Half in the Bag: Ready Player One

It's the ultimate "I SAW IT AND CLAPPED" movie. Absolutely shallow with an awful message. Thor 2 is better

Vladdy Bladdy

what is kinda funny about a movie based on a book that has a scene from the shining is that the blood stuff never happened in the shining book. in the book it was fucking balloons.

Ryan Lind

Wow...YA book aimed at noone... Spielberg becomes Lucas... Rich Evans...scab... I need a lie-down.

Patrick Mullen

Yeah I think my face during the entire trailer was similar to the expression Mike is making in the thumbnail for this episode

Matt P

I'll attempt to address the 'who is the audience?' question - I have a 12 year old nephew who saw this over the weekend and declared it his new favorite movie - kids 11-16 are absolutely the target - they've grown up on a steady diet of youtube & online videogames & constant Gen X references that they have no context for but they know that they are 'a thing' - and sadly nostalgia obsessed aging Gen Xers keep repackaging all of the 1980s for them over and over again, and the current kids don't really have any significant pop culture of their own, just a lot of remixed stuff from my generation's youth in a blender - they don't need to see 'The Shining' for example because they've seen a million memes & 30 second youtube gags to know its a reference - - its very sad in my opinion - and the premise of this movie that in 2045 kids will still only have recycled 1980s culture seemed way too depressing to me. It's like a 'Rogue One' that isn't just Star Wars but EVERYTHING

Matt P

I know what that izzzzzzx

VHS VCR

So it's basically member-berries the movie?

Rattslinger

I really enjoyed the movie, I knew all the references (even the Madballz one which none of my friends recognized) and really fell in love with the setting. The way Mike described the book, I think the changes the movie made were definitely for the better.

Kid_Devil

You mean that a movie HATES women because it lacks a reference to David Bowie's penis in Labyrinth?

Vincent

"Spielberg schmalz is smeared across the screen!" Mike Stoklasa - Half in the Bag.

Dave Gesell

you mean the target audience is MEN in their 30s/40s. :)

VHS VCR

The target audience question is interesting... . I think that our current pop culture has become so stunted and weighed down by nostalgia. Many younger moviegoers from ages 10-30 are nostalgic for things that they weren't even alive to remember. Kids are constantly being made aware of these older movies because they've been growing up watching inferior sequels/reboots to them. The book and the movie (in some ways) address this issue. But, I think the target audience for this film is that entire generation of film fans who have been forced to relish on the past, simply because Hollywood is so content with reheating the old films that they know they love. The movie is far from perfect, But I'm at least happy that Spielberg tried to make a new movie about this current, stunted obsession with nostalgia ... instead of Jurassic Park 5.

Amos Stillwell

If you want the criminals to start laughing.

David Anderson

I can't wait until Tye Sheridan gets cast as the next Judge Dredd

geedubber

they both said they didn't recommend it... pretty clear to me.

NF

I'm still a little unclear as to whether or not you liked the film

Peter Kelly

I really thought for a moment that there was a dispute between Mike and Jay and I felt like a child watching my family slowly being destroyed... again!

Vincent

I'm so tired of these lazy filmmakers thinking they can make up for their hackery with pop culture references. Just because we're nostalgic for Rich Evans doesn't mean we'll ignore the obvious plot holes in this episode!

RG

REMEMBER REFERENCES?

Zac Lipman

Look at those luscious lips.

Mouth-thing: Plan 9 from outer space

J.Black

“I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!” The Movie.

Bill Lehecka

Ooo, a new Half in the Bag! [puts down noose]

Because remember it?

Connor Williams