• READY PLAYER ONE Trailer 1
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personally, I don't think the trailers so far have really been trying to present it as anything other than a popcorn movie. I get holding movies/directors up to a certain standard and this movie probably will be cheesy, but I think the main point of it is it being a love letter to modern pop culture in the way that RP1 was a love letter to 80s and 90s (i think) pop culture. AT THE SAME TIME, it comes at a time in film history where every other movie that comes out is a reboot, remake, soft reboot, etc. That being said, this is a Warner Bros film so it'd be 100% accurate to say they came in their pants at the opportunity to make a movie that is essentially yelling "HEY, COME SEE THIS SINCE IT HAS ALL THAT SHIT YOU LIKE IN IT" The visual effects are really nice too. Might see it just for the visuals
[QUOTE=elitehakor;52964727]Are people just saying it’s fanfiction tier writing because they read that one excerpt from the book[/QUOTE] The entire book is like that. Almost every single plot point or element is a pop culture reference, and the few things that aren't is the most basic of "characters in a digital world" writing. There is a grand total of one interesting narrative in the book, and it is not the focus nor is it resolved.
[QUOTE=Oizen;52964805]The entire book is like that. Almost every single plot point or element is a pop culture reference, and the few things that aren't is the most basic of "characters in a digital world" writing. There is a grand total of one interesting narrative in the book, and it is not the focus nor is it resolved.[/QUOTE] And all of that has nothing to do with 'fanfiction tier writing'. All of those things have purpose. Also, there's plenty of things that don't have to deal directly with pop-culture references despite being 'draped' in them regardless, such as Wade getting fat and having to lose weight because he couldn't fit in his damn rig anymore because he becomes so focused on the quest and is in such an enormous race against most of the rest of humanity that he forgets he has an actual body that needs care too; such as people becoming indebted to IOI and how they're farming the youth for profit. Et cetera. Just sounds to me like you haven't read the book - or just skimmed through it. The narrative of the book is the focus and is specifically resolved. It's so resolved that you couldn't make a sequel off this book if you tried without just repeating everything that happened in it. Fanfiction lacks clarity and consistency; it 'makes shit up as it goes along' - or far worse just rehashes shit you've already read/seen while adding the author's own 'spin' on it by adding unnecessary 'context' via internal monologues, unnecessarily verbose depictions of action/fighting, and et cetera. You can shit on the book constantly leaning on the 'appeal' of the 80s and these over-excited, ridiculous, introvert kids who apparently simply don't have any parental guidance in their lives aside from Halliday - but it's consistent, it hits its beats competently, and it sets up and delivers on each of its plot points - although I admit there are points where he sets up an 'elaborate thing nobody would guess' and then just goes 'ah fuck it, Eureka moment that comes from a player making a somewhat unrelated connection'.
[QUOTE=Idzo;52964576]You might as well pirate it then. When you go to see it 'ironically' you're nothing different than people who go to see it regularly,you still contribute to the movies success.[/QUOTE] Or, you know, not watch it at all? Pirating it is such a half-assed statement.
[QUOTE=Annoyed Grunt;52964640]I'd like to point out that this isn't just some dude rambling about a tacky car [I]he wants[/I]. This is some dude rambling about a tacky car [I]he owns[/I]. [t]https://i0.wp.com/templeofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Classic-Game-Fest-2017-28.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] This is embarrassing and I drive a riced civic
[QUOTE=Firgof Umbra;52964814]And all of that has nothing to do with 'fanfiction tier writing'. All of those things have purpose. Also, there's plenty of things that don't have to deal directly with pop-culture references despite being 'draped' in them regardless, such as Wade getting fat and having to lose weight because he couldn't fit in his damn rig anymore because he becomes so focused on the quest and is in such an enormous race against most of the rest of humanity that he forgets he has an actual body that needs care too; such as people becoming indebted to IOI and how they're farming the youth for profit. Et cetera. Just sounds to me like you haven't read the book - or just skimmed through it. The narrative of the book is the focus and is specifically resolved. It's so resolved that you couldn't make a sequel off this book if you tried without just repeating everything that happened in it. [/QUOTE] [sp]Theres a narritive about how this virtual paradise of 80s throwbacks is actually bad for the world, seeing the state of the world and how no one is bothering to fix it up due to their obsession with 80s Throwback world. This isn't actually resolved, its overshadowed by Big Bad Coorperation treating people badly and now we're gonna get lawyers and shut them down with the money[/sp] That is the most interesting aspect of the book, After he wins the competition nothing really happens. He just gets the girl and thats it. Could very easily make a READY PLAYER TWO with how ambiguous this was. I have no clue where you're getting "so resolved" from it. Not that this sort of ending is bad, leaving a lot up in the air. It did however leave me feeling kind of cheated. I was just drained after reading the book, constantly hearing about things that existed in the 80s, every single conest challenge being so intertwined with pop culture I just sort of stopped caring. I mean even the [sp]grand climax is MC in Power Rangers Mechs fighting more Pow Ranger mechs and ultimately they all blow up, but he was immune to the super weapon because he played a game of Pac Man.[/sp] Maybe its just not for me, considering Nostaliga has 0 effect on me in the slightest. But some parts get down right tedious to get through, where the MC will just go on for paragraph after paragraph of Pop culture references, in which the DeLorean picure posted earlier isn't even the worst of it. Maybe it'll make a better movie than book, but who knows at this point.
