‘Ready Player One’ Released Some God-Awful Posters And Everyone Is Cackling
The posters pay homage to classic films, and then ruin them.
Ready Player One, the new pop-culture mess of a film by Steven Spielburg, has released a range of new posters which pay homage to classic films and folks… they are hilariously bad.
These Ready Player One posters are a form of assault, I’m pressing chargeshttps://t.co/Xf5ySNOMsZ pic.twitter.com/9mzRU8tzuK
— Tristan Cooper (@TristanACooper) March 6, 2018
If you haven’t heard of Ready Player One, it’s the highly-anticipated adaptation of the classic science fiction novel of the same name, written by Ernest Cline. The film is set in a dystopian future in which everyone lives in precarious towers of caravans and plays in a giant virtual reality gamescape called The OASIS. It’s billed as a VR action extravaganza, and looks full of hijinks.
The film shamelessly leverages nostalgia from half a dozen classic movie and game franchises as its main selling point, including characters and extremely unsubtle references from nerd culture throughout time.
Its big sweaty wink to the target market of gamers and dorks has led to people feeling rather cynical about the entire affair.
Ready Player One is a fun reminder that everything I've ever loved is garbage and I'm garbage and the world would be better if people like me didn't exist
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) March 6, 2018
In this era of extensive political, cultural, and social tensions, it's really heartwarming to see that the entire spectrum of geek and nerd fandoms have come together in pure, undiluted hatred of "Ready Player One".
— Charlotte Clymer?️? (@cmclymer) March 6, 2018
The release of its latest posters by Warner Bros. has done nothing to ease that fear. The posters are remakes of some of the most iconic blockbusters ever made, with weird faux anime heads from Ready Player one pasted over the top.
The Matrix, Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, Beetlejuice, Blade Runner, The Goonies, Risky Business, are just some of the subjects that have been vandalised in an extremely funny way. Naturally, people online are absolutely screaming about how cooked they are:
i for one think the Ready Player One posters are fantastic because they tell you exactly what you’re getting—the replacement of substance with reference with no real thought past that pic.twitter.com/Qp3DwHvvq0
— ????? (@Itszutak) March 6, 2018
The opportunity we’re missing here is to photoshop even worse Ready Player One posters
— Kate Leth ?✨? (@kateleth) March 6, 2018
Look, I'm trying to come up with a funny joke about the Ready Player One posters, but mostly they just make me want to die.
— James Tynion IV ECCC A4 (@JamesTheFourth) March 6, 2018
the Ready Player One posters are perfect because just like the book/movie they are impoverished versions of shit you actually liked
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) March 6, 2018
You get tazed if you try to enter a screening of Ready Player One and you aren’t wearing one of those unlicensed t-shirts that witlessly combines two pop culture properties
— pixelated boat [ASMR] binaural ~4 hours~ (@pixelatedboat) March 6, 2018
OK there READY PLAYER ONE just stop it pic.twitter.com/s1px8ESniC
— McGone [2 CD Remastered Deluxe Edition] (@the_mcgone) March 6, 2018
Ready Player One is set to hit theatres on March 30, 2018.