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A work can have meaning independent of the author's intention. L'auteur est mort.
...But the fact that this wasn't intentional kind of disappoints me.
If you're looking for a Ready Player One that isn't dumb shit made by a dumb hack it already exists and it's Idiocracy. I know it's cool to mock that movie for being way too on the nose nowadays but it still has, well, actual criticism of materialism instead of glorification.
Elwood P. Dowd
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Jesus. Thanks for posting that. I think.
Not only was the video retarded, at least as far as I made it, the comments people are leaving are at least as ridiculous as anything this knucklehead was sperging over.
Shut the whole thing off when he started calling Ready Player One bad but Scott Pilgrim vs. the World I guess "nerd culture done right." LOL, wut? I read RPO, and kind of liked it. I saw Scott Pilgrim blah blah blah annndd... (guess what) kinda liked that as well. But neither is or was any kind of masterpiece or anything I think anyone is missing out a great deal by taking a pass on. The only difference I can really see is that the Scott Pilgrim movie was a definite box office flop and we don't know where RPO (the movie) is going to wind up. Gives him that air exclusivity or something, liking something most missed or maybe at this point don't even really remember existed.
I actually agree with him that Snow Crash is a better novel than RPO, but is it THAT much better? It is probably the vector by which the whole concept of memes (maybe the word itself) entered popular culture, was actually written as a parody of 1980s "cyberpunk" novels as much as anything else, and does that bit very well, but it also kind of slops into the try-hard with Mary Sue/Gary Stu characters magically using their mad hax0r and katana skills to save the world from whatever the hell the existential threat Stephenson incoherently kept warbling about.
Meh. I'll shut up now before I start babbling about there being some kind of wider point about the fact that it is odd how nobody seems capable of saying something is "alright," or "okay" these days. That's a topic I could sperg about for hours/thousands of words.
If you wanna know just how badly people hate RP1, just go on r/books and count hoe many times people posted about the book and how shitty it is.
One person called it, "The 50 shades of Grey for Guys"
One person called it, "The 50 shades of Grey for Guys"
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Would it be :autism: and :powerlevel: to state that the movie makes me livid too? For several reasons - first of all, it's this corporate geek culture bullshit that's absolutely dependent on established properties and not general appreciation of certain genres of fiction or forms of entertainment. It's not about vision of far lands but Star Wars and other brands owned by multi-million companies, not about creating own stories but repeating what already exists. For me, the film is this dystopian vision of barren land free of creativity the corporate shills and people who identify as "geeks" because they found Big Bang Theory funny will one day spawn in real life. And I don't want it.
Second, 80ies culture is, by now, beyond overused. And this one exploits it in the most shallow way imaginable, just bringing up franchises and iconic characters from it and then reinterpreting them to fit into whole virtual world. There's no attempt to capture the feel of the period like, say, Stranger Things did. It's all just empty shells. Empty shells, in an empty movie, for empty people; it's naive but I hope the cinema seats will be empty too.
Though I'm still looking towards this coming out, the memes ought to be pure gold.
Second, 80ies culture is, by now, beyond overused. And this one exploits it in the most shallow way imaginable, just bringing up franchises and iconic characters from it and then reinterpreting them to fit into whole virtual world. There's no attempt to capture the feel of the period like, say, Stranger Things did. It's all just empty shells. Empty shells, in an empty movie, for empty people; it's naive but I hope the cinema seats will be empty too.
Though I'm still looking towards this coming out, the memes ought to be pure gold.
KillThemCrackasBabies
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He looks like he smells fucking awful.
Yes.
Everything you said was accurate, mind you. But the reasonable responses is "That looks like shit, best stay clear of that" and never thinking about it again.
It's like they think only the most blatant and direct references will be understood or appreciated. Here's a thing that you like that's totally nerdy and geeky!
It's just recycling well known properties to boost up content that is otherwise empty without the substance provided from something that actually contains it.
Whether the movie sucks or not Tumblr will be all over the memes anyway.
I hope the film is a mega hit at the box office (as well as critically) so we can get even more salt out of these morons lol.
Goddammit, internet.
That was Daito who was thrown out and died, not Shoto.
That was Daito who was thrown out and died, not Shoto.
RP1 salt, you say?
Also if the thought of the MST3K staff bookclubbing RP1 as a podcast completely blind sounds like something you'd enjoy, it's probably worth your time.
Also if the thought of the MST3K staff bookclubbing RP1 as a podcast completely blind sounds like something you'd enjoy, it's probably worth your time.
Fug lemme fix that
I'm not good on my jap swords terminology
I think people are salty because this movie beats all of their fan fiction
Well Spielberg did make Indiana Jones, m'Raiders.
Spielberg is the world's most renowned fedora lord.
I mean RP1 was a shit book but it was basically "pop culture nostalgia mining" taken to its logical conclusion. It might spell the beginning of the end for this kind of thing as a trend, which would be a net positive. Optimistic, I know.
It's like something I saw in a film class in HS: a teenage autist making a stop motion film with his box of mixed action figures.
It's dumb to stay mad about anything. A stupid throwaway popcorn entertainment piece especially.
The Audible version is read by Wil Wheaton, by the way. Make of that knowledge what you will.
...Who is also mentioned in the book as the vice-president of the OASIS (the main character voted for him in an election).
I'm sure hiring him didn't cost much. But it says something that if you put Wil Wheaton in a position of power it becomes a cyberpunk shitscape.
Ineedahero
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No, authorial intent matters. No matter what Barthes and other post modernists believe, you can't say a piece of media is clearly about something if the author claims otherwise. Well you can, but you would be wrong and arrogant.
whatAs I stated in the Roseanne thread, what better way to make sure a movie sucks and to make the screenwriter and original author feel bad for it, is to Nig Mode on Twitter for your former boss to see years later and hold their head in shame. Maybe it isn't toys that are the problem...
It's the people who obsess over them? WHO'DATHUNKIT??? :late::late:
Is the movie good? It looks like an average action movie whose gimmick is being stuffed to the gills with pop culture references.
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I feel like "nerd vulture done right" would have to avoid bringing up any actual nerd pop culture bullshit, either substituting it with fictional or somehow portraying nerd culture trough something else entirely, to stand on it's own and not as yet another nostalgia leeching attempt.
It's Spielberg so it won't be a wreck but it's unlikely it will feel unique or fresh in any way.
The 80s? More like the GAY-ties!
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