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The really creepy thing about RPO is the disconnect between the fantasy and the source material. I think everybody when they were a kid wanted to meet the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or go to Hogwarts or whatever. But you grow up and realize that it's impossible. Ernest Cline still has those fantasies, but his knowledge of reality has twisted them into something infinitely sadder. He knows the Ninja Turtles aren't real, but he still wants to hang out with them. So his fantasy is to hang out with simulacra of the Ninja Turtles. All the stuff in Ready Player One is player-created replicas of pop culture things, not the actual things. So his fantasy isn't to meet the characters he loved as a child, it's to decorate his room with cardboard standees of them. He doesn't want the time machine from Back to the Future, he wants a car that looks like the time machine from Back to the Future. It's a fantasy with all of the magic of childhood stripped away, but also without the maturity or responsibility of adulthood.
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Late, but look at this idiot who thinks animals don't masturbate. Sometimes even without hands! Guy Goodbody posted:
As someone who was a teenage girl in the nineties, the world the girls were creating was frequently about making gundam pilots bone each other.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 16:34 |
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Guy Goodbody posted:The really creepy thing about RPO is the disconnect between the fantasy and the source material. I think everybody when they were a kid wanted to meet the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or go to Hogwarts or whatever. But you grow up and realize that it's impossible. Ernest Cline still has those fantasies, but his knowledge of reality has twisted them into something infinitely sadder. He knows the Ninja Turtles aren't real, but he still wants to hang out with them. So his fantasy is to hang out with simulacra of the Ninja Turtles. All the stuff in Ready Player One is player-created replicas of pop culture things, not the actual things. So his fantasy isn't to meet the characters he loved as a child, it's to decorate his room with cardboard standees of them. He doesn't want the time machine from Back to the Future, he wants a car that looks like the time machine from Back to the Future. It's a fantasy with all of the magic of childhood stripped away, but also without the maturity or responsibility of adulthood. Honestly, that has the potential to be the setup for some good psychological horror
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 16:38 |
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RoboRodent posted:As someone who was a teenage girl in the nineties, the world the girls were creating was frequently about making gundam pilots bone each other. Char and Amuro had a very intense relationship
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 16:38 |
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The worst thing about Ready Player One is people derailing every loving thread at the barest mention of it. Time to get over a book existing that you don't like folks.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 16:42 |
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You know, I don't know if the book references it, but if the movie were to change things up and suddenly pull out a CGI Smoke from Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue as a major antagonist, I guess that would kind of be legitimately cool for a few seconds.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 16:44 |
Guy Goodbody posted:He doesn't want the time machine from Back to the Future, he wants a car that looks like the time machine from Back to the Future.
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RPO has long portions of the book that are literally just lists of the things Ernest Cline likes. Just hey, here's a list of some things but I couldn't be bothered to pull the wiki entry and paste it into the book, oh well. Also something about it that's been bothering me lately is that in the final battle the Iron Giant gets name checked as fighting for the good guys. The character who spent an entire movie learning that he doesn't have to be a weapon and doesn't have to fight gets called in as an ultimate warrior. Ernest Cline's ability to miss the point about everything is astounding, but you'd think he could at least grasp the moral of a simple kid's movie. It's been said a before, none of it is written with love for the material, but simply to check the box of "I've seen this and so should you, if only because someone else says it's good or important."
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 16:51 |
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I don't know if I've ever wanted a movie to fail more
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 16:54 |
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Also something about it that's been bothering me lately is that in the final battle the Iron Giant gets name checked as fighting for the good guys. The character who spent an entire movie learning that he doesn't have to be a weapon and doesn't have to fight gets called in as an ultimate warrior. Ernest Cline's ability to miss the point about everything is astounding, but you'd think he could at least grasp the moral of a simple kid's movie. While I do agree with you, gently caress you for making me think of the Iron Giant at work.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 16:55 |
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ElGroucho posted:I don't know if I've ever wanted a movie to fail more
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:RPO has long portions of the book that are literally just lists of the things Ernest Cline likes. Just hey, here's a list of some things but I couldn't be bothered to pull the wiki entry and paste it into the book, oh well. Reposting this because it's so perfect. https://twitter.com/electrolemon/status/971208968323280896
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 16:56 |
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Zereth posted:He actually owns one, with a Mr Fusion prop on the back and poo poo, but it's also got Ghostbusters poo poo painted on it. He literally drives the car he describes his character as having in the book.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 16:59 |
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Christ alive I hadn't seen the interior before. Wow, what a goddamn embarrassment. UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Also something about it that's been bothering me lately is that in the final battle the Iron Giant gets name checked as fighting for the good guys. The character who spent an entire movie learning that he doesn't have to be a weapon and doesn't have to fight gets called in as an ultimate warrior. Ernest Cline's ability to miss the point about everything is astounding, but you'd think he could at least grasp the moral of a simple kid's movie. Yeah, I can do with Nostalgia Namecheck: The Movie fine enough, even if I don't like it. But having the Iron Giant come in as not just sort of cool hang-out setpiece, but an active combatant, really gets me. I love the goddamn Iron Giant, and using him as a fighter in a movie so completely misses the point about the character that it's almost ridiculous. Near as I can tell, this movie is just Gamemaster Anthony's Birthday meets Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, and I mean both of those in the worst way possible.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:He literally drives the car he describes his character as having in the book. It's such a pathetically halfassed pass at everything it's referencing. Just a really low effort job.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 17:04 |
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Two things: One, every time I see a picture of this guy I really want to give him a swirlee. Two, I like how he's trying to be cool, and the kids at the high school are just ignoring him.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:He literally drives the car he describes his character as having in the book. ECTO88? I never thought I could like that dude less, but I guess I wasn't expecting him to also be a nazi
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 17:06 |
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I love all the RP1 derails because it brings out the "heh yeah guys rp1 isn't great literature but it was a fun book and I'm kinda looking forward to the movie, uh, ironically!" posters to let everyone know they have zero taste and are deeply embarrassing people.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 17:07 |
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My friend used to own a Delorean. That car sucked and we were constantly fixing things with it. Also you can't go through drive through windows because the windows don't roll down so you have to open the stupid loving doors to pick up White Castle at 2am in the winter.
