Compsiox
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There was no story in this trailer. It was just an intro to the universe. Calm down people.
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Ready Player One - SDCC Teaser
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There was no story in this trailer. It was just an intro to the universe. Calm down people.
Discotheque
Banned
Did they confirm who's doing the music for this btw? That epic orchestral version of the willy wonka song is pretty great
SuperStiltzkin
Member
Ready Beta Cuck
Alan Silvestri
Nothing he's done sticks out at me when I look at it. He's done the score for some Marvel movies, and we all know those soundtracks aren't memorable, doubt it's his fault though. I also don't remember what Forrest Gump sounds like.
Discotheque
Banned
Aww hell. Was hoping for Williams.
Hot damn. I admit, when I saw the early shots and read the leaks, I wasn't expecting much. But it looks like at least visually and tonally Spielberg nailed it. I shouldn't have doubted the man. Even the party scene looks like it was pulled from my imagination as I read the book.
Oyashrio-Sama
Member
looks like a fun movie. I enjoyed the book for what it was. I'm in.
Abilidebob
Member
That's what got me. As I was watching the trailer I kept thinking "wait, I already saw that somewhere else..." only to realize it's how I imagined it.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
This looks like a Loot Crate came to life. When they make Funko Pops of this, that will break the last seal preventing the apocalypse from happening.
They'll make it a Loot Crate exclusive Funko Pop.
Don't crucify me, but I've never watched BTTF, any of them.
Nor that. Besides, I was talking about at a glance, and noticing the more recent stuff, which is why I don't think it's his fault that the more recent soundtracks he's worked on aren't anything to write home about, it's a Hollywood wide problem atm.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
His score for Captain America 1 is the last remotely good/acceptable MCU soundtrack(Avengers 1 had a decent track from him).
Sadly he gets hired just to be there a lot, especially with companies like Marvel who just want the music secondary.
This is very different than what was supposed to be mostly Atari 2600 and Commodore type scavenger hunts. ;p
I really liked it for the most part, it's not so bad as people say it is.
I really liked it for the most part, it's not so bad as people say it is.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Makes me want a live action Iron Giant, something I never even though about until I watched this trailer.
Silvestri is great, man.
timetokill
Banned
That's essentially what the book is too so it sounds like Spielberg nailed it
Daffy Duck
Member
I'll watch it just for more DeLorean action.
I never grow tired of seeing that thing.
I never grow tired of seeing that thing.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Stephen King has never directed a movie. Maximum Overdrive was directed by a sentient pile of cocaine.
Oh god all the horrible memories of reading this crap are coming back.
Just look at how many of those sentences start with "I (verb)". People saying the book wasn't badly written are crazy. Here's some more of my favorite excerpts:
(the delorean is never mentioned again after this)
That said, I think it makes a much better movie because you can actually look at the stuff happening instead of having to gloss over a nostalgia themed APA reference list. And Spielberg is on it, so that increases the odds of this being good. The cgi also looks pretty cool. I am easily entertained so I'll watch this.
Worst book I've ever enjoyed. But I didn't read it.
If you want to give it a shot, try the audiobook narrated by Will Wheaton. I would never have made it 10 pages looking at the prose in written form. It's still lowest common denominator stuff, but it's much more digestable. In the end, there were some really fun sequences. No regrets.
Toss in Spielberg, and it's Day 1 for me.
If you want to give it a shot, try the audiobook narrated by Will Wheaton. I would never have made it 10 pages looking at the prose in written form. It's still lowest common denominator stuff, but it's much more digestable. In the end, there were some really fun sequences. No regrets.
Toss in Spielberg, and it's Day 1 for me.
andythinkpad
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E-Cat
Member
BTTF is great, though.
The book is awful and the trailer looks like a load of really bad CGI.
It's Spielberg though so it'll probably turn out better than the trailer suggests.
His soundtrack for Judge Dredd was one of few good things about the film.
It's Spielberg though so it'll probably turn out better than the trailer suggests.
