SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

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From what I can tell based on the trailer and reading nothing beyond passages posted itt, RPO feels kinda like the sequel to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hz1UaEVyoo

I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link

with a dash of

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/nintenshows/images/2/2f/VGM-CN_Title_Card.jpeg

Number None, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link

and as with cartoon all-stars to the rescue, there's a million wild and wonderful ways to say "no"

yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link

teen/twenty something. That's enough

(Having returned from the dogs' walk), well, that and avoiding moral grey areas, politics, explicit sexuality, excess profanity, aging and concerns of older readers. YA literature could be defined by what it doesn't include. Often I suspect the antagonist's motivations would be grist for more adult fiction (for example, there could be sympathetic diary/apologia for Voldemort where more his complex motivations were clarified, but it wouldn't be YA).

Look at RPO as a cartoon for adolescents, that happens to include some cultural signifiers from our own adolescence, and a lot of the disdain evaporates.

#IMPOTUS (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link

Nah it's shit

Adolescents who want this flavor of escapism are better off with Ender's Game or, you know, anything with girls in it, even if they are named Hermione

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link

RPO was never YA if anyone's being honest - this drivel was published on the gamble that a certain 19+ demo wanted to read this kind of drivel, and somebody at the print shop got a big promotion, because humans love shit whenever someone shovels it with both hands and a performative facial expression that they feel connected to

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 05:38 (seven years ago) link

p much everybody I know who's cumming over it is 30-40 years old and seem to be daily depressed that it's not still 1987

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 05:39 (seven years ago) link

the only reason i had heard of rpo before the spielberg attachment was a supernerd acquaintance of mine loaned it to me on spec and claimed it would change my life. he is ~33. the only words of it i read were on the back cover.

Clay, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 05:42 (seven years ago) link

RPO was never YA if anyone's being honest...

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, August 8, 2017

does manbaby count?

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 06:01 (seven years ago) link

the only reason i had heard of rpo before the spielberg attachment was a supernerd acquaintance of mine loaned it to me on spec and claimed it would change my life...

― Clay, Tuesday, August 8, 2017

he's right about that. since reading it i now harshly judge anyone who has a kind word for the book or its author, and seek revenge on those who recommended it to me.

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 06:04 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moNHfeBJ81I

sleepingbag, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 09:11 (seven years ago) link

it just fails on so many levels. nobody wants to read pages of lists, it's not an enjoyable experience, it's an error as close to being Objectively Bad as you can get to in writing. it has two Japanese characters in it and they both happen to be samurai there to teach the protagonist about honor.

it also fails to juxtapose things in an interesting way. juxtaposition is a technique just like any other and it can be used artfully or it can be clumsily weilded at the reader. hearing that this guy got a Delorean and installed the Knight Rider AI and put the talking mouth from Knight Rider on the front and put Ghostbusters stickers on the doors and got a custom license plate that makes another reference to Ghostbusters is not interesting. visually it sounds like a fucking dumb looking car. it doesn't remind me of Ghostbusters, a snobs-vs-snobs comedy film. it doesn't make me think of the Hasselhoff's suave tech spy. i do not know what this juxtaposition is supposed to do, what kind of reaction he wants from the audience, beyond superficial recognition, the gratification that the audience is a like-minded consumer is all i can get from this. like everything else this book offers, it is interesting on the intellectual level of a 6 yo dumping out a bucket of toys.

some reviewer said something about how ridiculous the number of times watched listed is and i agree, as if watching Raider of the Lost Ark 101 times will reveal anything that the 100th viewing failed to. it's a Consumerist dick measuring contest just like much of the internet. "How best can i demonstrate my superiority as a consumer?"

as for OG material, Captain N and the crew of IP brands also went on fairly interesting adventures but (often to its detriment) it strayed too much from the video games it was supposedly based on. they weren't mindlessly re-creating game sequences they were doing cheesey tropey storylines. Zelda was also about dumb stupid attempts at corny sitcom humor as much as it was about these games. i think there may be something interesting to say about 80s pop culture and the way it turned into sort of weird mutant version of its more traditional sitcom forebears (introducing sitcoms about aliens and robot girls, weird uber-macho-USA videogames emerging from the post-nuke generation of Japan) but yeah not here and not this guy. he is a shitty writer with shitty ideas.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link

Seth MacFarlane is to blame for all of this

frogbs, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link

Arguably, we've seen depictions of virtual reality "games" based on historical pop-culture since ST:TNG. In RPO's case, the IPs are named.

No fan of MacFarlane, but his success is a symptom of a larger malaise.

#IMPOTUS (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link

talking more about the whole "here's a thing you might remember. there's no joke here and it doesn't affect the plot, but here's a thing."

frogbs, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link

Dennis Miller was doing that for a couple decades before Family Guy debuted.

#IMPOTUS (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link

three months pass...

ok so I read this book and it wasn't nearly as terrible as I was expecting. obv that guy's poem is dumb but I think there is something to the book re: the endless recapitulation of references, etc; it doesn't make as big a deal about it as maybe it should, but the implication by the end is definitely that there's something hollow, and sad about this world where new culture has stopped and all we have is an obsessive compulsive relationship with the past. I think the movie could shed an interesting light on this aspect, if it wants.

akm, Saturday, 18 November 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link

"what critique of capitalism does it have in it? how the whole thing of the text i have read has been about fetishizing corporate IPs."

the bad guys of the book are a corporation and the entire point of the quest is to defeat the capitalist enterprise and keep the virtual world in the hands of the people.

akm, Saturday, 18 November 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link

the virtual world which is... full of corporate creations

wow. that was truly the minecraft of sex. (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 18 November 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link

ok so I read this book and it wasn't nearly as terrible as I was expecting. obv that guy's poem is dumb but I think there is something to the book re: the endless recapitulation of references, etc; it doesn't make as big a deal about it as maybe it should, but the implication by the end is definitely that there's something hollow, and sad about this world where new culture has stopped and all we have is an obsessive compulsive relationship with the past. I think the movie could shed an interesting light on this aspect, if it wants.

