SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

I'm not even a hater but the guy makes a shitload of films so I usually feel ok skipping over the odd one that appears calculated to be as unappealing to me as possible

that's nice

he'll survive

xp

"what if funko pops" hahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNtySt6Fg30

lol

will the movie be better than 2 hours of this

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

— Neil Cicierega (@neilcic) July 22, 2017

Dr Morbius, it seems like a thing that would make this interesting would be if it includes some element of reflection or even just commentary, on Spielberg's part, on his movies' place in current culture. Do you think he's got that in him?

I think he did that (sort of) as far back as 1941 (spoofing himself w/ shark/submarine opening).

Yeah and as dlh said above Jurassic park is full of that kinda stuff

I don't think that would be enough for me personally in this case

i like Spielberg but I haven't been super enthusiastic about too many of his post-WOTW/Munich flicks. Lincoln was good but I don't remember much about it beyond DDL and a couple scenes w/Bruce McGill and Michael Stuhlbarg.

Spielberg's biggest contribution to Lincoln was arguably staying out of Tony Kushner and DDL's way. A higher mawkish sentimentality content could have ruined it.

at this stage spielberg is basically a menace

the post and this as a one-two punch of diametrically opposed utter garbage

i kinda judge him a bit harshly on what he chooses to executive produce. leaning real heavy on the Transformers pics there, Steven.

Crystal Skull/Tintin/War Horse/Lincoln/Bridge of Spies/BFG/Post/RPO is about as "inspired" a run as Ridley Scott's having, which is to say kinda boring projects executed w/enough skill to make the best written ones "good" but that's about it.

arguably staying out of Tony Kushner and DDL's way

oh, nuts

jurassic park is about chasing beauty and making art, things spielberg understands better than he does american history. potential themes of this movie: escapism, nostalgia, the artist as opium slinger enlisted by deadening oppressive regime, decadent kids playing in recombinated trash like they're... making indiana jones, i guess there's an absent father figure there too. could still very well be just totally hateful but this is certainly more promising material for this partic artist than the washington post.

pretty dismissive of Hillary Clinton's all-time leading donor

*kisses fingers*
perfection morbz

i kinda judge him a bit harshly on what he chooses to executive produce.

The fact that he seems to be responsible for putting Shia le Bouef in the public eye is pretty damning all by itself

Ah no, I don't mean signs and hints for the people watching these films that have seen Spielberg films, I mean it being (I understand) a feature of the story that the people in this film have seen Spielberg films.

But then, I can't think of any film-maker who's done that except maybe Kevin Smith? I don't watch a lot of Kevin Smith.

goddammit this poster is literally just "HEY REMEMBER THIS STUFF?"

it's too dumb to even get mad at, it's just the silliest and most obvious attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator of "nerd culture"

and it's gonna work, too. this bullshit is gonne make SO MUCH MONEY pic.twitter.com/oQWcRteDMz

— COOL BEANS (@RikiCreem) February 19, 2018

I don't think it will. The new (to me) trailer before BP got no response at all. Uncle Drew, on the other hand...

I can’t imagine anyone young enough to want to see this is gonna know what Bigfoot is

mainly i’m just annoyed that the poor blameless iron giant, star of one of the best animated movies of the last quarter-century, is getting dragged into this

and the 1978 Gundam. Don't they know these kids grew up on Gundam Wing, which is a totally separate continuity

I don't have my pulse on the finger of the dork community the way I used to but I have yet to encounter a single person who seems excited for this movie, if it totally flops I would not be surprised

lol the faces on that poster. nobody looks like they are having fun.

https://i.imgur.com/GHZLPJs.gif

that's not how VR works

in the future every kid still wears skinny jeans and sneakers

it’s retro!

now hoping this film is two hours of kids in scuba masks running around a city shooting imaginary guns, with the occasional subliminal flash of iconic nerd culture images

can't believe they got Simon Pegg to be in this btw

ah yes, the notably discerning nerd deity Simon Pegg

That’s the simplest thing in the world: “Hi Simon, you wanna be in this Spielberg flick?”

Easy

“you had me at ‘hello simon’”

I honestly couldn't tell if that was Simon Pegg or Michael Sheen on the poster.

i'm not seeing what's so objectionable about that poster

that it looks like a poster for the unfilmed sequel to The Last Starfighter

that was actually Cline's second book lol

lol yeah I think we talked about it ITT

unless the wireframe lines count as from tron the only things on that poster i recognize are the delorean and the iron giant

mainly i’m just annoyed that the poor blameless iron giant, star of one of the best animated movies of the last quarter-century, is getting dragged into this

― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, February 19, 2018

OTM this makes it personal you fux

The Iron Giant inclusion is weird - and regrettable. I presume they just picked whatever IP they could get their hands on and then retrofitted the script around it?

The book is an irredeemable pile of shit, but at least it's faithful to its '80s nostalgia fetish

unless the wireframe lines count as from tron the only things on that poster i recognize are the delorean and the iron giant

I thought exactly the same thing

if more companies had just withheld permissions, we could be looking at Ready Player One featuring Mac (Mac and Me), the Gobots, and Sam Francisco

I hope the irony having a personal reaction to an 18-year-old robot movie for children being used in the nostalgia movie isn’t lost on everyone

Close Encounters font

The descriptor of the random assortment of nerd IP from Cline’s adolescence as “80s!” is lazy enough to be consistent with his writing style, should be noted.

I just noticed the poster also doesn't name a single actor (none of the trailers have either I don't think)

goddammit this poster is literally just "HEY REMEMBER THIS STUFF?"

*meticulously bumps thread on 2000's internet pop culture forum for every single intellectual property mentioned in this movie*