Chapo Trap House - Taking Ready Player One Too Seriously
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2021
- The gang analyzes the Spielberg film "Ready Player One". The mood jumps from serious critiques to open mockery, like every good chapo. From episode 191, "Ready Chapo One".
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That was a movie, that made me hate a whole concept of being a fan of anything.
so true x.x
And people say Spilberg is not a great director. Assholes keep basing their entire wolrd view around his work.
I felt like a dork con00mer after this film.
The most recent Spider-Man is that for me. And it’s because I actually kind of liked it. It felt like the last swig of laced punch juice.
Wow you're right. I haven't really been a fan of anything since this.
In current context I find Virgil's child brain to be even more off-putting.
Virgil Texas is enthusiastic about an online world in which you can pose as someone else and make real human connections with strangers in a consequence-free environment of simulated reality and forbidden pleasures
FOR SOME REASON
Haha good point
Yeah this entire technology should just be used as a honeypot to find people who need to be distanced from the whole of society. It's always just self reporting
The RPO premise is a turn off for me. Not just because it's a creative death, but because it suggests that knowledge of pop culture is a virtue in and of itself.
Right? If I wanted to get pelted with a bunch of references, I'd watch Family Guy and their cutaway jokes.
That groan from Amber as Virgil talks about gaming is *chef kiss*
Matt is 100% correct and history has only vindicated him
matt treated very unfair- chastised for interrupting others, barely can get 10 seconds in without interruption
@@norfendorf drives me nuts when Amber yells over Matt's substantive point then gets offended when someone interrupts her cocaine-fueled rambling
@@berdyderg900 and she always makes such corny jokes
@@berdyderg900 Virgil and Amber shittiest members, so glad they really don't show up much anymore
@@frenchmontana961 amber is the only real connection to the working class and virgil is by far the funniest. (Which doesn't mean felix isnt also very funny and extremely witty)
Two things we will never know about Amber: what state she's from, and whether or not she likes the Alamo Drafthouse
She grew up in Indiana.
@@MrJohndoakes Great scoop. Do you happen to know what she thinks of the Alamo Drafthouse?
@@Galeus708 (fart noise)
She's like Phil Leotardo, never did find out how many years he did in the can.
Also whether she grew up in a college town, and how she felt about the students living there
This movie and that Space Jam sequel are like a death march through intellectual properties.
The trail of tears for cinema
Mergers & acquisitions are good, clearly.
Unwatchable
@@nixon5452LeBron being the Andrew Jackson in this scenario is perfect
I haven't seen RPO and don't want to, but I agree with Matt/Will. Hollywood is stuck in an endless feedback loop of creating nostalgia and then marketing it back to us.
Felix observing Matt & Amber’s “soy banter” is very funny to me.
This is funny because it's ancient old when these children were really juvenile children, but also Mark Fischer upon hearing Chapo Trap Hourse & OOps, House, Fischer committed "Soo-E-Cide"yes, Chapo caused Mark Fisher Suicide.
shut them both up instantly too lol
7:56 "yes exactly why would you want somebody interjecting" is an absolute slapdown from Amber. An underrated all-time Chapo moment
good point...
"We are literally all only friends and all only in this room right now because of online culture."
"Yeah... I know"
Matt's distress makes this easily one of the funniest things he's ever said.
“It’s sad… I feel like it’s a trap…” he sounds so dejected but I feel him so hard in that moment lmao.
lmfao
It’s like a trap house.
I've changed my mind about the Matt vs Virgil gaming debate. Virgil was wrong and we're heading for a sterile opium cage hellworld.
Made a similar flip as well
Matt has said a lot of dumb shit about gaming. He has a weird, inherently conservative view of art. If he had been around at the beginning of the last century he would have been one of the people saying film wasn’t a legitimate art-forum.
@@Gum_Cuzzler Video games aren't art though, they're more like mind altering drugs but they caren't even actually fun as evidenced by every gamer being some sad lonely rage case
@@crunchbuttsteak8741 wow, what a nuanced argument
@@Gum_Cuzzler would you mind expanding on your view that Matt has a “conservative view of art”? I like Matt as a thinker and while I do like a lot of his takes on art, I agree that sometimes he seems a little stuffy for someone who’s rather radical in most other areas
Thanks for posting these clips lately. I find this stuff a lot easier to listen to than entire podcasts, I just got into the podcast recently and its hard to go back and listen to back episodes sometimes because they're so topical and speculate about campaigns and stuff. I really appreciate these gold nuggets.
