So the backlash against Ready Player One is really confusing to me. Like, I have dozens of posts here talking about how I feel nostalgia is the enemy of art, so I am ready to be on board with people angry at nostalgia but it feels painfully insincere to me. You’re never going to get me on board with tearing apart a film no one has seen yet, it strikes me as stupid and I have been seeing people shit on this movie for almost a year now. People criticizing movies they have not seen is a pretty big pet peeve of mine in general. Past that, the internet loves nostalgia. I think Nostalgia is a great enemy of art. I also think I can’t go a day without someone talking about the signs that you’re a 90’s kid. You people loved Stranger Things, a show I thought was pretty good but somehow became a cultural phenomena essentially by playing the greatest hits of Steven Speilberg’s 1980’s work and had no reason to be set in the 80’s other than to say, “Hey, weren’t the 80’s rad?” and give us a version of the 80’s that only existed in rose tinted glasses. And the main criticism of the new Star Wars movies seems to boil down to, “This doesn’t make me feel exactly like I felt when I was three years old”. So you know, it just feels insincere. Also, I get the impression most of the people criticizing it haven’t read the book. Which is fine. It is fun but isn’t hardly great. It’s entirely what it is, which is a nostalgia bomb telling the same story that existed in dozens of old sci-fi stories except in the future set in an era obsessed with old sci-fi. And it puts me in this weird place cause I don’t actually care about this movie. Maybe I’ll see it? I don’t care though, I would forget it existed if I didn’t see people talking about how bad it is. Why are you guys making me defend this? Anyway, that’s a long rambly way to say Olivia Cooke was at one of the Ready Player One premiers and she looked good. I hope it is good and successful for her sake because I would like her to become more popular. She is one of those people I am weirdly attracted to. Not in the sense that it would be weird to be attracted to but every now and then someone appears on screen and my attraction is intense. Like, I am drawn to them and I know no one else in the room is going, “Holy shit who is that”. Would they say she’s pretty? Sure. But like on Bates Motel she was not the intended eye candy. Nor was she the ever sexualized even. That was Nicola Peltz’s job. Yet my eyes were always drawn to Olivia Cooke. There is just something about her. So I am glad if she is going to show up on a bunch of red carpets coming up and I will be interested to see how the internet loses it’s mind about the movie. Today I want to fuck Olivia Cooke.