[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Ready Player One trailer released (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 7/22/2017 4:03:20 PM EDT
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Ready Player One trailer was released recently.
If you have read the book the trailer is pretty awesome. I'm looking forward to it. Looks visually stunning. youtube link |
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I see Freddy, Iron Giant and Delorean. I thought he lived in Oklahoma or Arkansas in the book. Quoted:
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Lots of Easter eggs in the trailer. I thought he lived in Oklahoma or Arkansas in the book. |
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Ready Player One trailer was released recently. If you have read the book the trailer is pretty awesome. I'm looking forward to it. Looks visually stunning. youtube link  Ready Player One Comic-Con Trailer (2018) | Movieclips Trailers |
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I'm just wondering how much the licensing budget had to be to get close to everything that was in the book into the movie. I mean you should have everything from Firefly transports to X-Wing fighters, I'm sure they didn't get everything but they still probably had to shell out a metric shitton of money for licenses.
As for the trailer itself, yep that's exactly how I envisioned it when I read the book. I don't mind Rush at all, and when he "plugs in" the music was extremely Willy Wonka-ish, which actually makes sense if you think about it. |
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I see Freddy, Iron Giant and Delorean. I thought he lived in Oklahoma or Arkansas in the book. He moves his location from his original stack in Oklahoma city to be near IOI headquarters in Columbus, Ohio later in the book. |
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That is by far the best book I've read. And now reading it again. Will see it. Trailer looks bad ass. if you take out the remember this shit its not really interesting. i got the audio book after it was on all the best scifi books eva lists, i was entertained but it was Transformers not The Godfather. also the whole idea that some 13 year old kid is a savant of 30+ years of pop-culture trivia is asinine plus he is also the best at old arcade games I'll watch it on netflix because i love scifi but i wont expect much. |
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also the whole idea that some 13 year old kid is a savant of 30+ years of pop-culture trivia is asinine plus he is also the best at old arcade games |
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I was born in early 70s so all the nostalgia was awesome. It's steeped in it. I'm biting my tongue to not post spoilers.  The big difference being that I'm not richer than Gates, Musk and God combined.  
Good work on the author's part too, since I think he's a few years younger, but he nailed the stuff that that character, of that age and into those sort of things, would consider important/cool enough to put into his magnum opus. |
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Read better books its nerd fan fiction. if you take out the remember this shit its not really interesting. i got the audio book after it was on all the best scifi books eva lists, i was entertained but it was Transformers not The Godfather. also the whole idea that some 13 year old kid is a savant of 30+ years of pop-culture trivia is asinine plus he is also the best at old arcade games I'll watch it on netflix because i love scifi but i wont expect much. If you were born in the early '70s it was like a Bag of Holding of never-ending awesomeness, whereas if someone was born in 1990 (for example) I can see how they wouldn't feel the same way about it. Even someone who knows a lot about the '80s, or lived through them but didn't live them at that particular time in their life (like my mom lived through the '80s, but she obviously wasn't a somewhat geeky 8-18 year old for them) may "get" the cultural references...but they didn't live them the way we did. If that makes any sense. ETA: An as it's been pointed out, the main character in the book knows all this stuff despite not living it because he has to because he wants to win the game. |
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Read better books its nerd fan fiction. if you take out the remember this shit its not really interesting. i got the audio book after it was on all the best scifi books eva lists, i was entertained but it was Transformers not The Godfather. also the whole idea that some 13 year old kid is a savant of 30+ years of pop-culture trivia is asinine plus he is also the best at old arcade games I'll watch it on netflix because i love scifi but i wont expect much. But you proved your point when you tell someone to read better books and you listened to it on tape.
