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Fried Watermelon posted:Should've done a Snow Crash movie instead, but that wouldn't get the nostalgia moneys
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ALFbrot posted:edit: I'd actually be interested in generating a copy of Ready Player One that has all the references replaced with other fictional properties. Like instead of Raiders of the Lost Ark, he talks about knowing everything from Defenders of the Mystical Tomb while listening to Dango Dang's seminal 1985 album "Put it on the Roof." There's no way that anyone, even the most vociferous defenders of "no it's actually just a really cool story, maaan, the references are just icing" could make it through https://twitter.com/IDEOTVPod/status/889527672220434432
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Robopocalypse is somehow a worse World War Z, and like Ernest Cline the author aggressively namesearches on Twitter to respond to people criticizing his work. I've blocked both of them as a result.
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"I nodded. Not in agreement but to show that I understood the reference." -Somehow not satire
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I just read the Wikipedia summaries of Ready Player One and Armada and I'm at a loss as to how these can be serious, unironic pieces of literature. They read like Lonely Island sketches. Like, I can't not imagine Armada starring Andy Samberg dressed in an undersized kid's Halloween astronaut costume and the aliens giving him a big novelty trophy at the end.
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Excellent analysis. "Zack Lightman" sounds like something Samberg's Brooklyn Nine Nine character would come up with.
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people have talked about the 'references as constant nerd pandering' aspect of these books enough but man, reading a passage like that written by a dude who consumed all those things growing up really comes off as this sad desperate hope that future generations will still care about the media he consumed because choice in consumption is the only thing left to define himself through can't even hope for people to remember your own good deeds in life, just that they'll remember the good deeds other people did that you were around to see
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The whirlwind of outrage around RP1 is becoming almost as funny as RP1 itself. I swear you're all gonna burn yourselves out before the movie's even released.
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Snooze Cruise posted:While the topic is on Ernest Cline, I am going to take this excuse to inform everyone of his spoken word poetry Holy gently caress this is a book e:fb, alfbrot already posted it and who needs to see it twice Shageletic fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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In the right, more Canadian world, Douglas Coupland would be getting the Ernest Cline money also holy poo poo googling Ernest Cline he looks exactly how you'd expect him to look. I have a mental image of those old goon cons just being like, 20 of him.
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You coulda put a nws on that poo poo dude, my firewall blocked it as pornography.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I swear you're all gonna burn yourselves out before the movie's even released. Shageletic posted:Holy gently caress this is a book tbh who needs to see it once
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The whirlwind of outrage around RP1 is becoming almost as funny as RP1 itself. this coming from the guy tearing apart a terrible fantasy series. everyone should listen to the gooncast i don't even own a television's eps on ready player one and armada: http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2014/06/19/010-ready-player-one-w-mike-sacco/ http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2015/07/20/034-armada/
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Groovelord Neato posted:this coming from the guy tearing apart a terrible fantasy series. I agree that it's very fun to mock the novel, but it's transformation into this performative, memetic phenomenon is also ridiculous. I wrote a Let's Read precisely to get away from that kind of mindset around Kingkiller, to mixed results. Also yes that podcast is good.
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http://www.ernestcline.com/spokenword/npa.htm Everything you need to know about Ernest Cline and thus RP1.
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Groovelord Neato posted:this coming from the guy tearing apart a terrible fantasy series. Both of these episodes were amazing and made me realize that I should probably slap everyone who told me RP1 was good. I'm going to read it because I'm a masochist who will read garbage for the possibility of it being entertaining. This is why I read the first "Five Nights at Freddy's" novel and "Michelle Remembers", neither of which was very entertaining or good for that matter. To bring it back to movie, the trailer for RP1 was exactly the kind of nerd masturbatory bullshit that I've come to loathe, and while I saw plenty of breathless "OH MY GOD FREDDY KRUGER IS IN THIS!" posts when the trailer dropped, the whole thing just left me hollow. I won't see this in the theater because gently caress giving this thing theater money, but I might check it out after it hits VOD, although I don't know if my eyes can handle the strain from the amount of rolling I'm anticipating. ALFbrot posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/donniemnemonic/status/889215615717605376 And that is probably the best reason for why I might not actually read this garbage fire of a book, because at first glance I thought "Oh, that looks like acknowledgements" and then I read about a quarter of it and felt the urge to hunt down Cline and beat him up for his lunch money. Also I'm pretty sure he was in that documentary about digging up the ET Atari cartridges, and he shows up in a loving Delorean with a life size ET in the passenger seat. Kill the nerds is what I'm saying.
