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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.

  • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 days ago

    Napoleon dynamite was fucking garbage and don’t think it should have ever existed. No humor and barley anything. Honestly feel like the movie rubber was better

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      12 days ago

      I wonder… is it because you have little/no experience with small town America? I loved Napoleon Dynamite partly because it’s somewhat nostalgic for me. The movie appeals to people who grew up in the sticks and knew people like Napoleon Dynamite.

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        11 days ago

        I grew up small town America, older Millinial, I’m the demographic for that movie.

        I couldn’t finish the movie.

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      12 days ago

      It really was popular because its humor was so “fresh.” This was just before internet/youtube culture took off and most Americans hadn’t seen such a dry, peculiar film about their own culture. I fucking love it but it’s certainly not for everyone, that’s for sure.

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        12 days ago

        Rubber is a masterclass in film making. We watched a fucking tire and it was entertaining as fuck.

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      11 days ago

      100% respect your opinion. This isn’t me telling you you’re wrong, just sharing my experience with the movie.

      When my wife and I first watched it, after we finished, we looked at each other and were like, “what the fuck did we just watch?”. We thought it was awful.

      The next morning we were quoting it and laughing our asses off at the utter absurdity of the movie. We now both love the movie.

      Edit: grammar and stupid autocorrect