BeatResetsTheWorld
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I'm not even sure how this could be produced. Dealing with licensing seems like it'd be almost impossible, and it's not something where you can just take out the references. They're an integral part of the story
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Will Nolan's next film be READY PLAYER ONE?
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This is GAF, sir.
Pilgrimzero
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Someone one mentioned "Reamde" above. I picked up as I was told it was "cyberpunk" I quit about 1 and half chapters in.
In modern times, some guy who used to be a smuggler enjoying the holidays and then goes and buys a gun at the gun store.. .Zzzzzzz.
Usually I would give a book more of a chance but I so didn't care about what was happening and his little backstory, just immediately turned off by it.
First impressions and all that I guess.
In modern times, some guy who used to be a smuggler enjoying the holidays and then goes and buys a gun at the gun store.. .Zzzzzzz.
Usually I would give a book more of a chance but I so didn't care about what was happening and his little backstory, just immediately turned off by it.
First impressions and all that I guess.
This is GAF... where the Dark Knight Rises is the single worst comic book movie ever made biggest slight against comic fans all over the world, neigh, universe. (and no I don't agree with that at all).
I actually believe that someone could turn out a decent movie from this book - just gut everything and keep the basic plot and the name.
I'd heard a lot of people talk about Ready Player One so I gave it a read.
It's atrocious.
It's not quite a novel for pre-teens, I am not sure who is enjoying this book - several parts are laughably awful.
The book reminded me of self-published novels that are only published online.
I'd heard a lot of people talk about Ready Player One so I gave it a read.
It's atrocious.
It's not quite a novel for pre-teens, I am not sure who is enjoying this book - several parts are laughably awful.
The book reminded me of self-published novels that are only published online.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
People for who the entertainment and nostalgia value overwhelms the critical response. Namely, me.
If this book weren't so incredibly short, it would have much worse reception. It reads like a very entertaining thing you might read on a website, only too big for that.
L4DANathan
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Or maybe Uwe Boll.
Whatchu talkin' bout? It beats all but the best MCU movies hands down.
I see elements of this story as right up Nolan's ally. Specifically speaking because Nolan likes to play around with concepts of perception and reality then making a movie about virtual reality MMO is a logical next step. Whether or not it should deal with the characters and game logic of Ready Player One is up for debate.
Coffee Dog
Banned
this looks even hammier and more heavy handed than TDKR, and that film had a random policeman figure out batman's secret identity because he saw the sad twinkle in bruce wayne's eyes.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Sword Art Online
directed by
Christopher Nolan
send me paychck pls
directed by
Christopher Nolan
send me paychck pls
I find looking at the Goodreads top reviews gives a fairly good idea of a book, rather than the ratings (which I find can be slightly skewed, especially when a book appeals to a specific fandom). I do stand up for stuff that GAF seems to take a bit of an unlikely contrarian opinion on (e.g. TDKR, Skyfall etc...).
In the case of RPO, the top Goodreads reviews are, as expected, totally mixed. From adoration of the fun, to firm criticism of the shabby writing.
I thought the characters, plot and romance were achingly bad, BUT have to admit that I had a good bit of fun outside of the infodumps.
In the case of RPO, the top Goodreads reviews are, as expected, totally mixed. From adoration of the fun, to firm criticism of the shabby writing.
I thought the characters, plot and romance were achingly bad, BUT have to admit that I had a good bit of fun outside of the infodumps.
bennywhatever
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NeoGAF standards |= General Public standards. Everyone IRL I know that read this book (7 or 8 people) all loved it.
The more I think about it, the more I think it'd be neat if they gave it the Running Man treatment where they kept the premise of the movie but changed all the characters. That'd be right up Nolan's alley.
Part of me thinks that's shelved for good, but it did come up a lot on the Interstellar press tour. Could be nothing to that, but at the same time Jonah was also talking about how much he loved Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, and then less than a week later it broke that he was developing it into an HBO series.
personally, I'd rather see Nolan's remake of The Prisoner instead.
If anything, we deserve an actual The Running Man movie and not what we got.
