580: We're Gonna Be Good CEOs

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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As we prepare to exit the Summer of Spielberg, things have taken a bit of a turn. We’ve taken out our surgical tools to diagnose just what went wrong with “Ready Player One,” in which a director who is much more interested in movies than video games and who himself deeply influenced 80s culture is put in charge of a too-faithful adaptation of a book about video games and 80s culture. We spent a lot of our time imagining a much better movie that could have been made instead of this one....

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0:00.0	It's not brain science.
0:01.3	It's rocket surgery.
0:02.7	This is Ready Player 1.
0:07.7	The incomparable number 580, September 2021.
0:14.0	Welcome back to The Uncomparable.
0:15.3	It's the summer of Spielberg.
0:16.4	We've gotten to the bad part now, friends, because we're going to be talking about ready,
0:23.3	player one. You're saying to yourself was that a spielberg movie it was friends from 2018 based on the 2011 novel by ernest
0:29.2	klein it is ready player one a movie that takes place in a virtual reality world but also in the real
0:35.3	world uh hmm and like i said it's rocket surgery there's a bad movie folks in a virtual reality world, but also in the real world.
0:40.2	And like I said, it's rocket surgery.
0:41.5	There's a bad movie, folks.
0:47.8	Joining me to get the sticks out and beat at the pinata are the following wonderful people.
0:50.8	Erica Ensign, ready player one.
0:55.4	Yeah, I wasn't even supposed to be here today, but I just could resist.
0:56.6	Mistakes were made.
0:57.8	You watched the movie.
0:58.7	I did. And then I didn't want it to be for nothing.
1:01.0	So here I am.
1:02.6	Annette Weirstra Ready Player 2.
1:04.3	Hello.
1:05.6	Like two weeks ago, I had no idea this movie existed.
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