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.
Regardless of your opinion of the movie, Unobtainium is a real term used in engineering and material sciences. A modern example would a material to make the walls of a fusion reactor with. The movie example was implied to be a room temperature super conductor.
that’s like, the reason it’s a lazy and stupid name for the film’s macguffin, it’s a generic placeholder term for “material we don’t have”. it’s at best an insultingly hamfisted attempt at fourth-wall meta bullshit, and at worst a holdover from early drafts that survived to the final draft through a series of godlike feats of incompetence. and either way it’s awful for willing suspension of disbelief. can you imagine if it were canon that the Force works because of “handwavium”? it’s just flat out bad writing either way, but I’d argue it appears even worse for knowing the irl term unobtanium.