Amph Ready Player One- book and film discussion thread

Weren't some of the EU trash on the NYT best seller list?

 

BTW, I feel like I contribute to the boards getting slower and slower each time I post an animated GIF, so I'm doing my patriotic duty here before Thursday...

EDIT:

Most of them.

 

So were Legacy of the Force novels.

So was the Secret.

As Battlefront has proven, sales and quality are distinct and unrelated concepts.

 

Feel free to rearrange those two to suit your personal preferences, I suppose.

 

You could say that for all three of the PT movies.

 

you could say that for most popular movies.

 

Oh and I would. They're objectively the worst things ever, with no redeeming qualities at all. Stupid plots and paper thin characters, appreciated by an audience so incapable of critical thought it makes the North Koreans look like bacchanalian bohemians by contrast.

 

We're in the thread about RPO, which has nothing to do with Legacy of the Force, The Secret, and Battlefront.

 

They absolutely do though, because they're all terrible and people believe they're not?

 

That's a matter of opinion. Not everyone thinks those novels are terrible; and certainly not everyone thinks RPO is as bad as you claim it to be.

 

we mostly share opinions here. not sure what other kinds of conversations we could really sustain.

 

Eh, I somewhat feel you're grasping here because The Secret is a lifestyle book which is objectively terrible, and the others are entertainment only and therefore subjectively terrible / entertaining.

But when I was doing online dating, anyone who listed The Secret as their favorite book was a hard-pass.

 

So then we agree that to say something is "terrible" is just a matter of one's own opinion and not the general consensus.

 

https://theoutline.com/post/2076/ready-player-one-movie-bad
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/rea...me-wonder-what-the-hell-everyone-read-in-2011
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/ready-player-one-finds-the-bleak-limits-of-nostalgia-1797497066

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I also watched every single film he referenced in the Almanac. If it was one of Halliday’s favorites, like WarGames, Ghostbusters, Real Genius, Better Off Dead, or Revenge of the Nerds, I rewatched it until I knew every scene by heart.
I devoured each of what Halliday referred to as “The Holy Trilogies”: Star Wars (original and prequel trilogies, in that order), Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Mad Max, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones...
I also absorbed the complete filmographies of each of his favorite directors. Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.
I spent three months studying every John Hughes teen movie and memorizing all the key lines of dialogue.
Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive.
You could say I covered all the bases.
“I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC series. (Including those two “lost” episodes they did for German television.)
I wasn’t going to cut any corners.”"

" watched every episode of The Greatest American Hero, Airwolf, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Misfits of Science, and The Muppet Show.
What about The Simpsons, you ask?
I knew more about Springfield than I knew about my own city.
Star Trek? Oh, I did my homework. TOS, TNG, DS9. Even Voyager and Enterprise. I watched them all in chronological order. The movies, too. Phasers locked on target.
I gave myself a crash course in ‘80s Saturday-morning cartoons.
I learned the name of every last goddamn Gobot and Transformer.
Land of the Lost, Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock!, G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.
Who was my friend, when things got rough? H.R. Pufnstuf.
Japan? Did I cover Japan?
Yes. Yes indeed. Anime and live-action. Godzilla, Gamera, Star Blazers, The Space Giants, and G-Force. Go, Speed Racer, Go."

You're right. I just had to do some Google sleuthing to work out if Ernest Cline shared a birthday with Alfred, Lord Tennyson because it might hint at a recincarnation or something. Since the last time I saw words woven so artfully together was in Charge of the Light Brigade.

Which ironically sees them riding on, and well; o'er the jaws of death, into the lungs of hell where they can purchase RPO and other Ernest Cline novels for the low low price of their integrity.

 

Except on the prequels.

 

well not exactly. we have eventually come to an agreement that everything is terrible, but which terrible things you decide to like or dislike is indeed entirely up to you.

 

Everything is awful...
Everything is crap when on the JC...
Everything is awful...
When you post with Daveed...

 

the actual theme song:

https://soundcloud.com/superwatto/everything-is-bad

 

Alright mate, come on. That's enough now.

 

Sorry, The LEGO Movie is ideal pablum for this thread, no?

 

it had no pretension and succeeded on charm, innocence and wit.

So, you know, the opposite of RPO?

 

Still matters of opinion; albeit not yours.

 

No you're right. Scores of people take umbrage with masturbatory nostalgia for its own sake, but a handful of gamers who ironically didn't live through the 80s are just pumped that a novel casts caricatures of them as heroes; and as such they see the inherent quality in an exercise in proving just how much pop culture Ernest Cline can recite for the purpose of showing how much pop culture Ernest Cline can recite.

Quality.

 

I can't say this with any certainty, but the DeLorean in the trailer doesn't seem to have an oscillation overthruster.