Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One"

[Galactus123]

This movie doesn't look very good but I'm excited that The Iron Giant is in.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I absolutely understand why the posters have 'drawn upon' the past in the associated posters (BTTF, Goonies etc.) for people exactly my age (80's kids) to be brought into going to see it, but it's for me, lazy advertising. You don't need it, people know the 'retro-fit' of the concept from the book or the film's trailers, we don't need the reliance on the poster design for a 'nudge'.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I love the new set of posters that are boiling all the nerd piss. t:

 

[Kane52630]

Yeah I'm digging the posters.

 

[Dave McFly]

Wow. Even Sonic seems to be in this movie!

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you do not need to post the entire youtube link just what comes after the equal sign

 

[nite-owl]

https://***********/electrolemon/status/971208968323280896

 

[Mandon Knight]

I love the new set of posters that are boiling all the nerd piss. t:

Nerd piss, I like it. t:

 

[Schlosser85]

This is probably my # anticipated upcoming movie.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I just realized Olivia Cooke is in this, that's an added interest as I thought she was awesome in The Limehouse Golem.

 

[Kuwolski]

Pfft, this movie looks great to me.

 

[Matt Mortem]

Ready Player One summed up in one image

Spoiler

 

[def28]

I love the new set of posters that are boiling all the nerd piss. t:

I think it's interesting that a movie which is purposely acting like fandom in it's marketing is pissing off fandom leading them to do the same things. Isn't that kind of the point? This generation is constantly creating their own fan material, redubs, remixes, art, reactions, parodies etc wanting to be apart of their favorite film series more then any generation. Would have thought that connection would have been made more with the social media crowd here.

From what I have seen, these are not the posters even going on billboards. They are being slapped on street corners in LA. They were never trying to be the main posters, so not sure why many are acting like that. It's just a tiny bit of fun advertising.

But yeah the crowd now saying "**** Nostalgia" is gonna keep help making Jurassic World, Star Wars, IT and Stranger Things money. Don't get it.

 

[RomanticPenguin]

batman/lex luthor reference



supes

 

[terry78]

We're all hypocrites, that's the long and short of it.

 

[def28]

We're all hypocrites, that's the long and short of it.

True

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I just realized Olivia Cooke is in this, that's an added interest as I thought she was awesome in The Limehouse Golem.

Loved her since Bates Motel. t:

 

[samsnee]

Yeah the only thing that has me interested is seeing how the use all the pop culture references, which is clearly what the marketing team is banking on. The story itself seems by the book and I have no idea how the human performances are in this besides Rylance who comes off flat.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Gotta say, just the BTTF 'twinkle' sound effect is making me goose-bumpy, no idea how geeked out I'll be when watching it.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Ready Player One tracking for sluggish $35M+ debut.

 

[Drizzle]

I'm not really surprised. From what I've seen, the marketing for this has been either non-existent or greatly overshadowed by Black Panther. I've even been seeing more ads for Pacific Rim: Uprising. There's still three weeks left so I'm sure there'll be more rolling out but still...a $35 million opening for a Spielberg movie of this scale is pretty sad. Reviews will be a deciding factor too. I'm just hoping it does the book justice, even if it isn't 100% faithful.

 

[samsnee]

I think the issue is that it seems catered toward kids who grew up in the 80s. So if you don’t have a emotional connection to that decade, I can see how this movie does nothing for you. Again, the marketing is leaning hard on the nostalgia connection, which can be a fatal flaw if people aren’t interested in the story to begin with.

 

[terry78]

It honestly may have been better suited for summer, crowded as it is. I hope it's not another Scott Pilgrim.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I think the issue is that it seems catered toward kids who grew up in the 80s. So if you don’t have a emotional connection to that decade, I can see how this movie does nothing for you. Again, the marketing is leaning hard on the nostalgia connection, which can be a fatal flaw if people aren’t interested in the story to begin with.

Agree, it's geared to my age group and it seems it's playing on getting that demographic in on the nostalgia and the 'millennials' in on the VR/new tech angle, when in fact, it may divide both groups with trying to cater for both.

 

[jmc]

Agree, it's geared to my age group and it seems it's playing on getting that demographic in on the nostalgia and the 'millennials' in on the VR/new tech angle, when in fact, it may divide both groups with trying to cater for both.

And this is the problem that studios are going to have to face, you can't cater to us 80's and 90's kids forever.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I think the issue is that it seems catered toward kids who grew up in the 80s. So if you don’t have a emotional connection to that decade, I can see how this movie does nothing for you. Again, the marketing is leaning hard on the nostalgia connection, which can be a fatal flaw if people aren’t interested in the story to begin with.

I did not grow up in the 80s. Neither did my brother. Totally in love with this idea and the 80s in general. lot of this stuff in this films crosses many decades of folk. A lot of it timeless.