Rules: explain why
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.
When I read the book, I said aloud “If they made this into a movie, and were faithful to the author’s vision, got Spielburg and the writer on board… Why, that’d be the most amazing picture in all of cinema”
Didn’t realize I blew a Monkey’s Paw wish, I’d have used it on something I wouldn’t mind being delievered to me in a half-assed way.
I’d have said “I want the United States to abandon this Late Stage Fascist Capitalism bullshit”, because literally anything else would be better
Even it’s because a zombie outbreak happens causing anarchy to break oout, at least I’d be fucking dead and not worrying about this shit anymore.
Maybe my Monkey’s Paw only works on movies. Cause I remember seeing the newer Hitchiker’s Guide film and hating it so much as the BBC Mini-Series with special effects so bad that it makes Red Dwarf look like Revenge of the Sith and wishing the bozo who mangled the book I loved so much would drop dead.
Didn’t realize Douglas Adams, who died shortly after the movie’s release, had full creative control of the film…
At least the “So Long And Thanks For All The Fish” song is fire