SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

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Jesus H.

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

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link

God, all of the facial expressions are wrong.

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

jmm, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link

this flick looks like both a bore and a chore

Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link

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.

grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link

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

I'm not meltdown. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link

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

I'm not meltdown. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link

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

War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link

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

Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link

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

I'm not meltdown. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link

lol at that C&H strip.

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link

very very otm

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link

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

— Rob Wesley (@eastwes) March 6, 2018

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link

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

mh, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link

Amazing.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link

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

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 02:59 (six years ago) link

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?

circa1916, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 04:32 (six years ago) link

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”

valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 04:48 (six years ago) link

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

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

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 06:26 (six years ago) link

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

— jared kushbomb (@tresgambas) March 7, 2018

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link

too soon

War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link

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

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link

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.

I'm not meltdown. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link

still a truther on this

difficult listening hour, Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link

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

I'm not meltdown. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link

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

difficult listening hour, Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link

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

I'm not meltdown. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link

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

I'm not meltdown. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link

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.

difficult listening hour, Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link

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.

difficult listening hour, Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link

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".

Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link

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

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link

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.

I'm not meltdown. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 March 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link

Also, the main actor looks as expressive as a pudding

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 8 March 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link

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.

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 8 March 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link

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.

omar little, Thursday, 8 March 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link

serious question how do you feel abt miles teller?

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 9 March 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link

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

just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Friday, 9 March 2018 01:35 (six years ago) link

No, he’s Penn Jillette’s sidekick

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 9 March 2018 04:58 (six years ago) link

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

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 12 March 2018 06:14 (six years ago) link

That sounds like a slightly more hellish experience than watching this shit normally tbh

scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 12 March 2018 06:36 (six years ago) link

Man, imagine how many film critics are ex-drama kids and ex-gifted kids before thinking about the type of “humor” they’re shouting at the screen

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 12 March 2018 10:07 (six years ago) link

or music critics

the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 10:09 (six years ago) link

people who used to be kids are terrible at jokes it’s a fact

El Tomboto, Monday, 12 March 2018 11:37 (six years ago) link

They could have just called in Michael Winslow to provide sound fx.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 March 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link

you guys like Luc Besson, right?

READY PLAYER ONE feels like Spielberg watched a ton of Luc Besson movies and decided to outdo them. In terms of pure spectacle, it’s the most astonishing thing he’s done. Never underestimate Steve. #SXSW

— erickohn (@erickohn) March 12, 2018

I'm hardly amped to see this, but I hope it earns $2 billion just to give unperson "conniptions."

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link

i don't like Luc Besson tbf

Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Intellectual Properties

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 12 March 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link


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