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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.

  • @psion1369@lemmy.world
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    1110 days ago

    I don’t hate it, but I can’t understand the wider appeal of it, Nightmare Before Christmas. I don’t understand why people think the Jack and Sally relationship is so great. She pines away and he’s to self absorbed to even notice that she is a girl. And there are people who to this day still make it their entire personality. It is a decent movie, and I like the music, but it’s not that great.

    • Twinklebreeze
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      310 days ago

      Yeah, but it has aesthetic. /s

      My 2yo is obsessed with this movie. It has two good songs, and a whole lot of boring.

    • JackbyDev
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      710 days ago

      I haven’t seen anyone saying they think Jack and Sally have a good relationship other than just enjoying the general aesthetics of it.

        • JackbyDev
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          410 days ago

          Yeah, but I don’t see many people saying they want “what they have” sort of thing.