SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

I burned through the entire They Might Be Giants discography in under two weeks. Devo took a little longer.

this bothers me, the TMBG discography is like 3x the size of Devo's, how do this guy not know that

It's 2044, maybe Devo will have had a late comeback.

I would have been on board had this been the nerd pastiche novel that took off and got optioned for a film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soon_I_Will_Be_Invincible

by 2044 TMBG will have 20 more albums

I've been all 'yeah, yeah, it's probably bad based on how many people I've heard say it's bad' about the book without actually looking into the book at all, so I was not really prepared for how bad that passage upthread was. 'Meritless' is the first word that springs to mind.

I have the read the book. There really a chapter(or most of one, I think) were the dude goes on and on about having to play Rush songs flawlessly in order to unlock some dungeon

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFfA8o3UAAAMg7l.jpg

The one non-80s ref he throws in is talking about how one of the other players rides around in a Firefly-type ship named "Kaylee"

Since this thread has turned into this discussion I'll say I don't have much issue with any specific cultural artefact and I broadly agree with Morbs about Spielberg's merits as a director, my revulsion is about something else, a gross, incurious spirit of the age or something I'm not able to articulate right now that this shit rolls itself in, a glorification of infantilism maybe

call it Tarantinoism

the song Spirit Of The Age would make for a better sci-fi movie adaptation than this amirite

As always the critique of this collection of references regurgitated as art isn't that this is a shit idea it's that it's the wrong references for the wrong people

Which is lol

pretty sure most people think its a shit idea and not that this would be a great movie if you swapped The Beatles for Neu or something

the critique is that it's a shitty idea, shittily done, with no seeming purpose beyond exactly what the idea would suggest. since this has not stopped it from being really popular with some people, then yeah, I wonder wtf is wrong with those people.

It's possible to do something interesting with a slew of pop culture references and it's also possible to just list them and ask 'remember that? how about that? and what about this?' and watch your audience's souls evaporate.

guys, it's deems, he just likes to pounce on whatever post he half-understood

nah he just can't see a button without pushing it :D

It can be both and if I know myself which it is I'm not letting on

Not saying this would necessarily be a good film with a better list (but c'mon, it would be at least interesting if it was an a-z of Caribbean culture) but I think the choices (some of which are good, I wouldn't expect your average 80s-90s geek to be into some of those writers) and the way he's bragging about it do smack of a particularly annoying identity a lot of people have bought into that seems to put limits on itself and prioritizes familiarity and large fan communities.

as much as i hated the book and silently judged everyone who had insisted I read it, i hate the trailer even more, for inserting an Iron Giant visualization that i would have thought would be safe by virtue of not having existed until 1999. PHUCKING PHILISTINES.

this property is a honeytrap for idiots

pixels was very enjoyable for a braindead movie.

i have now watched the promo for this film a few times and yet to figure out what the story is.

"story"

i've read the book and have yet to figure out what the story is

afaik it's about a guy consumed with regret for the 3.5 hours of his life that he'll never get back

ummmmmm okay lmao

http://www.ernestcline.com/spokenword/npa.htm

nsfw

All the porn I've come across
was targeted at beer-swilling sports bar dwelling alpha-males

This man doesn't look very far and wide for anything.

ding ding ding

In my kind of porno movies the girls wouldn't even have to get naked.
They'd just take the guys down to the rec room and
beat them repeatedly at chess
and then talk to them for hours about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
or the underlying social metaphors in the Aliens movies.

okay he's now officially on the "if you could fight anyone" list, right behind hannity

hey nerd white knight, some people *like* to get naked

Feel like this movie is what would happen if you gave a YouTube gamer a couple hundred million dollars to spruce up their channel.

Airwolf.

Airwolf is the adjective we should use to describe anything
of majesty, beauty, and intensity.
Something that is simply fucking bad ass . . . is Airwolf.
James Brown's music is Airwolf.
Shakespeare is Airwolf.
Sex so good it makes your spine ache and your knees buckle. . .
That's Airwolf.

And nothing is more Airwolf than Airwolf.

Airwolf is the Holy Grail. The Golden Fleece.
The thing you want that you cannot have.
When you go sprinting through the Mall
desperate to fill the emptiness in your life
through the purchase of name brand clothing and electronics-
You will never achieve satisfaction.
Because the one brand name you really want
is the one you can never have.
Airwolf?
Oh, I'm sorry, we're all sold out.
That item was only available for a very limited time
and in very limited supply.
One.

prickly pear vibes imo

I honestly can't tell which are actual quotes and which are just people fucking around. Speaks highly of the source material.

i'm sorry to have to inform you that nobody is fucking around

Best thing about that nerd porn poem is that there's an mp3 of him doing the actual spoken word version, like he read it aloud, heard it back, felt zero shame or embarrassment, and uploaded this thing, it's just...

less surprising that he uploaded it when u hear the crowd reaction!

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rBVP0s7umDY/hqdefault.jpg

L-R nu aspire nerd culture, ilx

*aspie

oh my god i glossed over 'guys need porn' jfc

who are these psychos who showed up to this reading holy shit

You know the source material is bad when even Reddit has largely turned on it. Every time a post was made about this book (well, before the trailer that is), I just saw people in the comments pointing out what a lousy book it was

otm, i read the book due to circumstances not really worth explaining here, the core idea isn't for me but it isn't the worst thing in the world, the worst thing in the world is that the author is a dumb idiot.

I feel like sleepingbag has been pulling his punches in this thread

step up and defend the fucking material or don't, nobody is "punching down" a goddamn Spielberg movie

Lmao I haven't read the book and probably won't see the movie, just think it's hilarious that a site for semi-pro listers of things they like is so aggro/jealous of this thing

I see like 3 movies every 5 years lol

did you not read the stuff people quoted

I downloaded every game mentioned or referenced in the Almanac, from Akalabeth to Zaxxon

no Zynaps? what a fucking loser.