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Read better books its nerd fan fiction. if you take out the remember this shit its not really interesting. i got the audio book after it was on all the best scifi books eva lists, i was entertained but it was Transformers not The Godfather. also the whole idea that some 13 year old kid is a savant of 30+ years of pop-culture trivia is asinine plus he is also the best at old arcade games I'll watch it on netflix because i love scifi but i wont expect much. Quoted:
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That is by far the best book I've read. And now reading it again. Will see it. Trailer looks bad ass. if you take out the remember this shit its not really interesting. i got the audio book after it was on all the best scifi books eva lists, i was entertained but it was Transformers not The Godfather. also the whole idea that some 13 year old kid is a savant of 30+ years of pop-culture trivia is asinine plus he is also the best at old arcade games I'll watch it on netflix because i love scifi but i wont expect much. |
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Did you not grow up anywhere near that era? When I was a kid and Nintendo and Super Nintendo were the cutting edge we spent god knows how many hours mastering every video game for the systems. Add in the fact that it's a dystopian future where the only thing to do is spend your time in virtual reality? Hell people now geek out over things and memorize every line of tv shows/movies with no incentive at all. But you proved your point when you tell someone to read better books and you listened to it on tape. Quoted:
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Read better books its nerd fan fiction. if you take out the remember this shit its not really interesting. i got the audio book after it was on all the best scifi books eva lists, i was entertained but it was Transformers not The Godfather. also the whole idea that some 13 year old kid is a savant of 30+ years of pop-culture trivia is asinine plus he is also the best at old arcade games I'll watch it on netflix because i love scifi but i wont expect much. But you proved your point when you tell someone to read better books and you listened to it on tape. But I agree. It probably resonates with an age group. He nailed all the 80s trivia perfectly. 3 words. Pacman perfect game. I promised no spoilers though. 
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The big important eccentric dude in the book and I were born in the same month of the same year, and had basically the same influences/interests as I did growing up; so pretty much everything he references...is shit I reference on a daily basis too. The big difference being that I'm not richer than Gates, Musk and God combined.
Good work on the author's part too, since I think he's a few years younger, but he nailed the stuff that that character, of that age and into those sort of things, would consider important/cool enough to put into his magnum opus. plus the main character also being a super spy and hacker in real life  even Neo was a pussy out of the matrix but super awkward guy is able in infiltrate evilcorp and steal secret data.
its fan fiction where the author was the main character, everyone else was in awe of his abilities. |
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listened to it on a trip to Colorado and back a few years ago.
One thing I noticed is that in the book isn't he supposed to be a "big" guy or a fatty? That may be one way they drop a lot of the story to get it into 2 hours...... I will see it when it comes out, book was enjoyable listen or read! |
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oh i get the reason, its just the amount of shit the main character knows is borderline retarded, its not him recognizing "Whatcha talkin bout Willis" its about him knowing how many times Colman said it and what episode something else random happened in. Plus since Golden girls was on he also may have watched some of those so i better watch them too, oh and maybe he liked thriller better watch and analyze every Michel Jackson video. plus the main character also being a super spy and hacker in real life even Neo was a pussy out of the matrix but super awkward guy is able in infiltrate evilcorp and steal secret data.
its fan fiction where the author was the main character, everyone else was in awe of his abilities. I'm curious if you read the same book. Maybe you're thinking of something else. |
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Did you not get that he had to learn all that to be good at the quest? A substantial amount of time passes between the quest starting and any discoveries. Years. He didn't just know it. He studied his ass off and devoted every waking moment to the quest. The fact that he was an 80s enthusiast only helped. Did you miss the parts where he and his best buddies played 80s video games all day everyday before the contest starts? I'm curious if you read the same book. Maybe you're thinking of something else. Quoted:
Did you not get that he had to learn all that to be good at the quest? A substantial amount of time passes between the quest starting and any discoveries. Years. He didn't just know it. He studied his ass off and devoted every waking moment to the quest. The fact that he was an 80s enthusiast only helped. Did you miss the parts where he and his best buddies played 80s video games all day everyday before the contest starts? I'm curious if you read the same book. Maybe you're thinking of something else. except from When it came to my research, I never took any shortcuts. Over the past ?ve years, I’d worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Mor-gan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. I read every novel by every single one of Hal-liday’s favorite authors.And I didn’t stop there.I also watched every single ?lm he referenced in the
Almanac. If it was one of Halliday’s favorites, like WarGames, Ghostbusters, Real Genius, Bet-ter 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. (Halliday once said that he preferred to pretend the other Indiana Jones ?lms, from Kingdom of the Crystal Skull onward, didn’t exist. I tended to agree.)I also absorbed the complete ?lmographies of each of his favorite direc-tors. 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 ?lms, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC se-ries. (Including those two “lost” episodes they did for German television.)I wasn’t going to cut any corners.I wasn’t going to miss something obvious.Somewhere along the way, I started to go overboard.I may, in fact, have started to go a little insane. Ready Player One : 63 I watched every episode of The Greatest American Hero, Airwolf, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Mis?ts of Science, and The Muppet Show. What about The Simpsons, you ask?I knew more about Spring?eld 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. |