Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg, March 30, 2018) Movie • Page 6

So you didn’t read it. You should before making comments about what it does or doesn’t do.

 

When you're not prejudging the movie at all.

 

"Sorry if you tried reading this book but couldn't get into it you're not allowed to talk about this movie" is everything that worries me about this movie summed up in a nutshell. The gatekeeping will be off the charts.

 

I’m judging the marketing.

But whatever. The last time you told me I wasn’t going to like a movie, I did. I hope that’s the case this time, too.

 

If you didn't like the book, you won't like the movie. And, it would make sense to just not see it. It's pretty obvious what the movie is and what the story is, we know who wrote and worked on the script (you can even read the entire thing online!). I don't understanding walking into an In-N-Out and complaining to everyone eating there about how you don't like hamburgers.

 

I explained why I want to see the movie despite not feeling the book.

 

And, I’ve read the script. It’s by the author with Penn. It’s not a departure from the book.

 

Scripts change when they get made. Directors change things and cut things and put in new things and focus on different things. Sometimes they change a lot, sometimes not much. But again, I am trusting Spielberg, one of my favorite filmmakers of all time, to make something worthwhile, despite the factors that would otherwise not interest me.

 

If your entire premise and hope for why you think you'll like a movie that has a script you won't like (and now multiple trailers showing it to be very much like the script and book you don't like) is "I hope the director changed enough of it" ... uh ... ok. Good luck.

 

The entire premise and hope for it being a good movie is because Steven Spielberg is directing it. Multiple people have explained that clearly already.

 

And they said they hope he can make it different than the source material. Which is why that’s what I’m discussing. Guess that wasn’t clear to you.

I don’t know why you keep injecting yourself in conversations with me, does it ever end well for you?

 

End well? What does that even mean? This is a conversation about movies.

Steven Spielberg is the most important mainstream American filmmaker over the last forty-plus years. While he has made some bad films, his track record and the number of classic films he has made makes it worth seeing his new films even if the source material and the trailers are questionable. Until the film has been seen, it is an unknown what the value is.

 

Stop quoting me in threads if you want to stay on the website. I do not like you. I do not want to talk to you.

 

You just simply cannot comprehend when people have different approaches or understandings of art. It’s absurd watching you attempt to tear people down for not seeing things exactly the way you do.

 

If you think that’s what “hey I’ve read the script and it’s like the book you don’t like” means then uh ok whatever.

 

You don’t seem to understand the role of a director or the auteur theory

 

You don’t seem to understand what I wrote. If you think this movie is going to change the central premise of the story, and your big issues with the book are the story, you’re going to be very disappointed. Cause it doesn’t. If you don’t like nostalgia nerd shit like the book, the movie isn’t gonna all of a sudden make you like that. That’s what the movie is.

 

My thoughts summed up in a tweet, specifically the last sentence:

 

Anyway this is one of my most anticipated of the year because I enjoy the book, I love Spielberg, and I love pretty much every actor in this thing. Can’t wait to see it.

 

Hate boner sums it up.

 

The entire book is a critique of capitalism and the non-stop drive for wealth it inspires hidden behind a thick pouring of nerd nostalgia. So I think the subversive plot y’all are hoping it has IS the plot it already has.

 

yeah I really like the posters I think it's a fun idea that works for the movie, however, the matrix one does look like garbage haha

 

^ People whose taste I trust like the book even though I found it grating, which is another point I brought up for why I’d see it.

But I also think that a celebration and indulgence of the white male nerd who gets to be the best at everything in a post-Gamer Gate, post-Last Jedi backlash, post-female Ghostbusters backlash, post-whatever other white male nerd controversy you want to cite climate, reads less playful or inspiring than the marketing assumes. I think that drives at least some of the hesitance or skepticism we’re seeing.

 

Yeah honestly I’ve been looking for a word to describe the kind of intense gleeful dogpiling we see online these days, especially from film Twitter, and “hate boner” really cuts right to the core of it.

 

Yeah I mean the photoshop on some of them could be better but the vitriol has been almost entirely against their very existence