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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.
Well…
The first movie feels like it could take place in the real world. That society as we know it exists, drug cartels and mafias and all, and the organized criminals have worked out a deal with a hotel owner. When a gun fight erupts in a night club, everyone screams and runs away.
The second movie blows that all up; everyone is a secret underground hitman pretending to be a normal civilian, the hotel owner is a quasi-religious figurehead who only fears the Truly Evil Council, and when a gun fight erupts at a concert, everyone cheers.
They came up with a cool setting and then shoved it straight up its own ass.