[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;52967342]Isn't the finale literally just the characters reenacting [I]Monty Python and the Holy Grail[/I]?[/QUOTE]
But Holy Grail is from 1975, which lies outside of The Only Good Decade.
There's a difference between enjoying something and [b][i]bragging that you enjoy something.[/b][/i]
Key difference is one is authentic and interesting and one is obnoxious.
Are we just going to gloss over the old guy giving a performance that the phrase "Phoned in" would be insulted by?
[QUOTE=Wii60;52966164]thats not even the books final form
[img]https://i.imgur.com/XVxRIvZ.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
What's the appeal of this to [I]anyone[/I]? This and the other quote is just a list of things? It's like reading an IMDB list someone made but it's a Neil Breen monologue.
tfw no thicc shy gamer girl to harass for three months straight until she falls in love with me.
[QUOTE=Zeos;52967715]Are we just going to gloss over the old guy giving a performance that the phrase "Phoned in" would be insulted by?[/QUOTE]
Mark Rylance played the citizen boat dude in Dunkirk, so we know he can give a great performance. So we know that it's the movie making him look bad. So we know that this will be a bad film!!
[img]https://pgtipsonfilms.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/dunkirk-mr-dawson-on-his-boat.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Wii60;52966164]thats not even the books final form
[img]https://i.imgur.com/XVxRIvZ.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
it's like someone is transcribing a where's waldo picture
This thread has inspired me to go read the book to see if it is completely awful.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;52967763]What's the appeal of this to [I]anyone[/I]? This and the other quote is just a list of things? It's like reading an IMDB list someone made but it's a Neil Breen monologue.[/QUOTE]
Personally, I think this'll work a lot better as a film than a book.
[QUOTE=Wii60;52966164]thats not even the books final form
[img]https://i.imgur.com/XVxRIvZ.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I can't believe schools use this in English classes. This is atrocious writing, nobody should take advice from this shit. I've read books for 8 year olds in my childhood that were better written than this.
This makes twilight look like Crime and Punishment.
[QUOTE=ThePanther;52967536]There's a difference between enjoying something and [b][i]bragging that you enjoy something.[/b][/i]
Key difference is one is authentic and interesting and one is obnoxious.[/QUOTE]
People brag about hating things way more.
[QUOTE=Wii60;52966164]thats not even the books final form
[img]https://i.imgur.com/XVxRIvZ.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
[t]https://i.imgur.com/TMqnieb.png[/t]
I had a hard time even REACHING this line
I was just thinking the other day, about how I hate when someone says a famous quote in a movie or book, and the person they say it to responds with the quote's author's full name and maybe the title of the work it was from. I get that the intent is to make them sound knowledgeable/cultured, but it comes off like you're talking to someone online and they quickly wiki the topic you're talking about and pretend to know more than you on it
and here we have this one block of text, doing everything in its power to act as both sides of that awkward conversation speaking directly [I]at the reader's face[/I] for what feels like 20 minutes
I'm surprised nobody posted it yet, but just in case you didn't hear the news today, the author of the book is now working on a sequel (with supposedly some input from Spielberg) thanks to all the press this has been getting
[url]http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/908747-ready-player-one-book-sequel-in-the-works-with-spielbergs-input[/url]
oooooo booooooy
[editline]11th December 2017[/editline]
if he calls it ready player two im gonna puke
My boyfriend had to read this garbage for his [I]college[/I] English 201A class. He wouldn't stop ranting about how terrible it was, so I read it with him and while I didn't despise the book because I am totally susceptible to nostalgia, it is seriously a raging dumpster fire from an actual writing standpoint.
Everybody has been collectively jerking off the the 80s really hard lately, this is just the logical conclusion of everybody's collective fellation of a decade.
[QUOTE=postal;52967921]I'm surprised nobody posted it yet, but just in case you didn't hear the news today, the author of the book is now working on a sequel (with supposedly some input from Spielberg) thanks to all the press this has been getting
[url]http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/908747-ready-player-one-book-sequel-in-the-works-with-spielbergs-input[/url]
oooooo booooooy
[editline]11th December 2017[/editline]
if he calls it ready player two im gonna puke[/QUOTE]
Ready Player Two: The Search for More Money.
