Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018 Funny you should bring some of those books up. I happen to agree seeing that I find that the harry potter books and the hunger games books to be better. I find the tech in ready player one reasonable for the time that it was based in. Yes, it is true that there seems to be very little death in the main characters. Sort of fin would be about right.On the other hand, I could right off some of the complaints by taking into account that the story, per say, could had been a fictional auto bio written by a fictional person who was rather shallow seeing that the book was written in the first person point of view. No, that does not do much to improve on the plot. Now days, people have Wikipedia and if I am remembering right, access to Wikipedia was brought up once in the book. Maybe the fictional writer used Wikipedia for a base line. Maybe they were just shallow enough to not bring up some of the personal weaknesses that they have, but you would think that they would had more conflict or something wouldn’t they? The is rather fin anyway you look at it though.Anyway, I did not go to see it today. I might wait until it comes out on ITunes or something. I did some looking up on google and if I am seeing things right, the movie is different from the book. Rather or not it is different enough to make dark happy, I do not know. The main difference is how the Easter eggs were found. I will go ahead and put the links to some of what I found below. Read at your own risk.Ready Player One (film) - WikipediaReady Player One (2018) - Rotten TomatoesReview: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game - The New York Timesready player one film review - Googleready player one film - Google URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357385#p357385 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018 Interesting Flacus you mention the geek off scene. That struck me very much as the sort of flamewar I usually have to sort out on forums, needless to say if I'd! been looking at that virtual chat room I probably would've slapped everyone, the blameless parsifal included with mod warnings . Actually in that sense it struck me that the book was very modern and not in a good way since I've noticed shallow, arsy male characters something of a trend. it's likely a reaction against your aukward nice guy heroes, but not a welcome one, indeed these days it seems that vaguely decent male characters are at a premium, eveyone is either an arse hole, an anxt machine, or so squeaky clean over virtuous its ridiculous, often they're some combination of one or the other or all! of these. Whatever happened to people who are you know, just vaguely decent and trying to do the right thing and mess up occasionally? I'm afraid to me what is a little more worrying is the success of ready player one resting entirely on its pop culture routes with little to no actual writing to back it up. harry potter had great characterisation if not always the standard of writing (especially when the first few books are edited to within an inch of their lives), Hungar games actually had a better over all writing quality and great world though not half as tight plotting. However Ready player one, if you remove all the nostalgia factor just doesn't have much to recommend it on a character or plot level which is pretty sad when there are much better writers with much less recognition or success out there. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357127#p357127 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018 I'm also with Dark on this one. I thought The VR gaming aspect was pretty well done, and there was a good story buried somewhere in among the eighties references, but agree with Dark that the central character was way too much of a smart arse. I really turned against him in the scene where he and his friend humiliated the slightly obnoxious guy by out-geeking him with their better memorisation of eighties film wiki-facts. What they actually did was out-obnoxious him. So it was hard to carry on when I really didn't much like the main character, and was never a fan of eighties pop culture either. I was a teen in the eighties, and the people I was hanging around with didn't think much of the music and fashion at the time. If you were an ordinary working-class straight male, there was not a lot to identify with in eighties pop culture. It was all hair-spray and poncy boys going on about their delicate little hearts and how fragile they are. This is why lad culture emerged in the nineties: it was a backlash, and they went way too far the other way. I thought all the eighties themed stuff came across as kitchy, and was ultimately a cop out and saved the author the trouble of having to invent a pop culture for a period that hadn't happened yet. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357102#p357102 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018 I'm with Dark on this one. I thought The VR gaming aspect was pretty well done, and there was a good story buried somewhere in among the eighties references, but agree with Dark that the central character was way too much of a smart arse. I really turned against him in the scene where he and his friend humiliated the slightly obnoxious guy by out-geeking him with their better memorisation of eighties film wiki-facts. What they actually did was out-obnoxious him. So it was hard to carry on when I really didn't much like the main character, and was never a fan of eighties pop culture either. I was a teen in the eighties, and the people I was hanging around with didn't think much of the music and fashion at the time. If you were an ordinary working-class straight male, there was not a lot to identify with in eighties pop culture. It was all hair-spray and poncy boys going on about their delicate little hearts and how fragile they are. This is why lad culture emerged in the nineties: it was a backlash, and they went way too far the other way. I thought all the eighties themed stuff came across as kitchy, and was ultimately a cop out and saved the author the trouble of having to invent a pop culture for a period that hadn't happened yet. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357102#p357102 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018 All fair points dark. There is so much that could had been done to make the plot so much better. One of the things worth noting is that in the book, no one really dies if you don’t count the one or two who does. I know they do within the game, but you are lead in to believing that IOI will kill to win and vary few really does die. All I can think of is that scene at the beginning where the bomb goes off and that time in the book where someone was thrown off of a balcony. In a way, the a lot of things could, in theory, be cut and we still can have a good movie. Still though, it is worth one read through, but beyond that is questionable URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357101#p357101 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018 My parents have some free cinema tickets and since my lady and I read the book recently we wouldn't mind seeing it. on the other hand, I confess the book was only "okay" at best. The main character was actually rather annoying, the implication that basically %90 of people with an interest in geek culture are overweight young men with no prospects, quite odd, especially for someone who rp'd for 7 years with three married couples and is married to a lady who probably understood as many references in ready player one as I did, albeit with her it was the 80's music, while with me it was the computer games.I also do agree with the cryticism that basically the main character was a mary sue of the first order, and a pretty giant one at that given he automamtically succeeds at everything! all of the time.I think though my biggest beef with the book is that while it perported to be a celibration of 80's culture, it struck me far more as a celibration of those bits of 80's culture which earnist cline happened to personally like. Some of this was down to which continent, he was on for example any Uk 80's geek would of course mention doctor who and Knightmare, See good old wikipedia for details, however other of it seemed very selective. For example, Sega and nintendo only got the vaguest of name checks, and street fighter 2, a child hood icon of mine barely got one mention. I also thought a lot of the time he basically ran down to mentioning things and going "hay look! this is good! you like this!" only really in the joust section did he actually deal with 80's and do something interesting with it, in a lot of other sections of the book it was basically just like a list "I watched heman and thundercats gobots and transformers and startrek tng and firefly and babylon 5 (for some odd reason)"Nope, it wasn't a bad book, but the cryticism that it's basically just nostalgia (and rather specific nostalgia at that), with little by way of plot or character and a rather adolescent theme to it seems pretty legitimate to me. Some people have actually called it twilight for boys, which seems pretty accurate to me really. Not that I won't see the film, and I'll probably read the sequel;, but I doubt very much I'll be reading ready player one again or going too loopy over the idea. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357093#p357093 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018 It better not deviate from the book to much! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357064#p357064 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018 If the clip I linked to in the first post is a sign of things in the movie, I would guess that it varies from the book a bit. I am guessing that they focused in on the action. Could be wrong, but this is coming from someone that just listened to the audio from the clip. I still have not decided on rather or not I would go see it the first day it comes out in theaters. I guess I could wait until I get it from ITunes. LOL. Then again, I could weight a few days to see what the reviews look like... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357057#p357057 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018
Re: ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018 If they didn't do the book justice Ima kill someone. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357051#p357051 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018
ready player one In theaters March 29, 2018 So, ready player one will be In theaters this week. Who plans to see it? Who wants to see it? Just wondering. I read the book and found the book to be ok. So, any thoughts? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357046#p357046 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