Just so long as the person who uploads them don't put in an ad every 7 minutes.
oooolk
I didn't know they had a podcast just seemed like a bunch of LARPing in European about the Diablo 3 as a f****** strange translation to what I tried
@@generalsavage4103 what?
@@TheGreatsagegoku f****** Google translate said Diablo 3 and by the way I got to change my name because I don't like being called Savvy cuz Savvy sounds too much like the what's his name the I guess the compound kid I don't know who any of these people are to be honest but I got to change my name any ideas I'll take what I can get I got an idea but I think it's taken general savages a lame name well the fat guy from compound or the Hassan Piper show I don't know I don't know who any of these people are just f****** retard s*** to me to be honest I need a new name
Matt's manchild screaming is evergreen, he is the purest boy and #1 chapo. His rage at the insanf stupidity of this society is so good.
Matt couldn't be more correct Spielberg thinks of himself as the jack king one above all of humanity
I almost forgot about Uganda Knuckles, jesus.
Matt and Amber are hilarious in this one
What's the over/under on how many times Amber has been confronted in a movie theater for talking? Im going with 8.
And the way she tells it, the other person is always the problem.
They haven't really had this kind of chemistry since the end of the Bernie campaign. Matt's much quieter and doesn't freak out as much, Virgil's MIA, and Amber's barely around anymore. Will and Felix are still pretty much the same, but I think that the show (like US politics) is kinda aimless right now.
Matt has really improved in quality of thought and state-of-mind, which unfortunately also means less rants. I will usually let Chapo build up a few episodes before getting to them (especially because I don't live in the US anymore), but I always catch the Cushvlogs
@@ScabiousGarde Definitely, not saying I dislike the show now. Cushvlogs have been great, and their takes on stuff are still really funny and spot-on. I just miss these big group discussions, where they play off each other. I think the main problem is that it's just been Will, Matt, and Felix. Not having Amber and Virgil around made me realize how much they contribute to the atmosphere of the show, even if neither was ever my favorite Chapo.
i think the other things they are working on are probably sucking up all the energy. Bad Faith, Time For My Stories and CushVlogs are all more interesting projects to work on i guess
They are all drug addicts what do you expect?
@@billballinger5622 glad we have the perspective of the Pilgrim Fathers on this most ungodly of comment sections
So the Chapo complaint about the Alama Drafthouse is really just them angry that they can't sit there yelling, chortling, and chomping a cigar like that villain in Cape Fear?
max cady
There should be special movie theaters for people who grew up on MST3K where we can actually have fun.
De Niro living his best life and us in our worst.
That’s one thing that I have to agree with them on. Lighting up a cigar and laughing while watching the peanut butter falcon is my all time favorite theater memory.
@@IndieGinge It's called "home" and it's where you ALL should stay.....
Coming back here for another listen after the Facebook announcement of Metaverse seems to only vindicate Matt further.
How's The Metaverse™ doing now?
This channel really is a godsend. Unironically the pod should be paying you to do this.
This is all a giant CIA psy-op. They’re getting paid
I’m joking about the CIA bit btw
huh so weird that virgil was into a movie for young children
i had the pleasure of having to listen to the ready player one audiobook with a coworker because we traded off picking books to listen to at work.
literally just a book shaped box full of 80's and 90's references. actually made my head hurt.
Glad I came across your channel, much love/respect for posting all these good clips
I think the mention of Twitch at around 24:00 is not a wink at the audience but a proof that the author is still with the times. Its a proof to the audience to prove Earnest and Steven's "hipness" thus justifying their right to write the cannon
anyone else get the impression Virgil actually likes the oasis so that he can go to little saint james without getting caught
I might be off the mark here, but I get the feeling that Matt 'feels' more than most people.
Virgils 5 year prediction on VR aging like fine milk
I have literally never understood any of Virgil's opinions
i think hes mostly doing a bit here
@@jemimallah2591 he really is this naive and wrong about everything tho
thyssenkrup elevators are nicer than otis
This, and the RLM review of that awful movie are all i need tbh
I gotta say, I cannot tell if Virgil really is a dullard or if it is one long slow burn bit.
Bad Faith pod is clearly rooking a lot of rubes so I am leaning towards biy
40:27 He almost breaks. I think there's just multiple levels to it.
