lol Freddy Krueger.
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lol Freddy Krueger.
Looks better than I expected. Love seeing the Iron Giant in there.
I'm going to have to read this again soon. Love the book so much.
I don't remember the chase scene from the trailer, am I just forgetting a part, or is that completely new?
I think that's completely new. This looks like it's going to be loosely based on the book. I really doubt all the original game/pop culture references will be in there. I'm hoping a few (The Acererak Joust duel mostly) will be in there but I trust Spielburg to get the spirit of the book.
This book was just overly wrought fan-fiction.
MEMBER JOUST??? MEEE TOO! HIGH FIVE!
The characters traveled across the digi-space
MEMBER BACK 2 THE FUTURE??? MEE TOO! HIGH FIVE!
Etc...
Did it have a self insert sex scene where the writer got to do a three way with kirk and optimus prime?
How long before this us compared to the drug Saturday morning special?
Kind of, yeah. But it was, basically about a contest for who could be the ultimate nerd-culture trivia buff.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
That seems to be a bit lost in this trailer. It seems like characters are just there, not as part of any of Halliday's challenges, but just because, including wildly out-of-era shit like Gears of War. In the book, what made the characters succeed was their knowledge, so this like "I have to drag race against the BttF car and fight a ninja turtle" stuff seems to be losing that focus.
I'm thinking about reading the book, but it sounds like the most awful jerkoff nerd fanfiction ever.
I enjoyed it, but before it was cool to hate it.
I'm certainly not trying to be part of any blowback. We listened to it while driving out here in December and I had my thoughts by the first third. It's just references to better fiction obscuring a plot we've seen a zillion times.
That's what it is. I'm not clued into "nerd culture" outside of vidya so maybe the book wasn't for me. But I thought it was beyond awful. Like, the biggest piece of crap book. That said Steven Spielberg, unlike Ernest Cline, is a man of talent. I think he could deliver an entertaining movie for all that also has all the in-jokes and references for people who liked the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
Also: it's weird that the same people who criticize Big Bang Theory for shitty surface level pandering embraced this book.
The references in the movie will be completely arbitrary to whatever rights they were able to pick up. Novels don't have to do that, they're free to just use anything. What it comes down to is that nothing in this movie can possibly matter.
To the book's credit, it probably has one of the most realistic and grounded depictions of VR and the metaverse, and it did it before the current VR wave. That alone is pretty cool.
It is fan-fictiony in a lot of ways, more than it is pandering even. A lot of the references are dated and and obscure, to where they come off as self-indulgent rather than commercial. That also made them more forgivable to me, because it made it kind of personal rather than cynical.
I know nothing about this book, and saw all the jizz reaction to the trailer. Guess I am not cool enough to get it.
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Yes this book has a ton of surface level pandering but you can tell it actually comes from a love of references. Big Bang Theory is more focused on "oh look at those silly nerds doing nerd things, laugh at how funny their nerd things are: see this one likes the Saga comic because it has BOOBS on it... HA HA HA HA HA, nerds don't get to touch boobs so that's funny... oh and this one plays world of warcraft... HA HA HA HA HA NERDS"Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Yeah, big bang is nerd face.
It's the novelization of the MVS comic where he flies away at the end.
yeesh. I guess I've felt like that before, but what a strange thing to say. haha. I think we've talked about the book more extensively in Printed Page, but I've always felt like the author was a bit of a fraud, and that he wasn't part of the initial culture, but just went back and researched it, and I think that's maybe who the book is for as well... people that are interested in what was going on back then but weren't really part of it. I didn't hate the book, and it kept me turning the pages pretty quickly the whole way through, I just felt like the author saw an opening to capitalize on a cultural pattern and took it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bbobb
Anyway, I saw this with a pretty big group of people last night. Some really liked it. I just tried to zone out and enjoy it. It's really fucking long.. I think it was over two and a half hours. They changed a lot of stuff... I don't know if it made it any better. E.g. instead of them discovering the temple of elemental evil, they just have a big race the creator set up for the first key. It's action packed and pretty intense, but then, I start looking at Keneda's bike from Akira and how off it looks and I fall down some rabbit hole.
In the midst of a blur of 50 thousand licenses battling I was captivated by the first scene between mechagodzilla and the Gundam.
