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Ready Player One Trailer is out

Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:41 pm

This came out July 22; I don't see a thread on this already.
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The trailer park stacks are as I imagined them. I sure hope Spielberg does a good job on this. Its a great read.
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:51 pm

And the world in 2045 is at the brink of chaos due everybody wasting time in "fake" reality instead of working to their very real one better. :roll: Not to sound like someone who goes around proclaiming the younger generations will cause the world to collapse, but I fear this may happen.
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:56 pm

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And the world in 2045 is at the brink of chaos due everybody wasting time in "fake" reality instead of working to their very real one better. :roll: Not to sound like someone who goes around proclaiming the younger generations will cause the world to collapse, but I fear this may happen.
Are you certain that it isn't already underway?
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Sun Jul 23, 2017 9:12 pm

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whm1974 wrote:
And the world in 2045 is at the brink of chaos due everybody wasting time in "fake" reality instead of working to their very real one better. :roll: Not to sound like someone who goes around proclaiming the younger generations will cause the world to collapse, but I fear this may happen.
Are you certain that it isn't already underway?

Unfortunately you may be correct, but I fear "fake" reality will make things much worse...
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:18 am

I watched the Trailer and was disappointed. I know there are a lot of people that didn't like the book and I understand. Much of the love of the book shines through the nostalgia aspect of it. Everything from old school D&D to Joust and on and on. Those of us that grew up in the 70s and 80s are probably more in tune with the story than those that grew up later.

I read an article that said they only licensed a handful of things to be shown in the movie. (I understand if they licensed everything mention in the book it would have probably broken the bank, but still.....)
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:54 am

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(I understand if they licensed everything mention in the book it would have probably broken the bank, but still.....)


^This

I've read the book and though it was good, but not great. One of the best parts was the sheer volume of references it made to, well, everything from the time. It it is completely jam packed with nostalgia. If the movie doesn't pony up to do the same thing (like, say, The Lego Movie does with it's characters/licensing) then I just don't think the story is strong enough to stand alone.

On the other hand, part of the reason I was annoyed by the book is because sometimes it read more like a list of of things the author wanted us to know he knew about to make sure we'd think he was 'cool' than it did an actual book. It seemed like that was frequently the priority more than anything else, so maybe some editing for the sake of a movie will do the rest of the story some good.
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 7:29 am

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Not to sound like someone who goes around proclaiming the younger generations will cause the world to collapse, but I fear this may happen.


Yeah. Those stupid kids. Our heroin like oil dependency and resulting climate change, the constant state of war since 1941, our crumbling cities, comical levels of national debt and everything else that's going wrong is totally their fault. They should stop eating avocado toast, start buying houses and cars and fix this mess.

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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 7:55 am

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If the movie doesn't pony up to do the same thing (like, say, The Lego Movie does with it's characters/licensing) then I just don't think the story is strong enough to stand alone.


I'm glad you brought this up.

Personally, I feel the story was strong enough even if you strip out all the late 70s, 80s, and early 90s references. I guess what I envisioned in my mind was a VR like All the MMORPGs out there more specifically World of Warcraft with some futuristic locals like what could be found in SWToR or even Blade Runner, Fifth Element, or Stargate.

Anyways back to your comment, the article specifically referenced the licensing seen in the Lego movies, it states that RPO probably has less than a 3rd of what the Lego movies have. Which to me is abysmally small.
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 11:06 am

The story has elements that I'd like to see that may not require much licensing. For example, I'm very interested in how he goes to school and how the virtual reality itself is laid out and interconnected as he and his friends go about solving the puzzle. whm1974, you should read the book before making judgements about fake reality. Its a blessing that book authors can write about whatever they like without having to pay licensing royalties.
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 11:49 am

This is a good a place as any to mention that I vastly preferred The Atopia Chronicles to RPO. I've suggested it to a number of people but so far no one that I know has read it, so I've never had the opportunity to discuss it.
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 12:59 pm

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This is a good a place as any to mention that I vastly preferred The Atopia Chronicles to RPO. I've suggested it to a number of people but so far no one that I know has read it, so I've never had the opportunity to discuss it.
I'll read it and get back to you. Always happy to find a new source of books to read. Have you read Omnitopia Dawn by Diane Duane?
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 1:20 pm

I thought the book was average at best. Why on earth would anyone stack trailers in Oklahoma? Have you SEEN Oklahoma? No shortage of space.
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 1:34 pm

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Have you SEEN Oklahoma?


They probably haven't, no.

Maybe once or twice peeking through clouds.
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 1:44 pm

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I'll read it and get back to you. Always happy to find a new source of books to read. Have you read Omnitopia Dawn by Diane Duane?


