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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.
The John Wick series
Watched them all over the course of a weekend - its the same fucking moving over and over and over and over again. The amount of disbelief I needed to suspend got exponentially larger so by the time I got to the last movie I just couldn’t take it anymore. There is no real plot or any development of characters, it’s just implausible fight scene after implausible fight scene.
I think if I put a few months between each movie I wouldn’t have this opinion - on their own the movies can be mindlessly entertaining but all together was too much for me.
I love the first one and would argue it’s fairly grounded, it’s the sequels that quickly got unhinged.
Dude murders everyone over a dog. So grounded.
Murdering people over a dog part is still plausible. But the secret assassin organization where they pay for services using secret gold coins and talk about guns like fine wine, that was just a bit over the top.
I enjoyed the first movie; The “I hear you have struck my son.” scene sold it for me; if the movie was perfectly cliche that scene would have ended “Sorry sir, it’ll never happen again!” while a red laser dot is wiggling up his chest and then Viggo says “I know.” and we hear a gun shot through the phone. No, that “He stole John Wick’s car, sir; and he killed his dog.” “Oh.” It was a fresh helping of big Hollywood action movie. And for a big improbable ridiculous one man army action movie, it still had some restraint. It was at least a little grounded.
The second movie went right up its own ass. So, literally everyone everywhere in the world is a secret underground contract killer? I haven’t seen…I saw a thread about “there probably won’t be a John Wick 5 because Keanu’s knees” so 3 or 4. I enjoyed the first one.