SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

Skimming though the thread, Morbs already nailed what it was that I hated most about this movie (and there was a lot to hate): the whole VR premise equals a lack of stakes. Who gives a shit about whether the nerd kid or the corporate asshole gets control of the imaginary world?

Also, I can't believe anyone involved with this movie didn't have second thoughts about the whole "gunt" thing.

This is one of the worst things I've ever seen.

WHO TOLD YOU TO WATCH THIS??

tbf that sounds true to the source material, which is the worst book you’ll ever read

Morbid curiosity while scrolling through the shitpile of HBO Go.

I should have rewatched Man on Fire.

lmao i almost watched Man on Fire bc it’s free on HBO. I backed away bc it’s really well executed but such a gutpunch...

This is one of the worst things I've ever seen.

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, March 7, 2019 1:46 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was like Snow Crash except crowdsourced by the incel wing of a reddit for LARPers.

tbf that sounds true to the source material, which is the worst book you’ll ever read

Oh no, the book AFTER it is the worst book you'll ever read. Which, I don't know why I did, but I did.

Also, I can't believe anyone involved with this movie didn't have second thoughts about the whole "gunt" thing.

the main characters are hunting for easter eggs hidden in their shitty virtual world

easter egg hunters > 'gunters'

it's not good

Um.

Uh.

trust me, milo, there are many thousands of worse films.

How hard would you defend a film with a two-hour static close-up of someone making their anus talk if the credits read 'directed by Steven Spielberg'?

i dunno, who wrote the script

Tony Tushner

lensed, of course, by janusz kaminski

this strawmanning is beneath you

(well shit, of course it's not)

It was a question not an assertion.

But come on my dude. You'll happily drop an unwarranted stinkbomb in a Marvel movie thread but do the most circuitous of cakewalks to avoid criticizing a Steelburb flick which I'm sure most would agree is worse than the worst of all Marvel movies. It's a bit rich.

"most" can go fuck themselves, as usual

I believe my view of RP1 is somewhere above; I didn't care for it.

idly paging through the imdb trivia for this (which i do not recommend btw since it's almost entirely pointing out the nerd references which clog every frame) and apparently this was the first spielberg film since hook to get 70mm prints struck, which seems an extremely weird choice for a movie which has so little conventional photography in it

but you're right, a two-hour static close-up is DEFINITELY Spielbergian aesthetics reduced to its core

xp

I find it so weird this movie has such hate. It was fine.

xpost Okay then, a swooping John Williams-scored panorama of the talking anus with cgi monkeys occasionally crawling out of it and gazing with awe into the middle distance, are you happy?

Not just any monkey, but the monkey from Raiders of the Lost Ark, who gives the sig heil then does the moonwalk.

I find it so weird this movie has such hate. It was fine.

What ILX hates about this, in descending order:

Steven Spielberg stans
Steven Spielberg himself
Ernest Cline
probably a few other things
Ready Player One, the movie

Now that's how you strawman!

Granted, I knew nothing about the movie and watched it on a plane. So it didn't offend my honor in some way. It was fun.

Many XPs, past a certain point you just set up the camera, and if there's movement there's movement, you can't really predict.

(very OT, sorry, but message-query to eliza d. -- were you a pledger for my book or is it someone w/a similar former name? i need a land address to send it to -- apologies if not you)

I was not, sorry :(

ah ok, cheers anyway :)

It's what we've all been waiting for

We are excited to reveal the title and cover for Ernest Cline's follow up to Ready Player One! Introducing, Ready Player Two, coming 24/11/20 🤯

Pre-order your signed copy via @Waterstones now: https://t.co/SQ3gluaCLG pic.twitter.com/M3XcLXYdzZ

— Penguin Books UK (@PenguinUKBooks) July 8, 2020

He's still pushing effort and inventiveness into the red, I see.

excited to read READY PLAYER THIRTEEN in 2046

Like he couldn't even be bothered with a halfhearted 'Insert Quarter to Continue' subtitle. Direct and to the flaccid point.

Don't think we've covered why he is called Ernest. Who was naming their baby "Ernest" in 1972?

I hope this features a smorgasbord of flash-in-the-pan characters that were hot while he was writing the thing a couple years ago. Maybe have Sherlock Gnomes and the Angry Birds mixing it up with the kids from the Maze Runner series.

There should be a chapter where he's stuck in flapy bird, either he dies or the game goes on forever, what can he do? exciting

I kept at it.
I burned the midnight oil.
Did you know that Midnight Oil was an Australian band, with a 1987 hit titled "Beds Are Burning"?

Was he just padding out his word count at this point?

When I'm looking for Pat Cadigan books in the sci-fi section the Half Price Books in Austin reliably has 4,000 copies of Ready Player One like some giant genre tumor.

Did you know that Australia was a 2008 film starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman?

Did you know that the 1996 movie JACK featured Robin Williams (a MAN) playing a KID-MAN?

The Dead Heart is better anyway

um On Cinema already did this joke

don't act like On Cinema isn't biting ILX all the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnPZtftH1F8&feature=youtu.be&t=270

its gonna be in the Guinness Book of Movie Records

2020 jokes a little played already but seriously, just when you think it can’t possibly get worse

just watched this with my 9-year-old son, he has a hard time sitting through almost anything non-Minecraft-related, but he loved it. I thought it was fine for a kids' film, not something I would watch on my own but preferable to the superhero & pokemon features I've had to put up with this last 6 months.

how do the cultural references sit with a 9 year old, or did he not really care about that aspect?

Didn't find the references dominated in the way I expected, there were plenty there, but they were easy to explain or ignore, and anyone who knows about video games could understand the story anyway.