The movie begins by reminding us how stupid the show was. After openly telling us thousands of people were killed and tortured across several videogames. People kept playing them like nothing much had happened. They even go as far as saying “this time there is not going to be any danger, so there is nothing to worry about.” Spoiler: There was.Kawahara Reki has no idea of how normal people behave. They don’t simply return back to normal if they survive a death game. If they see someone reusing the same monsters that kept killing them for years, they will go crazy and sue the crap out of the company who dared to make a profit from their tragedy by making such a heartless publicity stunt. But since this is a written by a guy who has no idea of normal human behavior, everyone is thrilled at the idea of fighting against the monster who almost killed them because it will give them lots of points. Videogames are serious business. This is also written by a guy who doesn’t even know about videogames, even though that is the main appeal of his overrated franchise. How are these people using augmented reality without hitting the pedestrians who are not playing the game and are thus invisible when wearing the glasses? Heck, how are they thrown around like rug dolls by fictional explosions? But it’s ok since Kawahara has the perfect answer for that. Here’s a joke about a loli wanting to ride Kirito’s bike, if you know what I mean.Then people begin losing their memories of the time they were in the death game, and this is presented as a bad thing, although in the real world this way they wouldn’t have PTSD for the rest of their lives and would count as something positive. And it happens so often the doctors know about it and yet nobody makes a fuss about it on the news. Not even the victims. Everyone keeps playing videogames like nothing matters. Because these are not people you are supposed to care about. Then it’s revealed the bad guys want to create an artificial intelligence of a deceased girl by stealing the memories of everyone who knew about her. Which makes no freaking sense. You can’t steal what is not physical, therefore you can’t steal data. You just copy them. It’s the same thing as pirating a movie; you never steal the movie, you only make a copy of it. Causing amnesia is a completely different action that can only happen deliberately by sadistic individuals. Also, if the bad guys needed memories to recreate a persona, then their memories were the only ones needed, since they knew the deceased girl better than everyone else in the world. There was no need for any of the crap they did. But you are not supposed to think that, so here’s a boobshot to make you stop caring. You are not watching SAO for quality, you are watching it as bottom tier empowerment fantasy, where you self insert as a generic OP gamer, who defeats everyone and gets all the bitches. The thing is, the movie is not honest about it. It’s constantly trying to fool you into thinking it is much more. The bad guys are not one-dimensional rapists for once, and actually feel the consequences of having to deal with the death of a loved one. Something nobody else is doing in the show, because they were not written by a normal human being. Unfortunately, the script is so garbage to the point nothing they do makes any sense. If they could simply steal the memories they needed from all players at the concert, why did they waste the whole movie in stealing memories from individuals? They could just steal everyone’s memories in the concert without giving anyone the time to prepare. Another thing the movie tries to fool you about is Kirito-sama. He may have been undefeatable in virtual reality, but he sucks in augmented reality, because you have to be physically fit, and he’s a total slob. This ends up being yet another thrown away idea, since despite being completely unexercised, he trains a few days and instantly defeats professionals with athletic bodies. A blatant example of empowerment fantasy ruining good ideas. The movie also lies about making Asuna relevant again. At first, she is a much better player than Kirito, a capable and dynamic woman like in the first episodes when everybody loved her. And then she becomes a damsel in distress once again, before devolving into no more than fan service and a reward for Kirito-sama to save her once again. And thus the movie ends with everything returning to status quo, since memories are something you can steal and return whenever you feel like it, and the characters have no reason to face the consequences of their failures, since SAO is and forever will be garbage aiming to pander casual gamers who have no idea how normal people think or how videogames work.
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