tbf that sounds true to the source material, which is the worst book you’ll ever read
Oh no, the book AFTER it is the worst book you'll ever read. Which, I don't know why I did, but I did.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
Also, I can't believe anyone involved with this movie didn't have second thoughts about the whole "gunt" thing.
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
the main characters are hunting for easter eggs hidden in their shitty virtual world
easter egg hunters > 'gunters'
it's not good
― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
Um.
Uh.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
trust me, milo, there are many thousands of worse films.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
How hard would you defend a film with a two-hour static close-up of someone making their anus talk if the credits read 'directed by Steven Spielberg'?
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
i dunno, who wrote the script
― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
Tony Tushner
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
lensed, of course, by janusz kaminski
― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
this strawmanning is beneath you
(well shit, of course it's not)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
It was a question not an assertion.
But come on my dude. You'll happily drop an unwarranted stinkbomb in a Marvel movie thread but do the most circuitous of cakewalks to avoid criticizing a Steelburb flick which I'm sure most would agree is worse than the worst of all Marvel movies. It's a bit rich.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
"most" can go fuck themselves, as usual
I believe my view of RP1 is somewhere above; I didn't care for it.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
idly paging through the imdb trivia for this (which i do not recommend btw since it's almost entirely pointing out the nerd references which clog every frame) and apparently this was the first spielberg film since hook to get 70mm prints struck, which seems an extremely weird choice for a movie which has so little conventional photography in it
― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
but you're right, a two-hour static close-up is DEFINITELY Spielbergian aesthetics reduced to its core
xp
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
I find it so weird this movie has such hate. It was fine.
― Yerac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
xpost Okay then, a swooping John Williams-scored panorama of the talking anus with cgi monkeys occasionally crawling out of it and gazing with awe into the middle distance, are you happy?
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
Not just any monkey, but the monkey from Raiders of the Lost Ark, who gives the sig heil then does the moonwalk.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
What ILX hates about this, in descending order:
Steven Spielberg stansSteven Spielberg himselfErnest Clineprobably a few other thingsReady Player One, the movie
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
Now that's how you strawman!
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
Granted, I knew nothing about the movie and watched it on a plane. So it didn't offend my honor in some way. It was fun.
― Yerac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
Many XPs, past a certain point you just set up the camera, and if there's movement there's movement, you can't really predict.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 March 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
(very OT, sorry, but message-query to eliza d. -- were you a pledger for my book or is it someone w/a similar former name? i need a land address to send it to -- apologies if not you)
― mark s, Friday, 8 March 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
I was not, sorry :(
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 8 March 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
ah ok, cheers anyway :)
― mark s, Friday, 8 March 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
It's what we've all been waiting for
We are excited to reveal the title and cover for Ernest Cline's follow up to Ready Player One! Introducing, Ready Player Two, coming 24/11/20 🤯Pre-order your signed copy via @Waterstones now: https://t.co/SQ3gluaCLG pic.twitter.com/M3XcLXYdzZ— Penguin Books UK (@PenguinUKBooks) July 8, 2020
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
He's still pushing effort and inventiveness into the red, I see.
― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
excited to read READY PLAYER THIRTEEN in 2046
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
Like he couldn't even be bothered with a halfhearted 'Insert Quarter to Continue' subtitle. Direct and to the flaccid point.
― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
Don't think we've covered why he is called Ernest. Who was naming their baby "Ernest" in 1972?
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
I hope this features a smorgasbord of flash-in-the-pan characters that were hot while he was writing the thing a couple years ago. Maybe have Sherlock Gnomes and the Angry Birds mixing it up with the kids from the Maze Runner series.
― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
There should be a chapter where he's stuck in flapy bird, either he dies or the game goes on forever, what can he do? exciting
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
I kept at it.I burned the midnight oil.Did you know that Midnight Oil was an Australian band, with a 1987 hit titled "Beds Are Burning"?
Was he just padding out his word count at this point?
― jmm, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
When I'm looking for Pat Cadigan books in the sci-fi section the Half Price Books in Austin reliably has 4,000 copies of Ready Player One like some giant genre tumor.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
Did you know that Australia was a 2008 film starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman?Did you know that the 1996 movie JACK featured Robin Williams (a MAN) playing a KID-MAN?
Did you know that the 1996 movie JACK featured Robin Williams (a MAN) playing a KID-MAN?
― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
The Dead Heart is better anyway
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
um On Cinema already did this joke
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
don't act like On Cinema isn't biting ILX all the time
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnPZtftH1F8&feature=youtu.be&t=270
its gonna be in the Guinness Book of Movie Records
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
2020 jokes a little played already but seriously, just when you think it can’t possibly get worse
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 9 July 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
just watched this with my 9-year-old son, he has a hard time sitting through almost anything non-Minecraft-related, but he loved it. I thought it was fine for a kids' film, not something I would watch on my own but preferable to the superhero & pokemon features I've had to put up with this last 6 months.
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 21 September 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
how do the cultural references sit with a 9 year old, or did he not really care about that aspect?
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Monday, 21 September 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
Didn't find the references dominated in the way I expected, there were plenty there, but they were easy to explain or ignore, and anyone who knows about video games could understand the story anyway.
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 07:03 (three years ago) link
Same with my 11 year old, he loves the book and film.
All the things I dislike about the narrative are totally fine for him.
Things at the moment are so full of cultural references, then my son doesn't really notice that its any different from Stranger Things etc.
references to The Shining etc. just intrigued him, as he knew it was an 'adults film'
he's counting the days to Ready Player Two, so I think the sequel might do better due to the video game obsessed young adults market.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
Well, if your son likes this...he's welcome to it.
#ReadyPlayerTwo is everything I dreamed it would be pic.twitter.com/C7oocc3QJN— Jacob Mercy (@jacobmercy) November 24, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
*adds to basket*
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 07:24 (three years ago) link
lol.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 10:35 (three years ago) link
'Halliday' needs to step up his security decisions
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
christ that's insufferable
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
its hard for me to understand that these are real books
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
Usenet fanfic has become viable and commercial for at least a decade now, eh?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link