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.
For me the appeal is “2D Animation is a genre I like, and outside of Cal-Art bullshit it’s basically dead in my home country.”
For me its mostly that with a bit of “this is a foreign film/show so some cultural references and formulas are entirely new to me!” excitement sprinkled in