SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

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It's not hard to believe at all that there are people who will love this movie for what it is and tries to be. The book itself was a smashing success, right?
― Nhex, Monday, April 9, 2018 7:23 AM

I don't know, but is nice to hope this is the beginning of the end and people are just tired of it, maybe people who might have even liked the book at the time.
I am curious about kids who don't know the references but might use it as a guide. What will they like? Will they find Buckaroo Banzai as underwhelming as I did?

Did you see it for Olivia Cooke?

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 14 April 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link

http://372pages.com/episode-17-well-do-it-live-or-will-we

A book review pod of movie guys reviews the movie of the book.

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 20 April 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link

Film Comment weighs in: https://www.filmcomment.com/article/le-cinema-du-glut/

The recycling of proven formulas in popular cinema has been with us for as long as a pop cinema has existed—Spielberg’s Indiana Jones, to take one example, is the direct offspring of the kid’s adventure serials of the 1930s and ’40s—but Ready Player One’s hotchpotch accumulation of the detritus of recognizable pop iconography is something different. Like few feature films before it, Spielberg’s movie exemplifies an aesthetic of pop-culture decoupage that has developed, in recognizably kindred forms, across a wide range of media, one that has been increasingly prevalent through the early years of the 21st century. It is that of the junk-pile jumble of accumulated mass-manufactured character properties at the end of pop history—the aesthetic of glut.

Uppercase (Eric H.), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link

i saw a cam of this. it was decent but exceedingly dumb and low aiming but now i feel kind of guilty for ragging on it, it's like picking on an episode of Muppet Babies.

the part where they are in the dance hall and he snaps his fingers and the Saturday Night Fever music comes on to prove he is a dance master was like a parody of a bad 90s cartoon and made me feel extremely embarrassed for all involved, most of all, myself.

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link

Wrinkle in Time deserves a pass, not this deeply cynical "make america 80s again" exercise in ghoulishness

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link

Watched this. No signs of emotion throughout - not even cliched Spielbergian emotional button-pushing. Probably his coldest ever film. It really felt like it was made by a computer.

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 12 May 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link

utterly forgettable

akm, Saturday, 12 May 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link

just The Virtual Reality Goonies

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link

wait, did you finally see it? how many people in the theater with you?

i never did go although "virtual reality goonies" is a more appealing sales pitch than most of the "imagine your favorite IP, all jammed in a blender!" ledes

noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 17 May 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link

I accept this being called the worst thing he directed that I saw since ... Jurassic Park 2?

nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 04:07 (six years ago) link

It was the next-to-last night at the Lincoln Square, I think, there were at least a couple dozen there.

I liked some of the image juggling and the henchman with the sore neck, but ultimately, I don't give a shit in VR movies cuz -- I don't get it, it's not real! Who cares? It's not worse than the DiCaprio-Nolan thing.

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link

or Her. :D

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link

Oh, it's definitely worse than both of those ffs.

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link

sez you

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link

Oh now HERE we go.

Please tell us more movies that are worse than Saddo, Morbs. Please.

I cannot tell you how much I've been waiting for this day.

how is there still not a decent torrent of this movie out there yet, that's what i wanna know

martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:20 (six years ago) link

meaningless w/out a big screen (and disposable there)

bye bye!

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link

a spirited defence from ilx's premier spielbergologist

martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link

That better be a back-of-the-box pull quote.

Here Come the Warm Jets: A Beginner's Guide to Watersports (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:45 (six years ago) link

I think I would literally die if a Blu-ray review blurb ended with 'bye bye!'

Here Come the Warm Jets: A Beginner's Guide to Watersports (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:46 (six years ago) link

morbs, by my tally you posted to this thread 75 times before seeing the film, mostly chiding us for having opinions on it or its source material before seeing what it would be in the hands of spielberg, not saying that means you now owe us a longform review or a thoroughgoing engagement with the substance of the preceding discussion but perhaps keep this in mind for the next "anticipating" thread

noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link

Morbs gonna Morbs

Here Come the Warm Jets: A Beginner's Guide to Watersports (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link

tons of posts by everyone b4 the film was released

as usual the film itself did not dominate the discussion, but rather Spielberg is the Worst Ever (ilx gonna ilx)

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link

Truth

nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link

Absolutely no one itt thread said Spielberg is the worst ever. As you well know.

But he totally is.

Here Come the Warm Jets: A Beginner's Guide to Watersports (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link

morbz if I promise to have low self esteem will you admit this movie eats ass?

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link

Well, Spielberg is the second worst, after (barf) black and white.

Here Come the Warm Jets: A Beginner's Guide to Watersports (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link

love you morbs but have noooo idea how you got "spielberg is the worst ever" from this thread, p. sure "cline is the worst ever" followed by "fanboys are the worst ever" were the through-lines but maybe i missed some posts in there

noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link

Spielberg isn't interesting enough to be the worst ever.

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link

as usual the film itself did not dominate the discussion, but rather Spielberg is the Worst Ever (ilx gonna ilx)

lol waht

iirc the tenor of the thread was more along the lines of 'why is spielberg lowering himself to adapting a truly execrable book'

martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link

i love you too Doc, and that's the important thing, as this film taught us.

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link

did it though? did.. it?

Nhex, Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link

we may never know

martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link

This movie (or at least the poster) taught me that the human leg is actually much longer than I realized.

Here Come the Warm Jets: A Beginner's Guide to Watersports (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link

i like spielberg :)

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 May 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link

Me too. I was just joking upthread. Star Wars are two of my favorite movies ever.

Here Come the Warm Jets: A Beginner's Guide to Watersports (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 May 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link

Sorry, I meant Star Wars and More Star Wars.

Here Come the Warm Jets: A Beginner's Guide to Watersports (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 May 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link

sending King Kong and the Iron Giant after you

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 May 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link

Ultraman gets shut out yet again

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link

people don't like jaws????

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link

the movie or the mandible?

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link

the movie silly billy

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link

Saying that Jaws is far and away Spielberg's best film seems to annoy the Spielbergists here, but it is, and nothing else he's directed has come close. Spielberg obv deserves a lot of the credit for Jaws, but I also think the historical moment - Watergate, the end of Viet Nam - the intensity of the production, and the input of Milius and Shaw, all factor in very heavily too.

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link

You're gonna need bigger bait.

nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link

The shark roars like a lion in Jaws 4. I don't see how you can top that, really.

Here Come the Warm Jets: A Beginner's Guide to Watersports (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link

e.t. and jurassic park are good movies

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link

Empire of the Jaws was the best Jaws G Ballard adaptation

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link


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