― akm, Saturday, November 18, 2017

nope nope nope

just bc you're smart doesn't mean this book is

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 18 November 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I think there is something to the book re: the endless recapitulation of references, etc; it doesn't make as big a deal about it as maybe it should, but the implication by the end is definitely that there's something hollow, and sad about this world where new culture has stopped and all we have is an obsessive compulsive relationship with the past. I think the movie could shed an interesting light on this aspect, if it wants.

wouldn't have subjected myself to the book but glad for this report and yeah what was a technical possibility upthread on grounds of the holy jurassic park is now what i'm actually hoping the movie is about. chapo guys were loling about patton oswalt having said "it's like jaws but the shark is nostalgia" like it was the perfect burn, but like wouldn't that be... good

plus the mere presence of spielberg totally changes the thing's scope (b/c personally responsible for the originals of so many of the reprocessed images), automatically on a metatextual level but i hope on a textual one too (as in JP when spielberg's POV hijacks the hammond char)

difficult listening hour, Sunday, 10 December 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link

on the other hand, that the book was presumably all fair-use yet could not legally be adapted without further enriching "ernie cline" is enough to make u wish for direct corporate rule

difficult listening hour, Sunday, 10 December 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link

READY PLAYER ONE (2018)

DP: Janusz Kaminski
Director: Steven Spielberg pic.twitter.com/CXXTTxoGY2

— Christmas Duckman (@bobservo) December 10, 2017

frogbs, Sunday, 10 December 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link

What....what the fuck?!

https://i.imgur.com/gQQlUfD.png

Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2017 02:43 (six years ago) link

this appears to be some blurry CGI, hth

shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, 14 December 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link

That’s not helping!

Also, it’s the inclusion of a particular character or two I’m questioning

Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link

Is Overwatch timeless enough for the prominence of that character's inclusion to not be hilariously dated in 5 years? I honestly don't know.

Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Thursday, 14 December 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link

Venerable IPs worth protecting were probably beyond the budget. IIRC, there really isn't much in the book extending into the 1990s, much less our present decade.

Alas, 40somethings aren't a great target demographic (cf Blade Runner 2049's box office). Compromises were made.

Sanpaku, Thursday, 14 December 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link

Venerable IPs worth protecting were probably beyond the budget.

― Sanpaku, Thursday, December 14, 2017

if only

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 14 December 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link

How much post 80s shit shows up in the original book? There are Firefly refs in there, for example

Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link

https://nerdist.com/ready-player-one-trailer-25-easter-eggs-nerdist-news/

Four (!) "Street Fighter" characters, Joker and Harley Quinn, Overwatch (why didn't they use lol Roadhog), Akira, tons more.

Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link

https://i.redd.it/59ktxnd5vkbz.jpg

good luck to Speilberg working w this genius

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link

I for one am excited that Stephen Spielberg is adapting Kingdom Hearts for the silver screen.

Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link

Sorry, 'Stephen Spielberb'

Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link

this seems to resemble the Keillor/Altman divide of years ago

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link

btw i don't know who any of these 'characters' you guys mentioned are, so i will be able to watch this OBJECTIVELY (if at all)

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link

lol

sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link

sorry AB I gotta FP you for that

frogbs, Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

This is a pretty thorough tear-down of the book, from the point of view of "reference-heavy culture can be good": https://www.heypoorplayer.com/2017/07/28/second-opinion-ready-player-one-worst-thing-nerd-culture-ever-produced/

The thread of excerpts is enough to give me hives though:

Thankfully goodreads kept all my choice RPO notes handy so anything that annoyed the fuck out of me is right here. pic.twitter.com/E6G9uEigVJ

— N. Cat (@naricat) July 24, 2017

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 11:47 (six years ago) link

man that is brutal. kinda thought "this could not possibly be as bad as everyone's saying it is" and holy shit it's actually a lot worse

frogbs, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link

You guys should check out my upcoming novel which is literally just a list of pop cultural ephemera accented with occasional punctuation and indentations to make it look like a story rather than something I c+p-ed from Wikipedia. You should also check out all of the zeroes in the dollar figure on my advance check.

Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Just wanted to post that I’ve really been enjoying Mike Nelson & his Rifftrax producer’s podcast on this book. They have like 8 eps as a book club where they just excoriate this shit. It’s fun.

We’ve probly mentioned this before but it’s called “372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back”.

372pages.com

Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link

Also, they just started a second where they tear into “Armada,” the follow up

Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link

CLINE'S A SHITTY PROSE WRITER
AND HE RIPPED "LAST STARFIGHTER"
ARMADA

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link

I almost hate you for that but

Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 January 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link

Anyway somehow this news story seems appropriate for the revive

https://kotaku.com/infamous-atari-player-gets-world-record-removed-after-3-1822511777

Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 January 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link

lmao neanderthal!!!!

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link

372pages.com

pretty fun so far. thanks for the rec

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 29 January 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link


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