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
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 05:04 (seven years ago) link
I see like 3 movies every 5 years lol
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 05:14 (seven years ago) link
did you not read the stuff people quoted
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 07:20 (seven years ago) link
I downloaded every game mentioned or referenced in the Almanac, from Akalabeth to Zaxxon
no Zynaps? what a fucking loser.
― PressAnarchyToContinue (Ste), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 08:49 (seven years ago) link
no Zork? no cred. fuck this thing.
― akm, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 13:24 (seven years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 13:55 (seven years ago) link
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!"
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link
head scratching read of AI there
― circa1916, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Chock Full of Love and Sexy Feeling (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
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
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
i recognize i am probably in the minority on A.I. man I hated that movie.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
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
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
xpost The sentimentality of AI is the point. The kid is walking, talking sentimentality, but no one left in the world gives a fuck, beginning with his asshole mom. The robot is the last human. That's what makes it heartbreaking.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
― akm,
oh there's a Zork part in the book, don't worry
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
"I would speculate that Stanley would have made and told much the same story I told because I based my screenplay on a 90-page treatment Stanley had prepared from all of his own ideas," the 53-year-old filmmaker said when asked what he thought Kubrick would have done differently.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=104124&page=1
AI is about as sentimental as Dr Strangelove.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
My big issue with A.I. is that I hated Haley Joel Osment in it, which made it something of a trial to sit through.
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
We know from on-set footage from The Shining, and other anecdotal evidence, that Kubrick revised his scripts all the way through shooting, so I'm sure there would've been many differences between any 'treatment' written prior to filming and the finished Kubrick movie.
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
Sure, but he was saying 'Pinocchio' to multiple writers throughout, so that concept was his. And yet like windup toys ppl drone on "Spielberg Pinocchio sentimental blahblahblah" in perpetuity.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
I don't care if Kubrick or Spielberg is to blame, it's a crappy movie and Dr. C's interpretation mirrors my own
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
funhouse mirrors
i'm done
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link
the original Pinocchio is absolutely not a sentimental story btw
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
The heartwarming tale of a far future where everyone except for sentient robots is dead, partly because people built machines that could love them unconditionally and couldn't be bothered to do the same back. **wipes away tear like Robert Stack in 1941**
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
haha
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
Yall should read Cline's "Dance Monkeys Dance" easily the most try hard sheeple rant ever written
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
all that bleak stuff is there in the manifest content of the movie, but spielberg still directs, edits, scores, and ends it like we're supposed to relate to the cusinart that just keeps on cuisinartin'. aww, what a trooper! i don't know whose party line im supposed to be parroting (I like both directors as you probably know) but in the end spielberg's name is on the film, the film is sentimental, and the sentiment is moronic. it's one of my least favorite of his that i've seen. if the plot/world was at least interesting along the way I probably would have rewatched it by now and maybe id be more sympathetic than I was at age 19/20 but all I remember is a bunch of postapocalyptic cliches and an embarrassing robin williams cameo, so it's kind of low in the queue.anyway tho my main point was just that in general he's not a director drawn to subversive undercurrents or twisty readings - I actually can't think of a film of his that plays against type, or against what the trailer/elevator pitch would lead you to think. that's not a fault - I'd be pissed off to get halfway through Jurassic Park and discover Hammond is really right and the pursuit of genetic miracles is worth any risk because it's our destiny as a species to kill god and take mastery of all nature. but it's an indicator that there's no reason to expect Ready Player One to challenge or complicate the consumer franchise nostalgia fest that the book puts forward.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 16:07 (seven years ago) link
Yall should read Cline's...
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/nope.gif
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link
I have to rewatch AI. I was so looking forward to it that I was disappointed in it when it finally came out; but when i think back on it, my feelings about it have softened.
― akm, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
An exclusive look at my upcoming book: Ready Player One Except With Girl Culture. Hmu, Spielberg pic.twitter.com/DMDW0PBoUW— Nat (@Hatalie) July 24, 2017
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
AI has its problems for sure, but I think nailing it for being overly sentimental is a shallow read. It's more uncomfortable and thornier than that.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's been forever but iirc it was deeply sad
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
Cline's song he wrote: http://songmeanings.com/m/songs/view/3530822107859495656/
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link
I think it's about Planet of the Apes.
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 23:30 (seven years ago) link
That Tim Burton movie?
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 02:41 (seven years ago) link
this fucking guy
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 04:50 (seven years ago) link
I'd pay to see a Tim Burton musical of this. Still holding out for the Verhoeven libretto.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 04:55 (seven years ago) link
By Robert Ludlum.
IT'S SLAM POETRY TIME Y'ALL
Nerd Porn Auteurby Ernest Cline
(Click to play or download the mp3)I've noticed that there don't seem to be any porno movies that are made for guys like me.
