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.
See I kind of like the slower pace of it all. It makes it more introspective and thoughtful, it gives you a little room to breathe and process and be with the characters more. And with a cast so large you would need that space or they all just kind of get lost in the noise and shuffle. It also more faithfully lines up with the books because of it, all of which are very thoughtful and slow to medium paced for the most part. I will definitely concede the movie does not need to be the book, it can be its own thing. But I at least understand the logic there.
I always use a movie like Rogue One as the example of the opposite. Don’t get me wrong, I love that movie. But I still can’t name any characters from it besides Cassian Andor. And his I remember for obvious reasons.