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Pluvious

(4,313 posts) Sat Jul 22, 2017, 07:09 PM Jul 2017

Imminent Cultural Impact: Spielberg's "Ready Player One"

How can this next Spielberg SciFi VR-Utopia flick NOT be an epic blockbuster ?!!

If there's anything we could use right now, it would be somewhere to escape to

If you somehow missed this book, and like SF, 80's culture, or VR gaming, you will no doubt be seeing this next Spring, along with the rest of us !

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Imminent Cultural Impact: Spielberg's "Ready Player One" (Original Post) Pluvious Jul 2017 OP

I read that book genxlib Jul 2017 #1

Based on the trailer, I'm not feeling optimistic about it TlalocW Jul 2017 #2

looks yuiyoshida Jul 2017 #3

Wo. greyl Jul 2017 #4

genxlib

(5,528 posts)

1. I read that book

Reply to Pluvious (Original post)

Sat Jul 22, 2017, 07:33 PM

Jul 2017

Or more accurately, I listened to that book. It was narrated by Will Wheaton which was perfect

I quite liked it but I am not sure how big a splash it will make. It seemed to me to appeal to a fairly narrow generation (coming of age in the 80s) and narrow culture (nerd/geek/gaming)

I am looking forward to it

TlalocW

(15,384 posts)

2. Based on the trailer, I'm not feeling optimistic about it

Reply to Pluvious (Original post)

Sat Jul 22, 2017, 09:45 PM

Jul 2017

I know that maybe that's an unfair judgment to make on such a small amount of film, but I thoroughly enjoyed the book and didn't feel anything but "meh" toward the introduction of the character Wade. It was cool seeing the Iron Giant and the DeLorean, and I'm sure there are more references I missed, but it felt too busy and confusing like Michael Bay is in charge of it. I know the film has to be accessible to the general public and not just the people who read the book, but there are ways to make it interesting to both sets of people. LOTR proved that.

Also, having Spielberg attached to it is a negative for me. He and Lucas ruined the Indiana Jones franchise with the cinematic stain that is IJ 4, and quite frankly, I'm afraid he's going to interject his daddy issues into this film like he does with the vast majority of films he's touched over the past several decades.

TlalocW