Sounds like “1941” all over again.
If you really want to see some interesting movies that are out right now, I HIGHLY recommend both “Death of Stalin” and “Isle of Dogs”. Both are really fine examples of film making.
Sounds like the perfect movie for people who live glued to their cell phone and between tats and piercings experience their stoned lives mainly through their on line persona.
Ugh! I have to sit through this Tuesday night as one of my boys wanted to go. Half price, but still now dreading.
Well at least its not a Superhero movie
The book was excellent. RPO (book) is set in a dystopian future that at least does not involve zombies.
It does involve corrupt media institutions. Sounds familiar. Plus, there’s a 1980’s retro undercurrent.
My wife and I are looking forward to seeing RPO next week, since listening to the book last year driving to the eclipse in Oregon.
Sounds interesting, but only because I haunted video game parlors in the 80s and 90s. I’m still gonna #boycottHollywood and not see this, however.
I really liked it!
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 plan on seeing Paul
Toxic Metroeroticism, not a legitimate expression of natural sexuality.
I’m going to see it next week. Enjoyed the book, so here’s hoping it’s a faithful adaptation.
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.
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.
There are so many careful stories about this guy. That make Weinstein look like a choir boy. People are still afraid of powerful men in Hollywood who might not be decent humans.
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2017/11/todays-blind-items-long-time-coming.html
Elysium still stands out as one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. What was up with jodie foster’s made up accents?
Why do so many people think she’s a good actress?