[QUOTE=TheCactusman;52964700]I'm pretty sure it's not taking itself seriously. This isn't pretending to have an interesting plot in the trailers, so why are you expecting it to?[/QUOTE] Because it's a fucking movie and it's expected? Why even make the movie if they're not even going to make an attempt at making anything decent?
"Just gets the girl and that's it". You haven't read the book; you skipped to the last page and went 'meh' while skimming through it. That's understandable if you weren't enjoying it or if you didn't feel like slogging through the detritus of teenagers babbling for pages on end about effectively 'a debate on who had the best robit in Beast Wars' and the like. The narrative isn't so much about how the virtual paradise is bad, it's[sp] that the world has gotten so bad (thanks to IOI single-handedly fucking it up and making it so that 'all roads lead to IOI') that said virtual paradise is now the place everyone prefers to live their lives. IOW the narrative is 'IOI has fucked up the world by owning nearly all of it and now wants to take away the last good thing in peoples' lives' and is absolutely resolved at book end. IOI doesn't get the key, the legacy gets passed, total control over the Oasis gets transferred to protagonist - now he has the money and power to effectively shut down and break up the IOI and more or less makes up his mind that that's what he's going to do.[/sp] Edit: The narrative is effectively 'what happens when McDondaldsGoogleAmazonComcastBank-of-America one day decides to be evil and take control of the internet and all forms of media - all except for this one pesky gaming community that's driven by shitposting, 'retro theme parks', and nostalgic memes who somehow has the collective power of a global superpower in its influence and the value of its currency - but whose 'throne' sits empty and whose former admin decided that whoever could solve his meme-limericks first was the most worthy of his throne because they'd be just as horrendous a shitlord meme-man; something 'normies' (e.g. the IOI) could never achieve'. To sum: Absolute Freedom of Expression vs. Absolute Corporate Control. It sounds like it's not for you, yeah, and that's fine. The movie will also not be for you, most likely.
The reason Mario and Luigi didn't appear in Wreck It Ralph was because the writers could find no possible subtle way to introduce either of them but in this movie they crammed every fucking character they could find in it, that big battle scene is probably going to be pumped with characters from different mediums and it probably got written just for that and I can foresee that nearly the half of the film is going to be "remember this character" where a character pops up, says its signature line or whatever just to never be seen again.
[QUOTE=Oizen;52964842][sp]Theres a narritive about how this virtual paradise of 80s throwbacks is actually bad for the world, seeing the state of the world and how no one is bothering to fix it up due to their obsession with 80s Throwback world. This isn't actually resolved, its overshadowed by Big Bad Coorperation treating people badly and now we're gonna get lawyers and shut them down with the money[/sp] That is the most interesting aspect of the book, After he wins the competition nothing really happens. He just gets the girl and thats it. Could very easily make a READY PLAYER TWO with how ambiguous this was. I have no clue where you're getting "so resolved" from it. Not that this sort of ending is bad, leaving a lot up in the air. It did however leave me feeling kind of cheated. I was just drained after reading the book, constantly hearing about things that existed in the 80s, every single conest challenge being so intertwined with pop culture I just sort of stopped caring. I mean even the [sp]grand climax is MC in Power Rangers Mechs fighting more Pow Ranger mechs and ultimately they all blow up, but he was immune to the super weapon because he played a game of Pac Man.[/sp] Maybe its just not for me, considering Nostaliga has 0 effect on me in the slightest. But some parts get down right tedious to get through, where the MC will just go on for paragraph after paragraph of Pop culture references, in which the DeLorean picure posted earlier isn't even the worst of it. Maybe it'll make a better movie than book, but who knows at this point.[/QUOTE] Im still surprised that Steven Spielberg out of all the people is going to do a movie about this book, maybe he could make it way better, but looking by the trailer it just looks like it gonna have a really generic plot along with countless of nerd references. There IS something that im 100% this movie is gonna do better, Its going to do the Nerd stuff better than the "HAHA this guy said something geek!" that The Big Bang Theory does, but that is not a big accomplishment, and holy crap do I hate The Big Bang Theory
[QUOTE=rutolfus;52964886]Im still surprised that Steven Spielberg out of all the people is going to do a movie about this book, maybe he could make it way better, but looking by the trailer it just looks like it gonna have a really generic plot along with countless of nerd references. There IS something that im 100% this movie is gonna do better, Its going to do the Nerd stuff better than the "HAHA this guy said something geek!" that The Big Bang Theory does, but that is not a big accomplishment, and holy crap do I hate The Big Bang Theory[/QUOTE] I'm not. e: Most of his films are 'brave children triumph over adults in a magical world that adults don't understand - or don't understand well - and which they want to pervert or destroy'. Ready Player One was basically custom-tailored for him to pick it up.
So its Snow Crash but with all the funny self awareness and the cool programming stuff replaced by pop culture references? Speaking of which, where is my Sniw Crash movie?
At least the choice of music in the trailer is good
I hope there's a jojo reference
[quote]So its Snow Crash but with all the funny self awareness and the cool programming stuff replaced by pop culture references? Speaking of which, where is my Sniw Crash movie?[/quote] It's Snow Crash except change the base impetus from 'Fight for control of [sp]MYSTICAL LANGUAGE CONCEPTS[/sp] [literally magical memes]' to 'Fight for control of [sp]MAGICAL VIRTUAL WORLD WHERE YOU CAN BE THE GIANT DICK MONSTER YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE AND WHICH 'THE MAN' WANTS TO SHUT DOWN BECAUSE THEY'RE POOPHEAD UNHUMOROUS ACCOUNTANTLAWYERS[/sp] [second life - but now with the power and influence of a global superpower]'. Also, less pizza delivery and NINJASWORDHAVEISHOWNYOUMYNINJASWORDHEREITISMYNINJASWORD (also my mom works for the FBI). Sadly, I must also report that there is less 'KFC Mafia' and 'The Great State of Texas - I mean ScientologyMormonChristianConglomerateCommune'. Also, you can have your Snow Crash movie right after I get my god damn Daemon movie.
this looks like "the wizard" levels of advertisement
[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;52964354]That's the fastest I've ever gone from "this looks fucking awesome" to "this looks fucking stupid".[/QUOTE] I dunno I kind of felt the exact opposite, the whole premise is unholy fucking dumb, the book is somehow even worse than I remember and the only way the film could be any good is if they play it as dumb as possible but somehow I feel it could be entertaining
[QUOTE=Blind Lulu;52964977]I can't really explain why but seeing Tracer in the trailer made my heart sink to my feet with the weight of cringe.[/QUOTE] i think it's probably because it's so recent and she's obviously only there to appeal to fans of overwatch but tbh you could say that about p much everything in the movie
the book is trash but I still enjoyed it, sometimes something doesn't have to well made to be entertaining.
[QUOTE=Firgof Umbra;52964748]This is a book/film for people who liked Mr. Edge-Ninja Ultra-Pizza-Delivery-Boy who is also an Akira-wannabe from Snow Crash. If you couldn't tolerate Snow Crash you'll [I]hate[/I] Ready Player One. It ain't no 'Inception' and it doesn't pretend to be.[/QUOTE] Dude, what? I loved Snow Crash but RP1 was a garbage fire. Snow Crash has self-awareness in spades, but Cline's work is just him rattling on about his nerd wet-dream with no hint of irony.
[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;52965073]Dude, what? I loved Snow Crash but RP1 was a garbage fire. Snow Crash has self-awareness in spades, but Cline's work is just him rattling on about his nerd wet-dream with no hint of irony.[/QUOTE] It [I]thinks[/I] it has self-awareness in spades, yeah. And garbage fire? C'mon. For the record: I also loved Snow Crash. Not as much as I love Daemon but still up there - it's great camp.
If he was trying to make a point about how fucking awful the world had become and do a read-between-the-lines thing then he absolutely could have done it without inserting a LOOK AT MY NERD CRED moment into every goddamn page of the book. You wanna talk about Snow Crash, that book did it right. It's all over-the-top but not in a way that makes you think the author is congratulating himself for having made it. [editline]10th December 2017[/editline] automeeeeeerge
[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;52965078]If he was trying to make a point about how fucking awful the world had become and do a read-between-the-lines thing then he absolutely could have done it without inserting a LOOK AT MY NERD CRED moment into every goddamn page of the book. You wanna talk about Snow Crash, that book did it right. It's all over-the-top but not in a way that makes you think the author is congratulating himself for having made it. [editline]10th December 2017[/editline] automeeeeeerge[/QUOTE] He did both. We didn't hear much about how awful the world was because the characters did everything in their power to stay out of it as much as possible - that a literal fantasy world means more to them, consequently, than the real world should tell the reader everything they need to know about how awful that world was. Also it's a nerdbook for nerds about nerds going on a nerdquest to find nerdkeys to find the nerdthrone to assert nerdcontrol over the nerdworld for mad nerdcash in their swagging nerd-avatars and nerd-vehicles while they roll around nerd-worlds and debate nerd-statistics/power-levels. Of course every page is slathered in nerd. Snow Crash was parodying anime and the '-ification' of corporate branding, and the corporatization of literally everything. Ready Player One parodies nerds and ultrafans and is about the dangers of an absolute monopoly when it comes to freedom of expression - that there's no room for niche/stupid/errata shit in a world which is ruled by black and white lines on a corporate ledger. As for snow crash not making you think the author is congratulating himself for having made it: The [I]entire[/I] last third of the book. It's nothing but 'hey guys I have access to wikipedia' and 'man, look how learned I am - I bet you thought I didn't know anything given how much dumb shit I wrote in the prior 2/3s of the book, right? You didn't even [I]know[/I] about this period of history, man.' Still entertaining, still useful to the plot, still mostly well written - but let's not mince words: He takes a giant club labeled I KNOW MORE HISTORY THAN YOU where he proceeds to whallop the reader over the head with it for pages and pages because, like the protagonist, the reader is assumed to know nothing about it and thus has to learn it - and they have to learn it to see how clever he's been regarding the driving force and ultimate objective of the story.
Since they're making movies about fanfics now, can The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest get its own movie next?
I liked the DEVO Girl in the bar.
If they add more anime girls I'll watch it.
Granted its "Fanservice: The Movie", there's something about it that makes it 10x better than what "Pixels" gave us from both trailers and movie. It's going to be a spectacle I know that, but here at least it looks to be fun. Plus I can't help and smile as from the snippets it looks like [sp]Gundam and the Iron Giant[/sp] are gonna be prominent in the movie. At least someone bothered to give [sp]Mobile Suit Gundam[/sp] a time of day to appear in a fully fledged movie in America.
Didn't know they were making a VR Chat movie.
So I was watching this trailer high, and kept thinking "well, this looks pretty generic and boring, I wonder if Spielberg manages to actually do something with this shitty material", and then I went "holy shit, are those Battletoads?!" and immediately understood the appeal of the movie PS: That ending jingle from BTTF was not fair though, it really affects me, and it's kind of cheap coming from Spielberg
[QUOTE=Firgof Umbra;52965085]He did both. We didn't hear much about how awful the world was because the characters did everything in their power to stay out of it as much as possible - that a literal fantasy world means more to them, consequently, than the real world should tell the reader everything they need to know about how awful that world was. Also it's a nerdbook for nerds about nerds going on a nerdquest to find nerdkeys to find the nerdthrone to assert nerdcontrol over the nerdworld for mad nerdcash in their swagging nerd-avatars and nerd-vehicles while they roll around nerd-worlds and debate nerd-statistics/power-levels. Of course every page is slathered in nerd. Snow Crash was parodying anime and the '-ification' of corporate branding, and the corporatization of literally everything. Ready Player One parodies nerds and ultrafans and is about the dangers of an absolute monopoly when it comes to freedom of expression - that there's no room for niche/stupid/errata shit in a world which is ruled by black and white lines on a corporate ledger. As for snow crash not making you think the author is congratulating himself for having made it: The [I]entire[/I] last third of the book. It's nothing but 'hey guys I have access to wikipedia' and 'man, look how learned I am - I bet you thought I didn't know anything given how much dumb shit I wrote in the prior 2/3s of the book, right? You didn't even [I]know[/I] about this period of history, man.' Still entertaining, still useful to the plot, still mostly well written - but let's not mince words: He takes a giant club labeled I KNOW MORE HISTORY THAN YOU where he proceeds to whallop the reader over the head with it for pages and pages because, like the protagonist, the reader is assumed to know nothing about it and thus has to learn it - and they have to learn it to see how clever he's been regarding the driving force and ultimate objective of the story.[/QUOTE] Snow Crash was published in 1992, so no, he didn't have access to wikipedia.
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