Typical liberal, trying to start a ‘wich’ hunt.

Good reply, thanks. Interesting (and completely off-topic) note about the original Death Wish: The guy who wrote it, Brian Garfield, later went on to write “The Thousand-Mile War,” a non-fiction book that, believe it or not, is widely considered the definitive account of the Aleutian Campaign in WWII. Great book.

Thought experiment. Can you name a movie from 2018, the politics of which you didn’t like — but that, as a movie, you enjoyed and thought it worked well?

Skimming through these reviews, one starts to get a sense of where the authors are coming from.

So some of these movies are the worst because they might offend a person’s delicate political beliefs? I’m literally shaking. What will I tell my children?

Sounds like that special snowflake got triggered and needs to go to his safe space.

The impotent artsy rage in the comments trying to put RP1 on this list is like a warm bath.

We get it, you’re too cool for school. But if you think RP1 is even in the top 30 worst movies of the year, you need to pull your head out of your ass.

By there being a lot of worse movies than Ready Player One, like a LOT.

That’s actually my end goal.

A friend of mine lent me the book (her boyfriend’s copy, thank God) and I managed to get to the part where Acererak challenges the protagonist to a game of Joust before the urge to punch strangers became too great. How in the name of Christ did that man ever get published?

I’m an avid reader. I’ve spent the past few years tearing through some of literature’s biggest doorstops. It took me more than a month to get through “Ready Player One,” because I just... couldn’t... pick... it... up... AGAIN. I haven’t seen the movie, because it probably would sit in my streaming queue for even…

It’s a shitty listicle that came to life.  Boring, hacky life.  

I think it was treading way too deliberately in the footsteps of The Lost World, but just completely failing to nail the dinos-on-island -> oh-shit-dinos-on-mainland arc. The Lost World asked the very solid question: what would happen if a T-rex got loose in LA? The answer turned out to be pretty stupid, but a yappy…

You think the problem with that story is the idea of a surveillance state? I thought the bigger issue was that everyone was sitting on their asses in VR chat while the world went to shit.

That seems more like critiquing the book Cline didn’t write, as opposed to the one he did. It’s very possible that Cline just didn’t want to write another “Everybody knows everything about you” story, and wanted to do a romp. Now, his romp sucked hard, and he’s a shit writer, so there are a lot of things that could be…

“Even by AVClub standards, this is inept.”

You must be really, really new here if you think this is particularly inept. 

But there was a book/movie made about how scary Google et al, are — The Circle (2017). It got mocked as being a modern version of the 2001 anti-Microsoft (remember when Microsoft was the scary tech company?) thriller Antitrust, but it actually had a lot of points in regard to how dangerous data harvesting is to…

There are some curious choices here.

I mean, Spielberg is a good enough filmmaker that anything he produces will clip along well on a moment-to-moment level. But he’s doing it in service of a juvenile power fantasy with shallow characters and unexamined gross themes.

For a double bill showcasing the worst of 2018's toxic nostalgia, creative bankruptcy, and fundamental slick shittiness, settle in for Ready Player One and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.