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.
Borat isn’t my favorite of the genre but I love those kinds of movies that mix fictional plot line with interactions of real strangers. I wish there was more love for those kinds of projects.
Borat (and SBC in general) is known for treating those real strangers like shit and leaving the places they film in worse off than when they got there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borat check under controversies.
Tbf, some of the people in Borat deserved it. I laughed seeing Ted Cruz get punked
Giuliani scene was incredible in Borat 2
True, but as funny as tricking him into a To Catch A Predator like situation, then streaming it across America for all to see…
Is no one else concerned that the President at the time’s lawyer was filmed trying to have sex with someone he thought was 14, that millions of people saw the footage, and it didn’t lead to any investigation being launched? Or really anything at all?
I mean I am, but I’m not American so I think that’s expected. From my perspective it seems like a third of Americans get off on fascism and abusing power.
Well yeah, because he exposed those areas for having garbage people living there. He didn’t make the area worse by damaging honorable people, all he did was hand a spotlight to people and let them show who they are. They very obviously were aware they were on camera the entire time
Yeah… The part where they tricked the town into thinking it was a real movie and gave them scripts reflecting as such, then just put the jokes the studio ACTUALLY wanted in the subtitles was really low of them to do. I don’t see how that’s at all removed from just doing “Kazakhstan: The Minstrel Show”
I will say I liked the movie a lot better before I knew that. When I first saw it I was a highschooler who had assumed Kazakhstan was a fictional place made to be a stand-in for Eastern European countries. Even when I learned it was a real place, I thought surely they just made a set or something.
Because only a monster would actually fly to a third world country, say you’re going to bring in a lot of money for a town that desprately needs it, pay them far less than they were promised, and blatantly lie and say that it’s a film about a guy going off on a big fantasy adventure instead of some white guy doing brown face to show how backwards and evil not only the town, but the nation as a whole is…