Puck Beaverton
Banned
LAUNCH THE MISSILE~
I get it.
LAUNCH THE MISSILE~
Yeah this is what I'm worried aboutSo, about the Iron Giant:
If the Iron Giant is being USED by this kid as a means to win, I dont' know that I'm gonna like that.
Like, the Giant isn't a rock 'em sock 'em robot. The whole point of him is that he learns he isn't a gun. He is who he chooses to be.
So Cyclops chooses to pilot the Giant like Jaeger to win Wonka's factory or some shit? And I'm supposed to cheer for that?
Ehhhhhhhhh.
This is the way it's going to be going forward, to a certain degree. Unless people take the time as they grow older to go back over all their old forum posts, blog posts, social media comments and other things, a person's entire digital youth is going to be available for everyone to see. Jokes in poor taste, casually racist comments that you've outgrown as you've matured, cyberbullying remarks that were partly responsible for someone committing suicide... all this stuff is just there, unless people take an active interest in periodically cleaning house once in a while.
Anybody born in the last ten years can potentially have every incriminating remark they've ever made online since they became techno/literate preserved forever. It's going to be interesting to see how people going for job interviews 10 years from now clean up their online presence to make sure nothing incriminating comes out that could cost them a job.
Man. What rustled your jimmies?You can do another bad Spider-Man take thread to pass the time.
Your usage of the classic early 21st century internet meme, featuring the smug cereal mascot Ape.Man. What rustled your jimmies?
Absolutely. The part centered around Labyrinth and Bowie's bulge would be legendary.Ok I'm sorry but I'd buy that ready player one but with girl culture novel in a heart beat lmao
Exactly.
So let's lay it out there. Who thinks this shit is going to be in a Spielberg movie? This is a thread about the movie and not the book, right? It's getting tiresome.
Geek culture does not have time to consider meaning. We must consume, like the Rancor in the movie Return of the Jedi, the third movie in the original Star Wars trilogy.
No kidding. After hearing all the hype about the book and finally reading it gotta say i was left pretty disappointed.I read part of the book on my lunch hour today...
What the hell is this? It honestly reads like fan-fiction written by a 17-year-old.
The best part of the book was the conceit. National Treasure in a VR world. Awesome.
It was OVERPOWERED by the execution. I'm actually optimistic, but the trailer didn't give me hopes that they'd remove the dumbass narration entirely. Ernie Cline co-wrote the screenplay. You KNOW that shizz got voiceover.
The Bechdel test will be incredibly far from where we start. Here's us, right? We're in Santa Monica just getting onto the I-10. The Bechdel Test is just coming into Tallahassee.
No kidding. After hearing all the hype about the book and finally reading it gotta say i was left pretty disappointed.
Writing was pretty bad. Also i dont know anything about the author so he might actually be a gamer but while reading the book it felt as if it was written by someone who didnt know much about video games.
Eh. This movie could go in many directions that pass or fail the "Bechdel Test (3/3)." It's not exactly a sign of quality one way or the other, but, it's certainly something every writer should consider as one of many general self-checks during the writing process to keep themselves honest.
No kidding. After hearing all the hype about the book and finally reading it gotta say i was left pretty disappointed.
Writing was pretty bad. Also i dont know anything about the author so he might actually be a gamer but while reading the book it felt as if it was written by someone who didnt know much about video games.
Arbogast had then assembled a dream team of creative consultants and contractors to help make his bold claim a reality, luring some of the videogame industrys brightest stars away from their own companies and projects, with the sole promise of collaborating on his groundbreaking new MMOs. That was how gaming legends like Chris Roberts, Richard Garriott, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Gabe Newell, and Shigeru Miyamoto had all wound up as consultants on both Terra Firma and Armada along with several big Hollywood filmmakers, including James Cameron, who had contributed to the EDAs realistic ship and mech designs, and Peter Jackson, whose Weta Workshop had rendered all of the in-game cinematics.
Chaos Terrain had created its own custom games engine for both Terra Firma and Armada, using many of the same programmers who had worked on previous combat-simulation game series like Battlefield, Call of Duty, and Modern Warfare, and on existing aerial and space combat simulators like Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, and EVE Online.
This is what really annoyed me in the book. Cline just keeps piling on stuff and adding things to the Oasis that he thinks is cool. The Oasis is not a fantasy, nor a sci-fi nor a millitary MMO, it's fucking everything all at the same time. There's samurai, cowboys, space marines, jedi's, soldiers, androids, etc. all co-existing in this game. How does PVP work between a player with a gun and a player with a sword? Shit doesn't make sense.Yup, he's a gamer that doesn't understand games or game design.
