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I watched 2 movies in GTA V yesterday

There is a trailer for a planets of the apes type movie it was hilarious wish they actually made the whole thing instead of a trailer
 
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When the robot has to shave his boss' ass I laughed. I enjoy the non subtle approach because really I think a large part of the AAA audience needs to have things spelled out for them (kinda like South Park it does a good job of pointing out stupidity and since it's popular those who would believe the ludicrousness then go "well GTA/South Park said this was stupid or right so I'ma just believe them. It's not the best way to get to the answer but at least they now support the answer).
Really should watch the anime in that game too. Seemed funny
 
Solid SOAP said:
It's like they were trying to hard, but they really weren't. They're so bad, there's no way they didn't realize...
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It's the movie that Michael makes in the storyline. It's supposed to be a piece of shit. In the game though, it makes millions and million of dollars.
 
Those 2 movies described in the OT sound a lot better than the weird shit I saw. Some kind of "artsy" film with a guy talking to his girlfirend and to a girl in his head. he speaks Spanish and the girls speak French for some reason. It was truly horrendous. but maybe it was intended as such.
 
Solid SOAP said:
It's really quite amazing they bothered to include them at all. I get it, really, I do... they were able to mark off a checklist of game features to get people talking about it. They were just so bad though... you'd think that the budget and popularity of the GTA series they would be able to hire writers who could make something entertaining. The animation for the cartoon was actually quite decent though, I'll say.
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The standups from 4 were great--Kat and Ricky killed it.
 
Ravensmash said:
10 minutes of a poorly executed idea (I didn't mind it personally) 'broke' a 40 hour game for you?

No wonder developers are reluctant to try new things.
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Broke was a poor choice of word there, my bad. But it halted the game for me to a standstill, where you go from high speed chases and gunning people down to slow as fuck yoga. Not saying every mission needs to be quick and explosive, but yoga? Fucking hell.

malboroking said:
It was like 2 minutes, but ok.
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The entire mission is roughly ten minutes long and unnecessary.
 
I know it can be hard to detect sarcasm on the internet sometimes but holy shit some people are completely oblivious.

And people mentioning To Kill a Mockingbird in The Darkness are right, that was an amazing thing to witness the first time. To think, you can watch a classic like that in a video game. Plus you can watch Flash Gordon.

Show that to people who think games are dumb and are for kids.
 
Broken Joystick said:
Broke was a poor choice of word there, my bad. But it halted the game for me to a standstill, where you go from high speed chases and gunning people down to slow as fuck yoga. Not saying every mission needs to be quick and explosive, but yoga? Fucking hell.



The entire mission is roughly ten minutes long and unnecessary.
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Doesn't that directly lead into the hallucination scene? One of the highlights of the single player.

I don't see the issue. The very nature of GTA means it will be paced badly for most people anyway, I doubt many go from one mission to the next without any down time exploring and messing about.
 
I thought yoga was worth it for the dialogue alone.

GTA is one of the few series left that can spend shittons of development time/cost doing relatively unimportant stuff for the sake of worldbuilding.
I mean, I spent a decent amount of time just watching TV at michaels house.
 
| Praxis | said:
Doesn't that directly lead into the hallucination scene? One of the highlights of the single player.

I don't see the issue. The very nature of GTA means it will be paced badly for most people anyway, I doubt many go from one mission to the next without any down time exploring and messing about.
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I can't remember myself. I normally get through the story straight away and then fuck about, but obviously that doesn't apply to everyone.

Haunted said:
I like Ricky Gervais, but his routines in GTAIV were awful.

just awful
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Boyle's was much better.
 
This in-world media, the minigames etc have always been pretty terrible in GTA and are clearly just there as extra bulletpoints most of the time.
 
Haven't watched the movies but watch Jimmy play the COD-esque video game if you get a chance. It's a 2-3 minute loop but it's prettty funny.
 
it's just pointless filler, you find it in many western titles imo. Western games tend to focus on creating elaborate worlds. GTA is the best among them because it details the world, rather than having a big generic world like say Skyrim.
 
The Lone Courier said:
Some have theories that the robot film is a parallel for
Trevor.Taken from the wiki. The protagonist of the movie, Martin, shares similar traits with Trevor Philips, as both consider themselves lonely, both had a rough childhood with their mother and towards the ending of the film, Martin gets chased by an army of police robots and he gets incredibly angry killing machine (similar to Trevor's special "rage" ability). If taken to watch the movie as Franklin or Michael, Trevor might comment that the movie was sick, but he loved it.

Meltdown is supposed to horrible.
Its the film Michael was "directing". It pretty much was in development hell. The actors were forced to perform. Devin Weston tried to sabotage it. As for the look of it, it was developed in GTA 4's engine.
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Amazing. And I have missed these two I need to try to catch them. What I did catch though

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I did feel my mind melt while watching it. I am not sure if I made it to the end.

| Praxis | said:
Doesn't that directly lead into the hallucination scene? One of the highlights of the single player.

