SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

the song Spirit Of The Age would make for a better sci-fi movie adaptation than this amirite

As always the critique of this collection of references regurgitated as art isn't that this is a shit idea it's that it's the wrong references for the wrong people

Which is lol

pretty sure most people think its a shit idea and not that this would be a great movie if you swapped The Beatles for Neu or something

the critique is that it's a shitty idea, shittily done, with no seeming purpose beyond exactly what the idea would suggest. since this has not stopped it from being really popular with some people, then yeah, I wonder wtf is wrong with those people.

It's possible to do something interesting with a slew of pop culture references and it's also possible to just list them and ask 'remember that? how about that? and what about this?' and watch your audience's souls evaporate.

guys, it's deems, he just likes to pounce on whatever post he half-understood

nah he just can't see a button without pushing it :D

It can be both and if I know myself which it is I'm not letting on

Not saying this would necessarily be a good film with a better list (but c'mon, it would be at least interesting if it was an a-z of Caribbean culture) but I think the choices (some of which are good, I wouldn't expect your average 80s-90s geek to be into some of those writers) and the way he's bragging about it do smack of a particularly annoying identity a lot of people have bought into that seems to put limits on itself and prioritizes familiarity and large fan communities.

as much as i hated the book and silently judged everyone who had insisted I read it, i hate the trailer even more, for inserting an Iron Giant visualization that i would have thought would be safe by virtue of not having existed until 1999. PHUCKING PHILISTINES.

this property is a honeytrap for idiots

pixels was very enjoyable for a braindead movie.

i have now watched the promo for this film a few times and yet to figure out what the story is.

"story"

i've read the book and have yet to figure out what the story is

afaik it's about a guy consumed with regret for the 3.5 hours of his life that he'll never get back

ummmmmm okay lmao

http://www.ernestcline.com/spokenword/npa.htm

nsfw

All the porn I've come across
was targeted at beer-swilling sports bar dwelling alpha-males

This man doesn't look very far and wide for anything.

ding ding ding

In my kind of porno movies the girls wouldn't even have to get naked.
They'd just take the guys down to the rec room and
beat them repeatedly at chess
and then talk to them for hours about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
or the underlying social metaphors in the Aliens movies.

okay he's now officially on the "if you could fight anyone" list, right behind hannity

hey nerd white knight, some people *like* to get naked

Feel like this movie is what would happen if you gave a YouTube gamer a couple hundred million dollars to spruce up their channel.

Airwolf.

Airwolf is the adjective we should use to describe anything
of majesty, beauty, and intensity.
Something that is simply fucking bad ass . . . is Airwolf.
James Brown's music is Airwolf.
Shakespeare is Airwolf.
Sex so good it makes your spine ache and your knees buckle. . .
That's Airwolf.

And nothing is more Airwolf than Airwolf.

Airwolf is the Holy Grail. The Golden Fleece.
The thing you want that you cannot have.
When you go sprinting through the Mall
desperate to fill the emptiness in your life
through the purchase of name brand clothing and electronics-
You will never achieve satisfaction.
Because the one brand name you really want
is the one you can never have.
Airwolf?
Oh, I'm sorry, we're all sold out.
That item was only available for a very limited time
and in very limited supply.
One.

prickly pear vibes imo

I honestly can't tell which are actual quotes and which are just people fucking around. Speaks highly of the source material.

i'm sorry to have to inform you that nobody is fucking around

Best thing about that nerd porn poem is that there's an mp3 of him doing the actual spoken word version, like he read it aloud, heard it back, felt zero shame or embarrassment, and uploaded this thing, it's just...

less surprising that he uploaded it when u hear the crowd reaction!

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rBVP0s7umDY/hqdefault.jpg

L-R nu aspire nerd culture, ilx

*aspie

oh my god i glossed over 'guys need porn' jfc

who are these psychos who showed up to this reading holy shit

You know the source material is bad when even Reddit has largely turned on it. Every time a post was made about this book (well, before the trailer that is), I just saw people in the comments pointing out what a lousy book it was

otm, i read the book due to circumstances not really worth explaining here, the core idea isn't for me but it isn't the worst thing in the world, the worst thing in the world is that the author is a dumb idiot.

I feel like sleepingbag has been pulling his punches in this thread

step up and defend the fucking material or don't, nobody is "punching down" a goddamn Spielberg movie

Lmao I haven't read the book and probably won't see the movie, just think it's hilarious that a site for semi-pro listers of things they like is so aggro/jealous of this thing

I see like 3 movies every 5 years lol

did you not read the stuff people quoted

I downloaded every game mentioned or referenced in the Almanac, from Akalabeth to Zaxxon

no Zynaps? what a fucking loser.

no Zork? no cred. fuck this thing.

this idea was intriguing to me b/c I honestly thought this was supposed to be a satire of people who spend their whole life trying to become a pop culture know-it-all and then find themselves incapable of forming a single original thought, like a parody of Bill Simmons type people who see everything in terms of "what Teen Wolf character is this guy". but this is....not that. at all

it'd be cool if the movie pulled a fast one and actually was a cutting sendup of the nostalgiafest it's being sold on, but this is also the director who looked at the creepy story of a society where parents would choose fake robot affection over real grief and said "got it, a heartwarming pinocchio story, let's get to work!"

head scratching read of AI there

Based on what I've been able to piece together, this is like a dude who buys all of the 1000 albums to hear before you die but instead of actually listening to them he just Instagrams a picture of them, is that about right?

head scratching read of AI there

yeah i've given up on the "Spielberg sentimentalist" brainwashed when it comes to his films that do the opposite

and Kubrick wrote the fucking adap, period

i recognize i am probably in the minority on A.I. man I hated that movie.

the sentimentality and implication that we should find something sweet/noble/human/inspiring in this piece of machinery doing what it's built to do is all in the direction (and score) tho. iirc anyway.

Doc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._Artificial_Intelligence#Development

At our first meeting Stanley skated briefly over some of my stories which he had read. Since I hadn’t seen Full Metal Jacket... he gave me a videotape. Also, a copy of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio, about the puppet who yearned to be a real boy but who gets into such naughty scrapes...The movie was to be a picaresque robot version of Pinocchio, spinning off from the Aldiss story, but the plot-line had bogged down. ...

In 1994 too, Scottish-born Sara Maitland, whose stories give a sharp dark slant to such fables as “Hansel and Gretel,” was brought in until the second half of 1995 to provide a feminist fairy-tale focus. Although she asked Stanley who else had worked on the saga, he refused to tell her, and she only found out after his death. With her, he always referred to the project as “Pinocchio."

https://web.archive.org/web/20080703134444/http://www.ianwatson.info/kubrick.htm

and of course, the robot boy in AI doesn't REPRESENT a robot anymore than Karloff represents a reanimated corpse in Frankenstein. They emotionally signify human beings, or we wouldn't give a shit.