that's not "really" the iron giant fighting mechagodzilla

also the movie kept cutting to these shots of people running around IRL with their headsets on even tho the movie establishes the presence of omnidirectional treadmills within the first few minutes

really stupid writing to feel a need to show that connection between reality and virtuality so hamfistedly

they wanted to get these shots of dudes running around city streets and cut to their virtual avatars running around the battlefield

it didn't make sense even within the context of the movie

Wait really?

That sounds fucking stupid

yeah it is obvious gen x writing

no thought given to consistency at all

Seems like clear commercial writing

you'd think spielberg would have caught some shit like that but i'm sure the movie had a team of 50 executive faggots working on it

"The audience is stupid so show them this"

like maybe it's just because i actually play videogames but i did not need that constant reinforcement to remember there's real players behind the avatars

and they could have just showed different people in their little rigs having reactions to in-game events

which they did a few times

but they also put in scenes of people jumping over their couches and running around in public

like there was just a lot of shit that i don't understand except in the worst way

shit clearly written knowing the absurdity of it but done so because the audience will mostly not notice or care

stuff where if you've spent even 5 minutes around videogames you know it wouldn't work that way

Shoulda had a scene where someone runs into a fucking wall

yeah that's what i was thinking every time they showed someone with the headset on outside of a rig

i will say this

it took a minute but i totally bought into the anime ass virtual avatars of the main characters

Looking at shit like vrchat of course it's what they'd have

I'm looking forward to rlm doing a review on it.

same

They're going to tear it apart

It'll be fun

i think we're about to see some serious *shit*

with anime faces

in all movies now

we're finally coming up out on the other side of the uncanny valley

i'm interested to see what the reception will be like for that battle angel alita movie

I don't see that working out well

Even if it's good

200 years in the future, people refer to the CLASSICS such as "ready player one" as the definitive historical representation of gamer culture

i liked ben mendehlson in it

he's a good actor

I liked the lead actor in mud

The other work I've seen isn't much