For me the shape of water was the worst film I’ve ever seen because the whole story was just so weird and ridiculous… An alien and a woman getting together.
The worst part about it is that critics at the time were praising the film…
For me the shape of water was the worst film I’ve ever seen because the whole story was just so weird and ridiculous… An alien and a woman getting together.
The worst part about it is that critics at the time were praising the film…
Ready Player One was ridiculously overhyped.
It ultimately permanently dates itself by pushing the media from the authors youth as the most important media in history and far more memorable than anything that came after. The author cannot imagine anything better and chooses not to.
Like the Fallout series it suffers from an “end of history” trope where society, culture, and art become static and unmoving, moored in a certain aesthetic and time period, despite time firmly marching on.
I feel like if you’re the kind of person that likes Scott Pilgrim versus the world then you probably would have not hated ready player One.
There’s like a very specific window of people that the entire story appeals to and if you’re not inside of that window then you’re shit out of luck.
Arguably, it should have appealed to me. Ernest Cline is barely 10 years my senior and loved most of the same things I did. I’m just not such a self-important schmuck that I think that means it’s the best art in history.
Agreed. I recognized and liked all the items in the checklist. But a checklist is not a story.