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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.

  • @Duamerthrax
    5•3 days ago

    I like anime, but wont touch shounen with a ten foot pole. And that includes “American Anime”, which seems to almost exclusively be the shounen genre.

    Western shows tend to fall into a similar pattern. A show will just keep getting dragged on longer then it should and end up tanking its popularity. How fucking long did Super Natural or Walking Dead last?

    • Lemminary
      1•3 days ago

      Oh, you’re right, I’m being unfairly biased. I stopped watching Walking Dead precisely because it went on and on aimlessly, just like Westworld. lol

      • @[email protected]
        2•3 days ago

        Have you watched non episodic anime? There’s a lot of Movie length anime out there often with more mature theming.

        Akira was probably the first anime that put the medium on the map for me at all. The animated Ghost in the shell movie is also pretty good. And almost all of the Studio Ghibli films.

        You could also try stuff like Cowboy Bebop or Serial Experiments Lain for episodic but still short works.