I'm still pissed that he didn't make The Meg (since that's the actual title now). I can only imagine what he would have done with giant shark madness ... and Jason Statham.
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baz's visual excess was kinda....a lot for most of the movie, but i thought it worked for that final power-up sequence where nick finally goes Great Gatsby when leo gets murdered
Dunkirk will always be a gap for me in Nolan's filmography.
I just can't do war movies.
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That admittedly looks pretty promising
But I'm sure it will end the same way that every other Eli Roth movie does
With me exclaiming, "Okay, but what was the goddamn point?"
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i still haven't seen following or insomnia, but I've at least "liked a lot" all of his stuff and outright love the prestige, interstellar, dark knight, inception
the only other director that comes immediately to mind with a filmography of more than a couple is guillermo del toro. haven't seen mimic or the devil's backbone but i think that's it? and it's the same "really enjoyed" opinion on most of his
the wachowskis come close but i haven't seen bound and was pretty meh on jupiter ascending
Yeah I still need to see Bound and Jupiter Ascending (or Sense8 actually). But I just saw Cloud Atlas yesterday and loved it. So I'm pretty firmly in their camp.
hell yeah to cloud atlas
i liked plenty of individual pieces of Jupiter and really do wish it amounted to more for me, i know some here are quite fond of it. it's not the worst but their stories really do move me so effectively when they're working that the lack of that is pretty stark
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that movie was a book!
I read part of it when I was a boy, I wasn't very into it
long story short, there's clocks in the walls of a house and it's a problem
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Im becoming increasingly annoyed everytime a RPO trailer is on because of the back to the future chime at the end.
It's the icing on the nostalgia cake of this movie that screams "hey remember that thing? This movie has that!"
As much as Im not a south park fan anymore, they were pretty spot on with the 'member berries.
The central concept behind ready player one and back to the future are similar, except for different generations.
Of all the empty references in ready player one, this is perhaps the least empty
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I imagine if Funko Pop made a movie, it would be pretty close to RPO.
I mean
Yeah?
Funko just makes collectible figures, they're like any other action figure/statue/whatever company. They just have such a low price point and are fairly popular so they can get basically any license.
RPO’s constant reference stuff is a little obnoxious, but the thing that actually worries me about it is the protagonist being a gatekeepy toxic nerd and that the book seems to imply that he is correct to act as such.
I still assume I’ll see the movie because I have friends who want to. I hope that Spielberg has at least something to say about this aspect of the story.
Im becoming increasingly annoyed everytime a RPO trailer is on because of the back to the future chime at the end.
It's the icing on the nostalgia cake of this movie that screams "hey remember that thing? This movie has that!"
As much as Im not a south park fan anymore, they were pretty spot on with the 'member berries.
The central concept behind ready player one and back to the future are similar, except for different generations.
Of all the empty references in ready player one, this is perhaps the least empty
What? How?
If I were to guess, I would say that both feature uncritical nostalgia for the past.
Only BttF is focused on a time period, whereas RPO is focused on media.
BTTF, having nuance, was a ton more nuanced, but a major theme of the first movie was "hey, the 50s were cool too!" Both media tried to revive appreciation for the era of a previous generation and included callbacks for the people that actually lived it. Unlike Pleasantville, they did not delve into negative commentary of their culture.
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
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My sisters and I were wandering around a bookshop the other day, when my eldest sister saw the book of Ready Player One on the shelf - she said "Oh look it's the book for that movie that's coming out soon!" to which I replied "I wouldn't buy that if I were you, Cline is a hack". She said "Oh, is he a bad writer?", I replied "just try reading a couple of pages and see". She opened the book to the page where he describes the character's DeLorean with the Ghostbusters sticker on the door and said "that's kind of shit, yeah." I mentioned how when the book got popular and sold a lot of copies, he bought a DeLorean and had it turned into the car described in the book and she put the book back on the shelf and walked away.
