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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.

  • @PlatypusOP
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    74 days ago

    You’re miss remembering (is that a word?) things. Because it’s not purple and it’s not Skrillex… That scene is awesome, the whole movie is

    • @frankenswine@lemmy.world
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      04 days ago

      it’s heavy color contrasts and what we came to call brostep in the historic context of mid 19th century. we may disagree but this was the moment i lost touch with tarantino’s esthetics