I don't see the issue. The very nature of GTA means it will be paced badly for most people anyway, I doubt many go from one mission to the next without any down time exploring and messing about.
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No. The hallucination scene is the one where you take jimmy to meet a friend.
 
Honestly that's a pretty interesting diversion to add in the game.

I didn't even know there were 20 minute long movies in there.That's rather interesting regardless of quality.

More things to do.
 
malboroking said:
It was like 2 minutes, but ok.
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Yeah and then was followed by one of the most amazing scenes past gen
freerall hallucination as family drama reality sets in
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Also the movies are supposed to suck as they're parodying either pompous incoherent art films or summer blockbuster throwaways. Meltdown is actually part of the game's story and is mentioned that the script is shit and the production is troubled. You're not at all forced to watch them, I bet most players never even see one. They're fun world building devices, but I agree it would be nice if there were actually other people watching them.
 
SneakyStephan said:
Because secretly most video game developers wish they were able to make it in hollywood (hence all the talk about cinuhmatic)
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GTA V made $1 BILLION dollars in 3 days and is the fastest selling entertainment product in human history, game, movie, or otherwise. Hollywood directors wish they were able to make it like Rockstar does.
 
The trashy indie game, Into the Dark: Ultimate Trash Edition, has all of the original Night of the Living Dead in a theater you pass through in one of the levels. You can just skip right by it, or take a seat and watch the whole movie before continuing.

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Solid SOAP said:
The next one I watched was Meltdown. It was pretty damn bad, man. Characters spoke huge monologues that tried very, very hard to appear to be biting commentary on films and social tendencies of people, but they were really stupid and felt as though a child who just learned the word "fuck" wrote them.
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So it was a Rockstar game?
 
I felt like they didn't nearly put as much effort in the tv and movie stuff of GTA5 compared to RDR or GTA4. I spend quite some time watching tv and going to the stand up comedy shows in gta4 simply because they were fun. The movie stuff in RDR was pretty interesting as well. It felt like they ran out of jokes for gta5 so instead they just took the most generic and stereotypical jokes they could find and slapped it all together on the tv in a very in-your-face-because-who-gives-a-shit-about-witty-humor-anyway kind of way. The movies were pretty wtf, but not in a fun way so I didn't like em.

Then again, I got a lot of problems with gta5 about things added that don't actually add anything to the game and its humor falling flat so maybe I'm not the right person to ask.
 
benicillin said:
The TV shows are still pretty funny, but yeah the movies aren't all that great. Then again, I almost wonder if they're supposed to be kind of shitty. Capalovaro is just bizarre...

"It is an incomprehensible black & white arthouse drama spoken simultaneously in French and Spanish, which uses footage from Grand Theft Auto IV and Red Dead Redemption. The title is Italian for "masterpiece"; a reference to the high regard some people hold for certain foreign films. The movie's tagline is "the unforgettable classic that still nobody understands"."
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I actually found it to be hilarious :p it's my favorite random thing in the game. I speak both languages and am into the type of artsy films they're making fun of so I had a blast watching this :p
 
Dusk Golem said:
The trashy indie game, Into the Dark: Ultimate Trash Edition, has all of the original Night of the Living Dead in a theater you pass through in one of the levels. You can just skip right by it, or take a seat and watch the whole movie before continuing.

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Well that is really cool. I'll have to check this out. As for GTAV, can't say I was a huge fan of the movies but I mean... its pretty crazy we even have a thread on it. I feel like it is supposed to be a novelty. "haha! I'm using the internet on my fake phone!" "haha! I'm watching a movie" and 30 seconds later you walk outside... shoot someone in the face and move on with your virtual life.
 
Solid SOAP said:
They were really quite horrible. One was a cartoon about a robot who finds his wife cheating on him, so he goes on a killing rampage then gets shot by the police and dies. Fitting for the game it's in, but overall really a shitty movie on its own. It was almost 20 minutes I'm pretty sure...

The next one I watched was Meltdown. It was pretty damn bad, man. Characters spoke huge monologues that tried very, very hard to appear to be biting commentary on films and social tendencies of people, but they were really stupid and felt as though a child who just learned the word "fuck" wrote them.

Why did they include these in the game!? TV I can understand for the sake of ambience in Michaels house while his family watches TV, but these movies... holy crap. They were so bad. You don't even see anyone else in the theatre! Just a first person view of the movies.

Anyone ever watch these? Enjoy them? Hate them? I think it's funny and ridiculous that they bothered to include then in the game at all, but like... why...
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Because the franchise thrives on that kind of thing, makes them look clever and/or witty apparently (are those two words the same thing?).

They manage to get away with sluggish character controls and sub-par gunplay, so that's a lot of unspent time and money they can put elsewhere ie in the places that people tell them matters more, it's sensible of them imo.
 
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