Ready player one pisses me off for so many reasons but what really gets me about it is: it's super self indulgent garbage that became an instant bestseller/anticipated movie but Jupiter ascending, a super self indulgent, ridiculous, creative movie is seen as silly and immature
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and like. We all know why that is.
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And it's so sad because I love that it's basically a ridiculous space shoujo and that it has such a huge world and creative, lavish designs but we'll probably never get a sequel because it's not pandering to white nerd boys. Meanwhile, RPO is gonna have infinite funko pops
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Anyway: boycott RPO and watch Jupiter Ascending insteadpic.twitter.com/EnOd67IDVC
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Ready Player One: Glorifies consumer based identity construction, transphobic/racist/misogynist, influenced by Ayn Rand Jupiter Ascending: indictment of capitalism and colonialism, created by trans women, rejects the "women as mothers or whores" trope, has flying space werebees
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Ready player one: boring pastiche of overrated pop culture, masturbatory- literally and figuratively, sword art online for incels Jupiter Ascending: interesting background lore, undermines toxic masculinity in all its forms, homage to iconic shoujo manga like MeruPuri
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Had to google incel, and sword art online, but that was pretty funny
I got RPO as an audiobook and couldn’t finish it, a Jupiter Ascending book series could be really appealing.
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