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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.
I’m just thankful that the films left out the majority of songs and poetry and songs that padded out the books. I read the series years before the films and put it down a quarter way through Return of the King because of the lyrical nonsense.
I have seen people trash basically every other fantasy book because it’s not as verbose as LOTR. Just because the word count is bigger doesn’t make it a better story.