well at least he's not obscenely well paid and famous
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
Ernest Cline is sincerely surprised that his performance art piece has been so successful.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
(clicks random link, copies text from webpage, pastes into Word document, inserts a few 'Jimmy Joe wrinkled his brow and said'-s to make it look like a story)
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
I remember arguing once that this was actually a brilliant satire on my generation who have trouble expressing themselves outside of pop culture references and how TV & music becomes a substitute for personality
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=77&threadid=95942
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
Bloom was reminded of one of his favorite passages from Homer's Odyssey: The Lotus Eaters. "Oh shit! I suppose I have a thing or two in common with Ulysses after all," he said to no one in particular.
― jmm, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
It wouldn't be much of a thing but it would at least be something if all of his references weren't so goddamned boringly predictably MOR. It reminds me of the two dudes who sat behind me at work who would discuss (at great length, and in great detail) e.g. the relative merits of the Santa Clause films.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
Reminds me of Family Guy just recreating movie scenes with their characters, while I picture a dumptruck of cash rolling up to McFarlane's door and question my life choices.
Is there a literary fair use law? Maybe we need a CanCon percentage where 85% of the novel has to be original.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
last Family Guy episode I saw was like an extended bit on the old Patrick Swayze movie Road House and it was so obvious that Seth MacFarlane had just saw that movie the night before writing the episode and just assumed the entire movie was fresh in everyone else's mind too. and Fox's response to this was to give him 3 more primetime slots
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
Laura's thread on this has been great
Baby, it’s on pic.twitter.com/In8EhYgDAa— Laura Hudson (@laura_hudson) November 24, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
eurgh that BTTF thing.
I'm not sure if I can take any more of it.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
The trouble with virtual reality is that it would be designed by people like this
― a combination no self-respecting gunter would have trouble remembering (Matt #2), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
would be?
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
He smiled to himself, fondly recalling the 1984 film A Draining Experience (directed by Sidney Pollack and starring a young Howie Mandel) and thinking himself quite clever for paying homage to the film's title with his turgid prose. He also remembered that 1984 was the name of a book or something that someone made sometime before the '80s so it's not actually important to note.
loool
― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
We had thoughts at our podcast feed
Friends and listeners, we here at BtB are a peaceful bunch, truly. Then we see this excerpt from the new Ernest Cline novel. To which we can only say, begone foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace! pic.twitter.com/XQVHhum3sb— By-the-Bywater (@BytheBywater) November 25, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
Ernest pauses, the tip of a well-chewed pencil between his lips, as he hovers over the list and casts his mind back once more into the well of youthful memory. Fast, he whispers to himself. What goes fast? After some time has passed, his eyes suddenly light up and he scrawls 'luck dragon' just below 'that spaceship with Pee-wee Herman's voice' and then wipes away the blood trickling freely from his left nostril.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
Are you fucking kidding me
I've just been staring at this for five minutes pic.twitter.com/FDF740HMAl— Jacob Mercy (@jacobmercy) November 25, 2020
― umarell of the year (jmm), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
if we hit that bullseye, their house of cards will fall like a row of dominoes... checkmate
― Neil S, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
Jesus, you can't even properly dunk on this shit because Cline will just one-up you on the self-dunkage every single time.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
Bobo furrowed his brow. 'Bert and Ernie,' he began, trembling. 'Gremlins. Inspector Gadget. Um...Rainbow Brite.' He continued, sweat running from his temple. 'Big Wheels. Red Dawn. Fisher Price Little People.'Jimjam smiled and nodded at Bobo's effort. 'View-Master,' he retorted. 'I hanker for a hunk of cheese.'Bobo affected a strained grin in return. 'I also hanker for a hunk of cheese. And Fun-Dip.'
Jimjam smiled and nodded at Bobo's effort. 'View-Master,' he retorted. 'I hanker for a hunk of cheese.'
Bobo affected a strained grin in return. 'I also hanker for a hunk of cheese. And Fun-Dip.'
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
look you can dunk on Seth MacFarlane all you want but he never wrote a scene where a character said "it was like the snozzberries scene in Super Troopers, but funnier!!"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
Chapter 4
Everybody sat down and watched "The Never-ending Story".
Chapter 5
"The Never-ending Story" ended.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
by Ready Player 3, nobody will have watched the source films, just will absorb the media through Cline's stilted recollection of each flick
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
I mean yeah when you make On Cinema look prescient it's a good sign that you fucked something up
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
Cline is the "We Didn't Start the Fire" of books
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
I was gonna say Presto Magix
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
The artists in Cline's dystopia only work in the media of Presto Magix and Colorforms and Etch-a-Sketch. Maybe Play-doh but only if they use like the Fun Factory. No off-book molding allowed.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Looks like the copyright action is happening to the tweets above.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
(by action I just mean the book images have been removed)
crying copyright seems kinda rich given the nature of the document in question
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
To put it mildly!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
(prints out complete transcripts of all Toys/Movies We Grew Up With episodes, shuffles pages, signs name at bottom)
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 November 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
the villain is going to be Captain Power, somehow
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 26 November 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
Ready Player 3: 30 Years Ago a Child Would Kick a Ball on the Street
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 26 November 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
so i hear that this book mentions Sword Art Online a bunch of times because its plot is ripped off of that series.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 30 November 2020 07:55 (three years ago) link
every time this gets bumped I have to watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBylNJQEbg
― frogbs, Saturday, 12 December 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
As stated upthread I watched this with the kids and didn't hate it. I also saw the new Space Jam with the kids and yeah, it wasn't great but they really liked it, so no regrets.not planning on watching Free Guy, with or without kids.
without question one of the worst things ive ever seen a theater crowd cheer for in my life pic.twitter.com/NYPsaHpKO1— josh lewis (@thejoshl) September 25, 2021
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
lol I saw that but I guess I’d already walked out by that scene, Jesus Christ
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
it has 80% on rotten tomatoes
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
love content and properties
― ✖, Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
The thing I remember most about that film is that Taika Waititi is fucking terrible in it
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
Ryan Reynolds is such an unlikable and shite actor and he reminds me of Michael Owen
― calzino, Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
after about a million cue drops w/ "whoa do you remember star wars? EPIC" things in the past decade i think even the theme music is rotten for me, the second the notes hit i was like "oh BROTHER, do you gotta"
― "liking" (Clay), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
xp Yeah he’s always awful should note that I did not deliberately see this, I bought a ticket to a “surprise film” and it turned out to be this non-movie, definitely got that losing scratchcard feeling when it sunk in
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Saturday, 25 September 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
i honestly think there's a case that the worst movies of the modern era are the stupidest most banal empty insults of any period of anything
― look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
the laziest most ineptly shot custard pie fight is funnier than this void
― look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
For sure sign me up for a plague-era theater-of-literally-throwing-shit over this
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
I descended into the replies and saw this.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAJ5K69WEAUN_Jp.jpg
"genuine assets"
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
loud neurotypical extroverts that cheer and whoop in cinemas is bad enough in any context and that people do it at Tarantino/Marvel Shitverse/Joker/Stuff Like This screenings is even bloody more criminal!
― calzino, Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
some comments saying that this is a kids film, but they clearly say "shit" twice, just in this clip.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link