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Mercutio
Member since May-26-13
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Jul-23-17, 04:25 PM (EDT) |
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1. "RE: Ready Player One"
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The book was unrelentingly awful. The movie might work better just because it can present us with ridiculous visual spectacle that the book couldn't, but I don't really have my hopes up for it overall. -Merc Keep Rat |
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The Traitor
Member since Feb-24-09
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Jul-26-17, 09:19 PM (EDT) |
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19. "RE: Ready Player One"
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The author totally declines to talk about hip-hop in Ready Player One. There is not even the slightest mention. In this book that seeks to be the ultimate deep dive into '80s nostalgia. To me, that speaks volumes. I don't know whether or not it will to you. --- "She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards. |
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CdrMike
Member since Feb-20-05
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Jul-24-17, 05:56 PM (EDT) |
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8. "RE: Ready Player One"
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>Ok, I'd watch that just because Iron Giant. The rest? Icing on the >cake(sure, trailer, so probably wouldn't be BORING, but...). And with >no previous knowledge of the book, I can go into the thing with a >clean slate and just enjoy, or not, a movie. Same, haven't read the book, so I'm going into this semi-blind (looked up the book after seeing the trailer). I have faith in Speilberg to produce something that is entertaining, even if that means deviating from the source material. -------------------------- CdrMike, Overwatch Reject "You know, the world could always use more heroes." - Tracer, Overwatch |
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Peter Eng
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Jul-25-17, 01:34 AM (EDT) |
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9. "RE: Ready Player One"
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I'm not especially impressed with it so far. The story might be solid (haven't read the book), but the action scenes are virtually impossible to follow. In my experience, the story has to be nearly perfect if the action scenes are that choppy. Peter Eng -- Insert humorous comment here. |
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mdg1
Member since Aug-25-04
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Jul-25-17, 07:17 PM (EDT) |
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13. "RE: Ready Player One"
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>Well, I saw one of them. >Then you've seen them all. As for the book, Cor keeps trying to get me to read it (he's a fan) but every time I try, I get bored about a quarter of the way through and go do something else. We'll probably see the movie, tho, if I can get a pizza out of it. :) Mario |
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mdg1
Member since Aug-25-04
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Apr-07-18, 08:05 AM (EDT) |
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28. "RE: Ready Player One"
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I did end up seeing the movie (wth Cor and his kid... yes, there's a 2nd generation to the Otaku Group ;) ). No pizza, tho. :D The movie was decent. Not great, just decent. For all the hype, the cameos & easter eggs aren't really that big a deal. "Blink and you'll miss it" is about right. For me, the most annoying part of the film is how inconsistent the treatment of the VR motion tracking was. It only seemed to be an issue when the plot needed it to be. I also found myself thinking of this line from "Arena": For his part, Corwin was trying not to laugh at his opponent. He knew that the Mobile Fighters' units were all equipped with the Mobile Trace control system, which Corwin regarded as the stupidest way of controlling a giant robot yet invented, for both practical and aesthetic reasons. The practical reason was that he regarded any control system which left the pilot unsecured, to rattle around in the cockpit like a hex nut in a coffee can, as stupid. The aesthetic reason was that MT-equipped machines went through the -goofiest- poses as the data film was forcibly stretched over the pilot's body by the control ring.
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McFortner
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Jul-25-17, 07:32 PM (EDT) |
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14. "RE: Ready Player One"
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>It sounds like someone here isn't a fan of the cinematic genius of >Michael Bay's Transformers movies. I'm sorry, but that sentence fails it's grammatical checksum. It's not possible to use those words together the way you have used them. Michael Michael C. Fortner "Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill". There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload". |
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Peter Eng
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Jul-26-17, 02:31 AM (EDT) |
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15. "RE: Ready Player One"
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>>It sounds like someone here isn't a fan of the cinematic genius of >>Michael Bay's Transformers movies. > >I'm sorry, but that sentence fails it's grammatical checksum. It's >not possible to use those words together the way you have used them. >*mop* *mop* *mop* Watch where you step, Michael; somebody dripped sarcasm all over the place. Peter Eng -- Insert humorous comment here. |
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Mercutio
Member since May-26-13
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Jul-26-17, 02:36 PM (EDT) |
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17. "RE: Ready Player One"
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LAST EDITED ON Jul-26-17 AT 02:41 PM (EDT) by pjmoyer (moderator) There's something of a dark art to constructing teaser trailers and getting the reaction you want from them. It's a weird combination of cinematography, social engineering, and marketing.What I always like is when you can tell a marketing team decides at some point "oh dang, this isn't doing what we want it to do, we'd better change that" midstream. The best current example of this is Geostorm, what looks like a thoroughly average in the "global disaster" genre of B-movies coming out this fall. The first set of teasers were these weirdly elegiac things of massive weather disasters befalling an increasingly messed-up planet set to very slow music. And then someone clearly decided "fuck, people have no idea what our movie is about except that it involves crazy weather. Shit. Maybe we should cut a trailer that actually explains the plot." So they cut trailers that were a lot more conventional. -Merc Keep Rat |
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Peter Eng
Charter Member
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Jul-26-17, 05:31 PM (EDT) |
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18. "RE: Ready Player One"
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>To be fair here, this is a teaser trailer, and those are usually cut >to bits. True enough - but there's a few action scenes that appear to be a single slice rather than bits and pieces of the scene, and they're still not sufficiently together. I don't think much of most action scenes these days - it's like they haven't bothered studying the masters of fighting scenes to see what works and why - but there's bad and worse out there, and this is, in my opinion, leaning towards worse. Peter Eng -- Insert humorous comment here. |
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jhosmer1
Member since Jan-11-07
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Apr-04-18, 07:46 AM (EDT) |
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27. "RE: Ready Player One"
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>I don't know about the nonwhite, but he's overweight and has acne and >stuff. > >They changed a lot of stuff about the book. Like, a LOT. From what I >can tell, for the MASSIVE better. I saw it Monday, and I won't agree that the changes are necessarily "better," they do fit a film better than the original book would have. A lot of the pop culture references are "blink and you miss them" Without spoiling, my favorite bits had to be the fight at Castle Doom and the Second Challenge. I'd say it's worth a look. |
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