I'm wondering if he's ready to leave "blowing shit up" just yet. The fact that Interstellar might make nearly $700M is a god damn miracle, it could have easily been his first bomb.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he just goes "Fuck it, let's just do Inception 2" after the reaction Inception got during his Colbert Report appearance.
Mushroomer25
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No it won't. For literally countless reasons.
First, the book is inherently unadaptable. It's based on a future where pop culture worship has resulted in every franchise under the sun coming together in this virtual reality universe, where Serenity flies next to the Millennium Falcon while they shoot out the bikes from Akira. Getting the licensing for everything necessary would be impossible, meaning the alternative is to either strip that element out entirety, or limiting it to characters in WB's library.
Next, there's the fact that Nolan doesn't need to be "courted" for projects. He's one of the most powerful directors in Hollywood, and I don't see a scenario where WB can leverage him into an adaptation.
Plus, this would be the last thing he'd ever agree to work on. It's 100% fanboy fodder, a story about the average suburban white kid who saves the world because he's so inherently better than everyone else. It's ridden with cliche in a way that almost pays omage to 80s filmmaking unintentionally. If Nolan wanted to make more of that kind of movie, why not give him a new DC project?
First, the book is inherently unadaptable. It's based on a future where pop culture worship has resulted in every franchise under the sun coming together in this virtual reality universe, where Serenity flies next to the Millennium Falcon while they shoot out the bikes from Akira. Getting the licensing for everything necessary would be impossible, meaning the alternative is to either strip that element out entirety, or limiting it to characters in WB's library.
Next, there's the fact that Nolan doesn't need to be "courted" for projects. He's one of the most powerful directors in Hollywood, and I don't see a scenario where WB can leverage him into an adaptation.
Plus, this would be the last thing he'd ever agree to work on. It's 100% fanboy fodder, a story about the average suburban white kid who saves the world because he's so inherently better than everyone else. It's ridden with cliche in a way that almost pays omage to 80s filmmaking unintentionally. If Nolan wanted to make more of that kind of movie, why not give him a new DC project?
maquiladora
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80's pop culture references? Doesn't sound like Chris Nolan. Where's Edgar Wright at.
It would be fine if the book were 'dumb fun'. I can enjoy a Dan Brown novel as much as the next guy. But RPO is just mind-numbingly bad, and I say that as someone who has read their share of bad fantasy and sci-fi books. I read Piers Anthony's entire catalog as a youth. I read Eragon. I read the Brian Herbert Dune books. This is a bad book even by those standards.
Didn't know about the book, so read a summary and yeah, this isn't the type of story that Nolan typically makes. Wouldn't be a good match at all.
Wasn't he offered a position similar to that of Joss Whedon as supervisor of the whole DC movie universe? But he declined because that would take to much of his time and stop him from doing different projects.
No, he didn't?
Wasn't he offered a position similar to that of Joss Whedon as supervisor of the whole DC movie universe? But he declined because that would take to much of his time and stop him from doing different projects.
No, he didn't?
bennywhatever
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Maybe that's what Christopher Nolan should do!! With a little scrawny guy as Ben Richards and crazy public slums and
airplanes and guts
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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Nolans a 90s kid I guess
Fancy Clown
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This rumor is a joke, right? Please tell me it's a joke...
pr0cs
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QFT, what an overrated book.
I can't believe I wasted as much time as I did slogging through it, the end especially
deltatheta
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The backlash against this book kind of reminds me of the Scott Pilgrim reviews.
how so? SP was a solid comic series & a surpisingly rad movie.... have you read RPO?
deltatheta
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Yeah, I've read the book and I liked it.
I was referring to the tendency of the people who didn't like the book going after the people who liked it. Like how most of the Scott Pilgrim negative reviews weren't about the movie, but the audience.
This is a great article about the phenomenon.
First half of SAO season 1 would be a phenomenal movie in the right hands.
ImpalingNarwhal
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Interesting. I just started reading this book, and I started thinking if it would make a good movie. I decided it would not. The story is good, fun science fiction, but the 80's pop culture references come on way too thick, and it is not particularly well written. A person would probably be better off reading Ender's Game again.
