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Ready player one.

That has to be one of the cringiest movies I’ve seen, is tries so hard, too hard with it’s “WE LOVE YOU NERD, YOU’RE SO COOL FOR PLAYING GAMES AND GETTING THIS 80S REFERENCE” message and the whole “corporation bad, the people good” narrative seems written for toddlers… The fan service feels cheap and adds nothing to the story.

Finally, they trying to make the people believe that very attractive girl with a barely visible red tint spot on her face is “ugly”… Like wtf?

Yet it received decent reviews plus being one of the most successful movies of that year.

  • Azal@pawb.social
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    5 days ago

    The books, too, drag on like Tolkien was being paid by the individual word. Thankfully with books I can set the pace at which things go.

    The only way I ever got through ANY of Tolkien’s books was being read to by Andy Serkis while I was working at my job. It’s worse when it’s Tolkien somehow goes out of his way to write about the absolute most boring parts in excruciating detail, sets up all the drama, things are getting tense, oh shit, shits gonna go down “And that’s when the Battle of the Five Armies happened. Afterward…” OH COME ON! Hell I wondered if I just couldn’t read on a high enough level then devoured Herbert with Dune so easily it’s, no… no I can’t stand Tolkien’s writing.

    And I will die on the hill against anyone who thinks Tom Bombadil needed to be in the movies. That was a shit part in the book that took away any character agency from the main characters for an absolutely pointless diversion.