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re: Ready Player One reactions/SpoilerThread
Posted on 4/9/18 at 8:21 am to OMLandshark
Posted on 4/9/18 at 8:21 am to OMLandshark
As someone who read (and enjoyed) the book and saw the movie last night, I’m actually mostly on your side.
The movie rushed through a lot and did a poor job explaining the extremely high stakes and significant outcome of the hunt. All the characters and everything only happening in Columbus, Ohio made it all feel too local
The movie rushed through a lot and did a poor job explaining the extremely high stakes and significant outcome of the hunt. All the characters and everything only happening in Columbus, Ohio made it all feel too local
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Posted on 4/9/18 at 8:41 am to Eighteen
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The movie rushed through a lot and did a poor job explaining the extremely high stakes and significant outcome of the hunt. All the characters and everything only happening in Columbus, Ohio made it all feel too local
Yeah, I'm thinking a lot of the posters who realized the stakes read the book. They mention it once really in passing, and never again. It was poorly explained.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 8:44 am to Merck
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But not when their vehicles look like this:
But they're mostly the same damn color in a sea of grey. Whenever vehicles are flying back and forth quickly on the screen, it just turns into chaos that is difficult to follow.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 11:12 am to pvilleguru
Disregard this one guy’s grandstanding criticisms.
At minimum, it is a fun popcorn flick about new and old school gaming. It’s not complicated. If you have kids, and ever played video games with them, take them to this movie.
80’s games were awesome and I’ll slay you in Fortnite.
At minimum, it is a fun popcorn flick about new and old school gaming. It’s not complicated. If you have kids, and ever played video games with them, take them to this movie.
80’s games were awesome and I’ll slay you in Fortnite.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 11:21 am to StickD
I'm not an 80's kid and haven't played video games outside of what was available in bars in the late 70's and early 80's. We enjoyed the film. The movie has enough obvious pop culture references to keep non-gamers interested.
The stuff with The Shining, Excalibur, and Mecha-Godzilla had us cheering and laughing.
They did a great job of "dumbing it down" for the general audience.
The stuff with The Shining, Excalibur, and Mecha-Godzilla had us cheering and laughing.
They did a great job of "dumbing it down" for the general audience.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 12:27 pm to OMLandshark
I read and throughly enjoyed the book. I saw the move Saturday and felt it was ok, didn’t hate it but didn’t love it either kind of forgettable frankly, if not for all the references.
I don’t think nit picking like someone should have figured out going backwards sooner is a valid criticism but I 100% agree they didn’t really explain the stakes well enough or even why we should hate IOI other than standard they’re a big rich corporation Oh they want to monetize the Oasis further, the horror the horror
Does seem like it would have been better as a 2 parter.
I don’t think nit picking like someone should have figured out going backwards sooner is a valid criticism but I 100% agree they didn’t really explain the stakes well enough or even why we should hate IOI other than standard they’re a big rich corporation Oh they want to monetize the Oasis further, the horror the horror
Does seem like it would have been better as a 2 parter.
This post was edited on 4/9/18 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 4/9/18 at 12:58 pm to H-Town Tiger
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going backwards sooner is a valid criticism
Is it? Reallly? Obviously. It’s a movie.
Why not criticize people wearing VR head gear running on sideways and not into traffic? And plenty of other examples.
ETA. Weren’t players coins or credits irl currency? Didn’t people get in debt and made slaves? I thought that was why they had all the gaming phone booths they had to work in?
ETA2. Still a good movie. I’d rather not have to watch a part 2 or trilogy to get more details. Very easy to fill in the blanks or quite frankly not care.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 3:13 pm to H-Town Tiger
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Does seem like it would have been better as a 2 parter.
Hell, if The Hobbit can be split into 3 movies, then this one sure as hell could have.
Make each movie centered around each of the 3 keys and gates. Develop the characters over time and learn a different aspect of Halliday's life in each movie. There was really just no good character development.
That said, I really enjoyed the movie and was entertained throughout.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 3:16 pm to OMLandshark
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It took 5 years for someone to figure out to go in reverse. Did everyone just become retarded in this timeline. Dumbest shite I’ve ever seen.
There are a few genres of film that completely rely on a willing suspension of disbelief and people doing completely inane things to progress the story along - Rom Coms and Horrors at the very least. It's a criticism sure, but sometimes we just have to forgive films for their folly.
But then you read stories in the real news that make you go "Hm, yeah, maybe no one figuring out how to go backwards is not a big deal."
Posted on 4/9/18 at 3:19 pm to StickD
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Is it? Reallly? Obviously. It’s a movie.