His soundtrack for Judge Dredd was one of few good things about the film.
Spieler Eins
Member
Memba, Player One?
MarkMclovin
Member
Enjoyed the book but it's not well written. You can tell it was written with in mind of it being a movie.
The guy got his wish obviously.
The guy got his wish obviously.
Guy writes one of the biggest nerdgasms about pop-culture ever committed to paper, it's pretty bad and it's a big success.
Few years later one of the biggest names in pop-culture and cinematic history makes a film of his book.
It's a lamp or something.
Discotheque
Banned
as lame as a live action Wreck it Ralph/Kingdom Hearts-esque movie sounds, I'm still really interested thanks to Spielberg and the cast. they just might pull it off.
and if nothing else at least we get another crazy Tintin style chase sequence. that race looks so dope.
anyways I think I saw Lara Croft and some Gears of War character. and I just now noticed Harley and Deathstroke.
and if nothing else at least we get another crazy Tintin style chase sequence. that race looks so dope.
anyways I think I saw Lara Croft and some Gears of War character. and I just now noticed Harley and Deathstroke.
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
Pop culture references are bad.
I despise this deflection. How is "No, it's not bad. You just don't think it's the best book ever" a valid retort to legitimate criticism?
Turin Turambar
Member
Jesus I already want to punch the MC.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
The MC seems like your average Comic-Con attendee.
Turin Turambar
Member
I tip my fedora to you.
Chinbo37
Member
But I don't see legitimate criticism at least in this thread. I see a lot of "this book was terrible" without reasons
Okay. We get it. The book isn't well written. Christ.
Folks loooove to hate on this book, for some odd reason. Are the references just too on the nose for y'all? Don't see anywhere near this much hate for schlocky YA movies, Fifty Shades of Gray or whatever. When I read it, I was all about the world it built. Also, the book cleverly illustrated the promise of VR that is slowly but surely coming into fruition.
Can't wait to see how Spielberg brings OASIS to life. Like someone said up thread, it's amazing how it feels like I've seen some of these scenes before. Apparently, the book did an okay job of describing each setting, if Spielberg and his team were able to conceptualize and render it for the film the same way I imagined it in my head while reading the book.
Folks loooove to hate on this book, for some odd reason. Are the references just too on the nose for y'all? Don't see anywhere near this much hate for schlocky YA movies, Fifty Shades of Gray or whatever. When I read it, I was all about the world it built. Also, the book cleverly illustrated the promise of VR that is slowly but surely coming into fruition.
Can't wait to see how Spielberg brings OASIS to life. Like someone said up thread, it's amazing how it feels like I've seen some of these scenes before. Apparently, the book did an okay job of describing each setting, if Spielberg and his team were able to conceptualize and render it for the film the same way I imagined it in my head while reading the book.
forgeforsaken
Member
This is why some of us are bagging on it so hard.
What? Why?
The odd reason is because it's very bad.
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
I don't know why, people here are just saying they are so I'm agreeing with them.
forgeforsaken
Member
You know I just noticed the 88, wonder if he knows the implication of that number.
Turin Turambar
Member
There are two types of 'references'. The good ones and the bad ones.
The bad ones are bad because they are a lazy attempt of comedy. They are not ingenious or interesting or insightful or intelligent or crafty, they just say Star Wars/Star Trek/Lords of the Rings or whatever reference and that's it. I mean, how witty is to namedrop X-Wing or phaser or whatever. Zero wittiness.
The reader just recognize something he knows from another fiction he likes, and he is happy because of that. "Hey I know KITT. So fun!". Hell sometimes they aren't even lazy comedy, it's just a pop reference put there so people kneejerks as I explained. 'I know that!'.
The author knows people have that kind of gag reflex and (ab)uses that kind of reference.
And I am not even entering in the field fo abusing nostalgia.
Not all references are bad.
The good ones can be real comedy bits that use a pop culture reference, but the core of the joke is a word pun, a double meaning discovered if you know your pop culture, or whatever, they use a reference to work but they aren't funny because of that.