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Posted on 2/1/21 at 1:33 pm to VoxDawg
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I was disappointed in Armada. It was just The Last Starfighter.
Pretty much, dumb ending too.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 1:34 pm to OMLandshark
The company in the movie is insanely incompetent. The company in the book is running the internet like mercs in the Congo.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 1:34 pm to QJenk
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The very first race is a big stretch, but I do agree 5 years is a long time for someone to not come up with a different strategy that already failed 1000 times.
That is why the book was so much better. The movie glossed over the rags to riches story of Parseval. In the book he could not afford to leave the school planet; which is one of the reasons he figured out the first clue. The movie was good it was just different than the book.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 1:35 pm to Jay Are
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What you described here would have had very little visual appeal. I'd say it had very little literary appeal. Spielberg's race is stupid, but using this sequence as written would have been a disaster for a movie trying to be an exciting blockbuster. Same with the Rush stuff.
Wait, so you're saying that the main character finding and infiltrating a scary as frick dungeon, avoiding deadly traps, and coming face to face with a extremely powerful and evil undead king, and playing that creature on an arcade game would not be interesting??
Have you heard of an obscure little film called Raiders of the Lost Arc? It only made millions and millions of dollars and spawned a whole genre of movies, books, and video games. The opening scenes of RP1 would play out a lot like those of RotLA.
The opening of Raiders, the slow build up, no dialogue at first and not even a good look at the main character all make this one of the best openings to a movie ever.
RP1 could have done all that. Hell, because the whole movie is a shite ton of callbacks to 80s nostalgia, they could have tied in to Raiders. Maybe have Parzival reach in his pack and pull out whip. Or don a fedora.
Maybe you mouth breathers with a gnat's attention span need not be the sought after audience?
Posted on 2/1/21 at 1:39 pm to Dam Guide
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The second book is a mess of writing, his writing some how got worse from the first one.
Armada felt rushed. Like he was pressured to pump something out while still riding the RP1 wave. So he dug out all the references he hadn't used for RP1 and wrote a story around them.
That's how I used to write term papers
Find a bunch of quotes on the subject I was assigned, and write a paper around them. I've heard RP2 is so heavy with SJW and virtue signaling that it's insufferable. I'll pass thanks.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 1:39 pm to TygerTyger
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RP1 could have done all that. Hell, because the whole movie is a shite ton of callbacks to 80s nostalgia, they could have tied in to Raiders. Maybe have Parzival reach in his pack and pull out whip. Or don a fedora.
Holy hell, that would have been a lot better than the race and could have kept the tie in to the school.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 1:46 pm to TygerTyger
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I've heard RP2 is so heavy with SJW and virtue signaling that it's insufferable. I'll pass thanks.
It's so bad that the people he was doing it for hated it because it was clear he was doing it to make money off of them, not actually include them like they want.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 1:46 pm to i am dan
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Might be the most amazing 5 minutes of movie history.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 1:52 pm to FreddieMac
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That is why the book was so much better. The movie glossed over the rags to riches story of Parseval.
That and everyone in the story lives in Columbus Ohio.... Spielberg just did not remotely understand the type of material he was dealing with. And the chick is supposed to be ugly because she has a barely noticeable birthmark on her face? It’s Spielberg’s worst film since Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 2:08 pm to OMLandshark
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Not ones as simple as “going in reverse”. People are saying I don’t understand it, but the point is Spielberg does not understand video games and the internet. Any Gen Xer or below should have been able to explain to Spielberg why simply going in reverse in a racing game doesn’t make any sense and people do that in racing games all the time just for the hell of it.
The only way it works is if no one had ever won the race, ever. Then people would have been aiming for that first.
I agree, though, that if a race had not been won after than many attempts, then someone would have probably thought, "Not going to win anyway, let's see what happens when I go backwards."
Posted on 2/1/21 at 2:18 pm to SG_Geaux
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That is also an awesome scene for showing off Dolby Atmos
I can confirm the bubble of sound and the glass breaking was very nice in Atmos.
I'm not sure I finished the book. I like nostalgia, but I guess it seemed to me that the writer was making references just to make them at a certain point. The book became, "remember this? Remember this?" ad nauseum.
I get it was the point but the way it was done seemed amateurish.
This post was edited on 2/1/21 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 2/1/21 at 2:20 pm to TygerTyger
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Armada felt rushed.
I do not think so, I enjoyed that book as well.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 2:49 pm to TygerTyger
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I love the book.
I hate the movie
Eh, I liked them both because they were both very different.
I read the synopsis for Ready Player 2 (the book) and the author is getting blasted ruining the first book. A classic case of someone being forced to write a sequel where a sequel wasn't necessary. No doubt the eventual movie will be much different to appease the audiences.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 2:55 pm to i am dan
Not sure if it is the most amazing 5 minutes but yes I really enjoyed the movie. Also not a huge surprise that the book nerds came in to trash the movie.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 3:05 pm to bad93ex
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Not sure if it is the most amazing 5 minutes
Talk about hyperbole. How is it even in the ballpark of say on the top of my head the Ride of the Rohirrim?
Posted on 2/1/21 at 3:31 pm to i am dan
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Might be the most amazing 5 minutes of movie history
Not even the most amazing 5 minutes of racing in a goofy bloated CGI popcorn movie.
Speed Racer - The Final Race
Posted on 2/1/21 at 3:41 pm to TomBuchanan
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Please pump the brakes
I am pretty high. Watch it high.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 3:42 pm to i am dan
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Might be the most amazing 5 minutes of movie history. The action is ridiculously good, the cinematography and angles are perfect, the CGI is the best I've ever seen.
The part when the monster truck ramps coming out from the under the tunnel looks freaking real.
French Connection says piss off.
How can anyone call a CGI animation scene on of the "most amazing 5 mins of movie history?" Sure it was a fun scene that was well designed and animated, but to put this above actually filmed phenomenal car chase scenes such as French Connection is ridiculous.
Posted on 2/1/21 at 4:17 pm to Dam Guide
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Also, whoever put in the line about Goldeneye and the favorite game mode being Oddjob in slappers only should be punch in the nuts. That was basically admitting you are a bitch if you went with that.
I grew up in a "no Oddjob" household. Choosing him as your character would get you slapped in real life.
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