SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19TBzy81Mac

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

Morbs gonna Morbs

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)

Truth

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

But he totally is.

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

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

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

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

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'

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

did it though? did.. it?

we may never know

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

i like spielberg :)

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

Sorry, I meant Star Wars and More Star Wars.

sending King Kong and the Iron Giant after you

Ultraman gets shut out yet again

people don't like jaws????

the movie or the mandible?

the movie silly billy

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.

You're gonna need bigger bait.

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

e.t. and jurassic park are good movies

Empire of the Jaws was the best Jaws G Ballard adaptation

Tintin movie was Tintin done right (finally).

verna fields deserves a lot of credit for jaws too

http://rutlesriki.wikia.com/wiki/File:Dick_Jaws.jpg

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.

Nascent works, both.

RPO was never gonna work for me, as I hate what little I know of "gamer" culture, but there's much in that Pinkerton article Eric posted I find valid -- that pop culture now just replicates the past endlessly, because none of it ever goes away, just to its corner of cyberspace/streaming.

Nascent works, both.

flea circuses

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 (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

welp

Out now, isn't it?

Surely only on VHS

Forget it Jake, it's... probably a shitty waste of time.

Its not that bad. But by the end I was kind of "...whats all that about, then?" cos what was the motivation for the whole fucking thing?

And why are kids from the year 2525 into the 80s wtf.

Dece CGI tho I guess.

god this fuckin sucked sweaty rancid hole

It is important to watch dumb stuff with the full understanding going in that it will be dumb, and that it is perhaps in fact designed to be almost as dumb as possible. That is the case with this trifle.

I watched this on an airplane, while dipping into Hamel & Prahalad's "Strategic Intent" during the slow bits, and I didn't hate it.

1. Mark Rylance is clearly having a blast. I know very little about the man but I assume getting paid for this was something he enjoyed tremendously.

2. Simon Pegg is also having fun but not as much as Rylance was. I think. I imagine both of them getting well drunk after every read-through and every day of shooting, sitting back, reading the rest of the other characters' lines to each other and playing a game where every time you crack up, you have to finish your drink and buy the next round.

3. For at least the first act, it almost seems like they're going to Verhoeven this thing, and they almost do anyway, because there's hardly another option given the material and the casting (possibly of note: European directors are totally left out of the nerd canon according to this).

4. Every time they went for music that wasn't straight out of the lamest possible 80s mixtape ever made, it made the movie actually worse. The whole thing should have been wall-to-wall with a diegetic Grand Theft Auto: Vice City style soundtrack, with the exception being The Shining sequence.

5. I actually enjoyed all the villains. Disappointed we didn't find out who I-R0K was IRL.

6. I suspect Spielberg's real reason for leaving his movies out of this is because he has too much self-regard to dissect and trivialize his own work for the sake of this utter nonsense. Says a lot about how much he actually thinks of his colleagues, especially Kubrick, if you agree with this take.

7. That all said, watching Iron Giant and the RX-78 Gundam try and beat up Mecha-Godzilla was more fun than anything in Pacific Rim 2.

I thought this was an exceptionally well made lame movie, which I guess is what you get when you have a 70 year old sci-fi/action master make a movie for 12 year olds that was written by a 30 something riffing on, among other things, the impact of said 70 year old when he was 12. Which is to say, it's kind of a toothless movie that would have had a ton of potential had they indeed Verhoevened this thing, but was fine as the kids flick they went with instead.

Speaking of kids flicks, my kids' reactions? 13 year old said "that was OK" and 11 year old said "meh." But they both sat through it, so ...

My reaction: instead of playing Twisted Sister they should have blasted the "2112" overture.

My other reaction: wall to wall obvious '80s tracks *except* for a Springsteen b-side deep cut? What was up with that?

Spielberg actually cites The Shining as one of his favorite films, seen ~25 times; this after initially disliking it as much as I do.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of The Shining, and never thought that it was scary, so found it kind of lame it played such a central role in this. Would have been funny if the whole sequence was built around Barry Lyndon instead.

Oh, and the nerdsplaining in this was insufferable.

Never going to see this and I'd probably hate it if I did, but I laughed when a woman in my office recently remarked that she'd taken her kids to RPO and liked it more than they did.

I just saw this on the plane. I really liked it! (maybe it's only a fun plane movie, I had no clue what it was going to be about).

2. Simon Pegg is also having fun but not as much as Rylance was. I think. I imagine both of them getting well drunk after every read-through and every day of shooting, sitting back, reading the rest of the other characters' lines to each other and playing a game where every time you crack up, you have to finish your drink and buy the next round.

Simon Pegg is an alcoholic in recovery

I feel like the cover art to the forthcoming Muse album belongs in this thread for some reason:

https://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/40337321_10156189557348725_3422970565613322240_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=b314241f00ca2f489cc3ebc73dbf4f26&oe=5C354B12

what better time to jump on the vaporwave bandwagon than *checks calendar* november 2018

~synthwave~ to be more precise, but yeah this is waaaay past sell-by date