BeatResetsTheWorld
Banned
.Hack was also the superior series. I'd rather that be adapted
Sectorseven
Member
I think there's a perception that core geeks are incredibly polarized. There are some who will devour any shit the corporate machine slogs out, and others who love to hate on something no matter how good it is. They both yell the loudest and neither is willing to make concessions. Top it off with their favorite mediums (games, comics, fantasy novels) historically being void of ideas and it leaves the elitists wondering what exactly it is these geeks are fighting over.
bennywhatever
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They were pretty clearly aimed at the fans. I mean, yeah you're entitled to your opinion, but don't belittle those that think differently than you. Regardless of what the elite readers think, this book scored very well on Goodreads and Amazon so there are obviously a lot of people that liked it and would love a movie.
This is different though in the sense that it would be a one off. That's the precedence I'm wondering about.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
I was a fan of Scott Pilgrim too (without the guilty pleasure caveat) but the "insult the fans" thing tells me more about the person saying it than it bothers me personally. In both cases, the description of the fans by the critic didn't match me in the slightest. I am neither hipster nor fedora-wearer nor neckbeard.
(Although I suppose I was friendzoned pretty hard as a teen in the 80s, but wasn't everybody early in their romantic life?)
(Although I suppose I was friendzoned pretty hard as a teen in the 80s, but wasn't everybody early in their romantic life?)
bennywhatever
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While I actually enjoyed RPO, I do agree with you in that Snow Crash would be an awesome movie and is way more up Nolan's alley.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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I love the "nolan is above this kind of movie" posts
Guys. Nolan made three fucking batman movies.
Guys. Nolan made three fucking batman movies.
Shitty book will make for a shitty movie. I hope it bombs and kills the hack author's chances of every writing another trash book for the sole purpose of shopping it around for a movie deal. My thoughts from a book thread:
Third movie aside, the comic books that inspired two of those movies were pretty good and so was the final outcome on the screen. Ready Player One is just plain terrible.
Third movie aside, the comic books that inspired two of those movies were pretty good and so was the final outcome on the screen. Ready Player One is just plain terrible.
A large number of amateur reviews is not indicative of high quality. Many of the "5 star!" reviews can't coherently describe what's so good about the book beyond "I grew up in the 80s, I love all the old school references, Oasis would be so dope, and Wade kicked so much ass! 6 out of 5 stars, best book ever!"
Without spoiling anything, the handling of minority support charracters on its own was embarrassing as fuck and enough to dissuade me from not trusting anyone who said the book was perfect, amazing, etc. If Cline was a competent writer and there was an underlying message (there's literally nothing below the surface-level pandering), I would've thought this was intentional Robocop-type parody. Instead it's just insulting crap aimed at what Cline must believe are simple-minded readers.
Perspicacity
Banned
lol
bennywhatever
Member
So because the reviewers were amateur, the movie shouldn't be made? I'm not getting your point. What I was trying to say is that it doesn't matter whether it's a "great" book or not, the vast majority of average people like it, so making a movie about it would make sense. People make movies to make money and the average joe couldn't care less whether it's a mind-blowing work of fiction or a fun, silly romp through a fake MMO with tons of 80s references. As long as it's entertaining, people will watch it.
I enjoyed it. The author, Ernie Cline, lives here in Austin so this would be pretty neat. I went to a book reading/signing for this some years back and he was a very nice guy. Drives a Delorean.
Maybe Harry Knowles would actually do some cool shit.. dude has basically given up hosting events for Austin. I miss Capone and his Chicago stuff.
Maybe Harry Knowles would actually do some cool shit.. dude has basically given up hosting events for Austin. I miss Capone and his Chicago stuff.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
An awful lot of good to great moves came from mediocre source material.
That said,
a) I don't think this would work as a movie
b) I can't see the hook for Nolan. Seems very outside his body of work, except for the VR. And that isn't really the hook for the book-- the nostalgia and the reader identification are.
That said,
a) I don't think this would work as a movie
b) I can't see the hook for Nolan. Seems very outside his body of work, except for the VR. And that isn't really the hook for the book-- the nostalgia and the reader identification are.
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