Ready Player One
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chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
I think, if my memory isn't playing tricks on me, they made some significant changes from the book
I thought it was was Wade not Samantha who ended up in the "loyalty centre" and a much bigger part of the plot too. For example.
...the book was more immersive. Albeit on quite a shallow level, but the film just sped through stuff.
Rosemary Jest
Wrong and Unstable
Watched it the other week, it was ok, but really just a shitter version of Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Anyone who says they didn't like the film is either lying, dead inside or both.
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
It was a solid 5/10.
Reno
The In Kraut
I loathed it !
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souljacker
innit
Depends what you mean by like. It passed the time but I wouldn't watch it again. All the best bits from the book weren't in it and one whole section was completely rewritten.
ska invita
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2020 bump!
watched this with a thirteen year old...its funny how being in the company of kids changes your perception of films! If i was on my own I doubt id have made it through but as it was i thought this was excellent family entertainment of the highest order
good activist v capitalist message running right through it
i normally avoid CGI-fests, but as most of this is taking place inside a computer game it didn't annoy me at all - it was perfectly suited to it
one thought i had was that it felt a lot like Brazil in places...partly the english locations and extras, partly the realistic dystopian future and struggle against the system. a quick google of "brazil" + "ready player one" turned up:
"The origin of Art3mis's birthmark - Young Miss Buttle from the movie Brazil."
and "also in the book when he escapes his servitude at IOI, he dresses as a maintenance man named Harry Tuttle"
....so seemingly not a coincidence
watched this with a thirteen year old...its funny how being in the company of kids changes your perception of films! If i was on my own I doubt id have made it through but as it was i thought this was excellent family entertainment of the highest order
good activist v capitalist message running right through it
i normally avoid CGI-fests, but as most of this is taking place inside a computer game it didn't annoy me at all - it was perfectly suited to it
one thought i had was that it felt a lot like Brazil in places...partly the english locations and extras, partly the realistic dystopian future and struggle against the system. a quick google of "brazil" + "ready player one" turned up:
"The origin of Art3mis's birthmark - Young Miss Buttle from the movie Brazil."
and "also in the book when he escapes his servitude at IOI, he dresses as a maintenance man named Harry Tuttle"
....so seemingly not a coincidence
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
It actually mentions Harry Tuttle in the book?watched this with a thirteen year old...its funny how being in the company of kids changes your perception of films! If i was on my own I doubt id have made it through but as it was i thought this was excellent family entertainment of the highest order
good activist v capitalist message running right through it
i normally avoid CGI-fests, but as most of this is taking place inside a computer game it didn't annoy me at all - it was perfectly suited to it
one thought i had was that it felt a lot like Brazil in places...partly the UK locations and extras, partly the dystopian future and struggle against the system. a quick google of "brazil" + "ready player one" turned up:
The origin of Art3mis's birthmark - Young Miss Buttle from the movie Brazil.
and "also in the book when he escapes his servitude at IOI, he dresses as a maintenance man named Harry Tuttle"
....so seemingly not a coincidence
ska invita
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thats what someone said on reddit < i havent read it !
maybe it was a joke post
thats possible
though supposedly the book is full of pop culture references so not impossible
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Interesting. Brazil was probably my favourite film as a teen in the 80s. I think it was the only VHS I had apart from the The The infected video. Annoyingly it was used as a prop on a TV show I worked on and I never saw tape again.
Never bought it on DVD as I has watched it so many times on VHS it has been burned into my brain and I know a lot of it off by heart. Still do, but have not seen it in probably more than 20 years. I get a bit weirded out whenever I see modern day Johnathan Price looking old.
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
The book is basically just listing the plots and characters from every 80's film and book possible in a random splurge of shit so odds are good Harry Tuttle is in there.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I'm not mad into the story, and even though I know that sounds like a cheap shot It kind of sounds interesting enough to have a crack at reading.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
I cannot emphasize enough how bad this book is, if I spent a week trying to do so I wouldn't come close to the level of cringe throughout the book. Its an awful awful text and I am astonished it became either popular or a film.