[QUOTE=postal;52967921]I'm surprised nobody posted it yet, but just in case you didn't hear the news today, the author of the book is now working on a sequel (with supposedly some input from Spielberg) thanks to all the press this has been getting
[url]http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/908747-ready-player-one-book-sequel-in-the-works-with-spielbergs-input[/url]
oooooo booooooy
[editline]11th December 2017[/editline]
if he calls it ready player two im gonna puke[/QUOTE]
So do you think he ran out of pop culture references to name off in long lists?
[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;52967968]So do you think he ran out of pop culture references to name off in long lists?[/QUOTE]
Ye of little faith. He can pop culture reference as hard as Nasu can create convoluted distortions of historical figures or Kojima can pump out weird worlds, characters, and gameplay mechanics.
[QUOTE=postal;52967921]I'm surprised nobody posted it yet, but just in case you didn't hear the news today, the author of the book is now working on a sequel (with supposedly some input from Spielberg) thanks to all the press this has been getting
[url]http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/908747-ready-player-one-book-sequel-in-the-works-with-spielbergs-input[/url]
oooooo booooooy
[editline]11th December 2017[/editline]
if he calls it ready player two im gonna puke[/QUOTE]
this time it's the 90's
and the power glove will save the day
[QUOTE=postal;52967921]I'm surprised nobody posted it yet, but just in case you didn't hear the news today, the author of the book is now working on a sequel (with supposedly some input from Spielberg) thanks to all the press this has been getting
[url]http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/908747-ready-player-one-book-sequel-in-the-works-with-spielbergs-input[/url]
oooooo booooooy
[editline]11th December 2017[/editline]
if he calls it ready player two im gonna puke[/QUOTE]
[quote][Steven Spielberg] a storyteller that had a direct influence on my first novel, ‘Ready Player One.’ Wade carries a grail diary through the whole story to collect his clues about the Easter Egg hunt, and that’s because of ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.’ It would have been a different story if I had not grown up watching Steven’s movies.[/quote]
YOU FUCK. a diary is not interesting and it is not unique. The only influence Spielberg has in your writing is blatant references that serve no greater purpose you HACK FRAUD.
[QUOTE=Firetornado;52965617]why do people obsess over pop culture so much? I read both rp1 and armada and I couldnt finish the latter because it would not stop jerking itself off with references.[/QUOTE]
Shit sells. Look at Marvel movies. The appeal behind them is typically some kind of big character reveal or reference to some comic so ultra-fans can go "*GASP* I KNOW THAT GUY!"
[QUOTE=proboardslol;52968058]Shit sells. Look at Marvel movies. The appeal behind them is typically some kind of big character reveal or reference to some comic so ultra-fans can go "*GASP* I KNOW THAT GUY!"[/QUOTE]
I mean not really but okay.
What if Ready Player Two had a bit based on "This is John Galt speaking" but with all the checklisted pop-culture references being added to the speech
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Lz14wu1uw&ab_channel=ProZD[/media]
Honestly the idea of a treasure hunt set inside a pop culture bukakke sounds kinda interesting but this strikes me as the ultimate bugman film; "DO YOU LIKE [MOVIE]? HOW ABOUT [VIDEO GAME]? LIKING THESE THINGS MAKES YOU MORE SPECIAL THAN THE JOCKS WHO WATCH FOOTBALL AND HAVE JOBS; COME SEE OUR MOVIE AND PROVE YOUR PARENTS WRONG. "POP CULTURE CURATOR" IS TOTALLY A REAL CAREER, SEE OUR MOVIE IN REAL D IMAX 3D D-BOX. CONSUME, IT'S ALL YOU'RE GOOD FOR, IT'S ALL YOU'LL EVER BE".
[QUOTE=RichyZ;52968101]ill never understand the whole "holy fuck i want to watch this movie because tracer is in 1 scene at 1 hour in for half a minute in the background" crowd[/QUOTE]
Does somebody like that even exist? Where are you seeing this?
I think people judge the book a little too harshly. It kind of brings up the topic about how we enjoy media and what standards do we hold artists and authors to. I feel as if there's often not a lot of room given for mediocre or "okay" media. Some movies are groundbreaking, some movies are terrible. Some movies are groundbreakingly terrible, and become cult classics. However, I notice that the kind of language we use with movies that are "okay" is really hyperbolic, and I think this applies to books too.
For example, the way people talk about the Transformers series. The way people talk about them, you'd think they were directed by a freshman in film school. But in my opinion (and most peoples' opinion, I'd say), they're Okay films; nobody has the illusion that they're the best films in the world, and they got a little campy in the last few installments (I remember everybody thinking the first film was really cool and then losing interest after that).