Sweet. I have not, but it's on my Kindle as of a few minutes ago. :)
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 1:57 pm

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I thought the book was average at best. Why on earth would anyone stack trailers in Oklahoma? Have you SEEN Oklahoma? No shortage of space.

Also, tornadoes.
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:31 pm

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I thought the book was average at best. Why on earth would anyone stack trailers in Oklahoma? Have you SEEN Oklahoma? No shortage of space.


No one involved in a Hollywood production has ever been there, I'd bet.
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:16 pm

I'll have to go and re-read the book, but I remember there being a reason for it.. probably cost related..
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:35 am

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Why on earth would anyone stack trailers in Oklahoma? Have you SEEN Oklahoma? No shortage of space.


" global warming has left coastal areas uninhabitable, so people have crowded into the middle of the country. "

That's why.

Also to point out that they changed the location of the Stacks from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the book to Columbus, Ohio in the movie.
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:44 am

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I'll have to go and re-read the book, but I remember there being a reason for it.. probably cost related..


With fuel/energy being scarce/expensive, the "stacks" allow the largest amount of cheap housing possible to be close to viable city centers. Infrastructure is essentially completely broken for normal people, so no one can afford to live in "suburbs" anymore.
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:51 am

The Stacks are the suburbs of OKC in the book.
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:31 am

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With fuel/energy being scarce/expensive, the "stacks" allow the largest amount of cheap housing possible to be close to viable city centers. Infrastructure is essentially completely broken for normal people, so no one can afford to live in "suburbs" anymore.

Um...why is that the largest amount of cheap housing? Ever heard of a housing project? The guy just wanted a striking visual in his silly book, so he made up something not used anywhere in the world.

And as above mentioned, he forgot the tornadoes that go through Oklahoma. Which is why the movie folks changed that.

The book had lots of silliness, borrowing from another review:
To get the first key you had to beat the Skeleton King at the game Joust. Fortunately, I'm the best in the world at it and win on the first try!"
"To complete the first gate I had to reenact the entire War Games movie. Fortunately, I've watched it a billion times and know all the lines by heart!"
"To get the one-up coin I had to play a perfect game of Pac-Man, something only 5 people have ever done in history! Even though I'm rusty at my Pac-Man skills, I become the 6th person after just a few hours."
"To get the second key I had to beat the game Zork. Fortunately, I know the game by heart!"
"To pass through the second gate I had to reenact the movie Blade Runner. Fortunately, I know the movie by heart!"

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https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments ... appointed/

Yet big special effects and all, it will make a lot of money. Big dumb special effect movies are what sell worldwide.
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:41 am

I get that some people do not like the book. But dammit you all are just being fickle. And people call me a curmudgeon. :roll:
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:44 am

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I get that some people do not like the book. But dammit you all are just being fickle. And people call me a curmudgeon. :roll:

I am a curmudgeon, my wife says so. A friend was so excited about the book that I just expected more. And I am so, so tired of "corporation 100% evil, plucky hero 100% good".
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:47 am

It's more what the book represents.

Because it's really, really depressing.
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:04 am

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Yet big special effects and all, it will make a lot of money. Big dumb special effect movies are what sell worldwide.


Heh, tell that to Valérian. :lol: :o

I'm not defending the book BTW, just answering a question based on the "fact" from the fiction.

As for the review you've mentioned, I don't have a huge problem with that stuff because we are talking about the hero of the story after-all. He's trained for this, so I didn't have a problem with it all working out for him. However, as with many books from new authors that I've read recently, it was more than a bit "Mary Sue" in nature. That can be varying degrees of annoying to me, and in this one it was worst than most. I could practically see the author RPing as the hero as he wrote it.
 
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:13 pm

drfish wrote:
Hawkwing74 wrote:
Yet big special effects and all, it will make a lot of money. Big dumb special effect movies are what sell worldwide.


Heh, tell that to Valérian. :lol: :o


How can you fault this in Luc Benson? I mean he is known for the Fifth element that a lot of people love, including me. (I remember people hated on FE back when it was released because it was very quirky Sci-Fi) If Valerian is anything like Fifth Element I am sure I will enjoy it too.
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:41 pm

The trailer calls the book "the holy grail of pop culture". I don't take that as a compliment. Makes it sound like it's fan service in print. Hard pass. :lol:
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Re: Ready Player One Trailer is out

Sat Aug 05, 2017 11:21 am

Mr Bill wrote:
Have you read Omnitopia Dawn by Diane Duane?


Finished this today, good read. Wish there was a book two to dive into right away.

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