SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

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there was an ilxor on facebook who totally went to this. where is his review?

scott seward, Thursday, 29 March 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link

only time it happened for me was a screening of tank girl in 1995

― sir chesley bonestell, qc (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, March 29, 2018 8:53 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dude.

Three guesses what I was about to post.

This is officially getting spooky now.

Arthur Pizzarelli AKA The Peetz (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 March 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link

are you fucking shitting me

sir chesley bonestell, qc (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 29 March 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link

"so this movie flopped? is that right?"

it opens like, today.

akm, Thursday, 29 March 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link

me and a pal went and saw v.i. warshawski because of kathleen turner love and we left in the middle of it and we were the only ones there and sometimes i think about that movie playing at the theater to nobody.

scott seward, Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link

xxpost If it helps to diminish the spookiness, a friend and I cut class to see Tank Girl so I wasn't technically alone alone. But still.

Arthur Pizzarelli AKA The Peetz (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link

huh, weirdly i was thinking about vi warshawski for the first time in forever yesterday!

ol, it diminishes the weirdness only slightly but tbh i'm still on the verge of an existential crisis wondering whether we're in some kind of tyler durden situation here

sir chesley bonestell, qc (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link

The travel costs incurred in maintaining this duel identity is killing us, dude.

Arthur Pizzarelli AKA The Peetz (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:08 (six years ago) link

no wonder i always feel jetlagged

sir chesley bonestell, qc (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link

it opens like, today.

lol I thought it opened last week

frogbs, Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link

I saw Ishtar at the Ziegfeld (~1500 seats?) and I think there were a dozen or so ppl there.

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link

This has literally never happened to me. And I saw Benji Off the Leash.

"Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link

Nor me. Closest I've come was many years ago, an afternoon screening of Peter Sellers' last atrocity, The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu.

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link

I saw Ishtar at the Ziegfeld (~1500 seats?) and I think there were a dozen or so ppl there.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, March 29, 2018 10:44 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This rules

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 29 March 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link

maria went to see a movie in town here during the week one night and there was nobody taking tickets and she wandered around the theater and there was nobody there. like, nobody. she went home. she wins the ghost town movie prize.

scott seward, Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link

i'm just so glad they are still open. i don't know how they do it. it would suck so bad if we had to drive to the mall to see a movie. it's not close.

scott seward, Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link

The Couch Trip in 1988, Liverpool ABC (aka Cannon). Four people.

Michael Jones, Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link

there was one other person in the theatre when I saw a matinee of Le Roi De Coeur on Tuesday

just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link

amazing that this movie is able to replicate the feeling of sitting in a movie theater alone in the 80s

frogbs, Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link

Cool World, probably '93? Me and a friend, and a couple who left halfway through. Also iirc I was a kid expecting a kind of Who Framed Roger Rabbit thing but it was wayyyy raunchier and a bit fucked up.

emil.y, Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link

(btw I have no intention of watching or reading RP1 but am enjoying reading all the dunking on it)

emil.y, Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link

Why?

"Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link

Why am I enjoying seeing it slated? Because it's pretty funny. No deeper reason than that, I'm afraid.

emil.y, Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link

what's funniest is the number of posters in this thread who will pay $14 to "hatewatch" this weekend

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link

count them

just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link

“In all my early films, from ‘Jaws’ to ‘Raiders’ to ‘E.T.’, I was telling the story from a seat in the theater — from the audience, for the audience — and I haven’t done that in a long time,” Mr. Spielberg said. “I haven’t really done that since ‘Jurassic Park,’ and that was in the ’90s.”

Why not?

“Because I’m older,” he said, with a laugh. “Now I feel a deeper responsibility to tell stories that have some kind of social meaning.” He added: “If I have a choice between a movie that is 100 percent for the audience and a movie that says something about the past — that resonates for me or elevates a conversation that might have been forgotten, like with ‘Munich’ — I will always choose history over popular culture. Even with all the popcorn in a film like ‘Ready Player One,’ it does still have social meaning.”

Acceptance of oneself and others is a big theme in “Ready Player One.” Underpinning the action are classic Spielberg motifs (parental absence, the kids are smarter than the adults). But the movie also functions as a cautionary tale about virtual reality, a technology that continues to move into the mainstream, as tech companies introduce more affordably priced headsets, start-ups like Dreamscape Immersive (in which Mr. Spielberg is an investor) bring walk-through virtual-reality experiences to movie theaters, and Hollywood studios figure out how to capitalize on the medium.

