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me your dad posted:So was this first movie good? It looked like a bad William Gibson story about people being bad asses in "cyber world". Nope. I convinced my buddy to see it after selling it on "It's Speilberg and 80's pop culture, gotta be decent" and felt embarrassed after.
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me your dad posted:So was this first movie good? It looked like a bad William Gibson story about kids being bad asses in "cyber world". It fixes the worst parts of the book by removing the weird sex stuff, some of Wade's more psycho stalker behavior, and the homophobic and transphobic stuff, and the spectacle actually comes across properly with Spielberg making it a movie. It still sucks.
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Jan 14, 2021 22:01
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Thanks - we contemplating watching it tomorrow but we'll skip it. Last Friday we treated our kids to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and I was hoping to continue with another Spielberg movie.
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Jan 14, 2021 22:27
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me your dad posted:So was this first movie good? It looked like a bad William Gibson story about kids being bad asses in "cyber world". It was Spielberg's worst movie since AI but still better than the book.
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Jan 14, 2021 22:33
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me your dad posted:Thanks - we contemplating watching it tomorrow but we'll skip it. Last Friday we treated our kids to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and I was hoping to continue with another Spielberg movie. Raiders or ET.
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Jan 14, 2021 23:01
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me your dad posted:Thanks - we contemplating watching it tomorrow but we'll skip it. Last Friday we treated our kids to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and I was hoping to continue with another Spielberg movie. Super 8 isnt bad if you wanna scratch the ET/Stranger Things/80s nostalgia movie itch. It was a joint Spielberg and JJ Abrams project.
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Jan 14, 2021 23:49
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AutomaticPrince posted:Nope. I convinced my buddy to see it after selling it on "It's Speilberg and 80's pop culture, gotta be decent" and felt embarrassed after. This does not seem like a selling point to me. Nostalgia! ...of SCIENCE! posted:It's kind of awesome that mocking Ready Player One has itself just become nerds memorizing and reciting a collection of obscure references and then smirking because they recognize them. Quoting Nerd Porn Auteur and referencing the time Ernest Cline lent his DeLorean to George RR Martin, namedropping 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back and that one Jenny Nicholson video, reciting long lists of all the things that Wade Wilson recites long lists of, just a big log of references built up over half a decade that is just as dense and impenetrable as the book itself. Wade Wilson is deadpool you buffoon. Trap sprung I know.
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Jan 15, 2021 01:23
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It is wild that "they name drop sonic.exe" sounds like something Fancy Hat would've thrown in one of his posts but actually happens in the book.
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Jan 15, 2021 01:26
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Raiders or ET. We did both Raiders and ET already. I haven't convinced the family for any subsequent Indiana Jones movies yet but maybe I'll try tomorrow. AutomaticPrince posted:Super 8 isnt bad if you wanna scratch the ET/Stranger Things/80s nostalgia movie itch. It was a joint Spielberg and JJ Abrams project. Great suggestion, thanks! I think I saw this when it came out but I don't really remember it.
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Jan 15, 2021 01:37
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me your dad posted:We did both Raiders and ET already. I haven't convinced the family for any subsequent Indiana Jones movies yet but maybe I'll try tomorrow. Super 8 is excellent Spielberg.
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me your dad posted:So was this first movie good? It looked like a bad William Gibson story about kids being bad asses in "cyber world". I thought it was alright
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Jan 15, 2021 03:16
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Groovelord Neato posted:It is wild that "they name drop sonic.exe" sounds like something Fancy Hat would've thrown in one of his posts but actually happens in the book. It's legitimately impossible to tell which posts in this thread are trolling and which are real text if you haven't read it. It's that loving bad.
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Jan 15, 2021 05:54
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chitoryu12 posted:It's legitimately impossible to tell which posts in this thread are trolling and which are real text if you haven't read it. It's that loving bad. Bape Culture posted:I thought it was alright
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Yeah, I mean I went into the movie absolutely ready to hate the gently caress out of it, but I came away like, eh. I've seen worse movies. It's Spielberg, so the low bar is actually fairly high for a poo poo-film, and the constant cavalcade of bullshit references at least is just more going on on the screen in a movie, it's not as bad as in book form where you HAVE to look at it all. It has some spectacle to it. I don't think it's good, but I don't think it's in the same league of bad as the book by any stretch. I can understand someone saying they liked the film. While I disagree, I can at least respect that opinion. The book on the other hand... I find absolutely loving mind boggling. I have many friends who claim "the audio book is good" and I just have to not ever be in the same room when it comes up because... What the actual gently caress. I haven't read worse books.
