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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.

  • Zagorath
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    15 days ago

    Yeah, he supposedly wanted to make sure the bomb was a practical effect because he thought that would look better. Neglecting the simple fact that you cannot do a practical atomic bomb explosion for your movie, and that gasoline is not a nuclear bomb.

    • @Sir_Premiumhengst
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      25 days ago

      Don’t know how feasible, but I would have loved the idea of licensing the original footage and “restoring” it as best as possible with some tasteful CGI…

      • Zagorath
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        25 days ago

        The original footage as in footage of the Trinity test?

        I suspect it would already be public domain under US law, but would lack the coverage they’d need to do anything meaningful with it.