All the porn I've come acrosswas targeted at beer-swilling sports bar dwelling alpha-malesMen who like their women stupid and submissiveMen who can only get it up for monosyllabic cock-hungry nymphoswith gargantuan breasts and a three-word vocabulary
Adult films are populated with these collagen-injectedliposuctioned womenMany of whom have resorted to surgery and self-mutilationin an attempt to look the way they have been told to look.
These aren't real women. They're objects.And these movies aren't erotic. They're pathetic.These vacuum-headed fuck bunnies don't turn me on.They disgust me.And it's not that I'm against pornography.I mean, I'm a guy. And guys need porn.Fact."Like a preacher needs pain, like a needle needs a vein,"Guys need porn.
But I don't wanna watch this misogynist he-man woman-hater porn.I want porno movies that are made with guys like me in mind:Guys who know that the sexiest thing in the worldis a woman who is smarter than you are.
You can have the whole cheerleading squad,I want the girl in the tweed skirt and the horn-rimmed glasses:Betty Finnebowski, the valedictorian.Oh yes.First I want to copy her Trig homework,and then I want to make mad, passionate love to herfor hours and hoursuntil she reluctantly asks if we can stopbecause she doesn't want to miss Battlestar Galactica.Summa cum laude, baby! That is what I call erotic.
But do you ever see that kind of a woman in a contemporary adult film?No.Which is why I'm going to start writing and directing Geek Porno.I shall be the quintessential Nerd Porn Auteur.And the women in my porno movies will be the kindthat drive nerds like me mad with desire.
I'm talking about the girls that used to fuck up the grading curve.The girls in the Latin Club and the National Honor Society.Chicks with weird clothes, braces, four eyes, and 4.0 GPAs.Brainy articulate bookworms, with MENSA cards in their pursesand chips on their shoulders.
My porn starlets will come in all shapes and sizes.My porn starlets will be too busy working on their PhD to go to the gym.
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 chessand then talk to them for hours about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principleor the underlying social metaphors in the Aliens movies.
Buy stock in some hand cream companiesbecause there is about to be a major shortage.
And I'm not just talking about straight porn. Oh no.There should be fuck films for my nerd brethrenof all sexual orientations.Gay nerd porn flicks with titles like "Dungeons and Drag-queens."
This idea is a fucking gold mine.I am gonna make millions, because this country is full of database programmersand electronics engineersand they aren't getting the loving they so desperately need.And you can help . . .
If you're an intelligent woman is interested in breaking into the adult film industry,and if you can tell me the name of Luke Skywalker's home planet,then you are hired.
It doesn't matter if you think you're overweight or unattractive.It doesn't matter if you don't think you're beautiful.You are beautiful. . .And I will make you a star.
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 August 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link
shit didn't see that had been posted already
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 August 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
(Click to play or download the mp3) <-- I tapped out here
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Thursday, 3 August 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
saw the trailer for this in the theatre and now I see what you all are on about
― Neanderthal, Friday, 4 August 2017 00:38 (seven years ago) link
Thanks, bizarro, I've always wondered what John Doe wrote in all those notebooks.
― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Friday, 4 August 2017 01:29 (seven years ago) link
David Bowie's "Jump, They Say" - C or D?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 4 August 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link
jesus tap dancing christ at that poem. bro, the internet does not need new kinds of porn. it already has all the kinds, especially something as basic as "geek girls."
― evol j, Friday, 4 August 2017 14:35 (seven years ago) link
i'm just kinda boggled that someone could write that, read it back, and not see that 'objectification of women is bad! ps - here's how women should be objectified!' is dumb as fuck
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 4 August 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
Or, "I am a male ally, also porn actresses are not real women."
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Friday, 4 August 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Dude's a regular Jack Handey.
― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Friday, 4 August 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link
I know that my dramatic reading could never do justice to Ernest Cline's ravenous hunger for nerd porn, but a copyright strike seems extreme pic.twitter.com/CkXsLctjgl— supergreatfriend (@supergreatfrien) August 4, 2017
― groovypanda, Friday, 4 August 2017 14:50 (seven years ago) link
Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada • 23e premier ministre du CanadaAnswered Apr 3I am a massive reader, have been all my life. I read anything, and everything, in huge quantities. These days most of what I read are scholarly policy works and briefing papers, so listing my favourite fiction is really tough. I guess starting with a few authors for whom I’ve read just about everything they’ve ever written: Stephen King, Neal Stephenson, and Tad Williams. Other recently-read novels I’ve loved: La part de l’autre by Eric-Emmanuel Schmidt, and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
I am a massive reader, have been all my life. I read anything, and everything, in huge quantities. These days most of what I read are scholarly policy works and briefing papers, so listing my favourite fiction is really tough. I guess starting with a few authors for whom I’ve read just about everything they’ve ever written: Stephen King, Neal Stephenson, and Tad Williams. Other recently-read novels I’ve loved: La part de l’autre by Eric-Emmanuel Schmidt, and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 4 August 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link