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"Welcome to prime time, Wade!" laughed Freddy Krueger, his burnt face contorted into a twisted grin. "Not so fast," said Wade, who was not scared at all and was in fact totally in control, "did you forget that I did my research? Did you forget that I mastered lucid dreaming? Let me remind you, Fred!" With that, Wade manifested the sword from Highlander. He lifted it over his head, where it began to glow. "Sorry, Fred, but your series really should have been HALF as long!" Wade chopped Krueger in half, completing his joke which also commented on the quality of the Nightmare on Elm Street series. Wade was of course a fan of the first installment, and the 2nd one had some interest for the homoerotic undertones that the director claimed were unintentional. Maybe they were, maybe they weren't, but Wade believed in "Death of the Author", which meant that a work could stand on its own, beyond what the author originally envisioned. Then, of course, there was the 3rd film. Enjoyable for sure, with some iconic lines and scenes, and a return of Wes Craven to the series. This film also saw the death of Nancy and her father, which perhaps should have meant the end of the series. But the money kept flowing in, forcing the creation of more films. Freddy became a merchandising juggernaut, with things like dolls and even 1-900 numbers bringing more and more money in to New Line Cinema. "Can you imagine becoming a soulless pop culture merchandising icon? Something which long ago lost any artistic merit, and instead became an excuse to make toys and games and take money from stupid consumers? A self-referential ouroboros, devouring itself as it becomes more focused on referencing the past instead of creating the future. My god, that would be a real Nightmare on Elm Street!" said Wade as he jumped on the dragon from Pete's Dragon and flew off to do battle with the Killer Klowns from Outer Space, who had teamed up with the Mutants from Thundercats and Gargamel.
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Jan 15, 2021 14:36
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lmao "No words...they should have sent a poet," the poster said - of course referencing the 1997 science-fiction film Contact an adaptation of the book by Carl Sagan.
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Jan 15, 2021 14:52
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My head is loving spinning. With all said about this book, I can't even tell if it's real so I check Amazon and it's lambasted for being "woke". Here I was thinking it was inceliest incel fantasy to ever incel but it's supposed to be "woke"? What the gently caress is this book supposed to be? It exists and I still don't feel like it's real.
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Sep 29, 2021 04:56
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Cline is a really weird dude and he wrote RP2 after retrospective criticism of the original started hitting hard, so a lot of the book's content is a direct response to ongoing criticism of his old writing. But because he's a weird turbonerd with sexual issues, he doubles down on some bad poo poo while trying to make the book more "inclusive." Thus you get scenes like Wade spying on a player in real life to see who they are, finding out she's a trans girl, and declaring that he used to hate gay and trans people until he used brain recordings to have every kind of sex and realized that love is love.
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I think Ready Player Three is going to get the series back on track after the growing pains of part two. I've only been reading the excerpts shared online, but the scene where Wade and Knuckles discuss the concept of the male gaze was really well done and didn't feel forced. Not to mention the revelation that Wade is now in a polyamorous relationship with Snake Plissken and Ellen Ripley so its a bit more progressive in that regard.
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Did anyone else get early access to read the draft of Ready Player Three? So far, so AMAZING! I can't share too much because of the NDA, but just wanted to share my favorite part so far: Wade looked down through the sewer grate, unsure of what he might find. Two eyes blinked back at him. Two NINJA TURTLE eyes. It was Donatello, of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Of course, now that time had passed, he was actually a Middle Aged Ninja Turtle. Donatello wearily opened the grate and let Wade down. Donatello took a seat and began to fill Wade in on the recent disasters that had struck OASIS. "Wade, it's terrible. My brothers are dead, killed by Dracula. Things have gotten so dark around here lately, it's like a completely different world. One that's a lot more mature and realistic." Tears began to roll down Donatello's face. "She lost the baby, Wade. April lost the baby. Krang... that son of a bitch did it with his Earthquake Machine. He... he was laughing. The bastard was laughing the whole time." Wade held Donatello close, in a manly fashion, not a romantic one. Wade knew April had miscarried, but it still hurt him to see Donatello cry like this. April could always get pregnant again, that wasn't a problem, but the scars ran deep for his friend. And, after all, Donatello only had so many years left of viable sperm. True, he could freeze his sperm, but that was an expensive and risky proposition. Wade knew that for a fact, he ran the sperm bank. He recently had to turn away the Tarman from Return of the Living Dead, the poor zombie had been unable to pay the storage fee. Wade felt bad about that, but his company had to turn a profit. There were the investors to think about. Donatello stood up and dried his tears. "No time for that. There's a serial killer on the loose that we need to catch. He's carving up people and leaving clues, but how do they fit together?" "Well, there's one thing we know for sure, this is a much grittier and grimmer world than the one we experienced in the past. It's a whole new world out there. Let's get to the crime scene, I heard that the body's still warm. Which makes sense, considering we're about to see the corpse of Moltar from Space Ghost, a lava man."
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A Fancy Hat posted:Wade pulled up in his custom Batmobile. It looked like the Batmobile from the 1989 film, but with a few extras. Wade had outfitted it with a flux capacitor for time travel, for starters. The steering wheel glistened with buttons, like the car from Speed Racer, the Mach 1. 
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