thrILL! Posted April 4, 2018 Author Share Posted April 4, 2018 8 hours ago, KManX89 said: Uh, you DO know there's a spoiler tag now, right? But yeah, I loved it. Force of habit after many years of doing it that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skywindO2 Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 From the perspective of someone who read the book(didn't love it), I thought the movie was much better. A lot of changes were made, some very necessary, some less so but none so egregious that I have a problem with it. The only change I didn't like is during Halliday's funeral/recording, the book specifically mentions playing Oingo Boingo's Dead Man's Party there so I'm disappointed they didn't put it in the movie. Mark Rylance was great as Halliday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelonebillsfan Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 After seeing this I have only one real strong emotion from it. I had better get my god damn Gundam movie now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August4th Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 would something like the Oasis be possible in real life in the near future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKTexans Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 55 minutes ago, August4th said: would something like the Oasis be possible in real life in the near future? Don't see why not. VR is in its infancy but it's growing. Online avatars has been a thing for a long time. Online classrooms is now a thing. The only thing stopping it is people, if we suddenly turn around and realise it probably isn't the best thing for civilisation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacReady Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Ready Player One type VR is almost a certainty. The only question is when. Just think of how fast video games have advanced already. Less than 30 years ago the SNES was released. Compare that functionality to what we have now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skywindO2 Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 How would the Oasis work on a dialup connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKTexans Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 31 minutes ago, skywindO2 said: How would the Oasis work on a dialup connection? They don't still exist do they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neumatic Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Went and seen this last weekend. I really enjoyed the movie, definitely geeked out a few times. Haven’t read the book. Which is really bad because it turns out the guy who wrote it is from my home town, not many good things come from this place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE DUKE Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Saw it today, overall I liked it quite a bit, but it had since very up and down moments. The characters are largely superfluous and under developed and are there largely just to have the reason to pack in the nostalgia and cool cgi. The one guy who really pulled it together was Rylance. He was great as the founder of the Oasis and how his flaws and regrets are what the challenge was really about and what to learn from his mistakes. His character is really the only fully fleshed out character we get and he's dead the entire movie. The main character professing his love for an online chick he let 2-3 times and never in person was also poorly written. With that out of the way, the CGI and nostalgia really were phenomenal. Great score by Silvestri that really blended in well with the pop culture songs littered throughout. Spielberg's direction was working overdrive to make the half baked script work and he largely pulls it off. Not his best work, but still a good effort bringing the movie together where it really could have fallen apart. I'd give this a solid B, maybe a fringe B+ for how much fun it was, and I suspect the rewatchability factor it's going to be very high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrILL! Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 Found a thorough list of easter eggs, cameos, references etc from the movie. Heavy spoilers tho I think that my faves are Kaneda's bike from Akira, the Delorean,and using the blade from Krull to cut off I-Rok's arm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skywindO2 Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I guess it was actually in the trailer but I didn't notice them in the movie. Battletoads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKTexans Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 As someone who read the book, i can't give the film more than a 5. They cut crap out of the book ok, but they have changed so many other dynamics that weren't really necessary and were just worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKTexans Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 On 06/04/2018 at 8:01 AM, thrILL! said: Found a thorough list of easter eggs, cameos, references etc from the movie. Heavy spoilers tho I think that my faves are Reveal hidden contents Kaneda's bike from Akira, the Delorean,and using the blade from Krull to cut off I-Rok's arm. Easter eggs? Thought that didn't apply to things that were obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKTexans Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 On 06/04/2018 at 4:38 AM, THE DUKE said: The main character professing his love for an online chick he let 2-3 times and never in person was also poorly written. The book plays this out much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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