This board is full of annoying ppl
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 September 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
yeah but at least there are plenty of consistently hilarious people as well
― calzino, Saturday, 25 September 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBylNJQEbg
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
when the movie trailer was released, the guy who created "the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny" did this
Here's the official trailer for READY PLAYER ONE: pic.twitter.com/0rQnUE5LdK— Neil Cicierega (@neilcic) July 22, 2017
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
I feel torn here, because I hate this kind of nerd-pandering stuff but I was also delighted by 'Big Daddy meets Dan Dare' on that Eagle cover above and I don't know if I could say hand on heart that it's all that different
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d9a2ebe4b090d1642480e9/1464364474580-GMSRHQNMRFXGFCOJNDJ6/image-asset.jpeg?format=2500w
― soref, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 22:27 (two years ago) link
The weird thing about this movie is that I watched this with my son some time last year and while I had the same kind of reaction as most people in this thread, my son enjoyed it quite a bit despite hardly getting any of the references, which has made me wonder if this movie is actually better if you don't know the references. Was my constant eye rolling distracting me from a decent action movie that was hidden underneath the pop references? Could this have been good if it referred to completely made up pop references? Maybe that would make it weird and interesting?
― silverfish, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
Oh dear at the Free Guy clip. I actually encouraged my 16yo to go and see this because, like any out of touch parent, I thought it might be her kind of thing. She gave it 1.5 stars on Letterboxd :) "It was random stuff crammed in for no reason". B-but I thought that's what you liked?
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
I mean if we're going to be comparing the two, Free Guy was much, much worse than Ready Player One and I regret suggesting that my son and I watch this while his younger sisters and mother watch the Paw Patrol movie, which was also probably better than Free Guy.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
Ugh, my son really really wants to see Free Guy and my wife loves Ryan Reynolds so I better brace myself for having to sit through it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
Could this have been good if it referred to completely made up pop references? Maybe that would make it weird and interesting?― silverfish, Wednesday, September 29, 2021 10:29 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― silverfish, Wednesday, September 29, 2021 10:29 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Imagine the level of creativity this would require!
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
I guess alternatively, you could make it all pop culture references from another culture, like make it all Eastern European pop references or something
― silverfish, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
Is Ryan Reynolds meant to look like a fucking waxwork?
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Thursday, 14 October 2021 09:49 (two years ago) link
quite possibly?
― Nhex, Thursday, 14 October 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link
He acts as well as one, after all.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 October 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link