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.
I think Inception is the fluke because it was Nolan wanting to make the Neuromancer book into a film. But as anyone who has read it knows, explaining it is ultra hard. So the script writer probably had no idea what Nolan was talking about except for a few specific points and Inception was born out of it. The key clue is that in Neuromancer the throwing star is the main characters reminder of reality while in the film it was a toy.
Still fits with your theory.