SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

tbf i didn't get that far

loool

fridge scene shit and let you know that shit was all you were gonna get

aliens shit

so I had no idea Stephen Granade had written about this years ago: http://granades.com/2011/11/30/ready-player-one-reinforces-some-bad-geek-outlooks/

(the comparison to The Westing Game is interesting, because it's fairly clear subtext of the book that Westing was a bad person who mistreated his employees, committed fraud, and whose "game" was a manipulative-at-best act of revenge against his ex-wife.)

fridge scene shit and let you know that shit was all you were gonna get

aliens shit

― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Wednesday, March 14, 2018 2:40 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark

fridge scene was great imagery. straight out of a pulp magazine cover. believability-wise Indy has always been superhuman, riding the sub and all.

aliens was shit and it was Speilberg doing a reference to the ending of the Fate of Atlantis videogame. so in a way he is doing that trick again 10 years later.

no it was shit

i'd thought about Westing Game before too. the comparison of Halliday and Westing as people is interesting and revealing, and agreed, you're supposed to realize along the way that this dude despite all his wonka-ish mischief is maybe not so cool. nice trick for a kid's book. but mostly i'd thought about how poorly Cline's narrative seems to rip it off. Westing's dickish puzzle is actually fascinating, clever, intricate - you're as eager for the next chapter's clues as the characters are and hoping to figure it out for yourself. Halliday's dickish puzzle is barely a puzzle, more of a Sporcle "guess my K-pop bias" quiz: if you like the same things Halliday liked, you and the characters will figure it out immediately!

basically i assume Cline read TWG as a kid, retained none of its structure or devices since he is a terrible writer who doesn't think about such things. it's hard to write a book like that (which Raskin's peers apparently recognized by giving her the Newberry for it). but what did stick, in the back of his mind the fantasy that one day a rich guy would stage a contest and let him get rich himself despite not being good at anything. irritatingly, this is more or less what seems to have happened for him.

I read the Westing Game a ton of times as a kid. I guess if this is something like that for this generation, only with shoehorned nostalgia, it could have some redeeming aspects

it is nothing like that and has no redeeming aspects

^

it was Speilberg doing a reference to the ending of the Fate of Atlantis videogame

Writing Credits (WGA)
David Koepp ... (screenplay)

George Lucas ... (story) and
Jeff Nathanson ... (story)

Thank u for the Fate of Atlantis writing credits, Morbs, now we know who Speilburg ripped off for his Crystal Skull screenplay.

fun detail

At the time a sequel to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure was decided, most of the staff of Lucasfilm Games was occupied with other projects such as The Secret of Monkey Island and The Dig.[25][26] Designer Hal Barwood had only created two computer games on his own before, but was put in charge of the project because of his experience as a producer and writer of feature films.[25][26] The company originally wanted him to create a game based on Indiana Jones and the Monkey King/Garden of Life, a rejected script written by Chris Columbus for the third movie[26] that would have seen Indiana looking for Chinese artifacts in Africa.[26][27] However, after reading the script Barwood decided that the idea was substandard, and requested to create an original story for the game instead.[26]

https://www.twitter.com/radicalbytes/status/974427078970941440

What more do you really need to know? Unforgivable. pic.twitter.com/XqUFjNAfvy

— Jonathan McIntosh (@radicalbytes) March 15, 2018

again, that "criticism" is like "my childish relationship to this nostalgia bait trumps your childish relationship to this nostalgia bait"

like you *already lost* if you have an opinion on if how the Iron Giant is represented in Ready Player One is good or bad

wait til you snowflakes get a load of the carnivorous moomins

jk some things are sacred whiny is Ernest Cline and I claim my 5

The Westing Game is peerless I hope kids are still reading it

looks like I'm gettin dragged to this opening night. tempted to steal the idea of shouting every reference and getting it wrong

tho the theatre didn't exactly erupt in anger when someone said "Hellboy!" when Thanos showed up in the post-credits of Avengers

Whiney u are such a grown-up, I hope I can be a grown-up like u someday, please teach me to put away my childish things oh please won't u, I'm so tired of *already losing*

Whinesplainin

lmao at y'all cuckflake babies who don't think everything Ted Hughes ever wrote should be rented out by Warner Bros

i agree with Whiney and can't wait for the scene with Captain Planet rolling coal

just lmao at all you idiot loser babies who like things. I don't like stuff

otm

no tbf i like age-appropriate stuff

Can't wait until I'm finally old enough to watch Matlock.

adherence to historical context is such a childish endeavor.

superiority is the only true adult sport.

hence why adult shows feature real heroes, cops and lawyers, catching bad guys

the scene with Captain Planet rolling coal

this sounds good, but the audience reaction would make me feel bad

god how amazing would it be if the Dukes of Hazzard and Clyde out of Every Which Way But Loose were in this

giant Arnold Jackson battlebot

the duke boys and clyde team up to impregnate sonic the hedgehog as battlecat looks on

some Dino Riders, Snorks, and Skeletor all part of gun-running venture

Batman murders an innocent man in the first scene and deadpans "that's why you don't mess with THE DARK KNIGHT"

fuck a batman get some care bears up in that shit

https://londonparticulars.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/willy_fog.jpg?w=218&h=300

FREEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOM

may the force be with you, says my girlfriend Princess Leia while the entire cast of Strike Force whips out their proton packs and proceeds to do the Electric Slide. I ponder the nature of the universe while whacking off.

https://i1.wp.com/www.the-arcade.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sharky.png?fit=521%2C338

uh-oh here comes a Jaws

never fear, Captain Power is here

https://sports-images.vice.com/images/articles/meta/2016/12/06/throwback-thursday-the-ridiculous-saturday-morning-cartoon-starring-jordan-gretzky-and-bo-1481043704.jpg?crop=1xw%3A0.8586237980769231xh%3Bcenter%2Ccenter&resize=400%3A*

it's all about fan servicin' kids

apparently ProStars ran for 3 months when i was in my early 20s and it's still indelibly etched

prostars! someone bring that shit back.

lol i watched that shit

Can't wait until the nostalgic revival of shitty early '90s celebri-toons begins in earnest. I need my gritty Hammerman reboot now, dammit.

someday kids will be nostalgic for that time when culture was dominated by 90s nostalgia

Doug Funnie beats up Roger Klotz