“I was really interested in the technology that allows this alternate universe to exist — headgear, haptic response gloves, boots, full-body suits — because I really believe it’s going to be the superdrug of the future,” Mr. Spielberg said.

In one moment in “Ready Player One,” a child tends a burning stove while her mother, wearing a V.R. headset nearby, is lost in another world. People become addicted to the Oasis, lying and stealing in real life to satisfy their virtual obsession. Mr. Spielberg said that with the next generation, “after five minutes of conversation, there is 20 minutes of prayer.”

“And the prayer is into iPhones and Samsung devices and Galaxies and iPads,” he said....

“I read the book, and I said, ‘They’re going to need a younger director for this.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/movies/steven-spielberg-ready-player-one.html

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link

Who has time for hatewatching. I only watch garbage that I'm reasonably sure I'll enjoy.

Arthur Pizzarelli AKA The Peetz (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link

fwiw morbs some of us prospective hatewatchers use moviepass to make silicon valley venture capitalist jerks pay for our terrible movie choices. tho even with that i'm not sure i'll get around to this one, there's too much good stuff bouncing around nyc right now.

explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link

have you gotten to Death of Stalin, Doc?

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link

I almost bought a ticket for that, but I'm worried I might be too stupid for it

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link

It's extremely good

omar little, Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link

I guess "almost" is a strong word. "Pondered" buying a ticket.

Still, I'm pretty dumb.

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link

no you aint

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link

i want a whiney review of ready player one. 10,000 words in stereogum.

scott seward, Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link

If you guys can Kickstart me $300, I will do 1000 words on Ready Player One

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link

i'll just c/p all your posts on the zombies thread but replace bacon with "Akira"

frogbs, Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link

trailer for DoS didn't do anything for me, n my film buff boss told me today it was okay at best (she'd liked his other films and was disappointed). so, dunno if i'll get around to it. idk there's just always so much good repertory to pick from. saw Metropolis on a giant screen with live score Sunday at the 175th street Palace, now that was a good time.

explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link

he's only made one other feature film

just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link

that is true but Lynchfans have started the trend of calling TV series "films"

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link

Death of Stalin works as an extremely good and dark comedy, I can't imagine seeing Iannucci's other work and finding this considerably lesser (though I can imagine not liking Iannucci overall and not finding this any different.)

omar little, Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link

see the DoS thread for one who does

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link

and he's irish so it will have a jaunty irish slant to it.

scott seward, Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link

“In all my early films, from ‘Jaws’ to ‘Raiders’ to ‘E.T.’, I was telling the story from a seat in the theater — from the audience, for the audience — and I haven’t done that in a long time,” Mr. Spielberg said. “I haven’t really done that since ‘Jurassic Park,’ and that was in the ’90s.”

dude, war of the worlds was awesome. how quickly we forget.

scott seward, Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link

That's half in that mold and half significantly darker -- ie, the scene where Cruise kills Tim Robbins offscreen.

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link

love that movie. the last cruise movie i need to see in my life.

scott seward, Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/03/28/all-steven-spielbergs-movies-including-ready-player-one-ranked/462933002/

this list is insane. the writer has not seen most of these films. Temple of Doom ranked #31 out of 32, War of the Worlds at #30, both below Crystal Skull(!) And...

26. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): Stanley Kubrick was originally supposed to direct, which would have yielded a much different movie than Spielberg's warm tale of a robot kid with the ability to love.

what the fuck.

18. Munich (2005): A poignant thriller spin is put on one of the sports world's darkest moments, recounting the Israel government's secret act of vengeance for the massacre of their athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

o rly

omar little, Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link

Speaking of which, I recently watched Friedkin's "Sorcerer" and I really feel like Spielberg must have screened that in preparation for "Munich" because even though they're very different movies the camera work feels similar in a lot of ways, especially in the opening "vignettes" of the former.

Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link

1. 1941 (1941, I assume): Spielberg's greatest triumph is this ambitious epic, which encapsulates all of the events that took place across the globe in the year 1941. Simply breathtaking.

Arthur Pizzarelli AKA The Peetz (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link

i don't think i've ever seen the entire 1941.

scott seward, Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link


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