SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

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

don't think Muse have ever been self-aware enough to do vaporwave

"It's retro." "More than you know."

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iur/?f=1&image_host=http%3A%2F%2Fmegagames.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fgame-images%2FFC3BloodDragon.jpg&u=https://megagames.com/sites/default/files/game-images/FC3BloodDragon.jpg

the amazing thing is how much this stuff was already nailed down, and more precisely/funnily, years and years ago. pretty sure homestarrunner had some bit with these fonts and the laser background and all that, sometime between 2002 and 2004. but doing it any point after, say, stranger things is just blatant bandwagon-jumping.

This was every bit the hot mess I expected.

well at least now I know why Pegg wasn’t having as much fun as Rylance

I didn't recognize him and I didn't even know he was in the film til just now. I kinda thought it was Greg Kinnear in the earlier scenes.

Greg Kinnear would have made it actually saddo

Skimming though the thread, Morbs already nailed what it was that I hated most about this movie (and there was a lot to hate): the whole VR premise equals a lack of stakes. Who gives a shit about whether the nerd kid or the corporate asshole gets control of the imaginary world?

Also, I can't believe anyone involved with this movie didn't have second thoughts about the whole "gunt" thing.

This is one of the worst things I've ever seen.

WHO TOLD YOU TO WATCH THIS??

tbf that sounds true to the source material, which is the worst book you’ll ever read

Morbid curiosity while scrolling through the shitpile of HBO Go.

I should have rewatched Man on Fire.

lmao i almost watched Man on Fire bc it’s free on HBO. I backed away bc it’s really well executed but such a gutpunch...

This is one of the worst things I've ever seen.

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, March 7, 2019 1:46 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was like Snow Crash except crowdsourced by the incel wing of a reddit for LARPers.

tbf that sounds true to the source material, which is the worst book you’ll ever read

Oh no, the book AFTER it is the worst book you'll ever read. Which, I don't know why I did, but I did.

Also, I can't believe anyone involved with this movie didn't have second thoughts about the whole "gunt" thing.

the main characters are hunting for easter eggs hidden in their shitty virtual world

easter egg hunters > 'gunters'

it's not good

Um.

Uh.

trust me, milo, there are many thousands of worse films.

How hard would you defend a film with a two-hour static close-up of someone making their anus talk if the credits read 'directed by Steven Spielberg'?

i dunno, who wrote the script

Tony Tushner

lensed, of course, by janusz kaminski

this strawmanning is beneath you

(well shit, of course it's not)

It was a question not an assertion.

But come on my dude. You'll happily drop an unwarranted stinkbomb in a Marvel movie thread but do the most circuitous of cakewalks to avoid criticizing a Steelburb flick which I'm sure most would agree is worse than the worst of all Marvel movies. It's a bit rich.

"most" can go fuck themselves, as usual

I believe my view of RP1 is somewhere above; I didn't care for it.

idly paging through the imdb trivia for this (which i do not recommend btw since it's almost entirely pointing out the nerd references which clog every frame) and apparently this was the first spielberg film since hook to get 70mm prints struck, which seems an extremely weird choice for a movie which has so little conventional photography in it