Movie and Game Commentary

When I watch movies, often times not so good ones, with my brother I find that we tend to make fun of things kind of like Mystery Science Theater 3000 style.  We tend to extrapolate and pull references that tie the movie with its actors or other genres that make it ridiculous.  For example, just today we watched the new Underworld movie via special means...  

In one scene, Selene, the super vampire death dealer, resurrects another character by jamming her hand into his stomach and mixing her blood with his heart.  Instantly my brother says, "She just pulled a Neo."  Unfazed by the improbability of reviving through some non magic, non technological means, we instead characterized the act and future acts of placing your hand into someone in order to revive someone as "Neoing," or pulling a "Neo" based off the Matrix 2 film.  I also noticed that one of the werewolves in the movie plays a werewolf on the Scifi show "Lost Girl."  Strange, right?

In another scene, we make fun of what appears to be the security command center for the enemy base.  The only problem with it though, is that the base is in front of the building and outside, with easy access for anyone to drive up and sabotage or see the goings on of the evil organization.  From a story point of view its to make it easier for the support characters to help the main character without having another cliched infiltration scene.  

With the Mass Effect 3 demo recently available, my brother watched me play through and we did our natural commentary bit yet again.  In our commentary we started saying things like, "Maybe the aliens will get attacked by water.  Or maybe we'll fly a smaller mini ship into the larger mother ship and then infect them with some kind of computer virus.  Or maybe we'll allow ourselves to be contaminated by the alien menace and then gain their alien powers in order to fight back against them.  Or maybe we'll beat them by using the common cold."  It becomes a thought exercise in tying genres with other movies, however silly or unlikely.  Still, we get a good laugh out of it.