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Ready Player One - SDCC Teaser
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So you're saying the book failed to appeal to its target audience?
This is a dumb argument...GAF is not a singular entity and we all hold differing opinions on nerd/pop culture. Just because we post here doesn't mean we can't discuss the book.
Pilgrimzero
Member
Fancyarcher
Member
Oh really? Wow, that means we're in for a lot of fab cinematography and visuals then. Can't wait.
It was a best-seller. Any book that's a best-seller of some kind, even today, has studios interested in seeking out the rights, and potentially adapting into a film.
forgeforsaken
Member
Execution matters.
Man, can't we give white males approaching/just into their 40's a bone these days? I tell ya
Pilgrimzero
Member
Just saying people are bitching about the endless stream of pop culture references . And I'm like yeah, first day on the internet?
The difference is that I don't try and frame all that stuff as some kind of epic quest that I'm embarking on for fame and glory like RPO does. I just think it's fun to talk about that stuff.
Are you new to this? What do you think people do on hardcore niche forums? We dissect and analyze the things we love and the things we don't. Its our bread and butter and to expect any less seems a tad odd. Go to any OT thread on here and you'll see this in full. The thing is that good works of art can hold up under scrutiny and the best of them actually flourish under intensive examination as it reveals all kinds of nuance and subtleties that might have been missed initially.
As someone else said, execution matters.
You also get good insights like this.
http://collider.com/snow-crash-movie-update-joe-cornish/
Spielberg shoulda fast-tracked this instead. But I guess you'd have to cast a blasian lead and not have Deadpool and the Iron Giant in it
Spielberg shoulda fast-tracked this instead. But I guess you'd have to cast a blasian lead and not have Deadpool and the Iron Giant in it
What's your argument, exactly? People are hypocrites for using the internet to criticize RPO because both were created for the sole purpose of meme dispersal?
Too many days on the internet, more like. Tired of being beaten over the head with nostalgia, especially if it serves no real purpose beyond being there.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
If RPO is a big hit I could see Snow Crash getting fast tracked.
There's a charming scavenger hunt, riddle solving, buddy film buried underneath the terrible prose. It's also everyman small group vs the AoE invite guilds, criminal gangs, and corporate entities, all out to control the future of VR. That's why people enjoy it.
It's not necessarily even about the nostalgia. I bet most would agree it's way too over the top, presented with the delicacy of a sledgehammer.
Still, there is a spine that would work without a single 80's reference, and it could make a very special movie with the right writer. Spielberg isn't signing up to replicate Michael Bay.
Again, try the audiobook if you haven't. I couldn't read it, either.
It's not necessarily even about the nostalgia. I bet most would agree it's way too over the top, presented with the delicacy of a sledgehammer.
Still, there is a spine that would work without a single 80's reference, and it could make a very special movie with the right writer. Spielberg isn't signing up to replicate Michael Bay.
Again, try the audiobook if you haven't. I couldn't read it, either.
I said the NEXT John Boyega
Cornish already did it for him with Attack the Block. We gotta find a real blasian with the chops and make him famous
Man, I have problems with this book, but it's War and Peace compared to etc. etc. etc.
ClayKavalier
Banned
Book seems godawful and anyone defending it as quality writing is a mouth-breathing sucker. Always weird to see people slobbering over something so obviously and lazily pandering to them. And great to see people who want more from their entertainment called cynical by people who don't know what the word means.
The movie could be cool though, doubt I'll see it but the constant references seem better suited for a movie. Catching a glimpse of a character in the background of a scene is a lot more fun and natural than having to wade through paragraphs of pointless call-outs. Visuals look cool too, I always thought the futuristic trailer park on the cover of the book seemed like it had a lot of potential as a setting.
The movie could be cool though, doubt I'll see it but the constant references seem better suited for a movie. Catching a glimpse of a character in the background of a scene is a lot more fun and natural than having to wade through paragraphs of pointless call-outs. Visuals look cool too, I always thought the futuristic trailer park on the cover of the book seemed like it had a lot of potential as a setting.
BFG was kind of weird kids film but I didn't think it was bad by any means.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
There's a large gulf between leaking turd all over the fitted sheets and winning Oscars. He might not have made a GREAT movie in awhile, but he's made more than a few very good ones recently.
It's not "shitting the bed" if you don't achieve greatness every time you create.
Lincoln? Bridge of Spies?