Ernest Cline is a Bad Writer, and he has very Typical Nerd ideas of How To Date.
Woody Allen has an Oscar, I think?
I'm glad Cline got his DeLorean, and I'm glad he likes things that aren't actively harmful to the humans around him (hopefully). I'm glad the things he likes are bringing him prosperity; I'm sitting in an office, wishing I could be at home painting plastic mans.
Ernest Cline is a Bad Writer, and he has very Typical Nerd ideas of How To Date.
Woody Allen has an Oscar, I think?
I'm glad Cline got his DeLorean, and I'm glad he likes things that aren't actively harmful to the humans around him (hopefully). I'm glad the things he likes are bringing him prosperity; I'm sitting in an office, wishing I could be at home painting plastic mans.
I mean he isn't woody Allen
But his shit does propagate gatekeeping shotty nerd culture
The way Earnest Cline portrays "typical nerd" behavior in his writing gives me the impression that he thinks these toxic behaviors are okay and problem represents them and I am not glad that he is being rewarded for that.
Toxic masculinity and media gatekeeping are absolutely harmful behaviors.
I don't see what Woody Allen has to do with any of this
The way Earnest Cline portrays "typical nerd" behavior in his writing gives me the impression that he thinks these toxic behaviors are okay and problem represents them and I am not glad that he is being rewarded for that.
Toxic masculinity and media gatekeeping are absolutely harmful behaviors.
I don't see what Woody Allen has to do with any of this
Its one of those "he's not as bad as this other guy" things
The way Earnest Cline portrays "typical nerd" behavior in his writing gives me the impression that he thinks these toxic behaviors are okay and problem represents them and I am not glad that he is being rewarded for that.
Toxic masculinity and media gatekeeping are absolutely harmful behaviors.
I don't see what Woody Allen has to do with any of this
Its one of those "he's not as bad as this other guy" things
Right, I don't see why the other guy has anything to do with this
I think that Ernest Cline is a product of a subculture with some shitty aspects that funhouse-mirror-reflect the same aspects in wider culture, and that he's not actually a particularly terrible specimen? He's not some fucking unique grendel that sprung into being and fucked the world sideways, or has done a particularly egregious thing.
That last is the reason I bring up Actual Monster Woody Allen. Possibly an oblique angle on that, I'll admit.
Cline is a nerd who is Very Nerd.
I can get behind criticizing his very juvenile views on romance.
The 'gatekeeping' thing seems like making a mountain out of a molehill in the middle of a field nobody actually gives a fuck about anyway.
So incredibly much of film and fiction in general does this gatekeeping with all kinds of shit, that it's really weird to zero in on it here while we've ignored it elsewhere for decades.
I get holding nerd culture to a higher standard because it's ours and we'd like to be Bigger Than That, but... damn, that's tiring every fuckin time a movie with robots comes out.
So incredibly much of film and fiction in general does this gatekeeping with all kinds of shit, that it's really weird to zero in on it here while we've ignored it elsewhere for decades.
That is a bad reason to ignore an instance of gatekeeping. People have done terrible things for decades before realizing it was wrong and zeroing in on it in the fields they are active in.
Cline is an asshole but assholes are not notably rare, yes, I'll agree with that
Whether he's a more or less egregious example of an asshole... well he has a pedestal because of this movie, his name and his whole deal is out there, and his whole deal is pretty shitty, so it makes sense that people will cut into him. You write some transphobic shit and make a load of money of that then you deserve to get it in the neck for it. I ain't going to weep for him.
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Yeah Cline's not getting torn into because he's a particularly extreme example. He's getting torn into because he's a notable and relevant one. When there's a lot of talk about something shitty, that's the exact right time to be shouting "Hey this is shitty!"
That said I do think it's kind of weird that we spend a lot of time talking about how shitty Ernest Cline is, and how much we don't care about his stupid movie etc
Thousands of words spent talking about how we aren't going to see RPO, and how crap the book is etc. At one point people were just repeatedly quoting excerpts from it. Like, okay we get it, it sucks. We all know.
