Chapter 4
Everybody sat down and watched "The Never-ending Story".
Chapter 5
"The Never-ending Story" ended.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
by Ready Player 3, nobody will have watched the source films, just will absorb the media through Cline's stilted recollection of each flick
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
Jesus, you can't even properly dunk on this shit because Cline will just one-up you on the self-dunkage every single time.
I mean yeah when you make On Cinema look prescient it's a good sign that you fucked something up
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
Cline is the "We Didn't Start the Fire" of books
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
I was gonna say Presto Magix
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
The artists in Cline's dystopia only work in the media of Presto Magix and Colorforms and Etch-a-Sketch. Maybe Play-doh but only if they use like the Fun Factory. No off-book molding allowed.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Looks like the copyright action is happening to the tweets above.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
(by action I just mean the book images have been removed)
crying copyright seems kinda rich given the nature of the document in question
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
To put it mildly!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
(prints out complete transcripts of all Toys/Movies We Grew Up With episodes, shuffles pages, signs name at bottom)
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 November 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
the villain is going to be Captain Power, somehow
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 26 November 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
Ready Player 3: 30 Years Ago a Child Would Kick a Ball on the Street
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 26 November 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
so i hear that this book mentions Sword Art Online a bunch of times because its plot is ripped off of that series.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 30 November 2020 07:55 (three years ago) link
every time this gets bumped I have to watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBylNJQEbg
― frogbs, Saturday, 12 December 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
As stated upthread I watched this with the kids and didn't hate it. I also saw the new Space Jam with the kids and yeah, it wasn't great but they really liked it, so no regrets.not planning on watching Free Guy, with or without kids.
without question one of the worst things ive ever seen a theater crowd cheer for in my life pic.twitter.com/NYPsaHpKO1— josh lewis (@thejoshl) September 25, 2021
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
lol I saw that but I guess I’d already walked out by that scene, Jesus Christ
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
it has 80% on rotten tomatoes
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
love content and properties
― ✖, Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
The thing I remember most about that film is that Taika Waititi is fucking terrible in it
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
Ryan Reynolds is such an unlikable and shite actor and he reminds me of Michael Owen
― calzino, Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
after about a million cue drops w/ "whoa do you remember star wars? EPIC" things in the past decade i think even the theme music is rotten for me, the second the notes hit i was like "oh BROTHER, do you gotta"
― "liking" (Clay), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
xp Yeah he’s always awful should note that I did not deliberately see this, I bought a ticket to a “surprise film” and it turned out to be this non-movie, definitely got that losing scratchcard feeling when it sunk in
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
i honestly think there's a case that the worst movies of the modern era are the stupidest most banal empty insults of any period of anything
― look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
the laziest most ineptly shot custard pie fight is funnier than this void
― look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
For sure sign me up for a plague-era theater-of-literally-throwing-shit over this
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
I descended into the replies and saw this.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAJ5K69WEAUN_Jp.jpg
"genuine assets"
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
loud neurotypical extroverts that cheer and whoop in cinemas is bad enough in any context and that people do it at Tarantino/Marvel Shitverse/Joker/Stuff Like This screenings is even bloody more criminal!
― calzino, Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
some comments saying that this is a kids film, but they clearly say "shit" twice, just in this clip.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
"it has 80% on rotten tomatoes"
at least it was a 5% better movie than The Many Saints of Newark on RT shall be its epitaph
― calzino, Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
Free Guy was MUCH more entertaining than RP1
― Nhex, Saturday, 25 September 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link
oh man, I'd forgotten about this little portion of lockdown entertainment (re the sequel book)
― Sorry, but that is how I feel (Ste), Saturday, 25 September 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
that "he was on a nearby production so they just winged it" thing is just hollywood kayfabe bullshit right? they say that about literally every surprise cameo in every shitty movie
― ✖, Saturday, 25 September 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link
that "he was on a nearby production so they just winged it" thing is just hollywood kayfabe bullshit right?
Of course. That two seconds of footage likely took six months of lawyers going back and forth.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 25 September 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
so the guy from parks and recreation is captain America now?
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 September 2021 23:05 (three years ago) link
sorry, must sound like either an idiot or a prick saying that, I honestly didn't know though
yeah, paul schneider is captain america
― ✖, Saturday, 25 September 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
he's starlord fwiw
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 September 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
huh never heard of starlord before
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 September 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVJwYzHU4As-HXX?format=jpg&name=medium
I remember reading Doomlord when I was recovering from measles but this starlord sounds like a bit of a wanker
― calzino, Saturday, 25 September 2021 23:28 (three years ago) link
This board is full of annoying ppl
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 September 2021 23:42 (three years ago) link
yeah but at least there are plenty of consistently hilarious people as well
― calzino, Saturday, 25 September 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 19:34 (three years ago) link
when the movie trailer was released, the guy who created "the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny" did this
Here's the official trailer for READY PLAYER ONE: pic.twitter.com/0rQnUE5LdK— Neil Cicierega (@neilcic) July 22, 2017
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 21:29 (three years ago) link
I feel torn here, because I hate this kind of nerd-pandering stuff but I was also delighted by 'Big Daddy meets Dan Dare' on that Eagle cover above and I don't know if I could say hand on heart that it's all that different
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d9a2ebe4b090d1642480e9/1464364474580-GMSRHQNMRFXGFCOJNDJ6/image-asset.jpeg?format=2500w
― soref, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 22:27 (three years ago) link
The weird thing about this movie is that I watched this with my son some time last year and while I had the same kind of reaction as most people in this thread, my son enjoyed it quite a bit despite hardly getting any of the references, which has made me wonder if this movie is actually better if you don't know the references. Was my constant eye rolling distracting me from a decent action movie that was hidden underneath the pop references? Could this have been good if it referred to completely made up pop references? Maybe that would make it weird and interesting?
― silverfish, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
Oh dear at the Free Guy clip. I actually encouraged my 16yo to go and see this because, like any out of touch parent, I thought it might be her kind of thing. She gave it 1.5 stars on Letterboxd :) "It was random stuff crammed in for no reason". B-but I thought that's what you liked?
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
I mean if we're going to be comparing the two, Free Guy was much, much worse than Ready Player One and I regret suggesting that my son and I watch this while his younger sisters and mother watch the Paw Patrol movie, which was also probably better than Free Guy.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
Ugh, my son really really wants to see Free Guy and my wife loves Ryan Reynolds so I better brace myself for having to sit through it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
Could this have been good if it referred to completely made up pop references? Maybe that would make it weird and interesting?― silverfish, Wednesday, September 29, 2021 10:29 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― silverfish, Wednesday, September 29, 2021 10:29 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Imagine the level of creativity this would require!
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link