Ready Player 1

[Donovan]

Kicks geek ass. That is all. Go see it, you will not be disappoint.

 

[whisky]

Just saw the film, pretty good, deviates from the book quite a bit, but is the better for it.

Who would have thought we would get to see the serenity on the big screen again?

 

[Starship Coyote]

If it's not like the book, then fuck it.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I didn’t like it. It looked fantastic and all the references were fun to see, but it was really predictable, it went on forever and due to some incredibly laboured exposition it felt like it was aimed at children (even though it clearly wasn’t judging by the swearing and sort of nudity). And I’m not saying this because it was a Spielberg film but it was really shmaltzy. I feel like they got so distracted over how many nostalgia inducing characters they could include that they let everything else go by the wayside.

 

[The Tomtrek]

This film is interesting because on the one hand it's a legitimately bad film and easily one of the weakest thing Speilberg's ever made, but on the other hand it's so much better than the utter utter utter trash that is the original novel it's actually kind of impressive.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Well that’s just made me even more curious about the novel, because I’m having trouble imagining how it’s written.

“And then Master Chief and a flock of Spartans, flanked by a Boba Fett pez dispenser came over the rise, guns blazing...”

 

[Mirah]

I have no deisre to see this movie. But I want to want to see it.

 

[The Tomtrek]

Well that’s just made me even more curious about the novel, because I’m having trouble imagining how it’s written.

“And then Master Chief and a flock of Spartans, flanked by a Boba Fett pez dispenser came over the rise, guns blazing...”

The book is different in that Parzival is written at being basically good at everything, and every challenge is written in such as way that as soon as a something potentially difficult (FROM THE 80'S!!!!!) comes up he just goes "But I already spent hours mastering this before the book started, so I was able to easily overcome it."

Any action scenes are either just blandly written one-line things like "I went though and got round all of the traps in the dungeon and then I was at the end" or just asking you to remember a good action scene from a film because Earnest Cline really can't be fucked to write anything interesting, like "I shot all of the guys like in that one scene in the Matrix, a movie released in 1999.".

It's so fucking boring.

 

[whisky]

I liked the book, maybe as someone who grew up in the 80s it meant more to me.