No, I said: “ I don’t think nit picking like .....someone should have figured out going backwards sooner is a valid criticism”
This post was edited on 4/9/18 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 4/9/18 at 3:28 pm to Freauxzen
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There are a few genres of film that completely rely on a willing suspension of disbelief and people doing completely inane things to progress the story along - Rom Coms and Horrors at the very least. It's a criticism sure, but sometimes we just have to forgive films for their folly.
But then you read stories in the real news that make you go "Hm, yeah, maybe no one figuring out how to go backwards is not a big deal."
I could suspend my disbelief of people not figuring out Key #2 for a while, but I can't suspend 1 and 3. They would both be my second thought (if not first) being remotely familiar with video games. I'd look for glitches, and the easiest way to find that in a race is to go in reverse to just see what happens. Really I think not only a 5 year old could have figured this out, but it would have been solved on the very first race. This kind of thing that sets me off in a judging a movie. That's where the film lost me completely, and it never really recovered from there since it didn't do anything interesting, again save for the Shining sequence.
So much potential, but it is wasted entirely at a library, a race, Hoth, and a nightclub. Why wasn't there more from what we were shown from the start? I think I've stated to you in the past that a film I want the most is a realistic non-genocidal Singularity. And this plays with it, but it doesn't go far at all with it.
This post was edited on 4/9/18 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 4/9/18 at 4:05 pm to H-Town Tiger
Corrected.
That’s the point to other master nerds like OLM are trying to make
Again, wasn’t all the players coins connect to real life currency in some kind of way? That’s why they didn’t want to just “die” in the game.
That’s the point to other master nerds like OLM are trying to make
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They would both be my second thought (if not first) being remotely familiar with video games. I'd look for glitches, and the easiest way to find that in a race is to go in reverse to just see what happens. Really I think not only a 5 year old could have figured this out, but it would have been solved on the very first race.
Again, wasn’t all the players coins connect to real life currency in some kind of way? That’s why they didn’t want to just “die” in the game.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 4:12 pm to StickD
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Again, wasn’t all the players coins connect to real life currency in some kind of way? That’s why they didn’t want to just “die” in the game.
But there's nothing behind them. Why not try it, since it's highly unlikely someone would win the very first race anyway? Do you mean to tell me that with their army from the corporation that they wouldn't have instructed a single person to not try that?
Posted on 4/9/18 at 4:43 pm to OMLandshark
So now you’re getting it.
Limited plays/players vs more money/corporate players, the latter wins every time.
That’s why the IOI corporation was not desirable.
Open artitecture, open play generates much better results.
Limited plays/players vs more money/corporate players, the latter wins every time.
That’s why the IOI corporation was not desirable.
Open artitecture, open play generates much better results.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 4:47 pm to OMLandshark
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Really I think not only a 5 year old could have figured this out, but it would have been solved on the very first race.
I guess I’m dumber than a 5 yo then because that never would have dawned on me.
Now excluding Golden Tee I never played video games beyond the Atari 2600 but I think you’re trying to hard here.This post was edited on 4/9/18 at 4:48 pm
Posted on 4/9/18 at 4:52 pm to StickD
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Limited plays/players vs more money/corporate players, the latter wins every time.
That’s why the IOI corporation was not desirable.
Open artitecture, open play generates much better results.
You just made me dislike this movie even more since I just realize also what this movie did far worse with this exact same message than another actually great movie did: The LEGO Movie. That message was loud, clear, permeated everything, and was far more clever in TLM. RPO was just dumb in this regard.
I will give this movie one thing I liked about it: I did like the very end where he actually turns off the Oasis twice a week for people to go out and actually live. A complete opposite message from the Emoji Movie where it says your entire worth as a human being is tied to your phone. I don't think this movie is nefarious, just sloppy as frick and uninspired.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 4:54 pm to H-Town Tiger
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I guess I’m dumber than a 5 yo then because that never would have dawned on me. Now excluding Golden Tee I never played video games beyond the Atari 2600 but I think you’re trying to hard here.
insert nic cage :YOU DONT SAY: meme here.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 5:38 pm to OMLandshark
OML has been identified, aka keyboard killer
GTFO. You don’t like the movie, we get it. Move on.
GTFO. You don’t like the movie, we get it. Move on.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 5:49 pm to StickD
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GTFO. You don’t like the movie, we get it. Move on.
You’re the one who directly called me out, so I’m not going to sit by idly and let you go to town without a rebuttal.
This post was edited on 4/9/18 at 5:53 pm
Posted on 4/9/18 at 5:52 pm to H-Town Tiger
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I guess I’m dumber than a 5 yo then because that never would have dawned on me
You never tried that with Mario Kart? Just simple curiosity even if there weren’t any stakes would be enough to break this test, and I do think you would be intelligent enough to solve it rather quickly. Sure imjustafatkid wouldn’t figure it out, but I think anyone with an IQ higher than 80 could do it.
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