

* BerserkButton: [[Downplayed DownplayedTrope]], Gilles harmlessly slaps anyone who dares speak ill of Creator/StevenSpielberg.

* TheCameo: The episode focused on the ''Doom'' movie contains a scene involving [[WebVideo/WhatTheCut Antoine Daniel]].

* Corpsing:

* ObligatoryJoke: Karim has to angrily order Kamel to stop singing ''[[Music/TheBeeGees Stayin' Alive]]'' during the review of ''Stay Alive''.

* 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.

* 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."

* ShowDontTell: Karim has to remind this after seeing the ridiculous WallOfText at the beginning of ''Alone of the Dark''.

* NotScreenedForCritics: Discussed in the review of ''Dead or Alive'', an instance of this trope.

* FormerChildStar: [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] in the review of ''Brainscan'', where Karim tells the story of how Creator/EdwardFurlong's career collapsed.

* CurseCutShort: In the ''Brainscan'' review:

--->'''Karim:''' So the whole time, I was [[RootingForTheEmpire rooting for the cops!]] [[invoked]]\\

* 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]].

--->'''Karim:''' So the whole time, I was [[RootingForTheEmpire rooting for the cops!]]\\

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: In the ''G@mer'' review, when his double calls him out for lying when it seems like the film has nothing to do with video games.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: In the ''Street Fighter'' episode, he says that about half of the characters are useless and only there for PanderingToTheBase. 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]].

** 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.

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: The show's whole point is to study why.

** in the first episode, Karim greets his audience with "[[Film/GroundhogDay okay, campers, rise and shine]]".
** In the review of ''Starfighter'', during a scene involving a FlyingCar, Karim he that where they're going, [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 they don't need roads]].

** 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]].
** The opening of the review of ''Ra.One'' references the song ''Voyage, voyage'' by the French singer Desireless.

** 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.]]

** 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 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.

** 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 "lot of cops fighting monsters" in French]].

* NoodleIncident: In the review of ''Hitman'', Jérémy claims he's bald because of the "radiation", without elaborating.

** InUniverse, during the ''Alone In The Dark'' review, it is how Karim reacts to [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005346/ Tara Reid]] being the archaeologist Aline Cedrac.
** This is also how he reacted to Christopher Lambert 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.]]

** [[invoked]] 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 "lot of cops fighting monsters" in French]].

* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Karim mentions it very-briefly during his hyper-fast enumeration of the graveyard fight scene's flaws in ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'' (where the Asian girl uses her martial art skills), noting this trope is actually awfully racist. Similarly, in his review of ''Film/RaOne'', he awkwardly points out that the movie's Chinese character is the one who knows martial arts the best.

* ArchEnemy: Karim regards Creator/UweBoll as his, as he reviewed three of his movies and condemns his despicable behavior in his review of ''Film/Postal2007''.

** At the beginning of the French ''Gamer'', 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"]].
** At the start of his ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' 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.
* TheCameo: The episode focused on the ''Film/{{Doom}}'' movie contains a scene involving [[WebVideo/WhatTheCut Antoine Daniel]].

* CurseCutShort: In the ''Film/{{Brainscan}}'' review:

* DesignatedHero: InUniverse, Karim explains in the ''Film/{{Brainscan}}'' review that he views the main protagonist as a teen {{Jerkass}} deprived of any redeemed quality, partially explaining why he despises this movie.
* ExcusePlot: While a few of the movies reviewed have this, Karim notes that ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' goes beyond that point by ''not having a plot at all'' and being basically just a succession of random fights.

* InNameOnly: A few of the adaptations he reviews, obviously (beginning with ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993''), 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.
* JumpScare: In the ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'' 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".
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: In the ''Film/StreetFighter'' episode, he says that about half of the characters are useless and only there for PanderingToTheBase. 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]].

