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Ready Player One - SDCC Teaser
- Thread starter Kenzodielocke
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Gonna laugh my ass off regardless of what they do here.
Its "hey remember that *insert nostalgic thing*?" the book and the author is nowhere near talented or creative enough to make that anything more than exactly what it sounds like. Its basically if someone made GAF threads about your favorite 80's IP and turned them into a book with about as much subtly and nuance as a jack hammer to the balls
DeviantBoi
Member
I don't remember that car chase scene in the book.
It has a lot of very nerdy references and main-stream nostalgia as the main foundation of the story. It's fun, but unfortunately it had the audacity to also be popular.
bloodyroarxx
Member
Duke Nukem is there too int he Freddy scene with the Rocket launcher
Fancyarcher
Member
Looks like "callback the movie". Hopefully the references aren't so in your face in the actual thing, I trust Spielberg. Visuals should be great at least.
Also Iron Giant is in this film? Wow, that's actually kinda awesome.
Also Iron Giant is in this film? Wow, that's actually kinda awesome.
Glass Rebel
Member
Sure this ain't Señor Spielbergo?
Popularity doesn't save it from being bad. Shit like 50 Shades of Gray is popular and does that make it good?
UnemployedVillain
Member
You haven't read the book, have you?
Is that what I said?
Gordon Shumway
Banned
What the fuck was that? Didn't know anything about the book..was confused as hell. Looks pretty interesting.
Oh my goodness.
Anyway, I thought this was supposed to be 80s diarrhea? I see a Master Chief gun and the Iron Giant, so what gives?
I think they might be moving up the timeframe a bit in the film, judging from the trailer.
90s kids rejoice!!!
MotionBlue
Member
The book is about a culture that worships the past, specifically the 80s and 90s. The book is actually really critical about it, but I guess most people miss the blatantly obvious(Or simply haven't read the book).
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
Member
It gets a bit heavy handed with the references at times. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's just name dropping for no reason. I personally had fun with the book but I did end up rolling my eyes a few times, mainly due to the name drops.
awilliams213
Member
Yup looks like a good adaptation. I really like the camper they nailed the real world look.
forgeforsaken
Member
What are you talking about? The book isn't critical of the nostalgia at all, it's the lead's pure nostalgia that allows him to win and triumph over the corporate researchers who have no love for the 80s and just want the prize.
Hot Coldman
Banned
That's the Iron Giant in 2018
Fuck all the hot takes
Fuck all the hot takes
Elitist1945
Member
That looked wicked cool.
Yeah the best thing about Armada was the cover art. I really loathed that book. Loved Ready Player One though.
forgeforsaken
Member
The Transformer movies were pretty popular too...
Twilight, while badly written, is at least somewhat entertaining.
This is just nostalgia bait in the sense that it just references without much purpose. For instance, the mc's ingame mount is a DeLorean time machine with a ghostbuster logo on the side and K.I.T.T. Installed. This is mentioned in passing and is never once relevant to the story.
Imagine every page of the book filled with references like this so you can go ”oh yeah, I remember that! That was so cool! This book is so cool!"
Worst part is that it actually works and the book gets a goodreads score of 4.3/5... it is baffling as the story and prose are amongst the worst adult novels I have ever read.
No it's a cameo of the Iron Giant in 2018 in an unrelated movie. What you're experiencing is that they want you to experience, in reality they ripped the Iron Giant of any context and put it in a thing for extra money, kind of like in the movie I guess.
megashock5
Member
Oh God, this would be amazing.
timetokill
Banned
There's literally a part in the book where people throw down over random 80's trivia and the characters in the book think it's actually super cool.
"Yeah, but do you know about (80's thing)?" "Of course I do dawg, but I bet you didn't know about (80's thing)!"
OHHHHH SNAP Y'ALL
Hot Coldman
Banned
I know
I expected nothing and got this so I'm happy
Not seeing the film all of a sudden
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
Maybe the book goes overboard with pop culture references, but I do like the whole National Treasure thing the book does but with pop culture clues instead of american history clues.
Yo, Iron Giant is in this?
So, it's mostly a CGI movie? Some of the action looked like Tintin.
The last bit with the cars reminded me of Tintin, too.
Looks pretty fucking weird, I like it.
JeTmAn81
Member
Sup son. How popular was that NES Classic last year? As more people grow up entrenched in gaming culture, that nostalgia is only going to get nuttier.
FanDeNintendo
Neo Member
Deadpool/Deathstroke and Harley Quinn at the beginning too. It seems it will have no apparent issues using some characters or references. Well, it's Spielberg you know, who says no to that man?
Sebastiano
Member
Holy shit, I want a racing game just like the one showed at the end: pilots from different worlds, crazy maps, etc. I want to drive dat Akira bike!
Movie looks fun, will sure watch it.
Movie looks fun, will sure watch it.
BronsonLee
Member
They're saying Iron Giant isn't a cameo for what it's worth
Someone earlier speculated they're replacing the JP mecha references with more US oriented ones and I think that's what's going to happen.
timetokill
Banned
Hey, I love nostalgia. No problem with it.
But it's like Family Guy... just throwing a reference out there doesn't make for good writing, but just being "in on the joke" is enough to make some stuff popular. I'm not a fan.
There's a ton of nostalgia in Stranger Things, but it's not the main reason people like it.
you can read a couple pages from amazon's website
It is obviously part of the mecha challenge.