This makes me glad Virgil got cancelled
"This is a quote from Black Sabbath 'I am Ironman'" - Felix Biederman
Why wasn't Hulk Hogan in the movie
Legit torn about whether watching a movie with these guys would be really fun or incredibly awful
I’m not. It would be awful. 😂
I’m convinced that hanging out with Chapo would be torture, especially if a movie Matt doesn’t like is involved
Matts right on all this
I read the book. The book was darker in tone than the movie. I'm pretty sure halfway in the book. The main character seals himself in a cemented cube that has food and water with no doors and windows. This character then proceeded to live maybe 6 months, just hooked to the internet and having sex with a real doll.
Here is how I would do Ready Player 1: The protagonist is an old man who lived through the 80s as a child and even knew Anorak (but not very well). He is in the early stages of dementia and has the form where he gets a bit vague on the short term but remembers things from long ago very well. He is long retired as a software engineer and is obsessing over Anorak's challenge. When he figures out how to get the first key, he recruits family and their friends to do the legwork and video game stuff because 'my reflexes are shot'. The point of my version is the protagonist admitting that the world he created covered up the fact that they utterly ruined the real world and seeks to destroy the business model for the online world in order to assist the younger generations in initiating real reform.
That is actually really smart, more original than the main movie
"Ernst Klein? More like Ernst Rohm." Dead
What is dead may never die. Glad to have you still AM, never stop posting
Ugh, here's my "I'm a clever gamer" fridge logic realization...
Having to "go backwards" in the race? That is not only the trick to winning and finding the race but it's the instructions for the whole thing, and maybe even a warning.
To win you have to go back and look at history.
Shit I HATE this movie
That is gross
Anyone who’s played a multiplayer racing game would realize that this first riddle would’ve been solved years ago by that one spastic 10-year old who’s always goofing off.
The Black Mirror episode San Junipero tackles this subject matter in a more impactful way
Can’t tell if irony or not lol
@@JStack wut if yer mate wuz a tea vea
@@wguid wut if instead of asking “how was your day,” they ask “what did you download?”
Unironically a good episode of that show.
Like yeah, most of black mirror was "oi mate, what if ur best buddy was a tv!?" or "what if you could get blocked in real life!?"
But that episode was so fucking good dude. Especially if you consider the fact that it's really just one of those oldschool greentext posts that sharply transitioned from some disturbing and harrowing personal story into dumb pop song lyrics right at the end.
It's literally the "cottoneye joe greentext" but for heaven is a place on earth.
I see Matt's point as always... he's a political visionary... but sometimes he's too fuckin smart to enjoy stuff...And he has a different experience with the references in Ready Player One... I'm older than the Chapo guys and I remember the earliest big-pixel games and how they blew the minds of all us adolescent kids... I remember how those games felt... it was about more than just the game itself, it was a whole experience. Playing video games was a fun thing you did with your middle school friends, at the arcade... there were a few parents there, but most of us got dropped off and had our first experience of some autonomy... We ran around, watched other kids play, talked about high scores... certain kids had certain specialties... and we talked about the arcade at school the next day. Also there was pinball, pizza... sometimes roller skating... the idea of playing games at home on your TV was a million miles from our world... that arcade world. This movie brings that feeling back for those of us old enough to have experienced the arcade days in person. So I loved Ready Player One. Boomer out...
Well this is depressing. As a zoomer I think I would trade games being terrible like back then in exchange for them being a much more social and communal activity. Oh wait social activities aren't allowed, nevermind.
I’m always so taken aback by Virgil being on these old episodes. The idea that he was ever tolerated is shocking
Why is Amber so rude in this clip
It flares up periodically on other appearances, and Matt is usually the one she goes after lol. Honestly it reads as insecurity about wanting to be seen as the smartest person in the room. And this is just me speculating, but she probably kinda resents that Matt is the one with the public reputation as the podcast's resident big brain theory guy
Tbf they all do it, everyone wants to be the one to say the funny/clever/insightful thing and be heard above everyone else although somehow Amber tends to be quicker than the other cohosts to start throwing elbows about it
Because it fucking sucks when you can't even get your own opinions across without being shouted over or ragged over, especially when women in general get talked over by men constantly in discussions like this.
because she is annoying
Is 100 Gecs our generation’s Kraftwerk, or are they too self-aware for that title?
too derivative of shit like mid-00s scenecore. The real inheritor is Death Grips.
