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.
― omar little, Thursday, 1 February 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
arguably staying out of Tony Kushner and DDL's way
oh, nuts
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
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.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 1 February 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
pretty dismissive of Hillary Clinton's all-time leading donor
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
*kisses fingers* perfection morbz
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 February 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
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
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 1 February 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 1 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
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
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
I don't think it will. The new (to me) trailer before BP got no response at all. Uncle Drew, on the other hand...
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
I can’t imagine anyone young enough to want to see this is gonna know what Bigfoot is
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
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, 19 February 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
and the 1978 Gundam. Don't they know these kids grew up on Gundam Wing, which is a totally separate continuity
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
lol the faces on that poster. nobody looks like they are having fun.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GHZLPJs.gif
that's not how VR works
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
in the future every kid still wears skinny jeans and sneakers
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
it’s retro!
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
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
― Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
can't believe they got Simon Pegg to be in this btw
― Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
ah yes, the notably discerning nerd deity Simon Pegg
― Number None, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
That’s the simplest thing in the world: “Hi Simon, you wanna be in this Spielberg flick?”
Easy
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
“you had me at ‘hello simon’”
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
I honestly couldn't tell if that was Simon Pegg or Michael Sheen on the poster.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
i'm not seeing what's so objectionable about that poster
― akm, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
that it looks like a poster for the unfilmed sequel to The Last Starfighter
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
that was actually Cline's second book lol
― Number None, Monday, 19 February 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
lol yeah I think we talked about it ITT
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
unless the wireframe lines count as from tron the only things on that poster i recognize are the delorean and the iron giant
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 19 February 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, February 19, 2018
OTM this makes it personal you fux
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 19 February 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
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
― Number None, Monday, 19 February 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
I thought exactly the same thing
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Monday, 19 February 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
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
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
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
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
Close Encounters font
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
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.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
I just noticed the poster also doesn't name a single actor (none of the trailers have either I don't think)
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
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*
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
(Once again, I’ll give a link to the particular episode done by the guy I linked to above that formed an early emblematic reaction to the book.)
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:41 (six years ago) link
lmao @ Whiney coming into this thread to make sure yall feel bad for liking Iron Giant
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 04:51 (six years ago) link
It’s cool to like Iron Giant, but wgaf if it’s in this dumb movie
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 05:26 (six years ago) link
Should be be (additionally) suspicious that this isn't coming out in the Summer, or doesn't that matter anymore?
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 05:59 (six years ago) link
^ Easter Weekend usually has some big movies opening
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 08:56 (six years ago) link
Jesus H.
http://www.slashfilm.com/fantastic-ready-player-one-posters/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
God, all of the facial expressions are wrong.
http://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/wp/wp-content/images/readyplayerone-tributeposter-highres-rambo2-345x500.jpg
― jmm, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
this flick looks like both a bore and a chore
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
I thought I'd passed through my "kill everyone involved with Cultural Product X" phase, but man, this movie is dragging me right back there.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
I never actively rooted against Spielberg before but I guess there's a first time for everything.
― I'm not meltdown. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
Hopefully someone will culturally appropriate my Spielbergian chagrin in thirty years.
― I'm not meltdown. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
can’t even bring myself to look forward to hate-watching this one tbh
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
they should have just called it "Movie: The Movie"
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link