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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You misspelled "bludgeoning."
I just watched “The Room” (RiffTrax version) and “The Disaster Artist” almost back-to-back. That was a good time.
This Rifftrax song is one of the funniest things I ever heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMzoRxx38qg
The Room is just beyond awful.
“Regret today for having gone to see the movie BLACK PANTHER. Totally unreal, non message, just about a virtual world of make up ideas. Sounds like this movie is something equally crazy.”
You’re a RACIST
Love “Charlie Varrick.” Lots of good character actors supporting Matthau including John Vernon of “Animal House” and “Outlaw Josey Wales” fame.
Enjoyed the book.
While marketed to a wide audience, the story is for a very narrow target: those of us who came of age in the 1980s, who were immersed in pop geek culture (games primarily), and who instantly saw the promise of VR but were dismayed by the paltry technology of the time.
RPO brings all that into one story, and Spielberg has the pull to bring the otherwise untouchable intellectual property together on the big screen.
A tour de force that few will appreciate.
I stayed up late waiting for the spouse to come home and I almost changed the channel. Madigan was on before and I really liked it too. First time for that movie.
Matthau could be a real selfish jerk.
Sad to see that old biplane get beat up.
Joe Don Baker getting killed off balances it out some.
I keep toying with the idea of joining TCM backlot. TCM is maybe one of a few channels I like at all. The rest are the retro ones showing classic TV.
Lately I’ve been getting reacquainted with SOAP and Benson.
Yeah, but it’s an awesome awful b/c there was real intent to make a heartfelt film. It was incompetently executed on pretty much every single level, but the intended heart behind it and the bizareness of its creator and his not-quite-human writing and acting make it a real bad movie gem.
And “Munich” was a blatant rip-off of “Sword of Gideon”.
True.
Dies it Have homo promo? I liked ( not loved) the book and thought I might see it but not if there is lesbian promotion. Was there?
LOL!
Mao: an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with — by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.
Stalin is estimated to have killed between 20 million and up to 60 million of his own people through starvation and purges.
Hitler:
the range 11-17million. . 6 million of these were Jewish (close to two thirds of Europe’sJewish population) . Up to 270,000 were Roma/Sinti (Gypsies). In addition, Hitler targeted homosexuals, Communists and otherpolitical dissidents, most Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, dissidents,some Protestant pastors and Catholic priests, black people, thementally and physically disabled, and others. The figures includethe camps as well as the mass graves in the countryside, killingsin the street, organized mass shootings.
We never hear of Stalin’s purges nor Mao’s. Or Pol Pot or Castro’s murders of their own citizens. Today I’d doubt if one out of a thousand today, have heard of the Armenian Holocaust in the early twentieth century.
The 6 million Jewish people Hitler murdered was a disgusting example of race hate. But the news media and the entertainment industry seems to have blocked the other mass murders in an attempt to block them from history.
Munich is where they (Chamberlain et al).should have stopped Hitler
Or are you referring to the Olympics disaster? As I never heard of the sword of gideon before now I had to google it.
The original raid on Entebbe TV movie was pretty good. I like movies when people throw off the yokes of their oppressors and not march dutifully to their own demise. .
Geeee....
Or should it be “Yawwwwnnnn...”?
Spielberg hasn’t put together a decent film since ‘Jaws’. And that was just a re-booted high priced re-hash of any 1960s Roger Corman B-Movie!
Didn’t we see dreadful too close together slums like those noted as “Stacks” in ‘Soylent Green’, Walter Hill’s ‘Streets Of Fire’, ‘Alien Nation’ and FOX Television’s ‘Dark Angel’?
And executed much more convincingly for far less money?
Thought not.
Troma’s ‘Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD”!
*Shrugs*
I’ll still take any three DVD episodes from my collected first two B&W seasons the 1960s ABC series, ‘Combat!’ and be far more entertained than watching one trick pony. Saving Private Ryan’ again.
can you post a review for us so we wont waste our time? My nephew also invited me to see it..
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