‘Ready Player One’s Hilarious Fake Theme Song Is The Best Part Of This Twitter Pile-On

— 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.

— 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

one of the most important lessons from mystery science theater: never remind people of a good movie in the middle of your bad one pic.twitter.com/noVvSAekbb

— BAKOON (@BAKKOOONN) March 6, 2018

some might say it's daring for Ready Player One to base its marketing campaign and plot around, "Hey, remember better movies"

— Matt D. Wilson (@TheMattDWilson) 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

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

— McGone [2 CD Remastered Deluxe Edition] (@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.)

— Gus | ᴵⁿᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ᴮʳᵉᵃᶜʰ (@guscraw) December 9, 2017

I can't quite put my finger on it but there's something a little off about the Ready Player One poster pic.twitter.com/A6V3ZwsBei

— *big sigh* (@HadleyDonaldson) December 10, 2017

Other people piled on with jokes and gripes, with most of our favorites being tweeted on Tuesday:

— pixelated boat [ASMR] binaural ~4 hours~ (@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

— pixelated boat [ASMR] binaural ~4 hours~ (@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

— Moom (@MOOMANiBE) March 6, 2018

pretty sure Ready Player One is not real and you are all playing a prank on me

— 9 V O L T (@9_volt88) March 6, 2018

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 (@BHWilkinson78) March 6, 2018

Thankfully, some people looked to the bright side:

— Charlotte Clymer️‍ (@cmclymer) March 6, 2018

people are pretty cynical about READY PLAYER ONE, but i personally can’t wait to watch junket footage of wide-eyed journalists asking Steven Spielberg about his favorite level from Banjo-Kazooie or whatever the fuck.

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) March 6, 2018

I’m so pumped to see this movie!

— 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 (@Filmdrunk) February 15, 2018

Ready Player One is basically if an amazon algorithm went sentient and made a movie.

— Christopher Sebela (@xtop) March 6, 2018

THAT SOUNDS AWESOME.