I won't eat those green eggs and ham, I found them disgusting, it was like being at the big dinner table in Temple of Doom and being served chilled monkey brains. I wouldn't ever eat those green eggs and ham, I don't care if they were served poolside with that girl from Fast times at Ridgemont high and the other girl from Weird Science.
The BFG was a bit childish, but the movies he made the decade before that (Bridge of Spies, Lincoln, War Horse, and Tintin) have been phenomenal movies.
Would you, could you, in a DeLorean?
Magic Mushroom
Member
Yeah, I think Spielbergo will deliver a great genre movie.
Lokimaru
Member
OK for some context. The Creator of the Oasis left a Book Behind when he died called Anorak's Almanac in which he placed all his rambling thoughts in plus a list of every Video game, song and Movie he every owned and his thoughts on them. This is the Gunters Bible. That's why Wade is studying all this shit so he can get into Halliday's head cause that's what's needed to WIN. Every Gunter on the WORLD is doing this not just Wade. Wade just has no Life and Money so is able to go ham on this stuff though torrents downloads. The Kid was practically Raised Online in Virtual Simulations of Sesame Street and The Electric Company. He goes to School Online in a Virtual HighSchool but the VR is so good that everything is REAL to him. That's where he is when most of the references come up. Sitting in Class bored cause with all the technology at hand the Teacher still can't seem to make Latin interesting so he starts thinking about the contest and all he's done to prepare for it. It's like Batman thinking about all the shit he knows how to do.
theCalamity
Member
Would you, could you, in a time traveling phone booth?
Lokimaru
Member
That ain't what I've seen here.
There are only so many ways to dissect a turd.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Step one apparently includes visiting Steven Spielberg's bedroom
Is Lincoln recent enough to qualify? Guess it's been five years or so at this point.
That film is damn good and to reduce it to 'DDL acting showcase' is as reductive as saying the same for, well, any good DDL film.
Bravo.
I have seen no one defend the prose.
Would you like to point out the mouth-breathing suckers?
I agree.
timetokill
Banned
... yes? I mean, it is. I don't look down on children's books, though. Seems that you do.
Main difference is Stranger Things is well written and uses its nostalgia as flavor and not a crutch.
The passages aren't any better in context. Also, you can analyze and critique writing in or out of context, otherwise you wouldn't be able to judge it ever. A sentence can be well-written or not. The passages being quoted aren't like a weird sentence here or there, they're up to entire pages.
I don't care if other people hate it or not. But other people liking it isn't going to make me not criticize it, either. It's okay to be critical. It's okay to wish for better.
malingenie
Member
Wow you are an awful human being.
Hahaha
BronsonLee
Member
I'd say that Spielberg earned the benefit of the doubt after TinTin
But I fuckin' saw BFG and hell no
But I fuckin' saw BFG and hell no
In Ready Player One, the protagonist saves the day by navigating a fully immersive 3D recreation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and remembering all the lines, like a nerdy, heartbreakingly pathetic Quantum Leap
One person modeled and programmed said fully immersive 3D recreation all by himself
Then he does the same thing but for WarGames. Luckily, all of his 16-year-old friends have watched the specific movies hundreds of times too, so they're laughing and saying the lines along with him while the fate of the world hangs in the balance
As this is happening the protagonist, narrating from the future, pauses the plot to inform the reader that this is a great idea and millions of people would want to do this and companies that recreated this idea in the future were very, very successful
The protagonist's love interest does all this too, but not as fast or as deftly as the male protagonist
And for some reason all the anime avatar youtubers are calling this their favorite book, no clue why this would appeal to them
Spoilers for Ready Player One
One person modeled and programmed said fully immersive 3D recreation all by himself
Then he does the same thing but for WarGames. Luckily, all of his 16-year-old friends have watched the specific movies hundreds of times too, so they're laughing and saying the lines along with him while the fate of the world hangs in the balance
As this is happening the protagonist, narrating from the future, pauses the plot to inform the reader that this is a great idea and millions of people would want to do this and companies that recreated this idea in the future were very, very successful
The protagonist's love interest does all this too, but not as fast or as deftly as the male protagonist
And for some reason all the anime avatar youtubers are calling this their favorite book, no clue why this would appeal to them
Spoilers for Ready Player One
Discotheque
Banned
That chase scene looks nuts. Reminds me a lot of the one in tintin actually
This looks more BFG and less TinTin
