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What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE? (lemmings.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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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.

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[–] papalonian 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The Patriot Act is used to catch the Joker

Wasn't the entire message behind that arc "nobody should weild this power" and that's why they destroyed it..?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That would seem to be the message we are intended to take away from the film, however this is contradicted by the fact that our protagonist uses this power and it works. Alternatively, the films message could be interpreted as: Nobody should weild this power, but sometimes it's necessary to stop someone who "wants to watch the world burn".

[–] papalonian 2 points 3 days ago

I do see your angle, and agree it can be interpreted this way, but I'm not sure I'm convinced this was intentional, or that a significant number of people had the same take away. If Cameron had the Patriot Act in mind (which he certainly could have), I feel it's more likely that he made a weak attempt at showing us that it's bad to use such power, rather than a veiled attempt to say "but sometimes it's ok".

To each their own though! Thank you for sharing this perspective.