READY PLAYER ONE - Come With Me

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[video=youtube;D_eZxSYRhco]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_eZxSYRhco[/video] Looks like they added more stuff outside of the OASIS, thanks to this movie and a few others coming out in the same month I plan to check out that subscription service moviepass thing.

 

[xanadunl]

Looking forward to it. Even if it doesn't do the book justice, it should be fun.

 

[Deset Gled]

As someone who read and liked the book, this trailer was a huge turn off for me.

The book is campy and fun. TIE fighters as limos at a fancy ball, Ultra Man battling with Voltron, random TMBG references. This movie is being marketed as EPIC BATTLE FOR THE FATE OF THE WORLD with AMAZING VISUALS and LOTS OF FEELINGS. Looks like it was written by a bunch of suits in a board meeting more interested in calculating return on investment for the license deals. And I love the Iron Giant as much as (if not more than) the next guy, but it's jut plain the wrong era of animation.

The one good sign is that Spielberg is involved. His success rate on blending profit with storytelling is higher than most. I'll still give it a chance on home video, but it's not looking theater-worthy.

 

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Well, Clline helped with the screen play, so I'm not too worried. I'm not expecting this to turn out to be a repeat of the Percy Jackson movies...or starship troopers.

 

[MarkB]

As someone who read and liked the book, this trailer was a huge turn off for me.

The book is campy and fun. TIE fighters as limos at a fancy ball, Ultra Man battling with Voltron, random TMBG references. This movie is being marketed as EPIC BATTLE FOR THE FATE OF THE WORLD with AMAZING VISUALS and LOTS OF FEELINGS. Looks like it was written by a bunch of suits in a board meeting more interested in calculating return on investment for the license deals. And I love the Iron Giant as much as (if not more than) the next guy, but it's jut plain the wrong era of animation.

The one good sign is that Spielberg is involved. His success rate on blending profit with storytelling is higher than most. I'll still give it a chance on home video, but it's not looking theater-worthy.

Yeah, but the book isn't just campy and fun. It's got that veneer, but it's also life-and-death high stakes, emotional turmoil, and very serious real-life consequences. And it pretty much is a battle for the fate of the world - or at least, for the chance to have a stake in changing its fate.

All of that is in the book, therefore all of it is in the movie. And those are the elements they happen to be emphasising in this trailer.

And yeah, they're going with the Iron Giant. Not the anime giant robots featured in the book - but half of those were references that I was only passingly familiar with, and a few I'd not heard of before, and I like anime. The Iron Giant is at least recognisable to most of the movie's intended audience.

 

[Jhaelen]

I'm not expecting this to turn out to be a repeat of the Percy Jackson movies...or starship troopers.

Nevermind the Percy Jackson movies, but Starship Troopers was a fun movie. Sure, it didn't have much in common with the novel that 'inspired' it, but sometimes that's okay.

Regarding Ready Player One: I already felt the novel was only about average. After seeing the trailer I was quite sure I wasn't interested in the film adaptation at all.

 

[Imaculata]

Neither this trailer nor the latest one has convinced me that this is worth theater tickets. I'll wait for the reviews.

 

[Ovinomancer]

The film version of Ready Player One is aimed at a different demographic bracket from the book, so the fanservice shifts as well. The films aim at the generation that grew up in the 90's and the early aughts, not the 80's and early 90's of the book. It's little surprise that those that fans of the book will be disappointed by the movie: the only good bits of the book were the fanservice, and you're not the fans being serviced by the film.

 

[Deset Gled]

Yeah, but the book isn't just campy and fun. It's got that veneer, but it's also life-and-death high stakes, emotional turmoil, and very serious real-life consequences. And it pretty much is a battle for the fate of the world - or at least, for the chance to have a stake in changing its fate

I would argue on that point. The veneer is the best part of RPO. Beneath that veneer, it's another level of cheesy. And beneath that, it's actually kinda stupid.

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The main character is a terrible Mary Sue who's the best at everything. He gets a perfect score at Pac-Man as an afterthought, infiltrates a real-life prison and escapes without a single worry, goes from out-of-shape relate-able teen to buff hero overnight, and knows more about 80s trivia than an entire corporation. The enemy is a cardboard cutout from the standard villain box that is both over-the-top evil and impossibly untouchable outside of the plot. The entire world is built on a flimsy excuse to force in as many retro references in as possible. The plot is completely by the numbers, and travels at exactly the speed of the main character the same way a computer RPG does. And I love it.

But if you try to make that into an epic, you're going to fail. There's just too little substance under the veneer to build up. Could it be done? Yes, but it would resemble "Ready Player One" in the same way that "The Dark Knight" resembles Adam West's "Batman".

 

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I would argue on that point. The veneer is the best part of RPO. Beneath that veneer, it's another level of cheesy. And beneath that, it's actually kinda stupid.

*Minor spoilers from the book ahead*

The main character is a terrible Mary Sue who's the best at everything. He gets a perfect score at Pac-Man as an afterthought, infiltrates a real-life prison and escapes without a single worry, goes from out-of-shape relate-able teen to buff hero overnight, and knows more about 80s trivia than an entire corporation..

I guess you missed the time skip in which he explains that he realized he was getting close to having to order from the husky line of equipment, put the health lock out on his machine in place, along with his work out (jogging along the biforst, while singing and toss out trivia to 80s music). And he does worry just not a lot...There's a part on his way out that if the worker who pointed out his bleeding ear had looked at his shoes she would have realized something was up. He also wasn't sure if the info he got from the hacker warehouse was going to work.
As for the trivia thing, it's explained again a number of times that knowledge of the obscure 80s trivia is basically a religion among gunters who are serious about the know more than you aspect of bragging rights. He need help from H to figure out part of the 2nd clue, along with blanking out on the wrapper itself.
Then there's the thought among those who discuss the book that he has aspects of being on the spectrum, but no confirmation