SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

It's not hard to believe at all that there are people who will love this movie for what it is and tries to be. The book itself was a smashing success, right?
― Nhex, Monday, April 9, 2018 7:23 AM

I don't know, but is nice to hope this is the beginning of the end and people are just tired of it, maybe people who might have even liked the book at the time.
I am curious about kids who don't know the references but might use it as a guide. What will they like? Will they find Buckaroo Banzai as underwhelming as I did?

Did you see it for Olivia Cooke?

http://372pages.com/episode-17-well-do-it-live-or-will-we

A book review pod of movie guys reviews the movie of the book.

Film Comment weighs in: https://www.filmcomment.com/article/le-cinema-du-glut/

The recycling of proven formulas in popular cinema has been with us for as long as a pop cinema has existed—Spielberg’s Indiana Jones, to take one example, is the direct offspring of the kid’s adventure serials of the 1930s and ’40s—but Ready Player One’s hotchpotch accumulation of the detritus of recognizable pop iconography is something different. Like few feature films before it, Spielberg’s movie exemplifies an aesthetic of pop-culture decoupage that has developed, in recognizably kindred forms, across a wide range of media, one that has been increasingly prevalent through the early years of the 21st century. It is that of the junk-pile jumble of accumulated mass-manufactured character properties at the end of pop history—the aesthetic of glut.

i saw a cam of this. it was decent but exceedingly dumb and low aiming but now i feel kind of guilty for ragging on it, it's like picking on an episode of Muppet Babies.

the part where they are in the dance hall and he snaps his fingers and the Saturday Night Fever music comes on to prove he is a dance master was like a parody of a bad 90s cartoon and made me feel extremely embarrassed for all involved, most of all, myself.

Wrinkle in Time deserves a pass, not this deeply cynical "make america 80s again" exercise in ghoulishness

Watched this. No signs of emotion throughout - not even cliched Spielbergian emotional button-pushing. Probably his coldest ever film. It really felt like it was made by a computer.

utterly forgettable

just The Virtual Reality Goonies

wait, did you finally see it? how many people in the theater with you?

i never did go although "virtual reality goonies" is a more appealing sales pitch than most of the "imagine your favorite IP, all jammed in a blender!" ledes

I accept this being called the worst thing he directed that I saw since ... Jurassic Park 2?

It was the next-to-last night at the Lincoln Square, I think, there were at least a couple dozen there.

I liked some of the image juggling and the henchman with the sore neck, but ultimately, I don't give a shit in VR movies cuz -- I don't get it, it's not real! Who cares? It's not worse than the DiCaprio-Nolan thing.

or Her. :D

Oh, it's definitely worse than both of those ffs.

sez you

Oh now HERE we go.

Please tell us more movies that are worse than Saddo, Morbs. Please.

I cannot tell you how much I've been waiting for this day.

how is there still not a decent torrent of this movie out there yet, that's what i wanna know

Found one for u

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hz1UaEVyoo

meaningless w/out a big screen (and disposable there)

bye bye!

a spirited defence from ilx's premier spielbergologist

That better be a back-of-the-box pull quote.

I think I would literally die if a Blu-ray review blurb ended with 'bye bye!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19TBzy81Mac

morbs, by my tally you posted to this thread 75 times before seeing the film, mostly chiding us for having opinions on it or its source material before seeing what it would be in the hands of spielberg, not saying that means you now owe us a longform review or a thoroughgoing engagement with the substance of the preceding discussion but perhaps keep this in mind for the next "anticipating" thread

Morbs gonna Morbs

tons of posts by everyone b4 the film was released

as usual the film itself did not dominate the discussion, but rather Spielberg is the Worst Ever (ilx gonna ilx)

Truth

Absolutely no one itt thread said Spielberg is the worst ever. As you well know.

But he totally is.

morbz if I promise to have low self esteem will you admit this movie eats ass?

Well, Spielberg is the second worst, after (barf) black and white.

love you morbs but have noooo idea how you got "spielberg is the worst ever" from this thread, p. sure "cline is the worst ever" followed by "fanboys are the worst ever" were the through-lines but maybe i missed some posts in there

Spielberg isn't interesting enough to be the worst ever.

as usual the film itself did not dominate the discussion, but rather Spielberg is the Worst Ever (ilx gonna ilx)

lol waht

iirc the tenor of the thread was more along the lines of 'why is spielberg lowering himself to adapting a truly execrable book'

i love you too Doc, and that's the important thing, as this film taught us.

did it though? did.. it?

we may never know

This movie (or at least the poster) taught me that the human leg is actually much longer than I realized.

i like spielberg :)

Me too. I was just joking upthread. Star Wars are two of my favorite movies ever.

Sorry, I meant Star Wars and More Star Wars.

sending King Kong and the Iron Giant after you

Ultraman gets shut out yet again

people don't like jaws????

the movie or the mandible?

the movie silly billy

Saying that Jaws is far and away Spielberg's best film seems to annoy the Spielbergists here, but it is, and nothing else he's directed has come close. Spielberg obv deserves a lot of the credit for Jaws, but I also think the historical moment - Watergate, the end of Viet Nam - the intensity of the production, and the input of Milius and Shaw, all factor in very heavily too.

You're gonna need bigger bait.

The shark roars like a lion in Jaws 4. I don't see how you can top that, really.

e.t. and jurassic park are good movies

Empire of the Jaws was the best Jaws G Ballard adaptation