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.
Something to keep in mind when watching stuff that old is that we were still trying to figure out how acting for a camera was different than acting for a live audience. Star Wars was at the tail end of that, but skip back ten years to the original Star Trek and it’s really noticeable. A lot of the acting feels bad now, and a decent amount probably did then, but part of that is just what acting was at the time.
However, Lucas did know that his ability to write dialogue was pretty poor, even calling himself the king of wooden dialogue at one point, and was fine with actors coming up with better lines. Unfortunately, Lucas also wasn’t very good at communicating that and only a line or two in the entire series was adjusted by an actor.
Ehh I don’t think that’s a good excuse. It wasn’t the early days of acting or anything, movies had sound 50 years prior. It was what you, I, and George Lucas himself said: he’s bad at writing dialogue.
I think the casting was pretty good, though.
Shit like, the godfather came around that time and the lines and acting were superb
Yeah, we’re not talking about Casablanca here lol