SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

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ah yes, the notably discerning nerd deity Simon Pegg

Number None, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link

That’s the simplest thing in the world: “Hi Simon, you wanna be in this Spielberg flick?”

Easy

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link

“you had me at ‘hello simon’”

NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link

I honestly couldn't tell if that was Simon Pegg or Michael Sheen on the poster.

grawlix (unperson), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link

i'm not seeing what's so objectionable about that poster

akm, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link

that it looks like a poster for the unfilmed sequel to The Last Starfighter

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link

that was actually Cline's second book lol

Number None, Monday, 19 February 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link

lol yeah I think we talked about it ITT

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link

unless the wireframe lines count as from tron the only things on that poster i recognize are the delorean and the iron giant

difficult listening hour, Monday, 19 February 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link

mainly i’m just annoyed that the poor blameless iron giant, star of one of the best animated movies of the last quarter-century, is getting dragged into this

― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, February 19, 2018

OTM this makes it personal you fux

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 19 February 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link

The Iron Giant inclusion is weird - and regrettable. I presume they just picked whatever IP they could get their hands on and then retrofitted the script around it?

The book is an irredeemable pile of shit, but at least it's faithful to its '80s nostalgia fetish

Number None, Monday, 19 February 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link

unless the wireframe lines count as from tron the only things on that poster i recognize are the delorean and the iron giant

I thought exactly the same thing

In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Monday, 19 February 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link

if more companies had just withheld permissions, we could be looking at Ready Player One featuring Mac (Mac and Me), the Gobots, and Sam Francisco

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link

I hope the irony having a personal reaction to an 18-year-old robot movie for children being used in the nostalgia movie isn’t lost on everyone

Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link

Close Encounters font

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link

The descriptor of the random assortment of nerd IP from Cline’s adolescence as “80s!” is lazy enough to be consistent with his writing style, should be noted.

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link

I just noticed the poster also doesn't name a single actor (none of the trailers have either I don't think)

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link

goddammit this poster is literally just "HEY REMEMBER THIS STUFF?"

*meticulously bumps thread on 2000's internet pop culture forum for every single intellectual property mentioned in this movie*

sleepingbag, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link

(Once again, I’ll give a link to the particular episode done by the guy I linked to above that formed an early emblematic reaction to the book.)

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:41 (six years ago) link

lmao @ Whiney coming into this thread to make sure yall feel bad for liking Iron Giant

frogbs, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 04:51 (six years ago) link

It’s cool to like Iron Giant, but wgaf if it’s in this dumb movie

Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 05:26 (six years ago) link

Should be be (additionally) suspicious that this isn't coming out in the Summer, or doesn't that matter anymore?

Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 05:59 (six years ago) link

^ Easter Weekend usually has some big movies opening

groovypanda, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 08:56 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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


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