SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

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

fail, but i stand by it

Jenny Nicholson did the same joke.

https://youtu.be/bWPMJwHrWFU

unperson if u took head out of ass u might understand i'm no S.S. worshipper

but that's not gonna happen

i recommend watching Empire of the Sun this weekend

yeah always kinda figured u weren't into the S.S.

Wasn’t going to see this (hated what I read of the book) but a friend invited me and I have MoviePass so why not.

It’s...not good! There were certain points that felt so close to satire that I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. This is the kind of movie where the female lead’s avatar in the virtual reality world is LITERALLY a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

Occasionally a bit of Spielbergian flair shines through but it’s ultimately the big loud computer fart you’d expect it to be.

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

It's a weirdly conflicted review. Scott seems loath to simply call RPO a bad movie, but his dissatisfaction is nonetheless evident. In conveying it, he repeats familiar complaints about the source material while sneering haughtily down at the "the toy guns of social media and pop-up kulturkritik" who made them first.

Coupled with the closing paragraphs, the early line about Spielberg being "the only person who could have made this movie and the last person who should have been allowed near the material" seems to contain the germ of a more substantial and interesting critique. I get the impression that Scott's admiration prevented him from fleshing it out, which seems a shame.

otm. I thought something similar reading that.

Like I said about an earlier review, major critics (the few that are left) are either forbidden or afraid to shit on this thing in the way it clearly deserves. Because it's Spielberg. Because it's likely one of the biggest-budget movies of the year. Because if they do the Comments Section will come for them.

i'm no S.S. worshipper

Dude, your first post on this thread calls him "the best American filmmaker of the last 40 years" and you haven't gotten any less worshipful since.

yeah always kinda figured u weren't into the S.S.

he does want ppl to watch a WWII movie this weekend though

Dude, your first post on this thread calls him "the best American filmmaker of the last 40 years" and you haven't gotten any less worshipful since.

Which puts him behind at least 4 or 5 Iranian filmmakers from the same time period. Get with it.

I also gave The BFG, like, 6/10, so my correct evaluation of his status does not preclude critical thinking.

There were certain points that felt so close to satire that I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

Everything I've read about this indicates that satire is part of the recipe, or do you think this beyond him?

I hope it flops like Ishtar

― El Tomboto, Saturday, July 22, 2017 10:55 PM

you gonna lose, sirrah

You,the Academy,and Dawson off of Dawson's Creek

Lol phone's not displaying text well. Anyway those're the ppl I've read/seen calling SS "great".

Spielberg honestly is pretty great for someone who semi-frequently serves up a helping of hot trash. The hits hit hard enough that I'm willing to forgive his occasional severe lapses in judgment.

Like I'm sure his version of RPO is among the best that could've existed. It just shouldn't exist.

Everything I've read about this indicates that satire is part of the recipe, or do you think this beyond him?

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, March 31, 2018 12:14 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

could you stop trying to argue with people who’ve seen the movie