Ready player one

[vandeleur]

Has anyone read Ready player one?

I recently read the book on holiday and am working my way through the audio book narrated by Will Wheaton.

Its very good and the roth army is probably its demographic.

The trailer for the movie out next year is pretty good too. That spielberg fella might have a future.

[vandeleur]

https://youtu.be/Z-vGWwRF_Qc

[twonabomber]

I read it last year after they said the movie was being made. It was okay.

Spielberg is leaving out any mention of his movies. The DeLorean is in the trailer but I guess he only was exec producer of Back To The Future.

[vandeleur]

It's not a great work of literature but if youre a geek it ticks a lot of boxes . Hey I know some ok ;)

The deus ex ending i let slide as I did the van halen comment.i assumed he meant Van Hagar :D

I saw the Spielberg comment but there wasn't an awful lot of reference to his work , no et etc. It does slag off the the last Indiana jones movie lol

[twonabomber]

It's the book equivalent of a summer blockbuster. Which, oddly enough, was intended to be a movie from the start.

I found a couple mistakes, I'll have to go back through it and make notes. Something as simple as what label a band was on.

[vandeleur]

The absolute worst thing about the bloody book is the week long Rush binge it forces you on :)

Am trying to kick it and am only doing a little 2112 its not a problem ;)

[Seshmeister]

Ok now I may have to read this... :)

When I say read I mean have the precocious child from Star Trek read it to me.

[Seshmeister]

Fuck just checked and the child is only slightly younger than me.

I didn't realize it was one of those actor pushing 30 playing a 'kid' situations like Back to the Future or Grease...

[vandeleur]

Actually it was my first real audio book .Will bust my cherry. I now am fully "audible" so cant criticize people for being lazy. It now means I can do two things half arsed at the same time. Surely that's a full thing. :)

[Seshmeister]

The funniest audible book is I Partridge, read by the author...

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Biographies-Memoirs/I-Partridge-We-Need-to-Talk-About-Alan-Audiobook/B005QR9AD0/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1504609446&sr=1-1

[vandeleur]

I will check it out , I read the "actual" book in his voice :)

[Coyote]

A bit too nostalgia-driven for me. But then again, I'd say the same about Hollyweird in general.

[vandeleur]

Nice new trailer ... familiar music if you like that 80’s crap :biggrin:


https://youtu.be/cSp1dM2Vj48

[twonabomber]

the Depeche Mode track from the beginning of the trailer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D789MNbNKU0

[twonabomber]

Just got back from the theater. It's pretty good. A little different than the book. Lots of hidden stuff to find.

[Terry]

Haven't read the book.

From the brief trailer I've seen a few times, it looks like it is yet another movie that overuses CGI in an attempt to blow the viewer away. Looks loud and bombastic.

Problem for me is, Spielberg hasn't put out anything I've been interested in since Jurassic Park: simply put, he's the little boy who never grew up, while I did. The other problem is, we've got PLENTY of loud and bombastic CGI-laden flicks in the theaters now. In point of fact, between comic book superhero movies and animated kids flicks (that are "funny for kids but have clever jokes the adults will like too!!" ...ugh), those two things are just about all we DO have left in the theaters. And I'm much closer to 50 than I am 40 now...and I'm not an overgrown manchild living at my mom's house...so I don't have much interest in finding Easter Eggs in movies...and I kinda prefer movies that don't need to try to blow me out of my seat with noisy special effects in order to have an impact...and this movie comes across like a movie that needs to try and blow me out of my seat with noisy special effects in order to have an impact because that is all it has going for it...

[Seshmeister]

Haven't read the book.

From the brief trailer I've seen a few times, it looks like it is yet another movie that overuses CGI in an attempt to blow the viewer away. Looks loud and bombastic.

Problem for me is, Spielberg hasn't put out anything I've been interested in since Jurassic Park: simply put, he's the little boy who\ never grew up, while I did.

Disagree, the next movie he made after Jurassic Park was Schindlers List FFS!

I'd say at least over half of his movies since haven't been bombastic CGI since then and there has been some decent stuff in there -
2017 The Post
2015 Bridge of Spies
2012 Lincoln
2011 War Horse
2005 Munich
2004 The Terminal
2002 Catch Me If You Can
2002 Minority Report
1998 Saving Private Ryan
1997 Amistad
1993 Schindler's List

[twonabomber]

Of course it's heavy on CGI, most of it takes place in a VR world.

