Rules: explain why

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.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    25·
    6 days ago

    I think the acting and dialogue of the original Star Wars trilogy is just awful. Bad writing delivered poorly by most of the cast.

    I totally understand why people love it and why it has its place in film history but man…not for me.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      16·
      6 days ago

      If you think Episode 4 is bad now, you should see the original cut before George’s wife got her hands on it. It’s a very different story.

    • Korthrun@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      4 days ago

      I fell asleep during “A new hope” 3 times, and just stopped once out of boredom before I was finally able to make it through the whole movie. 100% feel you here. I respect it for what it is, and enjoy a lot of the stuff that has come after it, but man do I feel the original was just LIMP.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 days ago

        I really enjoy all the behinds the scene stuff from it. That really shows how visually amazing it was at the time

    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      Something to keep in mind when watching stuff that old is that we were still trying to figure out how acting for a camera was different than acting for a live audience. Star Wars was at the tail end of that, but skip back ten years to the original Star Trek and it’s really noticeable. A lot of the acting feels bad now, and a decent amount probably did then, but part of that is just what acting was at the time.

      However, Lucas did know that his ability to write dialogue was pretty poor, even calling himself the king of wooden dialogue at one point, and was fine with actors coming up with better lines. Unfortunately, Lucas also wasn’t very good at communicating that and only a line or two in the entire series was adjusted by an actor.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 days ago

        Ehh I don’t think that’s a good excuse. It wasn’t the early days of acting or anything, movies had sound 50 years prior. It was what you, I, and George Lucas himself said: he’s bad at writing dialogue.

        I think the casting was pretty good, though.

          • Azal@pawb.social
            1·
            4 days ago

            In movies, they live in the same era, but in genres the Scifi genre was ironically so behind the times that they were still learning back then.

            Scifi and Fantasy as genres were not, and hell pretty much not until the 2000s accepted as proper forms of art back then. I was talking about with my dad how there was some movie that came out and I just couldn’t be faffed to see it and he remarked I’ve gotten that way about it, and I expressed back when I was a kid growing up in the 90s, we got one, maybe two big budget scifi or fantasy movies, and the rest was handfuls of low end drech. The rest was standard comedy, drama, etc in “modern” or past eras and that’s where all the big names of Hollywood were at. For him it was even worse, if you were a scifi nerd you basically got whatever you could get.

            Star Trek came out and told the world that Scifi could be successful, Star Wars showed up and told the world that it could be successful without everything being gleaming and polished and sterile like Star Trek. Hell I was about to bring up the absolutely wooden example of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as a perfect example of before, and then a quick check, nope that was made two years AFTER Star Wars.

            It’s probably why we have as many actually A-List scifi movies, and the hose of not so good ones, coming out now though, a lot of people growing up on these shoulders just wishing for more are now behind the cameras and the actors who grew up on these are willing to do them instead of “No, that’s for the C-List actors.”