I disagree. I felt like Halliday was a Mary Sue, and that all his favorite things that were Very Important were just random shit from Cline's childhood, regardless of significance or merit. No one gives a fuck about Black Tiger or whatever, it's just something Cline played when he was 8 so in the book it goes.Quote:
Originally Posted by sedition
Anyway, I saw the movie last night. It didn't really resemble the book much, but a lot of that was for the better, at least in terms of making it work as a movie. The cultural references were a lot broader, but I think that was needed for the audience, and it did a better job of justifying their meaning to Halliday as a character beyond just "Shit Ernest Cline likes."
A few changes I didn't like though. The fact that they all just happen to be in the same city in short driving distance from each other is both beyond a stretch to believe and goes against the spirit of the thing which about connecting with people all over the world. I also didn't like the weird hacker plot where they tricked Sorrento into thinking he was in the real world. This is future tech with good haptics and all but nothing about it ever suggests it could pass for reality. It's a game, it's just a very immersive one. The idea that they could somehow hack his environment because they had his login made no sense to me either. Hated that whole bit.
Other than that, it was good fun and very entertaining to watch.
Everyone’s talking about how great the Shining sequence is and I’m just sitting here pissed they didn’t go to Syrinx. Waited like three years to see that. Making the first challenge a race instead of the Temple of Elemental Evil (and not having Parzival and Artemis beat it before anyone else even found it) was lame too.
I do like that they made the challenges more than just pure tests of trivia knowledge and gaming skill, though; making the key understanding Halliday’s regrets makes the end message feel a lot less forced than it did in the book. I just wish they hadn’t changed them so drastically from things I was excited to see on-screen.
Yeah, it was less about the search for a Real Gamer than it was an effort to leave it to someone who wouldn't make the same mistakes. I thought that change worked well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Space Pirate Roberts
One nice side effect of this train wreck of a movie is that it's made Adventure for Atari 2600 spike in price to stupid levels
for real?
Up to $50 for a loose copy that has a picture label.
I hope you have a few copies.
not any more.
Is there any reason to watch this movie instead of any single movie that it's referencing?
It looks like lame nerd culture meta trash to me. I’ll give it a watch on Netflix or the usual places though.
I'm not sure that's how this works.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Ended up seeing it, it's OK. Wreck It Ralph, pretty much!
Seeing a bootleg Mechagodzilla fight a Gundam was neat, and it was nice seeing the Aliens pulse rifle in there a bunch. Spielberg Schmaltz was in full effect during the 17 minutes he actually directed.
The reference stuff skipped an annoying amount of detail, if they were going that route. It had the 'stuff' but the stuff didn't work like it did in the source material; Iron Giant's parts didn't connect up like they do in that film, the DeLorean didn't have ice on it, the Monty Python hand grenade didn't have the 1, 2, 5 thing going on. If you're going to go nuts on having all this crap in there, maybe actually watch the movie twice I guess?
The Shining: The Video Game was cute.
Just got back from seeing this. Or rather seeing a blur that was titled Ready Player One. Some things were pretty obvious, the Gundam, Iron Giant, MechaGodzilla which wasn't a bootleg but actually referenced as being MechaGodzilla not sure what you're on about Yeller. Blizzard was a pretty heavy sponsor, caught glimpses of Overwatch, Zerg, Protoss and Jim Raynor if Jim Raynor was all bout Murica. Also caught glimpses of Ninja Turtles, Halo Spartans, pretty sure I saw a Battletoad or two in a frame or two. Also I was positive the big bad guy had Superman as an avatar but he never made an appearance so I dunno.
But honestly I think this will be a movie that's easier to catch all the references on the small screen. There is just too much shit going on on the screen in the big action moments.
Plot was ok. Never read the book.
It's not an actual Toho Mechagodzilla design that's ever been in a movie. Hence, bootleg. Blue breath weapons really aren't an MG thing.
/i have watched waaaay too many Godzilla movies not to notice. It's closest to a mecha version of US Godzilla 2014 with crazy gangly arms.
OK fair enough.
Yeah, I saw a clip of that wannabe Mecha G on YouTube. That ain't no Kiryu.
It's mostly ok. It was cute. Probably really cool to 12 year Olds and their dads.
I do have to admit the sjw complaints are valid though. The love story was forced and there were a serious lack of female properties.
Yeah, but do you really want to see an Oasis swarming with Pinkie Pies? :P
it dosn't have to be that. But you can't tell me that in a game where you can make anything your avatar, there wouldn't be some sailor moons, or sherah.
Saw this last week. i enjoyed it for what it was. started reading the book yesterday. amazingly different. i like the book way more.
Uh this movie was ok, I guess. The love story was silly nerd fantasy and totally terrible. The most unbelievable thing about the whole thing was how long it took the internet community to try driving backwards.
This is true but you need to post the comic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo