[CynicalContrarian]

However, when 'fighting' relies on fantasy & they simply forget to vote in reality.
Such marketing may be as much a hindrance as helpful to them.

[loremipsum]

I love how the trailer promotes these "gamers" as some kind of soldiers and fighters, just like one your typical soyboy gamer would like to identify himself as. He may be a virgin but he beats your ass in Overwatch.

It's so obviously blatant that the purpose of the film is to promote VR and try to subvert the millennials to get jacked into the elite's very-soon-to-be-built VR matrix system.
How anyone can not see that is mind boggling.
In the matrix they will feel like being somebody important and who knows, maybe the system feeds you enough chemicals to your brain that it actually feels better than real life.

[Easy_C]

Bet it's still better than Last Jedi.

[monster]

All my IRL friends who read the book loved it, said it was very entertaining. No, it's not high-falutin cerebral material, but it's fun sci-fi.

Spielberg is a good director for that fun stuff. All the reviews I read said it was a very fun and cool movie. I personally love good sci-fi stuff.

[PharaohRa]

Looks like a degenerate film. I will stick with Pepe memes influencing Generation Z thank you very much!

[Easy_C]

Ironically the best takedown of the film I've seen came from an SJW source:

" The narcissism of the book is palpable. It's almost as if the author said 'gee, wouldn't be great if the entire world revolved around the things I like!"

[BortimusPrime]

Here's some apt 80's nostalgia:

[debeguiled]

(03-31-2018 11:08 AM)Easy_C Wrote:  

Ironically the best takedown of the film I've seen came from an SJW source:

" The narcissism of the book is palpable. It's almost as if the author said 'gee, wouldn't be great if the entire world revolved around the things I like!"

Good analysis.

Just watched it.

A near meaningless collection of sly winks and references to pop culture tropes from the eighties.

It is like a tone deaf Spielberg decided he could connect with today's young by talking about the stuff he liked when he was their age.

Because we all like it when older people start sentences with "When I was your age. . ."

[Syberpunk]

(03-31-2018 03:17 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  

(03-31-2018 11:08 AM)Easy_C Wrote:  

Ironically the best takedown of the film I've seen came from an SJW source:

" The narcissism of the book is palpable. It's almost as if the author said 'gee, wouldn't be great if the entire world revolved around the things I like!"

Good analysis.

Just watched it.

A near meaningless collection of sly winks and references to pop culture tropes from the eighties.

It is like a tone deaf Spielberg decided he could connect with today's young by talking about the stuff he liked when he was their age.

Because we all like it when older people start sentences with "When I was your age. . ."

[CynicalContrarian]

‘Ready Player One’ Review: A Dumb, Shallow Exercise in Toxic Metrosexuality

The stakes in director Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One are pop-up ads. Seriously.
The year is 2045 and the world has dramatically changed over the last 27 years. To give you an idea of just how much, think back to how different the world was in 1991 (oh, wait, it’s so not different that Twin Peaks, Murphy Brown, 60 Minutes, Law & Order, and Roseanne are still on the air ). Anyway, overpopulation is such a problem that poor people are forced to live in something called The Stacks — a highly ineffective housing system where dozens of mobile homes are stacked one upon the other.
Within these stacks, humanity escapes their terrible circumstance through the virtual reality glasses that allow them to live fulltime in the OASIS, a seemingly limitless video game world where anything is possible.
Everything changed in the OASIS after the death of its creator James Halliday (Mark Rylance — doing an awesome impression of Dana Carvey’s Garth). Like a CGI’d Willy Wonka, Halliday remains in the OASIS where he hosts a contest that includes three golden tickets in the form of keys hidden somewhere within his vast creation. The lucky Charlie who finds those keys will win ownership of the OASIS.
Control of the OASIS means control of…
And now we come to one of the movie’s biggest problems. The stakes are nonsense. We are actually supposed to care that Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn), CEO of IOI (the second largest corporation in the world), wants to win control of the OASIS so he can make money by … placing … ads … in the … OASIS.
Let me boil Ready Player One down for you… It is as if the CEO of Netflix died and offered his company to whoever wins a Mortal Kombat tournament. Enter Bill Gates, who uses all of his corporate power to win the tournament so that he can interrupt all those Netflix shows with Microsoft ads.
Not exactly a Bwahahahaha...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2...ngly-dumb/

[raveking]

I just watched the movie twice, I must say it's Spielberg back in rare form. If you don't like references, or think that the 80s nostalgia pop culture geek references are to nerdy then chances are you won't like the movie. But the book was basically all of that except a little more nerdier, I enjoyed it for what it was, definitely better than Jew Wars.

[questor70]

I saw it and I am by far this film's target demo. Nobody is more GenX or more steeped in nostalgia. The problem is the film softballs its moral, which is that avoiding real-life problems only makes things worse.

Remember The Last Starfighter from 30+ years ago? That glorified the idea that hanging out in the arcades all day wasn't wasting your quarters but was building up skills which could be used for a good cause.

How about Galaxy Quest? Washed up actors that role-played sci-fi heroes were thrust into the task of having to do it for-real.

It's that emphasis on virtual rather than real stakes that is unsatisfying.

I also found that the nostalgia fell flat because never did I get the sense that any of the future generation's kids really loved any of the stuff they reference. At one point he says he loves Buckaroo Banzai but I have no reason why. Nostalgia is a love story just as much as a romance. It's just a love for an era, a set of works of pop art. I didn't feel the love.

Not only that, but people's worlds never extending beyond pop culture isn't even new. Bill & Ted pioneered the idea of people who know nothing except what can be cleaned from pop culture. More or less the same with Beavis and Butthead and Wayne's World. Wayne and Garth rocking to Bohemian Rhapsody in the Pacer.

Our culture absolutely IS obsessed with the past otherwise the top movies would not be reboots and retreads. Maybe it now has an SJW layer on top (like female Ghostbusters, or the female Oceans film I saw a trailer of) but it's still continuing to recycle past creations again and again. And it's not just fat black lesbians who are lost in all this stuff either. It's a topic worth exploring but RP1 doesn't really take it further than surface-level.

[CynicalContrarian]

(04-01-2018 01:32 PM)questor70 Wrote:  

...It's that emphasis on virtual rather than real stakes that is unsatisfying...

A similar situation with the TV series - Westworld.

The fuck do I care if a bunch of mere robots get abused ?

[Faust]

Are there teenagers these days who are big fans of Buckaroo Banzai? Of pac-man? Of fucking ZORK, that terrible, terrible adventure game?

Am I just horribly out of touch with today's youth?

[Easy_C]

Difference is that Beavis and Butthead portrayed them as pathetic losers who we're all laughing AT, not with.

[Rush87]

It's up there for worst movie name of all time.

[Mr. D]

Checked out the trailer again, it certainly hits all the markers for "the widest possible audience"-wooing.

- Epic battle with a dash of romance for the kids
- CGI for the anime aficionado/YouTube reviewers
- Pop references for the nerds ("Back to The Future" Delorean equipped with the "Knight Rider" scanner/lightbar? What's up with that? *ahem*)
- Hi-tech VR nonsense for the brainwashing.

Somebody clearly wants some dollar bills from the nerds, y'all. Without beating them up.


Oh, and found this:

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

Unbelievable that this movie is actually based on a novel. Just imagine this mind-numbing shit in literary form, complete with breathless descriptions of the protagonist pressing the A or D key in Zelda at the right moment.