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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.
The best part for me was the last act. The first two acts seemed like it dragged on for too long; I already understood well enough how sad and miserable Arthur’s life was. It already did more than enough to justify Arthur’s spiral into madness and anarchy, but it just kept layer it on and on.
When The Joker finally became The Joker, that was when I started to enjoy the movie.