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Chairman Capone posted:Isn't she a 9/11 Truther also? Although maybe I'm confusing it with her being a "the moon landings were faked" conspiracist. I think she's also one of the people still defending Bill Cosby.
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Jul 22, 2017 09:58
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goddamn, having withdrawals in a wtc elevator on 9/11/2001 is a bad day
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Jul 22, 2017 10:04
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I really hope one scene just has Robert Pattinson walking by in the background with no emphasis or fanfare.
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Jul 22, 2017 13:34
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I love that the trailer feels the need to say "based on true events." Like, no poo poo.
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Jul 22, 2017 15:45
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Timby posted:I love that the trailer feels the need to say "based on true events." Like, no poo poo. Hearing all this Truther poo poo, I'm surprised it doesn't call them "alleged events."
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Jul 22, 2017 17:10
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I've not read the book, so I don't know what it's supposed to look like, but here's the trailer for Ready Player One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L96owcBOQhk
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Jul 22, 2017 20:08
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I _HATED_ the book, but that was a pretty fun trailer
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Jul 22, 2017 20:14
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Iron Giants, Freddy Kruegers, Delorans.... Kinda down for that dumb poo poo
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Jul 22, 2017 20:15
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I didn't read the book, but for some reason I thought it was supposed to be a satire predicting that we'd reach a pop culture singularity that just keeps looping on itself, harvesting bouts of nostalgia that recur over decades
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Jul 22, 2017 20:25
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SciFiDownBeat posted:I didn't read the book, but for some reason I thought it was supposed to be a satire predicting that we'd reach a pop culture singularity that just keeps looping on itself, harvesting bouts of nostalgia that recur over decades While I can't look in Ernest Cline's heart of hearts, the general impression is it is exactly that except not a satire.
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Yeah the book is like page after page of 100% not self aware praising of gamers and people who memorize nerd stuff as being superior to those who don't and how people into video games and 80s movies are the intellectual and martial saviors of humanity. It's awful. It's just badly written in general too.
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Jul 22, 2017 20:32
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its cool...u get like japanese guys saying, u r so honorable for giving us ultraman senpai! we will fight with u till the death & then like 3 lines from a Rush song & then maybe a poorly written description of what it looks like when someone plays Joust
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Jul 22, 2017 20:34
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Then again, look at the internet right now. Maybe it is satire.
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Jul 22, 2017 20:35
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Ready Player One ends with the main character spending his life savings to become a professional poopsocker, living in a tube that feeds and poops him while he balloons in weight and plays on the internet to try and save a girl he's never met in real life. At no point is this described as a weird thing to do, only something heroic and necessary. It's bad. Literally the only good thing about RP1 is that it opens with Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party". I've never been so baffled about how a novel became so popular. Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jul 22, 2017 |
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Jul 22, 2017 20:43
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Ready Player One ends with the main character spending his life savings to become a professional poopsocker, living in a tube that feeds and poops him while he balloons in weight and plays on the internet to try and save a girl he's never met in real life. At no point is this described as a weird thing to do, only something heroic and necessary. Uhhh I hope this isn't in the movie.
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Jul 22, 2017 20:51
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Ready Player One ends with the main character spending his life savings to become a professional poopsocker, living in a tube that feeds and poops him while he balloons in weight and plays on the internet to try and save a girl he's never met in real life. At no point is this described as a weird thing to do, only something heroic and necessary. The only exposure I have to this book is the I Don't Even Own A Television episode, but that ending sounds pretty realistic. Just look up any white male YouTuber and you got probably a %30 chance of him being basically this.
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Jul 22, 2017 20:51
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CelticPredator posted:Uhhh I hope it is.
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Jul 22, 2017 20:54
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Well, it won't be the first time Tye Sheridan was in a poop tube.
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Jul 22, 2017 20:56
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That three note musical motif at the end is definitely from Willy Wonka.
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Jul 22, 2017 21:05
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Spielberg is pretty good at making magic out of mediocre books so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Ya I agree with all the things said above about the book being garbage. This movie must have been a licensing nightmare. But I gotta give Spielberg credit for nailing the look tho. It's exactly how I imagined it.
