SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

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The descriptor of the random assortment of nerd IP from Cline’s adolescence as “80s!” is lazy enough to be consistent with his writing style, should be noted.

I just noticed the poster also doesn't name a single actor (none of the trailers have either I don't think)

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

*meticulously bumps thread on 2000's internet pop culture forum for every single intellectual property mentioned in this movie*

(Once again, I’ll give a link to the particular episode done by the guy I linked to above that formed an early emblematic reaction to the book.)

lmao @ Whiney coming into this thread to make sure yall feel bad for liking Iron Giant

It’s cool to like Iron Giant, but wgaf if it’s in this dumb movie

Should be be (additionally) suspicious that this isn't coming out in the Summer, or doesn't that matter anymore?

^ Easter Weekend usually has some big movies opening

Jesus H.

http://www.slashfilm.com/fantastic-ready-player-one-posters/

God, all of the facial expressions are wrong.

http://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/wp/wp-content/images/readyplayerone-tributeposter-highres-rambo2-345x500.jpg

this flick looks like both a bore and a chore

I thought I'd passed through my "kill everyone involved with Cultural Product X" phase, but man, this movie is dragging me right back there.

I never actively rooted against Spielberg before but I guess there's a first time for everything.

Hopefully someone will culturally appropriate my Spielbergian chagrin in thirty years.

can’t even bring myself to look forward to hate-watching this one tbh

they should have just called it "Movie: The Movie"

It's like someone spent $900 million to remake That's Entertainment!

https://theofficela.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/calvin-and-hobbes-write-what-you-know.jpg

lol at that C&H strip.

very very otm

Ready Player One but every reference in the movie is replaced with a Steamed Hams reference.

— Rob Wesley (@eastwes) March 6, 2018

guys

Just got word that I can finally share my rejected theme song from @readyplayerone. They went with Alan Silvestri's theme, but I still want to thank Steven Spielberg & @WarnerBrosEnt for the wonderful opportunity. pic.twitter.com/aK32ZOUA16

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) March 7, 2018

Amazing.

if this spawns a cottage industry in deadpan mockery it will all be worth it

loool

Tbh this embodies everything I hate in current pop culture (see me in Stranger Things threads), but Spielberg running it is making me not ready to totally toss it out. Maybe something good could be done with... this?

I had this weird glimmer when I finally was confronted with the trailer in a theater a while ago that I could sort of understand why this would be a thing Spielberg would want to do, inasmuch as it is (a) a spectacle, (b) about a capsule or constructed or isolated environment (cf The Terminal, Jurassic Park, others?)

But then the moment passed and I was back to being like “fuck this movie”

OK there READY PLAYER ONE just stop it pic.twitter.com/s1px8ESniC

— McGone [2 CD Remastered Deluxe Edition] (@the_mcgone) March 6, 2018

i can't imagine how warner bros approved of this ready player one poster pic.twitter.com/SzT4iyNpCd

— jared kushbomb (@tresgambas) March 7, 2018

too soon

Fittingly, the thread title is Saddo. Just noticed that.

Tbh this embodies everything I hate in current pop culture (see me in Stranger Things threads), but Spielberg running it is making me not ready to totally toss it out. Maybe something good could be done with... this?

― circa1916, Tuesday, March 6, 2018 10:32 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is pretty much the polar opposite of my feeling. I'm so much more ready (player one) to make time for a well-constructed show which is in part an oblique pastiche of old-timey entertainments than to give Spielberg of all people a pass on lazily dumping the contents of a mid-'80s eight-year-old's toybox in front of a movie camera.

still a truther on this

If Spielberg did this as a pop cultural gloss on The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch I'd be all in.

if i were the kind of person who held challenging opinions i might think that preemptive detractors of this movie otherwise happy with franchise decadence are sensing it comes to critique their nostalgia bluntly rather than service it elegantly

As one who openly indulges in franchise decadence, my preceding post should put paid to that notion wrt moi.

I want to believe this thing is a bummer which savages nostalgic escapism but I don't get that impression.

i should admit here i'm back into star wars all of a sudden

i don't rly get that impression either but all i've seen is marketing and it's funner to hope.

i mean it's def not gonna be a bummer, that's the impression i don't get. it seems a certainty that it will engage on some level w nostalgia as emotional+political trap. the bad version of this movie i (+ prob you) imagine isn't one where that angle isn't there, but where it's perfunctory and unconvincing and just tacked onto a giant tv commercial in order to absolve it: that does put it in a different category from stranger things even if it's a failure and the latter's a success.

i don't even care about the recycling of nostalgia- it just looks like the same chosen one story that every big scifi/fantasy actioner has. Just looks like a tedious "thrill ride".

it seems a certainty that it will engage on some level w nostalgia as emotional+political trap.

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, March 7, 2018

lmao oh you

It's a theme which Steven Spielberg (executive producer of Transformers Universe: Bumblebee, in theaters this December) seems very keen to shine a light on.

Also, the main actor looks as expressive as a pudding

I want to believe this thing is a bummer which savages nostalgic escapism but I don't get that impression.

the thing is, it rewards it. supposedly the world is a dystopian nightmare but that is just superficial flavoring, like so many of the references. it never interrupts the no-lag internet connection you need to play these games. it never interrupts the power cutting the heroes off from their one joy. it never interrupts the convenient hyper-Amazon delivery service. there is nothing at stake outside of the internal stakes of a videogame. the world is only "dystopian" in that it looks that way out the window, the characters are free to pursue their pleasure free of any real hardships. his precious video games are never in jeopardy. in fact the main character states his ultimate dream at one point and it is to take the VR and put it in a spaceship and leave the planet forever. it's entirely about selfish gratification.

you can write "Zorro and Tarzan met up with Buck Rodgers and they went to the Castle of Fu Manchu to fight Godzilla" but that sentence is not a fantasy simply because it contains fantasy-branded characters. nor does it make it interesting because it contains interesting characters. comparing RPO to other genre franchises seems to entirely miss the point of creativity.

i have the same issue w/Tye Sheridan as i do w/Ansel Elgort or Taron Egerton, they all come off onscreen like (vv serious) Poochies.

serious question how do you feel abt miles teller?

is that the li'l fox guy from Sonic The Hedgehog?

No, he’s Penn Jillette’s sidekick

https://www.twitter.com/ZeitchikWaPo/status/973052503498674181

Sound has gone out two-thirds of the way through Ready Player One and instead of getting mad the crowd is supplying its own sound effects and dialogue like it's The Room#sxsw

— Steven Zeitchik (@ZeitchikWaPo) March 12, 2018