If the leaked script is anything to go by... lolI'm actually optimistic, but the trailer didn't give me hopes that they'd remove the dumbass narration entirely. Ernie Cline co-wrote the screenplay. You KNOW that shizz got voiceover.
The Bechdel test will be incredibly far from where we start. Here's us, right? We're in Santa Monica just getting onto the I-10. The Bechdel Test is just coming into Tallahassee.
So let's lay it out there. Who thinks this shit is going to be in a Spielberg movie? This is a thread about the movie and not the book, right? It's getting tiresome.
Is it too late to post his nice-guy porn ideas?
Every time I enter this thread, I'm hoping discussion has turned to Spielberg's work on the movie. It's interesting that he's shouting in the Volume again ala TinTin.
There have been articles this week saying he sought tech help from Cameron in how to shoot this film, but I have a feeling they've misunderstood and are referring to the time when Spielberg trained with Cameron for TinTin specifically.
But you know. Source material is shit. So let's talk for another 10 pages about that.
Is it too late to post his nice-guy porn ideas?
Come on. Could someone who didn't know much about video games write this?
In case my sarcasm wasn't obvious, Armada, a book entirely about video games, makes it clear he doesn't understand them at all.
Come on. Could someone who didn't know much about video games write this?
In case my sarcasm wasn't obvious, Armada, a book entirely about video games, makes it clear he doesn't understand them at all.
I asked this earlier in the thread, but I don't think anyone answered.
I've read the book and didn't mind it. It was just a fun, quick, mindless read. If you can remove any sort of pre-conceived ideas that this book is bad and read it for what it is, you'll enjoy it as such. There are MANY shittier books out there. This is just kind of a cool "romp through nerd pop-culture" that you can knock out in a weekend if you're looking to get back into reading (which is exactly how I treated it).
However!
The trailer for this movie looks NOTHING like the book. I don't seem to remember a lot of what the trailer advertised. Is this movie supposed to be based on the book's world instead of being based off the book's story?
A lot of the book really need to be changed to make it to the big screen. The over reliance on the references in nearly part alone to actually advance in the game wouldn't work nearly as well for a big budget block buster targeted at general audiences. They'll fill it with references but actually relying on those to move the story along would have been problematic at best. Not only that but a lot of the books actual events and puzzles wouldn't really be all that fun or interesting to watch so I think Spielberg doing his own thing with the idea and world is the best thing we can all hope for.
Is it too late to post his nice-guy porn ideas?
The Godfather book had an extended side plot about how a woman's vagina was too big for her to enjoy sex.
How dare you call it bad.
Come on. Could someone who didn't know much about video games write this?
"Arbogast had then assembled a dream team of creative consultants and contractors to help make his bold claim a reality, luring some of the videogame industrys brightest stars away from their own companies and projects, with the sole promise of collaborating on his groundbreaking new MMOs. That was how gaming legends like Chris Roberts, Richard Garriott, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Gabe Newell, and Shigeru Miyamoto had all wound up as consultants on both Terra Firma and Armada along with several big Hollywood filmmakers, including James Cameron, who had contributed to the EDAs realistic ship and mech designs, and Peter Jackson, whose Weta Workshop had rendered all of the in-game cinematics.
Chaos Terrain had created its own custom games engine for both Terra Firma and Armada, using many of the same programmers who had worked on previous combat-simulation game series like Battlefield, Call of Duty, and Modern Warfare, and on existing aerial and space combat simulators like Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, and EVE Online."
In case my sarcasm wasn't obvious, Armada, a book entirely about video games, makes it clear he doesn't understand them at all.
I wonder if the movie will miss the underlying main point of the book as much as nearly everyone who reads it does - i.e. that pop culture indulgence is nothing more than a means to placate and distract the masses from mega-corporations destroying the world with greed.
I wonder if the movie will miss the underlying main point of the book as much as nearly everyone who reads it does - i.e. that pop culture indulgence is nothing more than a means to placate and distract the masses from mega-corporations destroying the world with greed.
It's what keeping the thread kicking and screaming, like that film by Noah Baumbach, who went on to collaborate with Wes Anderson on The Life Aquatic.Hey guys I know it's page 22 but has anyone mentioned how shitty this book is and posted examples?
Just wanted to make sure people knew so we could have an ongoing rant.
Hey guys I know it's page 22 but has anyone mentioned how shitty this book is and posted examples?
Just wanted to make sure people knew so we could have an ongoing rant.
Is it too late to post his nice-guy porn ideas?