SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

I only know of this book in passing from people who told me it was "sub-Snowcrash". no opinions on it from me and I haven't watched the trailer yet but this line makes me want to stab my eyes out: "I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend."

From the Police to Journey to R.E.M. to the Clash. I tackled it all.

From the Police to Journey to R.E.M. to the Clash. I tackled it all.

New ILM board description.

The '80s was a long decade (ten whole years)

omg ive seen horrible excerpts from this book before but that is next-level. "from popular works by geeky men to geeky works by popular men, I consumed it all"

best part of the book iirc is when the main character, heretofore a tubby lump of shit, gets hardcore into exercise so he can win the affections of the female lead, cuz of course girls prefer their lumps of shit to be lean-n-ripped

Per that idiot list

This is the part in Ready Player One where I knew if I didn't stop reading this Bazinga-ass shit I was going to jail for murder. pic.twitter.com/vpWNCGAQec

— donnie (@donniemnemonic) July 23, 2017

Compared to Cline's other book, which is basically "The Last Starfighter starring a character who is definitely NOT me, author Ernest Cline," Ready Player One is Tolstoy.

Also the scene in the trailer with all the racers putting on their virtual gear and getting into their virtual cars (can't remember if it was in the book or not) was almost literally just done in Guardians of the Galaxy, Pt. 2. The Sovereign used drone spacecraft piloted remotely by people in little video-game pods.

Not enough middle fingers in the world here

At SDCC Spielberg said he wants ppl to shout "I know that!" in the theatre every time they spot a reference while watching Ready Player One.

— Bruce Levenstein (@BruceLevenstein) July 24, 2017

just in case you weren't sure whether you wanted to see this thing

the more i hear about this the more i think that isis might be on to something

the Family Guy-sation of popular culture

That's not what I normally shout when I see a Spielberg movie in the theatre

i've never once shouted in a theatre tbh, am i missing out

how much do you want to be punched in the dark?

btw Spielberg's Pentagon Papers film will be out before this, so let's concentrate on what's important.

tbf if somebody wants to go on a shooting spree in a movie theatre this summer you'd probably get off with justifiable homicide if you choose this one

or next spring, when it's actually out?

you geeks (OOOOH, VALERIAN!) sure are intolerant of the next cave over

I do wonder why the Suicide Squad thread wasn't like this.

I like how the geeky girls playing ukeleles are the only women he acknowledges in that endless list.

It's also a good idea to shout "I don't know that!" when not currently spotting a reference.

Wonder what Spielberg made of that mention of Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.

For an accurate summary of the book(and response) that's like less than an hour long, check here:

http://ideotvpod.libsyn.com/ready-player-one-w-mike-sacco

Also

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

— Neil Cicierega (@neilcic) July 22, 2017

He already threw Lucas under a bus on that, I'm sure it rolled off his back.

"I've been cyber-stalking you for years." - our main character to love interest

I think he thinks this kind of shit is charming..? pic.twitter.com/AsxuD8hfPJ

— Hector Wang (@heronimous) July 24, 2017

It's hilarious/worrying that Morbz actually seems to be planning to watch this

Glad everyone itt has agreed to definitely never see this film.

Morbs, I think our intolerance of the next cave over is directly proportionate to the frequency with which we are visited by their most obstreperous resident

I don't watch trailers, including this one. It's photographed by Janusz Kaminski and edited by Michael Kahn, so possibly good.

I might skip it if SS made this for his teenage kids, but the last film of his I missed was The Lost World.

I meant the next geek cave, dude.

(btw scratch that, all his kids are over 20)

Spielberg quote above suggests he understands the audience for this very, very well. But I'll be surprised if it does any better with the wider market than Scott Pilgrim or Pixels, or for that matter Tintin or The BFG.

The main thing that mystifies me is why he would find this an interesting story to work on... it's just a nostalgia rush for stuff that came out when he was in his late 30s, some of which he was involved in creating, and he's not normally even that particular kind of nostalgic. Melange of rerun serials made before he was born, yes, affection for childhood and family, sure, but the only things he's made that are really set during his youthful years are Crystal Skull, Catch Me If You Can and Tintin, and none of those strike me as "you know what really makes me happy is just seeing tons of movies I've never stopped rewatching since I was 11 get *mentioned* in something else."

I learned today that Ernest Cline has "spoken word" poetry posted on his website. The first one is an ode to the tv show Airwolf.

😭🔫

so this thread is really about a YA book huh

Itt ppl who make lists of things they like mad at someone else's list of things they mostly like

lol my 'evil cicierega' comment has borne actual fruit :D

call me when ilxors start getting book deals for novels that are just straight republications of their EOY ballots. i don't see anything shameful in calling out embarrassingly awful prose as being unworthy of millions of dollars and screen adaptation by a good filmmaker who should know better.

Ready Play One Pt 2: The Baconing

I wonder how Randall Munroe feels about this

how much do you want to be punched in the dark?

hawt

"game changer" is an awful phrase

ive heard about the book before. i agree w all it seems like a bottom of the barrel superficially pomo circle jerk. maybe not the end of culture but definitely a giving up of intellectually engaging with culture.

the idea of consumption as a virtue. not even deep consumption, just surface level ticking-off-the-correct-boxes consumption. you can "absorb the filmographies" of the important directors but without a working knowledge of film history and theory you have no accurate historical context to place it in no understanding of the development of the form itself, the socio-cultural situations that gave it form, nothing outside of yeah some references they can make on Family Guy. lol the thought that you consumed all of Kubrick's films you must be a film genius.

i would much rather watch Pixels, which sounds like the exact same premise as this book.

fwiw i am in my 30s and love video games and still have not seen Pixels even though it came out 2 years ago.

It's a book for people who collect mp3s (or ROMs) instead of listening to them.

lol the thought that you consumed all of Kubrick's films you must be a film genius.

You're giving it too much credit -- you don't even get to be a film genius, you just get to decipher clues to win another game!

I've listened to the audiobook a couple years ago. Yes, it treads the Denis Leary/Seth MacFarlane path of "I know that pop culture reference, ha ha." But its not as incoherently Transformers like as the trailer, really aiming for more Joss Whedon wordplay territory (and not always making it). I'd expect a more Guardians of the Galaxy type critical response ("On principle, I hate this genre, but this isn't terrible").

GotG is every bit as repellent to me tbh

For those curious about why a sane middle-aged person would read RPO, its a post-climate catastrophe world, mentioned in the eco-fiction.com database, and I'd been methodically making my way through this from Ballard to Atwood to Bacigalupi to more recent titles.

Here's the official trailer for READY PLAYER ONE: pic.twitter.com/0rQnUE5LdK
— Neil Cicierega (@neilcic) July 22, 2017

loooooooooooooooool

You're right about the book not being as action-based as the film seems to be. It's more stuff like this

https://i.imgur.com/nfBSqiP_d.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/wNDDtCM_d.jpg

"Joss Whedon wordplay territory" is being pretty generous though