Desperately missing The Usual Suspects in the selection…
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Also the movie Old Boy. Definitely one of the most intense twists of all time.
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Predestination might be also worth including, though I don’t remember if I was particularly surprised.
I don’t know if that one counts as iconic though. It hasn’t really made its way into the lexicon and I haven’t encountered any memes about it.
On the other hand…
I knew I was forgetting a big one but couldn’t for the life of me remember it.
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i don’t think i’ve ever seen the harbinger before
She’s the new Dartmoor one that came out a few days ago
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Could include Bugerty or whatever it’s called where you think it’s a normal film about mental illness and then at the end SURPRISE, she is an alien after all lol.
You mean Bugonia?
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Technically ok with either one, but since Knight is hot, and Stone looks better with that stupid bandage across his nose (although both look ridiculous and I wish they’d remove them), I pick them.
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Which group of Elusive Targets released since H3 has more “evil” members?
- Seven Deadly Sins Elusive Targets
- Celebrity Elusive Targets (and affiliated targets)
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Between the two, I gotta give the edge in terms of evil to the original group of Seven Deadly Sins ETs. It says something that the least reprehensible member of that group is the professional killer who went rogue, and that’s from a group that also consists of a guy who never killed anyone directly, and a pair of guys who are only responsible for one death and it was an honest accident; they are all worse than her. Everyone else in that group is a bonafide serial killer, even if the Rage is only one by technicality.
The Celebrity group, while heinous in their own ways, don’t really match up to the awfulness of their predecessors:
The Drop, as well as the Dragon and his lieutenants, are just gangsters, consisting of a drug lord and an Asian mafia respectively, and are no worse than any other targets in those roles.
The Disruptor, I’m going to assume, is not really based on all of his VA’s terrible actions, and is probably not a sexual assaulter, meaning he’s just a mouthy asshole who was fully intending to commit one murder-by-combat, but still ultimately never did.
The Splitter, another rogue assassin, extreme even by such standards, but no worse than we’ve seen before, with his tendency toward double-dealing and betrayal being his worst quality (that and the accent).
The Banker is just a white collar criminal money man, and not even a sociopathic one like Strandberg, and if he’s anything like the LeChiffre from the movie, then he’s more bark than bite.
Slim Shady, again, is just a mouthy asshole who wants to commit murder, and while he does in the mission, he’s an imaginary figure, so nothing is lost or gained from his actions or his elimination, and since his true personality is trying to eliminate him, and succeeds, that suggests there’s more good than evil in the actual guy whose head he lives in.
Only the Harbinger truly reaches the depths of evil of the original H3 ET batch, but even then she has the mitigating factor of wanting to make daddy proud being a big part of her motivation, so she’s not just evil for evil’s sake like Nabazov himself, and he was even worse than the 7DS ETs.
So between them, gotta go with the original crew.
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Who has been your least favorite Celebrity Elusive Target, based solely on the performance?
- Gary Busey
- Sean Bean
- Dimitri Vegas
- Connor McGregor
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Mads Mikkelsen
- Bruce Lee (‘s Voice Actor/Inpersonator)
- Marshall Mathers III/Eminem/Slim Shady
- Milla Jovovich
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So, as the title states, this is your least favorite based on their performance, not because of who they are or what they may have done in real life. So those knee-jerk reactions to leaning toward Busey, McGregor, Van Damme and Eminem for being… how they are, that’s not a factor here. This is based solely on their performance in the role created for them in the ET mission they starred in.
For me, I gotta go with the Slim Shady portrayal. And, in fairness, it was set against him because of the nature of the mission being just a big illusion, or hallucination, or whatever the hell was going on there. A lot of reviews of the mission included opinions that Eminem’s voice acting was awful, and I don’t really think so, because I know that he really talks like that at times, especially when performing, so he wasn’t really “acting” for the role so much as just doing what he does. And I was fine with it, in-and-of-itself. But given the mission set-up where nothing that’s happening is real, the performance of Shady himself in such a setting comes off as deliberately trying too hard to match a ludicrous persona with a ludicrous setting. I don’t think I can describe it just right what I mean by that, but I just think I would have found it more enjoyable if the Shady character had been behaving that way in a serious, “real” mission than a fantasy one, so the performance didn’t quite click for me. It was like being over-the-top on top of being over-the-top, if I’m even making any sense by that. But yeah, sorry Em, but that was the least enjoyable CelebrET performance so far for me.
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Honestly, I can’t separate the performance of the actor from the person the actor actually is and for me, Eminem is just horrible in almost every respect. I hate his music, hate his persona, hated the mission, and I did the entire mission without even plugging my headphones in just to avoid hearing his voice and music. I won’t even apologize for that. I hated the dream-state fantasy of the mission, hated the teleporting mirrors, and for me it doesn’t even fit into the Hitman ethos. I know that a LOT of people truly to adore this artist and loved the mission and I am very much in the minority, but it’s my opinion.
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Well, I agree with your choice, if only part of your reasoning.