Posted on 03/31/2018 3:42:27 PM PDT by ethom
Spielberg’s only achievement is making a sci-fi movie dumber than Elysium, but that Matt Damon dud at least offered some real stakes and decent world building. The OASIS is a smoldering garbage pile of CGI, a frenetic video game filled with pops of pop culture.
If that is not exhausting enough, there are no rules in the OASIS, and therefore there is no tension. People conjure up whatever weapons they need, gravity is not an issue, and the worst that can happen is a Game Over — so, you know, you go right back in.
If recognizing RoboCop gives you a sense of self-satisfaction unavailable to you in mom’s basement, this movie is for you. For the rest of us, the entire experience is numbing and uninvolving, like watching a middle-aged man play a video game for 140 minutes.
Without giving anything away, the movie’s last few minutes might be the most morally bankrupt ever put on film.
Ready Player One is nothing less than an exercise in toxic metrosexuality.
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I enjoyed the movie. it was pure fluff but fluff can be fun. Probably enjoyed it because all the cultural references were from my childhood. if you go into the movie looking for deep meaning you are not going to find it but if you are a grown up 52 year old nerdy old school geek who in there youth was the kid who played Nintendo 2600 and remembers 8 bit video compilers for video games and movies like fast time at rodomont high and other john highs movies were what you grew up on you might enjoy it. just don’t look for any deep philosophic message because about the deepest it goes is that maybe you should live in the real world not on line.
I’ll take a replay of Samurai Cop or something else just as awful first.
A good movie I saw on TCM a couple of weeks ago was called Charlie Verrick. It was a crime drama with Walter Matthau.
It had a great scene of Joe Don Baker getting blown sky high.
I plan on seeing Paul
Hahrrywood!
Can you expand on your review of Black Panther? Other freepers have said good things about it...that the racialized hype was not reflective of film’s substance...?
Toxic Metroeroticism, not a legitimate expression of natural sexuality.
I know folks found it ironic that Wakanda has border walls and very strict immigration policies.
you said: Sounds like “1941” all over again.
I say: Actually, I saw 1941 again a couple of years ago and it was nowhere near as bad as I remembered it. I think that may be because movies today suck so much that even a bad movie from the late ‘70’s seems good!
You just failed the imposter test…
Just saw it this afternoon and it was excellent.
indeed!
Didn’t see it. The idea of another take on people walking morosely into cattle cars didn’t sound like an entertaining night out.
Now actual WW 2 battles like Private Ryan where men fought for their lives? Now that was a Spielberg movie.
Samurai Cop
I think I watched the first 5 minutes. Very bad cinema. It needed the full MST3000 treatment, not just Rifftrax.
I’m going to see it next week. Enjoyed the book, so here’s hoping it’s a faithful adaptation.
sooy every one. I failed at checking my spelling to
There was more to Schindler's List than that.
Great to know
Paul’s story so resonates with me. His faithfulness and surety leave me breathless
sorry about typos
LOL...I love that line.
Saw it with the family yesterday. Nolte’s not wrong, but I didn’t outright hate it as much as he did. It was OK. I’ve seen far worse movies, but I’ve also seen MUCH better.
What’s funny is that the stakes in the book aren’t really any greater. IOI is looking to take over the OASIS and implement a monthly access charge. That’s pretty much it.
The book was all about pop culture references from the ‘70s through the ‘90s, and the movie is pretty similar, though the changes made were pretty necessary to make it watchable. The end of the movie really doesn’t make much sense, either, but at least it’s more in-line with the story’s theme than the book...barely.
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