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Shageletic posted:You coulda put a nws on that poo poo dude, my firewall blocked it as pornography. should prob report it as a false positive, it's a poem called something like "Nerd Porn" not an actual porn site
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:should prob report it as a false positive, it's a poem called something like "Nerd Porn" not an actual porn site 
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The sad thing is that nostalgia for that period also gave us "Regular Show" and big chunks of "Rick and Morty" It didn't have to be bad. It's that old maxim that, when it comes to references, it's not where you start, it's where you take it.
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Ugggh, they've announced yet another sequel in the Gerard Butler Olympus Has Fallen series. This one is titled "Angel Has Fallen" and terrorists attack Air Force One in order to get at Gerard Butler. Considering he's foiled two major terrorist attacks you'd think they would want to avoid him at this point.
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muscles like this! posted:Ugggh, they've announced yet another sequel in the Gerard Butler Olympus Has Fallen series. This one is titled "Angel Has Fallen" and terrorists attack Air Force One in order to get at Gerard Butler. Considering he's foiled two major terrorist attacks you'd think they would want to avoid him at this point. I hope the head terrorist is David Boreanaz
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muscles like this! posted:Ugggh, they've announced yet another sequel in the Gerard Butler Olympus Has Fallen series. This one is titled "Angel Has Fallen" and terrorists attack Air Force One in order to get at Gerard Butler. Considering he's foiled two major terrorist attacks you'd think they would want to avoid him at this point. Movie bad guys are notoriously dumb. The Taken franchise is a perfect example of this.
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Snowman_McK posted:London Has Fallen was hilarious, and I'm pretty sure big chunks of it were absolutely supposed to be, so maybe we'll get something subversive again. I've never watched it but isn't London Has Fallen super racist? That's what reviews said at least.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:I hope the head terrorist is David Boreanaz Just bring back Gary Oldman.
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muscles like this! posted:I've never watched it but isn't London Has Fallen super racist? That's what reviews said at least. It's an extremely accurate depiction of a racist world view that refuses to learn anything. It starts with an errant drone strike at a wedding creating a villain. It ends with a drone strike on an area that has been evacuated of civilians, but when the film shows the street level view, civilians are visibly walking around, no one having learnt anything. The heroes are carboard cutouts who talk like a 13 year old punched up their dialogue to make it more badass, while the villains calmly illustrate their points. When it comes time for Morgan Freeman to deliver a verbal smackdown, he just awkwardly pauses. He's also always shot staring into the camera, even when he's in a casual conversation. The best part is when Butler is 'interrogating' a terrorist, and it cuts to a wide shot, and it's just a crazy person stabbing a dead guy while yelling questions at him. The scene immediately before hand is two older men summoning the courage to drive down a street filled with young ethnic men. The scene immediately after includes Butler enthusiastically shooting an unarmed man in a wheel chair before screaming that the US will be around for a thousand years. London Has Fallen is amazing.
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Snowman_McK posted:The sad thing is that nostalgia for that period also gave us "Regular Show" and big chunks of "Rick and Morty" This is not sad. Those shows rule so much.
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CelticPredator posted:This is not sad. Those shows rule so much. That was exactly my point.
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Snowman_McK posted:The sad thing is that nostalgia for that period also gave us "Regular Show" and big chunks of "Rick and Morty" because the nostalgia is not, inherently, the problem. it's using it lazily rather than in service of a greater point. it's what separates Ernest Cline from Thomas Pynchon in spite of both having a fondness for pop culture references.
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Snooze Cruise posted:While the topic is on Ernest Cline, I am going to take this excuse to inform everyone of his spoken word poetry How does someone who spent so much time absorbing the internet not know that Suicide Girls exists?
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joylessdivision posted:To bring it back to movie, the trailer for RP1 was exactly the kind of nerd masturbatory bullshit that I've come to loathe, and while I saw plenty of breathless "OH MY GOD FREDDY KRUGER IS IN THIS!" posts when the trailer dropped, the whole thing just left me hollow. The presentation is was more clumsy than something like Wreck-It Ralph, somehow.
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Skwirl posted:How does someone who spent so much time absorbing the internet not know that Suicide Girls exists? It's like dudes who tell women that they look better without makeup or to smile more or that they're too thin and should have a cheeseburger, it's misogyny only against those types of women who totally deserve it because they're sexhavers. I mean, I can't imagine how lacking in self-awareness you must have to fume about how women are "vacuum-headed gently caress bunnies" and "monosyllabic cock-hungry nymphos" just because you personally don't find them attractive and then in the next line call other men woman-hating misogynists.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:I hope the head terrorist is David Boreanaz 
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Guy Mann posted:It's like dudes who tell women that they look better without makeup or to smile more or that they're too thin and should have a cheeseburger, it's misogyny only against those types of women who totally deserve it because they're sexhavers. "A ho fucks everyone, a bitch fucks everyone but you.' At least that was written in a comedy. Cline was utterly sincere. If you need trouble imagining how little self awareness Ernest Cline has, read his book. Or, better yet, don't.
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