I think people feel a little guilty for either liking or wanting to like something that's just kind of dumb. Compositionally, mediocre or "okay" media isn't poorly made; they're often high quality, but just unconvincing, they don't grab your attention, more of the same, follow one of a few overused story arcs, the characters are unrelatable, etc. To me, what makes a truly terrible film is one that can't even use textbook elements which we come to expect of a film, or one which abuses these elements. The worst kind of terrible film abuses panning cityscape establishing shots to fill time. Another is one which spends too much time showing characters travelling (excluding movies about racing, of course). Even in the opening credits, this is a boring way to make it 1.5 hours.
To relate this to Ready Player one, I think the book has compositionally bad elements, some lazy elements, and some genuinely interesting elements. The dialogue is in and out in some parts ([sp]particularly in Wade's IM convo with Art3mis[/sp], or [sp]the club scene[/sp]), and the pop culture references are often a crutch to avoid creating Cline's own world (which I addressed previously as decent at some points and a quite creative look at the progressive, and not sudden, collapse of civilization), but I don't think that the book is just masturbatory references for the purpose of writing a Mary Sue in a "DAE Remember _____" fever dream; instead, I think that the references have their place. There are real life instances of people using pop culture references in an ARG or contest in order to gain a prize (though these are of course limited and very particular in scope), so I don't think the entire premise of the book is ridiculous. I don't believe that the majority of the world would go nuts for 1980s culture, and certainly not to the extent that people did, but I think the idea of a guy using his favorite movies and video games as clues and interactive ways to solve riddles is a fun idea. In between these small rewards of riddle-solving is pure masturbatory references, but they tend to be pretty fun regardless. As a side note, if you listened to RPO as an audiobook, the scenes with Shoto and Daito come off as unbearably campy at best, and a casually racist misunderstanding of someone else's culture at worst
For those who disagree, I really recommend you read Cline's second book: Armada, in which not a scrap of originality can be found. The references in this book are [I]truly[/I] a crutch for a lack of creativity (One scene is described simply by saying "I walked into a hangar straight out of Battlestar Gallactica". This is similar to a part near the end of RPO when Wade [sp]describes Og's estate as being a 100% recreation of rivendel. This is not only lazy, it is a cheap way to steal the visualization created by Peter Jackson in the actual LOTR films[/sp]), and as is Cline's style, the dialogue is really bad. While Cline is not the [I]best[/I] author in the world, parts of RPO show that he put a bit of creativity and research into the book, and his definitely spent some time thinking not just about a virtual fantasy world, but how that fantasy world shaped the real world around it. One of my favorite scenes painted in the book was a part where wade buys a glock from a vending machine. It comes in a plastic blister pack as if it were a toy, has a biometric fingerprint scanner, and a mandated "cooling-off" functionality to prevent a crime of passion. I thought this was a cool scene because it kind of demonstrates the way in which crime and violence have become an everyday part of this dystopia, such that buying a gun has become such a casual necessity as to have [I]vending machines[/I] selling them in neatly wrapped plastic containers.
Armada, on the other hand, reads like he wrote it over a weekend.
[QUOTE=Firgof Umbra;52967957]Ready Player Two: The Quest for More Money.[/QUOTE]
Fixed. That way he can make RPG references. Y'know, video games!
Funny thing is that everyone is talking about this movie in my class before final and we all kept thinking this could be a really dumb but fun film, and I can totally see that. Sure it's nowhere near going to be Pacific Rim or Independence Day of "dumb fun," but it can really be worse.
I hope the months of harassment and inboxing his love interest (and circumventing her blocks) come through in the film. That shit was tragic in the book.
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;52968264]I hope the months of harassment and inboxing his love interest (and circumventing her blocks) come through in the film. That shit was tragic in the book.[/QUOTE]
He learns the errors of his ways, right? I mean, I hate to be the "think of the children" guy but there are impressionable kids out there who might see this movie, and portraying that kind of behavior in a positive light will mess those kids up more than any violent video game ever could.
[QUOTE=Ardosos;52968321]He learns the errors of his ways, right? I mean, I hate to be the "think of the children" guy but there are impressionable kids out there who might see this movie, and portraying that kind of behavior in a positive light will mess those kids up more than any violent video game ever could.[/QUOTE]
Yes and no. He learns that that shit wasn't exactly OK -- but ultimately he still gets what he wants in the end.
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