Ready Player One | March 29, 2018 | Spielberg directing | No untagged spoilers allowed

[IronJimbo]

2 hours ago, John Marston said:

China is exploding. Might do 200m

really? Nice

[IronJimbo]

I have to say the lack of weird shit as Avatar's is probably the least realistic thing about the movie. Also the lack as men pretending to be little girls.

[Krissykins]

So much fun!! 

 

IMAX 3D was awesome. 

[Jonwo]

5 hours ago, HockeyPads said:

So it looks like this will make 500 mill worldwide on the low end.

 

So much for being a flop.

Never doubted Spielberg. 

[Fancyarcher]

11 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

Never doubted Spielberg. 

I didn't either. His track record speaks for itself. 

After months of doubt and others shitting on RPO, much of it seemingly resentless, I couldn't be happier the film turned out as well as it did. 

Edited April 1, 2018 by Fancyarcher

[Jonwo]

14 minutes ago, Fancyarcher said:

I didn't either. His track record speaks for itself. 

After months of doubt and others shitting on RPO, much of it seemingly resentless, I couldn't be happier the film turned out as well as it did. 

A lot of people seemed to writing it off just because of the book but I knew it was never going to be faithful because A. the book's challenges would be dull on film and B. Spielberg is known for changing the source material.

 

This film proves Spielberg hasn't lost his touch and that The BFG's failure which I don't blame on him was a blip.

 

I do think marketing wise WB could have done a bit better but I do think they held back a lot due to spoilers and also most of the visuals weren't ready.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The Futurist]

This was absolutely tragic.

15 hours ago, dashrendar44 said:

RPO gives Hook a run for its money for worst Spielberg movie ever.

 

I'd rather watch Hook and The Lost World again. I miss Minority Report and WOTW's Spielberg so bad. This is some Body Snatchers trickery (Spielberg's mimicry in all but name) on autopilot like a CG corpse dancing on a clunky YA script. Spielberg's Sucker Punch.

 

"Reality is real".

 

 

The cringe was real, frankly that was embarrassing.

 

This movie always felt like a your (patronizing) grandpa trying hard to be hip with the young & cool kids and that is exactly what it was.

 

So what s next with Steven :

 

Indy 5

 

&

 

next movie from His History Channel CU ?

Edited April 1, 2018 by The Futurist

[Fancyarcher]

11 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

A lot of people seemed to writing it off just because of the book but I knew it was never going to be faithful because A. the book's challenges would be dull on film and B. Spielberg is known for changing the source material.

 

This film proves Spielberg hasn't lost his touch and that The BFG's failure which I don't blame on him was a blip.

 

I do think marketing wise WB could have done a bit better but I do think they held back a lot due to spoilers and also most of the visuals weren't ready.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The BFG was a very nice film. It's box office failure was due to a variety of reasons, plus even the greats have flops now and again. 

 

I think WB marketed the film good, maybe they went a bit too "geek heavy", but given the book and film, I can't really blame them. The trailers were really successful in selling the visual wonderment / 80's style adventure angle of the film.

Edited April 1, 2018 by Fancyarcher

[somebody85]

2 hours ago, IronJimbo said:

I have to say the lack of weird shit as Avatar's is probably the least realistic thing about the movie. Also the lack as men pretending to be little girls.

 

No no the most unrealistic thing was the lack of little kids and preteens cursing to all holy hell and insulting other players haha

[IronJimbo]

15 minutes ago, somebody85 said:

 

No no the most unrealistic thing was the lack of little kids and preteens cursing to all holy hell and insulting other players haha

good point.

 

Far too much happiness and no flame.

 

[Cap]

3 hours ago, IronJimbo said:

I have to say the lack of weird shit as Avatar's is probably the least realistic thing about the movie. Also the lack as men pretending to be little girls.

THIIIIIS.

Spoiler

 

I was like why wasn’t Sho’s avatar Faye Valentine or Usagi!!! 

 

I also was like: Really? No one showed up with the Titantic and then as it came closer there wasn’t an exodus of Sarah Connors and Roses and Ripleys and Neytiris in flying life boats coming aid the fight?

 

It was that type of lack of imagination and lack of fandom cliques that made the movie a fundamental miss for it. I thought the only time the work truly became transformative was Gundam v Godzilla. That was everything. 

 

 

[Jonwo]

43 minutes ago, Fancyarcher said:

The BFG was a very nice film. It's box office failure was due to a variety of reasons, plus even the greats have flops now and again. 

True, I think Disney really threw it to the wolves given it was one of their last films they were to distribute with DreamWorks. 

 

It's not always the case but I was confident RPO was going to turn out well was because Spielberg shot The Post during its post production, that wouldn't be the case if it had turned out bad.

Edited April 1, 2018 by Jonwo

[Fancyarcher]

55 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

True, I think Disney really threw it to the wolves given it was one of their last films they were to distribute with DreamWorks. 

 

It's not always the case but I was confident RPO was going to turn out well was because Spielberg shot The Post during its post production, that wouldn't be the case if it had turned out bad.

That was a pretty good sign. Showed that the studio had confidence in the final product. 

 

I figured it was gonna turn out well when Spielberg got involved in the first place. He has a pretty great track record when it comes to adapting novels. 

Edited April 1, 2018 by Fancyarcher

[Apollo2xx]

LOOOOVED IT! What a fun ride.

So much better than the book.

[bangbingchan]

10 hours ago, John Marston said:

China is exploding. Might do 200m

Yep.It might hit 150M by next Sunday.Thursday-Saturday is holiday next week.

Edited April 1, 2018 by bangbingchan

[vc2002]

So what I read from this thread is that this movie proves Spielberg hasn't lost it and it also proves Spielberg completely lost it.

 

[a2k]

1 minute ago, vc2002 said:

So what I read from this thread is that this movie proves Spielberg hasn't lost it and it also proves Spielberg completely lost it.

 

Spielberg has lost it in the real world and retained it in the virtual world.

[vc2002]

1 minute ago, a2knet said:

Spielberg has lost it in the real world and retained it in the virtual world.

 

Take that Schrodinger.

[tonytr87]

I liked it, but man that Sheridan kid was terrible. Olivia Cooke is great though. 

[dashrendar44]

That japanese kid had more charisma and spunkiness delivered in one throwaway line than the boring and bland protagonist in 2h30 (still don't get how that kid and his pal/bro weren't the main characters of the narrative Jack Burton's style).