SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

Morbius the Unready

my ideal viewing experience: I am alone in a 300-seat theater

(it happened once)

There was the time it was my, my mom and my sis in the center of a huge theater, and one other couple well away up the front. Sadly, the movie in question was Howard the Duck.

only time it happened for me was a screening of tank girl in 1995

it's pretty common at the theater here if you go at night during the week.

so this movie flopped? is that right?

even on the weekend i've gone and there has been only 2 or 3 people at times. my own private screening palace.

there was an ilxor on facebook who totally went to this. where is his review?

only time it happened for me was a screening of tank girl in 1995

― sir chesley bonestell, qc (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, March 29, 2018 8:53 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dude.

Three guesses what I was about to post.

This is officially getting spooky now.

are you fucking shitting me

"so this movie flopped? is that right?"

it opens like, today.

me and a pal went and saw v.i. warshawski because of kathleen turner love and we left in the middle of it and we were the only ones there and sometimes i think about that movie playing at the theater to nobody.

xxpost If it helps to diminish the spookiness, a friend and I cut class to see Tank Girl so I wasn't technically alone alone. But still.

huh, weirdly i was thinking about vi warshawski for the first time in forever yesterday!

ol, it diminishes the weirdness only slightly but tbh i'm still on the verge of an existential crisis wondering whether we're in some kind of tyler durden situation here

The travel costs incurred in maintaining this duel identity is killing us, dude.

no wonder i always feel jetlagged

it opens like, today.

lol I thought it opened last week

I saw Ishtar at the Ziegfeld (~1500 seats?) and I think there were a dozen or so ppl there.

This has literally never happened to me. And I saw Benji Off the Leash.

Nor me. Closest I've come was many years ago, an afternoon screening of Peter Sellers' last atrocity, The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu.

I saw Ishtar at the Ziegfeld (~1500 seats?) and I think there were a dozen or so ppl there.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, March 29, 2018 10:44 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This rules

maria went to see a movie in town here during the week one night and there was nobody taking tickets and she wandered around the theater and there was nobody there. like, nobody. she went home. she wins the ghost town movie prize.

i'm just so glad they are still open. i don't know how they do it. it would suck so bad if we had to drive to the mall to see a movie. it's not close.

The Couch Trip in 1988, Liverpool ABC (aka Cannon). Four people.

there was one other person in the theatre when I saw a matinee of Le Roi De Coeur on Tuesday

amazing that this movie is able to replicate the feeling of sitting in a movie theater alone in the 80s

Cool World, probably '93? Me and a friend, and a couple who left halfway through. Also iirc I was a kid expecting a kind of Who Framed Roger Rabbit thing but it was wayyyy raunchier and a bit fucked up.

(btw I have no intention of watching or reading RP1 but am enjoying reading all the dunking on it)

Why?

Why am I enjoying seeing it slated? Because it's pretty funny. No deeper reason than that, I'm afraid.

what's funniest is the number of posters in this thread who will pay $14 to "hatewatch" this weekend

count them

“In all my early films, from ‘Jaws’ to ‘Raiders’ to ‘E.T.’, I was telling the story from a seat in the theater — from the audience, for the audience — and I haven’t done that in a long time,” Mr. Spielberg said. “I haven’t really done that since ‘Jurassic Park,’ and that was in the ’90s.”

Why not?

“Because I’m older,” he said, with a laugh. “Now I feel a deeper responsibility to tell stories that have some kind of social meaning.” He added: “If I have a choice between a movie that is 100 percent for the audience and a movie that says something about the past — that resonates for me or elevates a conversation that might have been forgotten, like with ‘Munich’ — I will always choose history over popular culture. Even with all the popcorn in a film like ‘Ready Player One,’ it does still have social meaning.”

Acceptance of oneself and others is a big theme in “Ready Player One.” Underpinning the action are classic Spielberg motifs (parental absence, the kids are smarter than the adults). But the movie also functions as a cautionary tale about virtual reality, a technology that continues to move into the mainstream, as tech companies introduce more affordably priced headsets, start-ups like Dreamscape Immersive (in which Mr. Spielberg is an investor) bring walk-through virtual-reality experiences to movie theaters, and Hollywood studios figure out how to capitalize on the medium.

“I was really interested in the technology that allows this alternate universe to exist — headgear, haptic response gloves, boots, full-body suits — because I really believe it’s going to be the superdrug of the future,” Mr. Spielberg said.

In one moment in “Ready Player One,” a child tends a burning stove while her mother, wearing a V.R. headset nearby, is lost in another world. People become addicted to the Oasis, lying and stealing in real life to satisfy their virtual obsession. Mr. Spielberg said that with the next generation, “after five minutes of conversation, there is 20 minutes of prayer.”

“And the prayer is into iPhones and Samsung devices and Galaxies and iPads,” he said....

“I read the book, and I said, ‘They’re going to need a younger director for this.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/movies/steven-spielberg-ready-player-one.html

Who has time for hatewatching. I only watch garbage that I'm reasonably sure I'll enjoy.

fwiw morbs some of us prospective hatewatchers use moviepass to make silicon valley venture capitalist jerks pay for our terrible movie choices. tho even with that i'm not sure i'll get around to this one, there's too much good stuff bouncing around nyc right now.

have you gotten to Death of Stalin, Doc?

I almost bought a ticket for that, but I'm worried I might be too stupid for it

It's extremely good

I guess "almost" is a strong word. "Pondered" buying a ticket.

Still, I'm pretty dumb.

no you aint

i want a whiney review of ready player one. 10,000 words in stereogum.

If you guys can Kickstart me $300, I will do 1000 words on Ready Player One

i'll just c/p all your posts on the zombies thread but replace bacon with "Akira"

trailer for DoS didn't do anything for me, n my film buff boss told me today it was okay at best (she'd liked his other films and was disappointed). so, dunno if i'll get around to it. idk there's just always so much good repertory to pick from. saw Metropolis on a giant screen with live score Sunday at the 175th street Palace, now that was a good time.

he's only made one other feature film

that is true but Lynchfans have started the trend of calling TV series "films"

Death of Stalin works as an extremely good and dark comedy, I can't imagine seeing Iannucci's other work and finding this considerably lesser (though I can imagine not liking Iannucci overall and not finding this any different.)

see the DoS thread for one who does

"If you guys can Kickstart me $300, I will do 1000 words on Ready Player One"

hmmm, i don't know. we only need 40 bucks and this guy will write a 750 word review.

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and he's irish so it will have a jaunty irish slant to it.