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Old 10-07-2009, 04:17 PM   #1
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ABC News Report Compares Metroid Prime To Citizen Kane

ABC News Report Compares Metroid Prime To Citizen Kane

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How much do life force-sucking aliens and Rosebud have in common? Quite a lot, according to one ABC News report, which compared Metroid Prime to the seminal film Citizen Kane, considered by some to be the finest movie every created.

"Orson Welles was using cinematography to express something very personal and human. It wasn't just functional anymore, it was actually tied to a specific meaning about people aging, people dying," said IGN's Michael Thomsen.

That's compared that to the "dark and lonely" atmosphere of Metroid Prime, which puts combat second to exploration, the report said. Thomsen also pointed to the "post-mortem discovery" of alien civilizations that's a characteristic of the Metroid series, comparing it to the journalists of Citizen Kane who are trying to figure out what happened to the titular character.

Metroid Prime was undoubtedly one of the best games on the Nintendo GameCube, but does the comparison stretch all the way to Citizen Kane? What do you think?
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Old 10-07-2009, 05:04 PM   #2
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I hate it when journalists get bored.
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I HEARD METROID EVEN HAS PEOPLE IN IT JUST LIKE CITIZEN KANE

SEPARATED AT BIRTH?!?!1
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And now Citizen Kane is Soylent Green!
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And now Citizen Kane is Soylent Green!
ROSEBUD IS PEOPLE!
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And now Citizen Kane is Soylent Green!
And Charlton Heston and Orson Welles co-starred in Touch of Evil!

See? It's come full circle.
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And Charlton Heston and Orson Welles co-starred in Touch of Evil!

See? It's come full circle.
oh god, the MST3K of that film was hilarious
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No. Metroid Prime didn't have enough Gregg Toland.
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And clearly, Kid Icarus is identical to The Old Man and the Sea.

And Super Mario Brothers? That's the Great Gatsby!
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^SMB is quite well-known to be Through The Looking Glass.

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Actually, very blatantly. Mario eats a mushroom to get big or small: that's from Wonderland/Looking Glass.
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