@@ashsherod6321 I think we’re both wrong
Y'all know why Virgil loved the Oasis so much
Why?
@@ramonalejandrosuare
Virgil supposedly likes to groom
teen girls online.
This was easily the best intro of anything I’ve heard here lmao
Ted Kaczynski might have been onto something
It was annoying to learn that Ted Kaczynski had some interesting points, but felt the need to include an "oh, btw, don't be gay, and transexuals are also bad and a sign of societial decay"-driveby. There is something very lame about how almost all alternative, idiosyncratic formulations of the world can't help but dip into that stuff, as if by compulsion.
Though I guess another way of looking at it is that "the way you can be a crank" might be kinda limiting, in that it almost requires a reactionary attitude to whatever is going around.
It's like the format of a crank is - by its nature - a very limiting way of being, where you can't help but fall back on kinda hack/non-novel concepts, despite probably wanting to express something novel and "smart" (10-times-more-so if you find yourself actually penning a manifesto).
Ted Lange may have been on to something.
Posadism with Landian characteristic is the way
When I attempted to watch this movie I had to walk out of the room about 15 minutes in and then come back later to turn the tv off
"Hell is other people."-Sartre. Never truer words spoken.
Video games are art, when people get murdered after getting Swatted it's just art.
When a guy shoots up a movie theatre its just art, bro
I would say I mostly agree with Matt, Amber is a bit annoying, but she does make good points. I just find Virgil unbearable, he does not come off as a particularly deep thinker.Just a nerdy with some intellectual pretensions and affectations. I do think gaming can be art, or have artistic elements, but gaming itself has had a way more negative impact on our culture, than a positive one. I mean I work in a school, and I have kids that tell me that they want, to be a streamer, or a UA-camr, or some sort of influencer. Rather than something that has a positive impact on our material world, like a doctor,teacher, or a writer, painter, muscian etc. Even being like a bricklayer, or a mechanic. Something that has a material and profound impact on our world.
Now more than ever it seems that the next generation, are being primed to just to be consumers. Not even of anything tangible, but rather the as Matt has pointed out, this fake digital imaginary realm. It's not enough that these kids can just disappear into a video game, but now they can just watch some boring dipshit, with no other talent, play one instead. And I actually really do not believe gaming as a concept is inherently wrong. But to act like video games are inherently revolutionary, is an absurd notion to me.
Liking this movie is a fat red flag for Virgil god damn 😆
Removing any analysis of the social commentary of the film (which is also underwhelming imo because it was maturbatory for libs), and just focusing on what it stands for in the entertainment industry, Matt was completely right. Almost every medium of the entertainment industry is just referential and the reuse of prexisting IP. Gaming remakes, movie/film remakes and adaptations, every best selling poetry book just being a clone of Milk and Honey. It doesnt matter if you half ass a criticism of capitalism in your work if you yourself are suppressing the efforts of talented and original artists to just pump out the same shit all the time.
Love the classic "Amber reads some article no one gives a shit about and kills all the momentum"
I didn't catch this episode when it came out. Great analysis of an interesting movie. I actually read the book _Ready Player One_ before the movie came out. Don't judge me.
I get the impression Amber thinks the movie was cute and ok...
Twisted metal 3s opening cinematic is pretty dope tho
I'm not much into Chapo lore, but that guy Virgil is by far the worst character. Unfunny and uninteresting.
As entertainment progresses, it’s customer base is whittled down by age and lack of interest.
It’s insane that these tech people think the “ultimate progression in computers” would consume culture completely, it’s literally impossible…
And the avatar universe cryptoheads imagine can’t happen without everyone bought in, so therefore it’s not happening!!
What I find distressing is that the film/book attempts validating the digital plaza.
Yes, we can meet on these online spaces and make connections we could not before. But there are trappings.
How much time are we spending in the digital plaza, and how is the decision to spend time there being reinforced?
What is happening to our actual social spaces that has practically corralled us into online alternatives?
What are our at home lives like that encourage escape, and why is escape to haunts of the digital world and not our social spaces which are coincidentally dwindling?
I recommend Graton Tanner’s Babbling Corpse, it goes well with mark fisher.
I really liked this analysis, but god damn I think the best part of this entire thing was Dan Quinn’s Easter Egg hunt and it really makes me want to see this.
Carcinogen SDA would have worked out the riddles in the oasis in less than a month
this one is a fucking heater
Virgil, what? Now you're really cancelled.
