# Hardcore.  This has got to be good.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 14, 2015, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardcore-this-has-got-to-be-good/731182 "2015-09-14T07:31:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Habeed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Habeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habeed)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardcore-this-has-got-to-be-good/731182/1 "2015-09-14T07:31:38Z")

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There’s a movie coming out called “Hardcore” that stems from a youtube video made by an independent Russian filmaker. Here’s a link to the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1hOCX_UVo), and here’s a link to the [trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv33e0TyL6M).

The good : the first person perspective makes tense scenes and some of the violence drastically better. The bad thing is that I feel like this film-making style would work better if our hero were more vulnerable. That’s kind of the problem with “hardcore”, as a cyborg the protagonist can do things that are superhuman and unrealistic. One of the best action movies ever filmed, Die Hard, the protagonist is human and actually bleeds. Terminator 2 is similar in that while Ahnold may be a robot, the other characters are quite human and limited and even the Terminator takes considerable battle damage throughout the film.

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardcore-this-has-got-to-be-good/731182/2 "2015-09-14T18:51:49Z")

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I already saw Crank. And Crank doesn’t look like I’m playing an FPS.

I’d rather just watch Crank again.

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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardcore-this-has-got-to-be-good/731182/3 "2015-09-15T20:16:57Z")

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Motion sickness alert.

FPS game as a movie. Mleh.

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**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardcore-this-has-got-to-be-good/731182/4 "2015-09-15T21:12:41Z")

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Don’t mistake it for [this one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_%281979_film%29), unless you _really_ wanted to see George C. Scott trying to look like a sleazy porn producer.