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The [Ready Player One] Quarantine Thread
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Everyone is talking about this new movie that is sweeping the nation. The phrases used in that sentence have a positive connotation, but I would urge you to please reconsider.
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Ernest Cline is a bad poet
Ready Player One is transphobic
Also poorly written
There's an entire podcast about how bad it is I guess, I don't know, I haven't listened to it
This is all stuff that probably could have gone in the OP but Demi's song was too good for that
The book got weirdly good reviews too
I think my diet is looking crow free
I'm sure it did
Everyone seeing it and thinking "here comes captain dorkazoid"
Maybe a twelve minute long standalone video, if you removed all the plodding dialogue and lists of things Cline likes.
It'd basically end up being the protagonist realizing he's wasted five years of his life on things other people tell him to like without ever stopping to contemplate on whether or not he actually enjoys any of it.
That stuff isn't going to be in the movie which is why I've said it could be decent.
I will report to everyone my views when I have to go to it. Assuming I survive.
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indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull is sitting at 77%, that movie is a nightmare (and also by spielberg)
This is the higher level of spite and I totally endorse it.
Nah
The book also came out before toxic nerddom reached critical mass, so who knows how it would be reviewed today? Probably more like Armada.
Yeah the toxic nerddom had always been there but all the explosions of entitled nerd reactionaries happened a few years after the book came out, which leads us to take a more critical eye toward the stuff that may have flown under the radar at the time. Not saying the book caused that stuff or was even aware it was brewing, but it’s all a small part of the equation right?
As I said in the other thread I will likely still end up seeing the movie with friends, and I hold out hope that one of the most talented directors in history can approach the subject material in a way that makes it fun.
I’m not as bothered by the reference stuff. I think it’s corny but makes sense, as each character in the vr world is a person represented by an avatar. It may surprise all of you but I’m not actually a rabbit with a meat cleaver helmet. I just hope Spielberg manages to make the movie a fun popcorn thing but tones down the book’s worst urges.
yeah
I read RPO and it wasn't all that bad. I've read worst books, some that sold more and has a whole series (Sword of Truth, anyone?)
The dog piling on RPO is a lot like how Twilight got dog piled. It's just cool to make fun of it, and if you want a few likes them you can just jump right in the dog pile.
Vox has a good piece on the disparity of the reaction to the book and movie. Short version - in the intervening years between the two, something happened to cause us to rethink how we view geek culture and nostalgia. What that something may have been is left as an exercise for the reader.
Crystal Skull is good and fun
Can't say I'm particularly keen, even though it's got curiously unreserved thumbs ups from a few places
i read RPO when it came out and liked it then, not recognizing the absolutely shitty way Cline treated the characters of Aech or Artemis.
the other thing i can't get over is using the Iron Giant as a war machine, when the character was the complete opposite of that.
RPO represents everything bad about fandom and misogyny and race all tied up in a pretty gift box. the movie apparently even downplays the dystopian future elements of poverty and global warming screwing up the planet, which were one of the few good things about the book.
you can call it dogpiling or whatever. it's still not good.
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I think I might have a...well, I don't think I ever gave it a super positive review, but I don't think I hated it immediately. It's a weird thing where when it first hit, people, including myself, seem to gloss over a lot of its worst elements and when they get brought up now, there's this "what the fuck, has that been there the whole time?" reaction.
This was exactly me. I looked over a bunch of it. It was in my blind spot and I am pissed I missed that stuff. Shows I still have holes I need to fill.
Because I know my friends are going to force me to watch it as part of our annual End of Year thing and I'd rather watch a good movie or a thunderously shitty movie than a bad one.
It has to be better than Book of Henry. Oh dear christ, let it be better than Book of Henry. I can't take another one of those.
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edit RPO does look kinda boring though, I assume the movie will smooth over all the parts of the book where the main character is just repugnant but I think the main premise just isn't very interesting
edit edit and the CGI looks bad
This is pretty much the reason I haven't actually done this. I know there were people around here who had reactions from actually it's fine to enjoyable trash, but I'm pretty certain nobody ended up earnestly defending any of the legitimately shitty parts of the book.
That said I've heard set pieces as linked to Tintin. Which yeah, Spielberg does pretty great with 3d animated set piece. So I could see that winning over plenty of folks.
But yeah. There's still zero chance that I would like this movie. I get exhausted by cameos within respective cinematic universes as it is. Throw in every franchise and my skin will peel itself out in revolt.