Just got word that I can finally share my rejected theme song from @readyplayerone. They went with Alan Silvestri's theme, but I still want to thank Steven Spielberg & @WarnerBrosEnt for the wonderful opportunity. pic.twitter.com/aK32ZOUA16
— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) March 7, 2018
Hey, remember when Twitter roasted Ready Player One? I ‘member. Seems like it was only yesterday. Oh, it was.
Taking shots at Steven Spielberg’s cyberpunk nostalgia-fest Ready Player One and the Ernest Cline book it’s adapted from isn’t a new phenomenon. South Park co-creator Trey Parker called it “the most Member Berry thing ever,” for example. But some of the jokes circulating Twitter on Tuesday night were particularly great. One stand-out is the fake theme song (above) written and performed by The Good Place writer — and great Twitter follow — Demi Adejuyigbe. Oh man, I remember all of those things.
The impetus for the Twitter roast seems to have started with a set of referential posters released by Warner. At first glance, we assumed the posters were just fan art mashups, which is fitting, since Ready Player One is pretty much a fan art mashup.
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
how is this real shit and not someone's terrible oversized forum sig from 2002 pic.twitter.com/OxkxQltWYs
— Cohen is a ghost (@skullmandible) March 6, 2018
https://twitter.com/BAKKOOONN/status/971168675104374784
https://twitter.com/TheMattDWilson/status/971145793217466369
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
has anybody done this yet pic.twitter.com/pHAWBtV94Y
— K. Thor Jensen 🐀🐀 (@kthorjensen) March 6, 2018
OK there READY PLAYER ONE just stop it pic.twitter.com/s1px8ESniC
— Shawn McGuan (@the_mcgone) March 6, 2018
This wasn’t the first time Ready Player One posters were lambasted. Do you remember the confusingly leggy poster from December? (I ‘member.)
https://twitter.com/guscraw/status/939637729016582145
https://twitter.com/HadleyDonaldson/status/939672799626510337
Other people piled on with jokes and gripes, with most of our favorites being tweeted on Tuesday:
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
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) March 6, 2018
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
[whispering to date while watching Ready Player One when a signifier of my lost childhood first appears on the screen] I’m sad
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) March 6, 2018
Ready Player One is a fantasy about a nerdy dude winning by having the most pop culture references and stalking his way into a girl's heart but sure okay *Rey* is the mary sue.
— Annalee (@LeeFlower) December 10, 2017
i duno even on top of everything else it bothers me a lot that Ready Player One's marketing consistently points out The Iron Giant in a big combat scene given that The Iron Giant as a film centered entirely around antiwar themes and roundly condemning mindless violence
— Aura (MOOMANIBE@Cohost) (@MOOMANiBE) March 6, 2018
https://twitter.com/9_volt88/status/971105150126436353
I've said it before but I'm pretty sure READY PLAYER ONE is Spielberg's revenge on everyone who slept on THE BFG and BRIDGE OF SPIES
— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) March 6, 2018
Ready Player One but every reference in the movie is replaced with a Steamed Hams reference.
— Rob Wesley (@eastwes) March 6, 2018
I mounted my sweet rig like steamed ham from the classic 80s movie Steamed Hams while the theme song from Steamed Hams played in my head. "Time to steam some hams," I thought to myself before I realized I had said it aloud, like a steamed ham.
— Buckley Wilkinson (@souptheorist) March 6, 2018
Thankfully, some people looked to the bright side:
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
https://twitter.com/davidehrlich/status/971124409393209345
I’m so pumped to see this movie!
excited to watch Ready Player One in a crowded theatre and loudly proclaim "I KNOW WHAT THIS IS REFERENCING" every time there's a reference
— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) March 6, 2018
See if you can find all the Easter Eggs in the trailer for Steven Speilberg's new movie, Easter Egg, starring 10 Easter Eggs
— Vince Mancini (@VinceMancini) February 15, 2018
Ready Player One is basically if an amazon algorithm went sentient and made a movie.
— Christopher Sebela (@xtophersebela) March 6, 2018
THAT SOUNDS AWESOME.