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CARL MARK FORCE IV posted:I _HATED_ the book, but that was a pretty fun trailer Same. I'm fully prepared to hate myself for enjoying this movie.
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Jul 22, 2017 22:56
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Gonz posted:That three note musical motif at the end is definitely from Willy Wonka. The whole tune when he gets in to his VR thing seems to be too, before the very electronic whatever-i'm-old-alreadyIcan'ttellthedifferencefromgenresanymore music starts.
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Desperado Bones posted:The whole tune when he gets in to his VR thing seems to be too, before the very electronic whatever-i'm-old-alreadyIcan'ttellthedifferencefromgenresanymore music starts. Either you're really, really old, or not that old at all, because that song is "Tom Sawyer" by Rush and it came out in 1981.
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Having not read the book (but having heard some about it) the trailer seemed encouragingly uncomfortable. All the scifi extravaganza and the ending shot of the guy in wide-eyed astonishment is contrasted with the fact that we're actually seeing a teenage trailer-tenant distracting himself with an Xbox. My thoughts when the Iron Giant ('s image) was briefly on screen were, roughly in order: 1.) Wait, why is that here? 2.) Oh, right. This is the IP with all the references to earlier media in it. 3.) I liked the film The Iron Giant. I like the character the Iron Giant. The Iron Giant is good. 4.) This is all deeply hosed up. I think the film has potential. Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jul 22, 2017 |
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Jul 22, 2017 23:36
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CelticPredator posted:Uhhh That would be incredible to see on screen, to be honest.
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It's easy to see how the premise has satirical potential, you describe it and half the responses are "oh it's a joke right?"
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I'm interested in Ready Player One because of Spielberg. The concept gives him free reign to do full CG action and he did that well in Tintin. On top of him just being Spielberg in general. It's also a fairly simple and short story. It's a cat and mouse treasure hunt story capped off with a big battle at the end. Pretty easy to adapt as IPs go, except for the licensing of the thousand different characters and vehicles.
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ChickenMedium posted:Either you're really, really old, or not that old at all, because that song is "Tom Sawyer" by Rush and it came out in 1981. I was born in 1981, so WELL.
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Desperado Bones posted:I was born in 1981, so WELL. you old
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Maybe Spielberg is aware that at 70 years old he probably only has a few more movies and he just said gently caress it. I don't know why else he'd direct this schlock. I can't imagine he's passionate about the book as it's sounds geared towards 20 year old introverts.
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It's a miracle Ready Player One is directed by Spielberg. It's a book that reads like it should be adapted by Seth McFarlane.
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CelticPredator posted:Uhhh Well it won't be because that's not what happens in the book. I mean, it's still really stupid, just not that. He starts off a fat loser but because rich, famous and skinny (he buys an expensive personal training program) because of his success at playing the videogame.
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Having not read the book that is an odd trailer. Are all of the characters showing up in this already owned by the studio or did they have to license some of them?
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Valerian is bombing hard as expected and is going to earn less than $20 mil this weekend domestically.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Valerian is bombing hard as expected and is going to earn less than $20 mil this weekend domestically. I can't believe a movie based on a weird French comic book, featuring two incredibly wooden B-list leads, is bombing miserably!
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I saw Valerian on Friday and it... Well, it's pretty. That's pretty much all it has going for it. I wanted to like it. I want more sci-fi optimistic about the future. I love the ideas Luc Besson has stuffed into the background. I love the weirdness of everything. It's a gorgeous film. The problem is the writing wasn't there to do anything with the cool background elements. It's just a big pretty ball pit for the main characters to run through. Also, Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne have almost no chemistry together, hell, if you told me Dane DeHaan was on another continent and they green screened him in like Gandalf in the Hobbit I'd have no reason to doubt you. I'd recommend just watching Fifth Element again.
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I'm pretty sure just about every Luc Besson film can be described as 'good looking, but mostly empty'
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