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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.

      • ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Good thing I can’t see the downvotes on my instance! 😎

        People are free to do whatever they want but they are misusing the downvote button here in my opinion. 🤷

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Personally, I didn’t vote on you at all, but I think the lack of detail explaining why you don’t like it means it does deserve downvotes. If the reason is literally just ‘I don’t like the whole genre’, I don’t think it’s a very good comment. Like, I don’t particularly like romcoms, but I’m not going to bring up Love Actually as an answer to this thread because it would be unfair to bring it up when I’m just not even close to the target demographic. A more constructive answer would be a film that at least has other similar films that you do like.

          • ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I understand. But that’s not how I understood the topic. I gave my reason and I would understand someone saying “waow this movie was a reference for everyone in [genre] but I don’t get it because I don’t enjoy this genre of movie”.

            But besides this, LoR is incredibly long as fuck and I didn’t get anything about the movie because I could not focus on it. It bored me really quickly. I’m not sure it is due to its genre. I guess I should watch other movies of this genre to know. If you have any suggestions ! 😊

            • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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              2 days ago

              I was a huge fan of last year’s Dungeon & Dragons movie. Just make sure you’re not seeing the terrible ones from 2000–2012!

              Unfortunately after that it gets very hard. I know a lot of people like 1998’s Willow, but I’ve never seen it to compare.

              I’m seeing a fair few people recommend Pirates of the Caribbean, mainly the first 3 films. Which I agree are very good, but they’re not mediaeval high fantasy and they’re far more comedic in tone than LotR. Nevertheless, there does seem to be something similar. Maybe it’s the relatively low level of relatively soft magic and the fairly adventurous nature of them. And also Orlando Bloom in a starring role in both.

              If you’re willing to add TV then Game of Thrones is much grittier but kinda similar (shame the quality drops off gradually after season 4 and then very quickly in the last 1–2 seasons). The Witcher is also good.

              But yeah unfortunately there’s really nothing that quite compares in tone, subject matter, and setting to Lord of the Rings that is anywhere near as good as it, IMO.

    • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      43·
      3 days ago

      I’ve tried to read the books three times and watch the films twice. It’s just so long and boring…

      • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        I’m just thankful that the films left out the majority of songs and poetry and songs that padded out the books. I read the series years before the films and put it down a quarter way through Return of the King because of the lyrical nonsense.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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          3 days ago

          I have seen people trash basically every other fantasy book because it’s not as verbose as LOTR. Just because the word count is bigger doesn’t make it a better story.