[Seshmeister]

My criticism of Spielberg is more about when he goes super cheesy sentimental like in the cemetery scene in Saving Private Ryan but he's done enough great stuff to fill 2 careers as a director.

Haven't seen this one yet although I do have an idea for the name of a sequel if they make it, maybe I should email him.

Next year he is away to do the 5th/(final?) Indiana Jones hopefully more like the 3rd than the 4th. I think it will be set in the late 1960s which makes you feel your age...

[Nitro Express]

Haven't read the book.

From the brief trailer I've seen a few times, it looks like it is yet another movie that overuses CGI in an attempt to blow the viewer away. Looks loud and bombastic.

Problem for me is, Spielberg hasn't put out anything I've been interested in since Jurassic Park: simply put, he's the little boy who never grew up, while I did. The other problem is, we've got PLENTY of loud and bombastic CGI-laden flicks in the theaters now. In point of fact, between comic book superhero movies and animated kids flicks (that are "funny for kids but have clever jokes the adults will like too!!" ...ugh), those two things are just about all we DO have left in the theaters. And I'm much closer to 50 than I am 40 now...and I'm not an overgrown manchild living at my mom's house...so I don't have much interest in finding Easter Eggs in movies...and I kinda prefer movies that don't need to try to blow me out of my seat with noisy special effects in order to have an impact...and this movie comes across like a movie that needs to try and blow me out of my seat with noisy special effects in order to have an impact because that is all it has going for it...

The foundation of a good movie is a good screenplay. Those are pretty rare; especially now. Another problem is our entertainment has become propaganda. With all the attempts to steer us a certain way socially or politically it kind of ruins the fun. Also, too much GCI give movies a cartoonish effect and it get so damn old. But it all comes back to the script. You can't polish a turd. You can have the best actors, directors, and production crew but if the script sucks non of that is going to fix shit. Also the industry is too fixated on names. Who gives a shit about Spielberg. There is probably some young kid out there who could run circles around him if given the chance. I don't give a damn who the producer or director is. I just want a good movie.

[Terry]

Disagree, the next movie he made after Jurassic Park was Schindlers List FFS!

I'd say at least over half of his movies since haven't been bombastic CGI since then and there has been some decent stuff in there -
2017 The Post
2015 Bridge of Spies
2012 Lincoln
2011 War Horse
2005 Munich
2004 The Terminal
2002 Catch Me If You Can
2002 Minority Report
1998 Saving Private Ryan
1997 Amistad
1993 Schindler's List

Yeah...I'll give you Saving Private Ryan and Minority Report, inasmuch as they were good movies (I've never bothered seeing Shindler's List: plenty of footage to be found in documentaries about the Holocaust), although I've had no desire to see either after the first viewing.

[Terry]

The foundation of a good movie is a good screenplay. Those are pretty rare; especially now. Another problem is our entertainment has become propaganda. With all the attempts to steer us a certain way socially or politically it kind of ruins the fun. Also, too much GCI give movies a cartoonish effect and it get so damn old. But it all comes back to the script. You can't polish a turd. You can have the best actors, directors, and production crew but if the script sucks non of that is going to fix shit. Also the industry is too fixated on names. Who gives a shit about Spielberg. There is probably some young kid out there who could run circles around him if given the chance. I don't give a damn who the producer or director is. I just want a good movie.

I think it's just the bombastic CGI action I saw in the trailer above all else that I found offputting, in that I've seen enough of these CGI-laden flicks that are big on the effects and short on story, plot and acting to literally last a lifetime. My general feeling about that certainly isn't limited to Spielberg, either.

Maybe I'm just being a cunt about it.

[Nitro Express]

Shit Spielberg has been the man in Hollywood since I was in grade school peeking up the girl's skirts. That asshole has been the man for too damn long. Time for him to go. Maybe he should make another war movie where him himself gets wiped out. Maybe a film on modern day terrorism and he gets capped or blown up. Then he can go live on some island out of sight and jet ski naked with under aged girls.

[twonabomber]

The Ready Player Two book is out. I'm just starting it. Takes place not too long after RP1 ends.