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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] dual_sport_dork 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You should check out the Westwood (i.e. the Command and Conquer people) point-and-click game incarnation. It has much of the atmosphere of the movie and explores its setting in considerably more depth. It's also not a rehash of the movie; it is a different albeit somewhat similar story, with many of the same themes.

As others have observed, the original release of the film kind of got butchered in editing. Even in its later cuts that are closer to Ridley Scott's original vision an awful lot is left unsaid, though.