Ready Player One

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Edit: All these autistic ratings, like I didn't compile the list you silly niggers I'm just reposting it.
 
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I was planning to see it this weekend but a minor cold I had all week worsened on Friday. Was sick Saturday and spent today at my Grandma's for Easter supper with the family. So, I used my time to finish reading the book and if it's still in my local theater next weekend I plan to see it.

My god, was it stupid. I could not believe how bad it became. Like, before it was annoying in how it tried to show off it's nerd dick, but the third act was... it's what I call a convenience plot. Exactly what you'd think it is, everything just conveniently goes the protagonists' way. The tension ends up being cut drastically and I don't want to see the hero succeed since I don't feel they've earned the victory. Plus it's cliche as all fuck.

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A ginormous word salad that seems to be saying "We really wanted to like this, but can't because....(wait for it).... GAMERGATE!!!" Never mind that the audiobook was narrated by Wil Wheaton, that Cline himself is essentially a two legged slab of soy, etc.
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I myself believe the backlash set in because people are growing tired of lazy 80's nostalgia. Nowadays, games with retro graphics in an attempt to emulate the NES aren't an indie novelty, they're everywhere. We keep having the best songs/movies of the decade bashed over our heads, causing people to bring up the stuff we don't usually hear nowadays. Not all nostalgia-based properties prove to be successful either, and just referencing stuff doesn't make fans of those properties thrilled. Remember how we used to get ______ Movie almost every year, parodying current film trailers instead of actually parodying actual genres?
 
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Oh, so it does have Marvel characters and references. I'm a bit surprised, I would have thought the superhero content would be DC-only since it is a Warner movie (though I suppose Warner-owned Traveler's Tales does also make Lego Marvel games, so it's not unprecedented).
 
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I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR OVER A YEAR, LET'S GO
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Are they exaggerating when they claim that only a small part of the movie is honest-to-god live-action? Obviously, I have seen the trailers and I can easily tell that much of the film is CGI but the trailers made it look like it'd be about a 50/50 split between pure CGI sequences and live-action with CGI elements.

Assuming at least 75% of Ready Player One is animated, would Ready Player One be a contender for the Best Animated Feature Oscar or will it be disqualified like Tintin (also directed by Spielberg) for having too much motion-capture instead of frame-by-frame animation?

Academy Awards rules for Best Animated Feature (from 2010).
 
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First minutes in and it's just this sperg throwing his "you need to have a higher IQ to understand this" bs and thinks the "haters" are "the heartless", how charming.
 
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Are they exaggerating when they claim that only a small part of the movie is honest-to-god live-action? Obviously, I have seen the trailers and I can easily tell that much of the film is CGI but the trailers made it look like it'd be about a 50/50 split between pure CGI sequences and live-action with CGI elements.

Assuming at least 75% of Ready Player One is animated, would Ready Player One be a contender for the Best Animated Feature Oscar or will it be disqualified like Tintin (also directed by Spielberg) for having too much motion-capture instead of frame-by-frame animation?

Academy Awards rules for Best Animated Feature (from 2010).
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Oh yeah, they're not exaggerating at all, I watched the movie last night, and it's is over 80% CGI.

It's a fun movie (Watched it in IMAX, because I wanted to try IMAX and this was the only movie on IMAX), but it's the emptiest, most vapid film you will ever see, and you know that CGI will look like shit within a year or two, I literally forgot about most of it the very next day.
 
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Oh yeah, they're not exaggerating at all, I watched the movie last night, and it's is over 80% CGI.

It's a fun movie (Watched it in IMAX, because I wanted to try IMAX and this was the only movie on IMAX), but it's the emptiest, most vapid film you will ever see, and you know that CGI will look like shit within a year or two, I literally forgot about most of it the very next day.
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From what I heard and read, the movie is exactly the same thing someone born 30 years ago dreamt about when they were a teenage geek, a VR world where videogame players save the world and you are the best. Virtually anyone like that could've written that sort of book drawing from all the media they consumed growing up. In a way the movie feels redundant, because you've already imagined it.

I just find it odd they decided to make a movie adaption of the book when you could probably have gotten a better movie storyline wise, by literally cobbling together Tron, Tron Legacy, Sword Art Online, every VR gaming episode of every TV show in the last 20 years. I don't even know why it had to be an adaption.

In fact it might start off a new trend of videogame world movies. hmm..

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Assuming at least 75% of Ready Player One is animated, would Ready Player One be a contender for the Best Animated Feature Oscar or will it be disqualified like Tintin (also directed by Spielberg) for having too much motion-capture instead of frame-by-frame animation?

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I'm guessing it'll be like Gravity, in that just about only the people are real but it's not considered an animated movie by a lot of people because the people are real.
 
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