Take a look at these extracts, the book doesn't move past this at any point.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I can't press a button for lift or type a pass code without mumbling "ere I am J.H."
me too, the film ive watched the most
Actually there are so many lines I quote (to myself) regularly, even though they are not very 'quotable' lines. Somehow they manage to fit everyday situations quite easily . . .
"Chase those years away"
"Something for an executive"
"Things don't fix themselves sir"
"There's your bomb arsehole"
"Ha ha, He can't put it out"
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Oh Jesus, I get your point. It's like shite I wrote in the first year of secondary school. I was expecting something far more subtle. Where I could hunt down the references, not just be told them in a list.I cannot emphasize enough how bad this book is, if I spent a week trying to do so I wouldn't come close to the level of cringe throughout the book. Its an awful awful text and I am astonished it became either popular or a film.
Take a look at these extracts, the book doesn't move past this at any point.
ska invita
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Ghost in the machine....Salt?
isnt it a YA novel?I cannot emphasize enough how bad this book is, if I spent a week trying to do so I wouldn't come close to the level of cringe throughout the book. Its an awful awful text and I am astonished it became either popular or a film.
Take a look at these extracts, the book doesn't move past this at any point.
looks quite a fun holiday/commute read to me tbh
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Its literally a 14 year olds early 2000's era hax0rs wank fantasy as a book. Its everything toxic about nostalgia and "nerd culture" in one book.
Cline is actually like this as well, he's written reams of this shit and he actually thinks like this.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Yes salt for sure, I bet nobody knows why I always say it in that way.
I usually stop short of 'the ghost in the machine' line, but do play it out in my head.
"It's reply paid"
And even on occasion entering a room with the dance "ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa" . . . Actually, probably not for 20 years. Shit should have watched it again with the daughter on prime when we had the chance.
ska invita
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i got bought the Criterion 3 DVD set as a birthday present some years back and havent watched it since
- though i did watch the production note stuff on there which was cool...once you watch a film with commentary tracks its kind of kills the magic, though tbh by this point i think ive rinsed it for all it was worth. oh and as to quotes, at christmas i often get the security police choir singing First Noel in my head
T & P
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Each to their own but as a cheap and cheerful adventure/ sci-fi thriller I thought the book was very engaging and great fun. There is such thing as horrendously badly written books of course, but this is nowhere near that bad imo.
Judging a book of such genre and premise on its literary shortcomings and occasionally cringeworthy lines makes as much sense to me as describing a film like Predator as shit because its dialogue is basic and the character development lacking.
Plenty of books or films of that genre are of course shite even when viewed as a cheap thrill. But IMO that’s not the case here, and as far as cheap and cheerful, easy-reading yet engaging novels go, I thought this was not just okay but really fucking enjoyable, and I’d advise anyone potentially interested in reading it not to pay any more attention to the naysayers than they would a Michelin Guide critic when considering whether to have a greasy kebab of a Friday night.
This is a recurring theme around here anyway
Judging a book of such genre and premise on its literary shortcomings and occasionally cringeworthy lines makes as much sense to me as describing a film like Predator as shit because its dialogue is basic and the character development lacking.
Plenty of books or films of that genre are of course shite even when viewed as a cheap thrill. But IMO that’s not the case here, and as far as cheap and cheerful, easy-reading yet engaging novels go, I thought this was not just okay but really fucking enjoyable, and I’d advise anyone potentially interested in reading it not to pay any more attention to the naysayers than they would a Michelin Guide critic when considering whether to have a greasy kebab of a Friday night.
This is a recurring theme around here anyway
ska invita
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i messed up an earlier post - from Artaxerxes photo of the book
The IMDB Trivia section is the longest list of the little nods and winks - there must be hundreds in the film (doesnt include these Brazil ones though)
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