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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.
Elf.
Once you’ve seen the first 3 minutes and get the premise, then the entire rest of the film is so predictable in its jokes and situations that I derived absolutely zero pleasure from watching it and it just grated the entire way through.
Films can be funny because the initial premise leads to really entertaining, unexpected or clever situations… or a film can super straight up and shallow in its humour.
I really don’t get why Elf is so incredibly popular.
It makes babies/child-minded people laugh.
Unpopular opinion: Will Ferrell’s career in a nutshell it seems.
It’s interesting to point out that distinction. His career is pretty much based in absurdist humor.
Yeah I like this Saturday night live work, I liked him in The Lego movies and I also liked Spirited (2022)
I think my problem with Elf is that it was a train wreck comedy on top of the absurdist. And I find absurdist and parody to be relatively entertaining but train wreck is irredeemable.
Christmas movies are loved bc of how comforting they are, the message 99% of the time is “i didn’t believe and now i do”. Honestly though it’s still unbelievable to me he ends up with a romantic love interest bc he’s basically a huge 5 year old, which was the joke the whole time. And it’s one of my fav xmas movies.
How is that a good message??
I think it’s supposed to be like a “there’s someone out there for everyone” type thing? It’s my least favorite part of the movie so I’m not sure I’m saying it’s good, just that it baffles me.
If the story had gone the other way it’d be accused of being “born sexy yesterday”.
Except elf isn’t sexy, he’s completely asexual. And the entire movie is about his character development. It has similarities, but I don’t think reverse misogyny is at the bottom of it.
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Hard agree.