SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

And, of course, Kevin Smith.

It's pretty impressive how nothing in that entire list is actually obscure or weird

"I memorized every last Bill Hicks stand-up routine."

That one I didn't see coming, true.

I couldn't get to the end of that passage but I'm sure the punchline was hilarious

is it possible this book is a satire of the cultural death of the west?

no one interested in the Spielberg film who hasn't heard of the book (eg, me) gives a damn about it.

Is it too late for them to pull a Disney, fire Spielberg and get Verhoeven on the job?

is it possible this book is a satire of the cultural death of the west?

i mean yeah, but it'd have to be an entirely accidental satire, which i guess would make it even more successful

tombot massively otm, verhoeven would have been perfect for giving this the evisceration it deserves

The most surprising response, from apparently intelligent people, was that this film was in fact very good. I find it hard to accept that anyone intelligent can think this. Indeed, if an intelligent person does think it, it suggests to me that civilisation is further down the slimy slope of post-literacy than even I had suspected.

Hitchens take on RP1, nah not really he is actually talking about Dunkirk here!

lol that excerpt above explains why one of my besties loves this so much. he's obsessed w/ pop culture references

t/s: hitchens vs frederik b xp

So this book is about an amazing future where culture has not advanced beyond the geek obsessions of the 80s and 90s?

i'd say since the film is in post (and Verhoeven can't make a good film w/out Isabelle Huppert) yes it's too late

Verhoeven can't make a good film w/out Isabelle Huppert

lies

checks to see if Huppert was in Flesh and Blood

yep, nonsense

I only know of this book in passing from people who told me it was "sub-Snowcrash". no opinions on it from me and I haven't watched the trailer yet but this line makes me want to stab my eyes out: "I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend."

From the Police to Journey to R.E.M. to the Clash. I tackled it all.

From the Police to Journey to R.E.M. to the Clash. I tackled it all.

New ILM board description.

The '80s was a long decade (ten whole years)

omg ive seen horrible excerpts from this book before but that is next-level. "from popular works by geeky men to geeky works by popular men, I consumed it all"

best part of the book iirc is when the main character, heretofore a tubby lump of shit, gets hardcore into exercise so he can win the affections of the female lead, cuz of course girls prefer their lumps of shit to be lean-n-ripped

Per that idiot list

This is the part in Ready Player One where I knew if I didn't stop reading this Bazinga-ass shit I was going to jail for murder. pic.twitter.com/vpWNCGAQec

— donnie (@donniemnemonic) July 23, 2017

Compared to Cline's other book, which is basically "The Last Starfighter starring a character who is definitely NOT me, author Ernest Cline," Ready Player One is Tolstoy.

Also the scene in the trailer with all the racers putting on their virtual gear and getting into their virtual cars (can't remember if it was in the book or not) was almost literally just done in Guardians of the Galaxy, Pt. 2. The Sovereign used drone spacecraft piloted remotely by people in little video-game pods.

Not enough middle fingers in the world here

At SDCC Spielberg said he wants ppl to shout "I know that!" in the theatre every time they spot a reference while watching Ready Player One.

— Bruce Levenstein (@BruceLevenstein) July 24, 2017

just in case you weren't sure whether you wanted to see this thing

the more i hear about this the more i think that isis might be on to something

the Family Guy-sation of popular culture

That's not what I normally shout when I see a Spielberg movie in the theatre

i've never once shouted in a theatre tbh, am i missing out

how much do you want to be punched in the dark?

btw Spielberg's Pentagon Papers film will be out before this, so let's concentrate on what's important.

tbf if somebody wants to go on a shooting spree in a movie theatre this summer you'd probably get off with justifiable homicide if you choose this one

or next spring, when it's actually out?

you geeks (OOOOH, VALERIAN!) sure are intolerant of the next cave over

I do wonder why the Suicide Squad thread wasn't like this.

I like how the geeky girls playing ukeleles are the only women he acknowledges in that endless list.

It's also a good idea to shout "I don't know that!" when not currently spotting a reference.

Wonder what Spielberg made of that mention of Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.

For an accurate summary of the book(and response) that's like less than an hour long, check here:

http://ideotvpod.libsyn.com/ready-player-one-w-mike-sacco

Also

Here's the official trailer for READY PLAYER ONE: pic.twitter.com/0rQnUE5LdK

— Neil Cicierega (@neilcic) July 22, 2017

He already threw Lucas under a bus on that, I'm sure it rolled off his back.

"I've been cyber-stalking you for years." - our main character to love interest

I think he thinks this kind of shit is charming..? pic.twitter.com/AsxuD8hfPJ

— Hector Wang (@heronimous) July 24, 2017

It's hilarious/worrying that Morbz actually seems to be planning to watch this

Glad everyone itt has agreed to definitely never see this film.

Morbs, I think our intolerance of the next cave over is directly proportionate to the frequency with which we are visited by their most obstreperous resident

I don't watch trailers, including this one. It's photographed by Janusz Kaminski and edited by Michael Kahn, so possibly good.

I might skip it if SS made this for his teenage kids, but the last film of his I missed was The Lost World.

I meant the next geek cave, dude.

(btw scratch that, all his kids are over 20)

Spielberg quote above suggests he understands the audience for this very, very well. But I'll be surprised if it does any better with the wider market than Scott Pilgrim or Pixels, or for that matter Tintin or The BFG.

The main thing that mystifies me is why he would find this an interesting story to work on... it's just a nostalgia rush for stuff that came out when he was in his late 30s, some of which he was involved in creating, and he's not normally even that particular kind of nostalgic. Melange of rerun serials made before he was born, yes, affection for childhood and family, sure, but the only things he's made that are really set during his youthful years are Crystal Skull, Catch Me If You Can and Tintin, and none of those strike me as "you know what really makes me happy is just seeing tons of movies I've never stopped rewatching since I was 11 get *mentioned* in something else."

I learned today that Ernest Cline has "spoken word" poetry posted on his website. The first one is an ode to the tv show Airwolf.

😭🔫

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?

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.

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.

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

Imagine the level of creativity this would require!

I guess alternatively, you could make it all pop culture references from another culture, like make it all Eastern European pop references or something

Is Ryan Reynolds meant to look like a fucking waxwork?

quite possibly?

He acts as well as one, after all.