Ready Player One

In case anybody missed it, Tracer from Overwatch somehow is ALSO in this. People speculate it's because of something to do with what went on behind the scenes in making that forgetable Warcraft film, since they're both Blizard titles.

Not like that changes how this is a soulless "hey, remember the 80s and how that shit seemed cool?" wank fest. It's like Wreck-it Ralph except missing the entire point.
 
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Hatoful Dandy said:
....they got a Gundam in there.
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I know, and the Gundam fans I know are freaking out about it. You'd think they are jizzing their pants at the thought of a Gundam being seen in a Hollywood movie. I guess with Iron Blooded Orphans not making it big in the West they are desperate again, though some of them probably do think RP1 is well written.
 
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Kamen Rider Black RX said:
I know, and the Gundam fans I know are freaking out about it. You'd think they are jizzing their pants at the thought of a Gundam being seen in a Hollywood movie. I guess with Iron Blooded Orphans not making it big in the West they are desperate again, though some of them probably do think RP1 is well written.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it's part of some licensing deal for a Gundam movie. Bandai has been trying to get a Hollywood installment off the ground since at least the 80s.
 
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This feel so soulless. Just "REMEMBER THE 80s!?!?!?!?" for 2 hours. This is gonna be the death kneel of 80s Nostalgia. Honestly, I wouldn't even know Spielberg was behind the camera if I didn't see the credits.

Here's a relevant clip from RLM:

Also, "World In My Eyes" is from 1990. Not really an 80s song IMHO.
 
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It's like someone took Memberberries, Pooh's Adventures, That one 80's anti drug animated movie, Roland Emmerich, Reddit, and those god awful "only 80's/90's kids will remember this!" articles, threw them all in a blender, gave it to Steven Spielberg, had him shit in a bowl, microwaved it, and fed it to children in Uganda. Don't be surprised when it flops so hard it falls into the Earth's core, unleashing all the heat from the Earth, killing us all.
 
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tehpope said:
This feel so soulless. Just "REMEMBER THE 80s!?!?!?!?" for 2 hours. This is gonna be the death kneel of 80s Nostalgia. Honestly, I wouldn't even know Spielberg was behind the camera if I didn't see the credits.

Here's a relevant clip from RLM:

Also, "World In My Eyes" is from 1990. Not really an 80s song IMHO.
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1990 was still the 80's, at least culturally.

GeorgeDaMoose said:
It looks like trash, but trash that will rake in the money
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I dunno...Spielberg hasn't been a draw in awhile now and this trailer looks like garbage.

I've got a feeling it will flop in North America but might make it up with the international box office.
 
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I remember reading the book and in the first few chapters the protagonist mentions that one of the places they have to go through was just like the Tomb of Horrors module. I thought “oh neat, they are going to go through it and show how difficult it was”
They showed two traps and then the protagonist remembered a shortcut to where the Lich was, and then he beat him in a Joust game because he was a genius who realised the Lich was only programmed to be player 2, so he asked to be player 2. And then the love interest not even 5 minutes later found the room and he just gave her the answer oh so casually and cool.

The rest of the book is similar in contrivance and coincidence.
 
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I remember reading the book and in the first few chapters the protagonist mentions that one of the places they have to go through was just like the Tomb of Horrors module. I thought “oh neat, they are going to go through it and show how difficult it was”
They showed two traps and then the protagonist remembered a shortcut to where the Lich was, and then he beat him in a Joust game because he was a genius who realised the Lich was only programmed to be player 2, so he asked to be player 2. And then the love interest not even 5 minutes later found the room and he just gave her the answer oh so casually and cool.

The rest of the book is similar in contrivance and coincidence.
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Hey, the wikipedia for the module only said so much about it! You don't expect the author to actually know something, do you?
 
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GentlemanFaggot said:
I dunno...Spielberg hasn't been a draw in awhile now and this trailer looks like garbage.

I've got a feeling it will flop in North America but might make it up with the international box office.
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I dunno, this movie looks like its shaping up to be POP CULTURE REFERENCES: THE MOVIE
It's got too many character cameos to fail
 
A Welsh Cake said:
I remember reading the book and in the first few chapters the protagonist mentions that one of the places they have to go through was just like the Tomb of Horrors module. I thought “oh neat, they are going to go through it and show how difficult it was”
They showed two traps and then the protagonist remembered a shortcut to where the Lich was, and then he beat him in a Joust game because he was a genius who realised the Lich was only programmed to be player 2, so he asked to be player 2. And then the love interest not even 5 minutes later found the room and he just gave her the answer oh so casually and cool.

The rest of the book is similar in contrivance and coincidence.
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Speaking as a tabletop RPG fan there are so many things wrong with that bit of the story that I don't even know where to begin.

Like a shortcut in the Tomb of Horrors. Or Acererak playing Joust. Or Acererak deciding to challenge some autist to Joust instead of doing literally anything you'd expect a lich to do.

I know it's probably shockingly autistic of me to be going on like this but if you're going to implement stuff you can at least put a modicum of effort into getting things right, right?

Edit: God, I keep mulling this over, and it literally sounds like the setup to a Family Guy cutaway gag. Brian turns to the fucking camera and goes "This is worse than the time I played Joust against the final boss of Tomb of Horrors."

Except I think even Family Guy would make the ensuing waste of 30 seconds SLIGHTLY accurate to one of the sources.
 
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