SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

“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.”

dude, war of the worlds was awesome. how quickly we forget.

That's half in that mold and half significantly darker -- ie, the scene where Cruise kills Tim Robbins offscreen.

love that movie. the last cruise movie i need to see in my life.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/03/28/all-steven-spielbergs-movies-including-ready-player-one-ranked/462933002/

this list is insane. the writer has not seen most of these films. Temple of Doom ranked #31 out of 32, War of the Worlds at #30, both below Crystal Skull(!) And...

26. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): Stanley Kubrick was originally supposed to direct, which would have yielded a much different movie than Spielberg's warm tale of a robot kid with the ability to love.

what the fuck.

18. Munich (2005): A poignant thriller spin is put on one of the sports world's darkest moments, recounting the Israel government's secret act of vengeance for the massacre of their athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

o rly

Speaking of which, I recently watched Friedkin's "Sorcerer" and I really feel like Spielberg must have screened that in preparation for "Munich" because even though they're very different movies the camera work feels similar in a lot of ways, especially in the opening "vignettes" of the former.

1. 1941 (1941, I assume): Spielberg's greatest triumph is this ambitious epic, which encapsulates all of the events that took place across the globe in the year 1941. Simply breathtaking.

i don't think i've ever seen the entire 1941.

2. Hook (1997): Spielberg stretches out of his comfort zone with this experimental concert film, which features every rendition of their hit song 'Hook' which was performed over the course of their 'I Love It When They Call Me Big Popper Tour'. Absolutely astonishing.

Sorry, the author meant to specify that it was a Blues Traveler concert film.

22. Amistad (1997): Maybe not Spielberg's best "important" film but it's definitely one that's effective in conveying the historical significance of Africans taking over a slave ship heading to the USA circa 1839 and the ensuing legal fight.

It definitely conveys the significance of its plot and is a movie.

why the hell a listicle from USAT of all places?

1941 is much funnier and smarter than The Color Purple

also WotW is clearly one of the 9/11 trilogy

hey, we're in Recapitulate the Auteur's Career (Again) mode!

I was really close to pitching a Tomb Raider/Assassin's Creed crossover movie to the studio until I realized they're from different game companies/movie companies :(

I was hoping for more challops from the USA Today list! The writing is bad and has some movies completely in the wrong order, but it comes across as just dumb.

Needs more Armond-style taunting of the reader

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Nice to have confirmation that Crystal Skull was not made with the audience in mind

again i think Spiel considers it a hired-by-George movie

we should request a zing touch feature that removes referrer links when you paste

O BOI pic.twitter.com/42hGQ80GUc

— Lindsay Ellis (@thelindsayellis) March 29, 2018

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— Lindsay Ellis (@thelindsayellis) March 29, 2018

$17.50, Christ.

as she responded to someone else asking about the ticket price

welcome to LA https://t.co/UfMhBtDK6u

— Lindsay Ellis (@thelindsayellis) March 29, 2018

Movies should be cheaper in LA, they don’t have to get shipped as far

twitter gives a checkmark to literally anybody, huh. from that same person's retweets:

‘Get a personality??’ Um excuse me, I’ve ALREADY told you which Intellectual Properties I like and don’t like

— Bill Corbett (@BillCorbett) March 29, 2018

WHY DO HIPSTER CRITICS AND MEDIA OBSESSED PPL THINK THEY ARE ABOVE THIS? YOU DO THIS. YOU ARE THIS. YOU ARE NOT IN SOME OTHER CATEGORY FROM THIS. YOU ARE ACTUALLY MORE IN THIS CATEGORY THAN EVERYBODY ELSE.

anyway.. this movie's been getting great reviews!

quick question, do you actually know who bill corbett and/or lindsay ellis is

corbett yes, ellis... her twitter profile says she makes youtube videos about disney movies?

sleepingbag otm

Yup.

Not that I expect it to be in Cline's head, but The Oasis def has a Criterion collectors' planet somewhere.

Lindsay Ellis is great. probably the best film crit i've seen in the youtube era. no idea what the capslock yelling is about. she's been reading through the book and now she's reviewing the movie. if she is fine w it i may give this a shot yet.

alm0nd: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/movie-review-ready-player-one-spielberg-pleasing-escapism/

Obviously, don't click on it or read it. Just know that he's off somewhere yelling into a void.

WHY DO HIPSTER CRITICS AND MEDIA OBSESSED PPL THINK THEY ARE ABOVE THIS?

why do you think this is a joke that involves no self-reflection?

I had a sad chuckle and the explained to my coworker why I like the local coffee chain more than Starbucks

Cline also wrote the script for the charmingly innocent, unjustly overlooked 2009 film Fanboys

lol classic Armond

sleepingbag projects a lack of self-reflection onto others because:

the internet is often about projecting onto others

Lindsay Ellis is great. probably the best film crit i've seen in the youtube era.

Yeah, I just started watching her stuff. Her latest video on The Hobbit is really good.

Lindsay Ellis is great. probably the best film crit i've seen in the youtube era.

Yeah, I just started watching her stuff.

Intrigued.

Her latest video on The Hobbit is really good.

Well that passed.

maria and the kids are seeing this tonight. i will clean records instead. kinda want to see pacific rim a little. but not much.

oh god i read that nerd porn poem that the RPO guy wrote during his slam poetry days after i saw a link for it and now i think he should just be banned from everything forever.

The AO Scott review is good. It saves its most pointed skewering for those who would call this SADDO: THE MOVIE.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/movies/ready-player-one-review-steven-spielberg.html

Anxiously anticipating the guarded moral quandary of your positive review, Morbs.

you may have a long wait

"Spielberg is awesome! You're all idiots! No, I'm not planning on actually seeing the movie, why? Here's another link that proves that Spielberg is awesome and you're all idiots!"

Got out of seeing this

I'll never pay to see this, but it's been interesting listening to YTers describe differences from book to film. In the film, evidently named characters aren't killed off IRL, with their avatars frozen, as in the book. For a plot with so little at stake (does a different corporation own the Oasis, or some Midwest shutin), this kind of plot shift seems fatal to the stakes...

I'll probably see this at some point, I hope it's actually good. i can see my issue being less w/pop culture-centric bullshit and more about the fact that i don't really find movies with stories centered around virtual reality to be very compelling.

I would go to see this if it were a distopian film about a future where the suffocating force of ironic and sincere nostalgia coupled with the terrified conservatism of cultural industries had led to an endless cycle of regurgitated references with all original ideas consigned to oh hold on this has already happened hasn't it

Bingo.

VR can be compelling, but the stakes can't be within the VR. We had a spate of VR films in the 90s (Lawnmower Man, Strange Days, Existenz, The Thirteenth Floor, oh yeah, The Matrix). In all of them action within the VR had effects on the real world of the fictions. In RP1, the stake is whether some "saddo" or corporation owns a VR. It just strikes me a rather difficult screenwriting task, especially if the corporation isn't so clearly evil it's killing characters.

somehow I never saw The Thirteenth Floor but, predictably, love the hell out of eXistenZ and will rep for Lawnmower Man

somehow Lawnmower Man was on broadcast tv (?) and I recorded it on VHS and rewatched it a bunch

Someone should make a movie about adventures in a VR world where we never actually see the VR world, just the people with their helmets on, twitching and lurching and yelping at who even knows what.

Better than anything in the book.

so's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkPU6P9OJv4&t=88s