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Samuringa posted:And second, let's not forget Ernest Cline's magnum opus: http://www.ernestcline.com/spokenword/npa.htm Not technically a picture, I know, but very funny.
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RoboRodent posted:As someone who was a teenage girl in the nineties, the world the girls were creating was frequently about making gundam pilots bone each other. All the pilots in Gundam Wing being extremely pretty boys suddenly makes a lot more sense.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 17:29 |
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The trailer for RP1 looks like a good and fun movie that I will gladly stream on Netflix in 6 months. I have no desire to read the book.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 17:30 |
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1stGear posted:All the pilots in Gundam Wing being extremely pretty boys suddenly makes a lot more sense. Duo Maxwell, God of Death (and my wife's heart).
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Solice Kirsk posted:My friend used to own a Delorean. That car sucked and we were constantly fixing things with it. Also you can't go through drive through windows because the windows don't roll down so you have to open the stupid loving doors to pick up White Castle at 2am in the winter.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 17:33 |
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slavic cat time
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 17:34 |
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I bet making all but the most shallow turns with that steering "wheel" is horrible and embarrassing to watch. I read the book a few years ago and thought it was fun. However I did find it funny that, had the bad guys won, a large segment of the people using the OASIS would no longer be able to afford it. The upshot of that was that they would have to unplug from their pointless fantasy world and reconnect with the real world they'd been ignoring and neglecting for years. RP1 is basically the matrix except the machines are the good guys. That being said, I'll probably take my 12 year old to see it. He really liked the book.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 17:39 |
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This one could be a good response for the stupid kermit-tea-meme.
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Iron Crowned posted:Two things: It's this but real life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZjviMmXIY8
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Scratch Monkey posted:I bet making all but the most shallow turns with that steering "wheel" is horrible and embarrassing to watch. There is a Youtube "review" of driving a replica of K.I.T.T. and the guy doing the review is stoked as hell and playing up the experience until he got to drive it and soon realized that it's pretty much the absolute worst steering wheel imaginable. It's hard to take turns and uncomfortable to hold. The guy who made the replica agreed, saying that it's terrible to drive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93VlRnRPk9k&t=210s
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Solice Kirsk posted:My friend used to own a Delorean. That car sucked and we were constantly fixing things with it. Also you can't go through drive through windows because the windows don't roll down so you have to open the stupid loving doors to pick up White Castle at 2am in the winter. Same, but then one time he was driving it on the interstate when the engine burst into flame and melted the steel body.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 18:22 |
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Scratch Monkey posted:That being said, I'll probably take my 12 year old to see it. He really liked the book.
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... What logo is that on the steering wheel? Fake edit: You posted:There is a Youtube "review" of driving a replica of K.I.T.T. and the guy doing the review is stoked as hell and playing up the experience until he got to drive it and soon realized that it's pretty much the absolute worst steering wheel imaginable. It's hard to take turns and uncomfortable to hold. The guy who made the replica agreed, saying that it's terrible to drive. Collateral Damage posted:The Delorean is absolute garbage and if it hadn't been for BTTF it would have been nothing but a footnote in the large book of ill conceived automotive failures. And then the movie turned out to be extremely popular, and here we are.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 18:47 |
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Yeah, the joke was that Doc didn't understand what "style" was so essentially picked the 80's version of a Pinto to turn into a time machine.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Yeah, the joke was that Doc didn't understand what "style" was so essentially picked the 80's version of a Pinto to turn into a time machine. I thought he picked it it because it was made out of aluminum making it a better choice vs all the steel cars. I know I read this in some lovely back to the future book I read when I was 9. EDIT: Guess not haha quote:According to this article at backtothefuture.com: Thats the cannon.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 18:51 |
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Zereth posted:
Marty McFly: Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean? Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some *style?* DeLoreans were definitely cool looking, and got a lot of notice for their design, but were universally panned for their performance.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 18:51 |
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Zereth posted:I believe that was supposed to be the joke in the original Back to the Future: the Delorean was known primary as a lovely car, so Doc Brown building his time machine on one was a real "stupid rear end mad scientist" thing to do. I haven't seen the film in a while but I think there's even a "You made a time machine out of a delorean??" line in there. Yeah, I really wouldn't know how lovely Deloreans were until this thread.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 18:52 |
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MarcusSA posted:I thought he picked it it because it was made out of aluminum making it a better choice vs all the steel cars. I know I read this in some lovely back to the future book I read when I was 9. The panels were stainless steel
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He picked a car that looked cool, and that came with stainless steel body panels as a default, which I think was important to time travel in a way that wasn't explained more fully than "They're important". The car itself barely keeps up with a car from the 50s, and only gets good when it starts flying and is functionally no longer a real DeLorean. e: Beaten, that's what I get for having a reply window left open. Whatever.
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