Metal Gear is a series of action-adventure video games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. The first game, Metal Gear, was released in 1987 for MSX home computers. The player often takes control of a special forces operative (usually Solid Snake or Big Boss), who is assigned the task of finding the titular superweapon "Metal Gear", a bipedal walking tank with the ability to launch nuclear weapons.
Several sequels have been released for multiple consoles, which have expanded the original game's plot, adding characters opposing and supporting Snake, while there have also been a few prequels exploring the origins of Metal Gear and recurring characters. The third game in the series, Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation, marked the beginning of a whole new line of 3D for Metal Gear. As of December 2020, over 56.9 million copies of games in the franchise have been sold worldwide, with individual installments critically and commercially acclaimed and receiving several awards.
The series is credited for pioneering and popularizing stealth video games and "cinematic video games". Notable traits of the series include stealth mechanics, cinematic cutscenes, intricate storylines, offbeat and fourth wall humour, and exploration of cyberpunk, dystopian, political and philosophical themes, with references to Hollywood films to add flavor. The franchise has also been adapted into other media, such as comics, novels, and drama CDs. Solid Snake has also gone on to appear in other games, such as the Super Smash Bros. series, Ape Escape 3, and LittleBigPlanet 2.
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Watching I'm Thinking Of Ending Things and it's really good. Identifying a lot with Jake and his quest to correct those who are wrong and close off from the world. Also he's gotta' be a communist to call his trivia team Brezhnev's Eyebrows.
Or a boomer. There were eyebrow jokes when he was in charge.
Finished it. I have a visceral boredom and annoyance of musicals since childhood, so I really found that part tedious. That and she becomes some kinda' pretentious art snob for a scene really killed some of the momentum the film was building up. It starts off sad and then becomes more horror-sad and then kinda' Lynchian surrealism. It felt like a frigid Lost Highway for a bit. And it's fairly easy to guess it's either a dream or imagined and the two characters really the same person because of how the perspectives and the facts keep changing, but that fades into a pretty whatever ending. Curious if the book is better. If it ended at the highschool at some point, maybe he finally starts to drive her home after they argue about the song I think I would have found it really excellent. Just have it fade to black and the credits appear over footage of driving in a midnight snowstorm.
good movie