Neddy Seagoon posted:

You know how some media will reference pop fiction and just let it pass as a brief mention or quote?

Ready Player One will instead slam the brakes on the story to explain the premise, scene, personal thoughts and diatribe about every. Single. Thing it references across multiple pages. And given the book's premise, that happens often.

Aleph Null posted:

Neddy Seagoon posted:

You know how some posters will reference pop fiction and just let it pass as a brief mention or quote?

Ready Player One haters will instead slam the brakes on the thread to explain the misogyny, shallowness, naivete and diatribe about every. Single. Thing it references across multiple pages. And given the poster's obsession with sharing opinions, that happens often.

mind the walrus posted:

In case anyone thinks this is an exaggeration:

mind the walrus posted:

In case anyone thinks this is an exaggeration:

anatomi posted:

I haven't read RP1, but is it a satire?

mind the walrus posted:

In case anyone thinks this is an exaggeration:

anatomi posted:

I haven't read RP1, but is it a satire?

quote:

Nearly every one of Ready Player One’s faults is a direct result of Cline’s authorial narcissism. The writing process appears to have begun with the question: What if the entire world revolved around me, and the specific video games and movies I like? The rest was assembled around that essential core. Cline is far from the first author to write a self-insert wish fulfillment narrative, but he may be the first to write one this lazy and self-indulgent. To place oneself in the character of Wade Watts, an 18-year-old video game trivia knower, requires no imagined heroism or personal growth. It simply constructs a world around the reader, where his comfort zone, his passively acquired knowledge of retro video games and Star Wars, is enough to effortlessly make him a Great Man of History. A fantasy this mundane is barely a fantasy at all — just a desire to be unjustly rewarded for mediocrity. And, thanks to Steven Spielberg, Cline’s mediocrity has been rewarded beyond his wildest dreams.

Gorilla Salad posted:

Like someone spent $100million on a Family Guy episode.

biracial bear for uncut posted:

This article about Ready Player One sums it up pretty well.


That's pretty much it.

There is more in the article but the whole thing is basically one big cluster-gently caress.

bitterandtwisted posted:

An RP1 film done more like the novelisation of Better Than Life could be good.

Solice Kirsk posted:

Well, If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life and all that.

quote:

Maybe that’s the seductive—and to those who embrace it—profound appeal of a story like Ready Player One, built on the bones of hundreds of others: that somehow we can construct a scavenger hunt of narrative human significance from everything we’ve already consumed, something every bit as spiritual and whole as a more rigorous study and embrace of the world as it is. Maybe there is a mechanism by which we can collect enough skill and armament and enchantment to ineffably cohere as flesh and spirit, something more sublime than meat networked and spasming with electricity.

Cline just hasn’t watched the movie that explains that part yet, and it’s not his fault. Nobody has.

Data Graham posted:

So it's like TRON where they're like "They're gonna make you play video games" and the dude's like


Alternatively,

Jose Valasquez posted:

Anti-fans are worse

Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:

That’s about ugly girls, though. That makes it pretty much the opposite of what the photo says, unless the guy is even uglier.

mind the walrus posted:

This is my favorite put-down of RP1 so far


That's the one silver lining of turds like this. I have the perfect balancing point between "punching up" and "punching down" to take potshots at whenever I'm bored for the next year.

mind the walrus posted:

In case anyone thinks this is an exaggeration:

anatomi posted:

I haven't read RP1, but is it a satire?

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

Whenever you ask yourself this question, remind yourself that this is (unironically) his car:

Brewmaster posted:

That dude makes me feel very uncomfortable.

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

Whenever you ask yourself this question, remind yourself that this is (unironically) his car:

Data Graham posted:

I'm starting to get really hypersensitive to anything whose premise boils down to "you, the unremarkable mainstream dude in the target audience, are the coolest person in the world so sit back to have your ego stroked for ninety minutes"

I mean it's good box office policy but it sure does entrench the ol' status quo.

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1. Subtext: "You are special."

By "subtext," I of course mean "subtitle." While to the great unwashed it appears that you are a lowly account manager in a cubicle with a cheating girlfriend and no self-respect, in fact you are much, much more than that, like, for example, a mystical assassin with the ability to shoot curveball bullets.

Importantly, your specialness comes not from effort, work, emotion, intellect, perseverance, or concentration, but from just being you-- in this case, being from the lineage of a 1000 years of special people. All you had to do is get born! Thanks feudalism!

...

Nothing in a movie speaks to a viewer more than actually speaking to a viewer, and that's what this movie does. As it ends, Wesley looks up from his rifle scope, turns to the camera and asks, "This is me taking back control of my life. What the gently caress have you done lately?" Well? "Not killing people" is, of course, a loser's answer, so don't pick it. Correct answers include, "waiting for my powers to kick in" and "not learning jujitsu because I'll be handed those skills all at once when they are necessary" and "waiting for Angelina to swing buy with a pizza" and "masturbating."

bitterandtwisted posted:

This car is also in the book.
The book would make a lot more sense if the protagonist was 10.

quote:

The DeLorean came outfitted with a (nonfunctioning) flux capacitor, but I’d made several additions to its equipment and appearance. First, I’d installed an artificially intelligent onboard computer named KITT (purchased in an online auction) into the dashboard, along with a matching red Knight Rider scanner just above the DeLorean’s grill. Then I’d outfitted the car with an oscillation overthruster, a device that allowed it to travel through solid matter. Finally, to complete my ‘80s super-vehicle theme, I’d slapped a Ghostbusters logo on each of the DeLorean’s gull-wing doors, then added personalized plates that read ECTO-88.

Brewmaster posted:

That dude makes me feel very uncomfortable.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Aside from his looks alone, he appears to be outside of what looks like a high school.

That Works posted:

Spielberg is doing the film right?

RareAcumen posted:

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

The MSJ posted:

http://botnik.org/content/tng.html

Phanatic posted:

You gotta read this then:

Wanted, Starring Angelina Jolie, Is The Greatest Movie Of Our Generation

RareAcumen posted:

The MSJ posted:

http://botnik.org/content/tng.html

biracial bear for uncut posted:

This article about Ready Player One sums it up pretty well.


That's pretty much it.

There is more in the article but the whole thing is basically one big cluster-gently caress.