SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

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I agree with Morbious. I didn't hate this book nearly as much as the rest of you though I do think it is overpraised and has some obvious problems; but if anyone can make a good film out of this and make use of the nostalgia aspects, it is Spielberg.

akm, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link

as for making a good film out of a shit novel, see Jaws

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link

or Die Hard

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link

if anyone can make a good film out of this and make use of the nostalgia aspects, it is Spielberg

he hasn't exactly been on a golden run of late, though, is the thing

Simon H., Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link

he's just made the best film ever according to a poster I saw on the side of a bus

bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link

I thought Lincoln and Bridge of Spies were great

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link

I don't rate Crichton much either

Cmon tho everything about this is so unpromising - "killer shark" is a premise that inherently has more potential for an entertaining film than like "what if funko pops" or whatever the premise of this garbage is

scrüt (wins), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link

I'm not going cos I don't own a blacklight and I will need assurances that the seats haven't been befouled with the loinjuices of Gen X nerds prior to sitting down.

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link

Crichton created some of the greatest compulsively readable sci-fi/thriller nonsense ever imo, love him

bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link

he was definitely a grinder when it came to doing research prior to writing his novels

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link

Lincoln was good but BoS was just passable and you couldn't pay me to watch the two that followed

Simon H., Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link

Spielberg movies are like Van Morrison albums; there's one every fucking year and I forget it exists two minutes after I'm told about it.

grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link

I'm not even a hater but the guy makes a shitload of films so I usually feel ok skipping over the odd one that appears calculated to be as unappealing to me as possible

scrüt (wins), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link

that's nice

he'll survive

xp

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link

"what if funko pops" hahaha

akm, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link

lol

bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link

will the movie be better than 2 hours of this

Here's the official trailer for READY PLAYER ONE: pic.twitter.com/0rQnUE5LdK

— Neil Cicierega (@neilcic) July 22, 2017

frogbs, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link

Dr Morbius, it seems like a thing that would make this interesting would be if it includes some element of reflection or even just commentary, on Spielberg's part, on his movies' place in current culture. Do you think he's got that in him?

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 1 February 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link

I think he did that (sort of) as far back as 1941 (spoofing himself w/ shark/submarine opening).

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link

Yeah and as dlh said above Jurassic park is full of that kinda stuff

I don't think that would be enough for me personally in this case

scrüt (wins), Thursday, 1 February 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link

i like Spielberg but I haven't been super enthusiastic about too many of his post-WOTW/Munich flicks. Lincoln was good but I don't remember much about it beyond DDL and a couple scenes w/Bruce McGill and Michael Stuhlbarg.

omar little, Thursday, 1 February 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link

Spielberg's biggest contribution to Lincoln was arguably staying out of Tony Kushner and DDL's way. A higher mawkish sentimentality content could have ruined it.

Acanthonus armatus (Sanpaku), Thursday, 1 February 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link

at this stage spielberg is basically a menace

khat person (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 February 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link

the post and this as a one-two punch of diametrically opposed utter garbage

khat person (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 February 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link

i kinda judge him a bit harshly on what he chooses to executive produce. leaning real heavy on the Transformers pics there, Steven.

Crystal Skull/Tintin/War Horse/Lincoln/Bridge of Spies/BFG/Post/RPO is about as "inspired" a run as Ridley Scott's having, which is to say kinda boring projects executed w/enough skill to make the best written ones "good" but that's about it.

omar little, Thursday, 1 February 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link

arguably staying out of Tony Kushner and DDL's way

oh, nuts

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link

jurassic park is about chasing beauty and making art, things spielberg understands better than he does american history. potential themes of this movie: escapism, nostalgia, the artist as opium slinger enlisted by deadening oppressive regime, decadent kids playing in recombinated trash like they're... making indiana jones, i guess there's an absent father figure there too. could still very well be just totally hateful but this is certainly more promising material for this partic artist than the washington post.

difficult listening hour, Thursday, 1 February 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link

pretty dismissive of Hillary Clinton's all-time leading donor

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link

*kisses fingers*
perfection morbz

bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 February 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link

i kinda judge him a bit harshly on what he chooses to executive produce.

The fact that he seems to be responsible for putting Shia le Bouef in the public eye is pretty damning all by itself

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 1 February 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link

Ah no, I don't mean signs and hints for the people watching these films that have seen Spielberg films, I mean it being (I understand) a feature of the story that the people in this film have seen Spielberg films.

But then, I can't think of any film-maker who's done that except maybe Kevin Smith? I don't watch a lot of Kevin Smith.

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 1 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

goddammit this poster is literally just "HEY REMEMBER THIS STUFF?"

it's too dumb to even get mad at, it's just the silliest and most obvious attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator of "nerd culture"

and it's gonna work, too. this bullshit is gonne make SO MUCH MONEY pic.twitter.com/oQWcRteDMz

— COOL BEANS (@RikiCreem) February 19, 2018

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link

I don't think it will. The new (to me) trailer before BP got no response at all. Uncle Drew, on the other hand...

El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link

I can’t imagine anyone young enough to want to see this is gonna know what Bigfoot is

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link

mainly i’m just annoyed that the poor blameless iron giant, star of one of the best animated movies of the last quarter-century, is getting dragged into this

NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link

and the 1978 Gundam. Don't they know these kids grew up on Gundam Wing, which is a totally separate continuity

El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link

I don't have my pulse on the finger of the dork community the way I used to but I have yet to encounter a single person who seems excited for this movie, if it totally flops I would not be surprised

frogbs, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link

lol the faces on that poster. nobody looks like they are having fun.

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/GHZLPJs.gif

that's not how VR works

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link

in the future every kid still wears skinny jeans and sneakers

El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link

it’s retro!

NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link

now hoping this film is two hours of kids in scuba masks running around a city shooting imaginary guns, with the occasional subliminal flash of iconic nerd culture images

Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link

can't believe they got Simon Pegg to be in this btw

Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link

ah yes, the notably discerning nerd deity Simon Pegg

Number None, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link

That’s the simplest thing in the world: “Hi Simon, you wanna be in this Spielberg flick?”

Easy

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link

“you had me at ‘hello simon’”

NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link

I honestly couldn't tell if that was Simon Pegg or Michael Sheen on the poster.

grawlix (unperson), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link

i'm not seeing what's so objectionable about that poster

akm, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link

that it looks like a poster for the unfilmed sequel to The Last Starfighter

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link


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