yeah, both times they played that chime I was like "... Willy Wonka?"
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Ready Player One - SDCC Teaser
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yeah, both times they played that chime I was like "... Willy Wonka?"
I mean the book has been described as "Willy Wonka meets the Matrix", so it wouldn't be the strangest connection to make.
Galactic Specter
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While I feel the use of "Reddit" as /tv/ terminology is overdone, it's incredibly appropriate when describing Ready Player One. If you hate nerd "culture", this book is all the worst aspects of it amplified in a poor story.
JeTmAn81
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I guess the storyline does have some similarities with Wonka if you consider the Oasis to be like Halliday's chocolate factory. It's amazing how little it takes to evoke a specific piece of music.
Zap Rowsdower
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It really is like the textbook example of how shallow and cargo-culty nerds can be.
Like something like Stranger Things uses 80's references but they are used as just background dressing for the setting because its a period piece and they don't completely envelope the main plot and characters. It also has a deep understanding of what made 80's horror/sci-fi/kids going on adventure movies work well so it stands on its own as a great example of what its homaging.
Ready Player One just regurgitates the most vacuous surface level stuff, its just a bunch of references with no meaning other than to try and validate the author's refusal to grow up.
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Looks incredible.
pixelation
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Did i see Freddy Krueger or am i dreaming?
Oh you saw Freddy Krueger. And the Iron Giant, Duke Nukem, Halo Assault Rifles in one scene lol
Rewatch the trailer, the whole first part of the oasis reveal is a slower tempo Pure Imagination orchestration
Hero_of_the_Day
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Not knowing anything about this, that trailer was something alright.
pixelation
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I cant wait for the funko pops
Remember Max Headroom? Cuz if you don't RPO is gonna fuckin remind you who he goddamn is.
George Oscar Bluth II
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I don't know much about the book (and haven't been reading through the thread so no excerpts either) and this just looks... blah, as a concept. The set pieces look really fun, though. You can nearly always count on Spielberg to deliver on those.
You know I'd feel much better if a dude like Edgar Wright was helming this than Spielberg. I feel he could distill the best ideas from the book into something totally watchable and enjoyable while dodging the worst shit in the book and not getting bogged down by,"Remember this cool thing?" crap that happens so much.
He did it with Scott Pilgrim, and that was a fun movie! Probably helped that the source material was good and not, you know, bad.
Conkersbadfurday
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Yup. And the main character is a misanthropic teen who spends all of his time playing video games and wondering why people don't like him.
It's the most blatant gary stu fanfiction ever until Armada because Cline is as transparent as his prose is shitty.
Coreda
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To me the reference was simply the title/theme of the song as it's lined up just after the trailer states 'the only limit is your imagination'. *shrug*
Was hoping the adaptation of Pure Imagination transitioned and built into something more exciting but it just kind of fizzled out before a different track was used. Trailer seemed a bit all over the place by that point.
Discotheque
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Spielberg da gawd will kill it with that chase scene. I imagine it will be something similar to tintin and his Indy franchise
But oh man. This terrible author AND zak penn on the screenplay. This could turn out being pretty bad. But I'm there for the director and cast either way
But oh man. This terrible author AND zak penn on the screenplay. This could turn out being pretty bad. But I'm there for the director and cast either way
I'm like 90% HAL 9000 shows up as a computer voice somewhere.
Honestly I think his dystopia would probably look like the present day.
George Oscar Bluth II
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Bobby Roberts
Banned
Holy shit, that's what it looks like. That's perfect.
I have to be missing some context here that makes this not entirely terrible, right? Because I refuse to believe that a human being was able to write this out with a straight face.
This whole paragraph looks like it was spewed out of some story generation application that was loaded with a random assortment of pop culture references.
What do you mean? Are you not also a fan of the classic Firefly TV series? Did you notice how he named his ship after one of his favorite twentieth-century authors?
I shit you not in Armada he describes what a Funyun is.
The plot of Ready Player One is nearly the same as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, only instead of going after a Golden Ticket to run a candy factory created by a retiring eccentric, it's going after keys to run an online universe created by a retiring eccentric.
Long dead actually. It was his strange form of a will, passing on his entire fortune and company if someone could find his Easter Egg
This plan makes no sense in context with the ending
Compsiox
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Cabbagehead
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This could either be the next TomorrowLand (Even though the last half was actual good) or the Best movie of 2018. An a return from Steve.
That's for the sequel
Rollo Tomasi
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I think that's actually Deadshot or Deathstroke walking with her. I highly doubt we see any Marvel characters in this.
Cameron crying somewhere
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
Looks awful