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baz's visual excess was kinda....a lot for most of the movie, but i thought it worked for that final power-up sequence where nick finally goes Great Gatsby when leo gets murdered
I'll give it a shot if it gets good reviews
I just can't do war movies.
But I'm sure it will end the same way that every other Eli Roth movie does
With me exclaiming, "Okay, but what was the goddamn point?"
hell yeah to cloud atlas
i liked plenty of individual pieces of Jupiter and really do wish it amounted to more for me, i know some here are quite fond of it. it's not the worst but their stories really do move me so effectively when they're working that the lack of that is pretty stark
I read part of it when I was a boy, I wasn't very into it
long story short, there's clocks in the walls of a house and it's a problem
ahh!!!!
It's the icing on the nostalgia cake of this movie that screams "hey remember that thing? This movie has that!"
As much as Im not a south park fan anymore, they were pretty spot on with the 'member berries.
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The central concept behind ready player one and back to the future are similar, except for different generations.
Of all the empty references in ready player one, this is perhaps the least empty
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
What? How?
If I were to guess, I would say that both feature uncritical nostalgia for the past.
Only BttF is focused on a time period, whereas RPO is focused on media.
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Yeah?
Funko just makes collectible figures, they're like any other action figure/statue/whatever company. They just have such a low price point and are fairly popular so they can get basically any license.
I still assume I’ll see the movie because I have friends who want to. I hope that Spielberg has at least something to say about this aspect of the story.
BTTF, having nuance, was a ton more nuanced, but a major theme of the first movie was "hey, the 50s were cool too!" Both media tried to revive appreciation for the era of a previous generation and included callbacks for the people that actually lived it. Unlike Pleasantville, they did not delve into negative commentary of their culture.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I thought this was a nice writeup that is actually a pretty fair take on both the original reception and how we look back on it now.
Ernest Cline is a Bad Writer, and he has very Typical Nerd ideas of How To Date.
Woody Allen has an Oscar, I think?
I'm glad Cline got his DeLorean, and I'm glad he likes things that aren't actively harmful to the humans around him (hopefully). I'm glad the things he likes are bringing him prosperity; I'm sitting in an office, wishing I could be at home painting plastic mans.
Jesus. That was just lazy writing.
I mean he isn't woody Allen
But his shit does propagate gatekeeping shotty nerd culture
Toxic masculinity and media gatekeeping are absolutely harmful behaviors.
I don't see what Woody Allen has to do with any of this
Its one of those "he's not as bad as this other guy" things
Right, I don't see why the other guy has anything to do with this
That last is the reason I bring up Actual Monster Woody Allen. Possibly an oblique angle on that, I'll admit.
Cline is a nerd who is Very Nerd.
I can get behind criticizing his very juvenile views on romance.
The 'gatekeeping' thing seems like making a mountain out of a molehill in the middle of a field nobody actually gives a fuck about anyway.
So incredibly much of film and fiction in general does this gatekeeping with all kinds of shit, that it's really weird to zero in on it here while we've ignored it elsewhere for decades.
I get holding nerd culture to a higher standard because it's ours and we'd like to be Bigger Than That, but... damn, that's tiring every fuckin time a movie with robots comes out.
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I mean first of all we aren't
but also thats a really bad reason to not do it
Whether he's a more or less egregious example of an asshole... well he has a pedestal because of this movie, his name and his whole deal is out there, and his whole deal is pretty shitty, so it makes sense that people will cut into him. You write some transphobic shit and make a load of money of that then you deserve to get it in the neck for it. I ain't going to weep for him.
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Thousands of words spent talking about how we aren't going to see RPO, and how crap the book is etc. At one point people were just repeatedly quoting excerpts from it. Like, okay we get it, it sucks. We all know.