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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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    4 months ago

    If you think Ernest Cline’s movie is cringy, wait until you read his poetry. Absolutely one of the worst piece of writing I’ve ever read.

    And it only gets worse from there.

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    4 months ago

    Spirited Away

    No consistent world, cringy behaviour of the main character, love story out of nowhere, you can’t have a plot twist if you didn’t have any previously established lore. It felt a bit like a dream that was trying to take itself seriously as an actual story.

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    4 months ago

    Ted.

    Juvenile fratboy humour done badly, very badly with lots of fan services to get the brainless cheering.

    Made me laugh once in the first few minutes (I can’t even remember the joke) and walked out of the cinema after about an hour.

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      4 months ago

      You tried to watch this movie sober, didn’t you?

      That’s the problem, lol. You have to turn off a bit of your brain to enjoy yourself properly.

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    4 months ago

    Inglourious Basterds.

    However much I liked all the Tarantino flicks before this one, I just cannot get into Inglourious. Also, everything Tarantino made after that movie is also tainted by the same uneasy feeling I get. If pressed to guess why, I’d say he took the stories out of the ‘now’ and transported them to other times and places, which just does not seem to agree with me.

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    4 months ago

    Nosferatu, the one that just came out, is very well done. It’s also just Nosferatu: Again.

    I was very bored watching the movie because it’s the same story I’ve heard before many times. Those 2 hours and 12 minutes dragged hard.