* NWordPrivileges: In the ''Film/{{Brainscan}}'' review, Kamel calls Karim a "bougnoule", which is a derogatory term for people of Arabic descent in France.
* OnceOriginalNowCommon: {{Invoked}}, while he admits that the faces in ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' often go in the UnintentionalUncannyValley, he still wants to remind us that the movie was technically way ahead of its time.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The late part of the ''Film/{{Doom}}'' episode has Camille Saint-Saëns' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM Danse Macabre]]'' as a musical background.

** InUniverse, during the ''[[Film/AloneInTheDark2005 Alone in the Dark]]'' review, it is how Karim reacts to [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005346/ Tara Reid]] being the archaeologist Aline Cedrac.
** This is also how he reacted to Christopher Lambert not reprising his role as Raiden in ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation''. Because Lambert was working on ''Film/Beowulf1999'', [[EpicFail probably the worst film of his career.]]

** In the ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' review:

** [[invoked]] 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 means]] in French [[GoodBadTranslation "lot of cops fighting monsters"]].
* SoBadItsGood: [[invoked]] What he thinks of ''Film/FutureCops'' and ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation''. At the end of the latter's review, he even throws a long monologue about what this kind of film can bring to us.

* ToiletHumor: Mocked in the review of ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'', where he cheers with his friends at each element of the sacred trinity - a puke joke, a pee joke, and a crap joke.
* TropaholicsAnonymous: The ''Film/{{Gamer}}'' review 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."
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In the ''Film/DOADeadOrAlive'' 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".

** Gilles is a big fan of ''Film/JurassicPark'', and will bring it up at every opportunity. Karim too in a lesser way, but oftenly bringing how many years after it X movie with bad [[ComputerGeneratedImages CGI]] was released.
** [[invoked]] 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"]].
* SoBadItsGood: [[invoked]] What he thinks of ''Film/FutureCops'' and ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation''. At the end of the latter's review, he even throws a long monologue about what these kind of films can bring to us.
* SophisticatedAsHell: While he usually keeps a polished speech, he's not above dropping an PrecisionFStrike here and there.

* 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 AlternateDimension.

-->'''Karim:''' So Liu Kang kicks Shang Tsung's ass because it's not very nice to kill people's families [[Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest I'm talking to you Mr.]] Creator/HenryFonda...

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. 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]].

* The film adaptation of ''VideoGame/Postal2''

* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: He mentions it very-briefly during his hyper-fast enumeration of the graveyard fight scene's flaws in ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'' (where the Asian girl uses her martial art skills), noting this trope is actually awfully racist.

* AudienceSurrogate: The other Karim often plays this role.

** At the start of his ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' review, Karim's double 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 his double, admitting that it ''is'' useful.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Karim once warns his other self that if he insults him once more, he will turn him into Jeremy Morvan eating a sandwich. It's not an empty threat either.
* CurseCutShort: In the ''Film/{{Brainscan}}'' review, when Karim is talking to himself:

'''Karim:''' That's funny!\\

'''Karim:''' Well because you're an ara-
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In the ''Silent Hill'' review, every sequence taking place in the real world starts with "Meanwhile, in the true real world of real reality..."

-->'''Karim:''' Do you mean you're an asshole who doesn't keep his promises?\\

* NWordPrivileges: In the ''Film/{{Brainscan}}'' review, Karim (the other one) calls Karim (well, himself... [[MindScrew whatever]]) a "bougnoule", which is a derogatory term for people of Arabic descent in France.
* OnceOriginalNowCommon: [[invoked]] While he admits that the faces in ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' often go in the UnintentionalUncannyValley, he still wants to remind us that the movie was technically way ahead of its time.

'''Karim:''' Brawl!\\

* TalkingToThemself: Karim does it regularly.

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

* WTHCastingAgency:
** InUniverse, during the ''[[Film/AloneInTheDark2005 Alone in the Dark]]'' review, it is how Karim reacts to [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005346/ Tara Reid]] being the archaeologist Aline Cedrac.
** This is also how he reacted to Christophe Lambert not reprising his role as Raiden in ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation''. Because Lambert was working on ''Film/Beowulf1999'', [[EpicFail probably the worst film of his career.]]