SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

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

but you're right, a two-hour static close-up is DEFINITELY Spielbergian aesthetics reduced to its core

xp

I find it so weird this movie has such hate. It was fine.

xpost Okay then, a swooping John Williams-scored panorama of the talking anus with cgi monkeys occasionally crawling out of it and gazing with awe into the middle distance, are you happy?

Not just any monkey, but the monkey from Raiders of the Lost Ark, who gives the sig heil then does the moonwalk.

I find it so weird this movie has such hate. It was fine.

What ILX hates about this, in descending order:

Steven Spielberg stans
Steven Spielberg himself
Ernest Cline
probably a few other things
Ready Player One, the movie

Now that's how you strawman!

Granted, I knew nothing about the movie and watched it on a plane. So it didn't offend my honor in some way. It was fun.

Many XPs, past a certain point you just set up the camera, and if there's movement there's movement, you can't really predict.

(very OT, sorry, but message-query to eliza d. -- were you a pledger for my book or is it someone w/a similar former name? i need a land address to send it to -- apologies if not you)

I was not, sorry :(

ah ok, cheers anyway :)

It's what we've all been waiting for

We are excited to reveal the title and cover for Ernest Cline's follow up to Ready Player One! Introducing, Ready Player Two, coming 24/11/20 🤯

Pre-order your signed copy via @Waterstones now: https://t.co/SQ3gluaCLG pic.twitter.com/M3XcLXYdzZ

— Penguin Books UK (@PenguinUKBooks) July 8, 2020

He's still pushing effort and inventiveness into the red, I see.

excited to read READY PLAYER THIRTEEN in 2046