Rules: explain why
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.
Christmas movies are loved bc of how comforting they are, the message 99% of the time is “i didn’t believe and now i do”. Honestly though it’s still unbelievable to me he ends up with a romantic love interest bc he’s basically a huge 5 year old, which was the joke the whole time. And it’s one of my fav xmas movies.
If the story had gone the other way it’d be accused of being “born sexy yesterday”.
Except elf isn’t sexy, he’s completely asexual. And the entire movie is about his character development. It has similarities, but I don’t think reverse misogyny is at the bottom of it.
How is that a good message??
I think it’s supposed to be like a “there’s someone out there for everyone” type thing? It’s my least favorite part of the movie so I’m not sure I’m saying it’s good, just that it baffles me.