The rimming of Kojima is hilarious.
Coca cola in the metaverse today. Matt was right
Of course the groomer likes Ready Player One.
This is great lol. There's another place though. Where someone like me agrees with both of theses guys completely. Absolutely hate it but it's good
god virgil was soy
Why does Matt think the Couch ate someone?
Amber elevates every episode shes in
Incel Player One
They're all wrong for giving this much a shit about a nothing movie
Because it’s an example of the furthering of thoughtless consumerism by mega corps. Anyway it was funny and was glad to hear them slam Spielberg.
Matt. 🤘
the chapo talk-over each other hour!!
virgil really sucks in this one
The book dives deeper into all of the areas the movies only touched on the surface level with regards to social issues.
Ready player one: aka a shittier Matrix without Neo. 😎 I don't want to watch a movie be outdone by a movie that came out nearly 20 years prior.
Do internet pornography, video games, and social media make people more happy?
Idk but imagine the mass shooting figures if we didnt have those things
Holy shit Amber and Virgil are so cringe here
yea, this is one of the few examples when you need someone familiar with Black culture and history. love the show but the Eddie Murphy, 1980s, culture "is ascendant" talk was just painful.
Seems like the only thing you can get out of a "story" like this is if you're a pathetic kid from the 80's who won't grow up or a post 80's kid who can't come up with anything original and continue to finger blast the past like it was some great thing. The 80's are over, thankfully people. Great movies and ideas also came out of other decades, the last two I wouldn't say as much, but that's only because the current climate is to keep buttfucking our childhoods. Go back and enjoy those things if you wish, but this constant revamping is pathetic. It's sad that people who grew up in the 80's had any interest in this drivel.
Amber's take at the end feels a little disingenuous. She deliberately avoided saying popular culture by replacing it with "mass culture" as if they're actually different in an effort to make it sound more proletarian and therefore give her argument a more leftist underpinning when it was really no more nuanced than the others.
I don't know, I think the distinction between what *is* popular and what is made *to be* popular is important
She is very grating. Seeker of attention by how wide of a berth she expects to be given for herself.
Why is matt always so angry
Have you never encountered another human? Matts uncontrolled rage is very relatable living in this joke of a society honestly
Ever notice how Chapo Trap House’s scripted stuff, like their Christmas Specials, are written in a style that is indistinguishable from Ernest Cline’s prose?
Matt only knows shitty mass-market video games, that's why he thinks they're all shit
He's still not wrong
He'd hate Undertale even more.
he's just a reactionary when it comes to that sort of stuff for whatever reason
I thought this was just another one of y'all's silly titles. You mfers really took this move way too seriously lol. I will say: I've never read the book and I don't want to, the movie is fine.
they are taking it way too seriously it's just a kinda shitty movie that cashes in on consumer nostalgia yall it's not that deep
Matt is right: This movie sucked
God Virgil is so annoying
Really don't understand the contempt for gaming in general.
i do. the contempt is not for gaming as a thing specifically, it’s for the “blind and dumb” human notion that the things we create have some cosmic significance and actually count for something in the universe beyond our own personal emotional satiation. it’s contempt for the human condition. gamers, like the rest of us, have their head buried in the sand and pretend they don’t, and it’s a hilariously miserable condition to be in. so, laugh.
@@VincentTroia Uhh... I just think games are a fun way to pass time? I don't think anything can or needs to count for anything beyond my own personal emotional (and economic) satiation.
@@VincentTroia this is a whole lot of projection. Speak for yourself bro
@@HaeravonFAQs i never said you think that way. i said that’s why matt has distain for the them
@@billballinger5622 you just don’t get what i’m saying i guess
Virtual Virgil
They found a chick to be on the show so they could feel like good people but nobody who’s not a nerd how’s that for inclusivity
Mis information
Also lol I do want to point out a lot of Steven Spielbergs movies where refranced from the actual book. So idk.
Snooty elitest take on movies.
🤣Highly entertaining👍
It’s kinda fun to listen to. Chapo Trap House is ultimately a culture commentary podcast
Matt being weidly conservative on this. No path, no plan, no future, nothing to contribute.
He’s a CIA plant
thinking that the consumption of culture by escapist fantasy boxes as the world collapses around us is a bad thing = conservative
Well his point is “We need to burn all of this shit down, because there’s no fucking way to salvage it.”