SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

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*

(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.)

lmao @ Whiney coming into this thread to make sure yall feel bad for liking Iron Giant

It’s cool to like Iron Giant, but wgaf if it’s in this dumb movie

Should be be (additionally) suspicious that this isn't coming out in the Summer, or doesn't that matter anymore?

^ Easter Weekend usually has some big movies opening

Jesus H.

http://www.slashfilm.com/fantastic-ready-player-one-posters/

God, all of the facial expressions are wrong.

http://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/wp/wp-content/images/readyplayerone-tributeposter-highres-rambo2-345x500.jpg

this flick looks like both a bore and a chore

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.

I never actively rooted against Spielberg before but I guess there's a first time for everything.

Hopefully someone will culturally appropriate my Spielbergian chagrin in thirty years.

can’t even bring myself to look forward to hate-watching this one tbh

they should have just called it "Movie: The Movie"

It's like someone spent $900 million to remake That's Entertainment!

https://theofficela.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/calvin-and-hobbes-write-what-you-know.jpg

lol at that C&H strip.

very very otm

Ready Player One but every reference in the movie is replaced with a Steamed Hams reference.

— Rob Wesley (@eastwes) March 6, 2018

guys

Just got word that I can finally share my rejected theme song from @readyplayerone. They went with Alan Silvestri's theme, but I still want to thank Steven Spielberg & @WarnerBrosEnt for the wonderful opportunity. pic.twitter.com/aK32ZOUA16

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) March 7, 2018

Amazing.

if this spawns a cottage industry in deadpan mockery it will all be worth it

loool

Tbh this embodies everything I hate in current pop culture (see me in Stranger Things threads), but Spielberg running it is making me not ready to totally toss it out. Maybe something good could be done with... this?

I had this weird glimmer when I finally was confronted with the trailer in a theater a while ago that I could sort of understand why this would be a thing Spielberg would want to do, inasmuch as it is (a) a spectacle, (b) about a capsule or constructed or isolated environment (cf The Terminal, Jurassic Park, others?)

But then the moment passed and I was back to being like “fuck this movie”

OK there READY PLAYER ONE just stop it pic.twitter.com/s1px8ESniC

— McGone [2 CD Remastered Deluxe Edition] (@the_mcgone) March 6, 2018

i can't imagine how warner bros approved of this ready player one poster pic.twitter.com/SzT4iyNpCd

— jared kushbomb (@tresgambas) March 7, 2018

too soon

Fittingly, the thread title is Saddo. Just noticed that.

Tbh this embodies everything I hate in current pop culture (see me in Stranger Things threads), but Spielberg running it is making me not ready to totally toss it out. Maybe something good could be done with... this?

― circa1916, Tuesday, March 6, 2018 10:32 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is pretty much the polar opposite of my feeling. I'm so much more ready (player one) to make time for a well-constructed show which is in part an oblique pastiche of old-timey entertainments than to give Spielberg of all people a pass on lazily dumping the contents of a mid-'80s eight-year-old's toybox in front of a movie camera.

still a truther on this

If Spielberg did this as a pop cultural gloss on The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch I'd be all in.

if i were the kind of person who held challenging opinions i might think that preemptive detractors of this movie otherwise happy with franchise decadence are sensing it comes to critique their nostalgia bluntly rather than service it elegantly

As one who openly indulges in franchise decadence, my preceding post should put paid to that notion wrt moi.