All Things:Science Fiction/Fantasy

ucsdguy1 said:
This makes me feel better, because the trailers I've seen have not
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Really?? I have loved the trailers. It feels like they are going to try and condense the story into days not months/years. We will see .... cautiously optimistic ...
 
Wife and kid wanna see this real bad, as do I. Problem is that I work weekends these days and the kid is in school and playing volleyball and getting tutoring and...well...that shoots weekday evenings all to hell.

I really hope Ready Player One stays in theaters longer than two weeks, because we won't get to it until at least the 14th of April.
 
Okay saw Ready Player One last night.

Once again I fall into the trap of Ender's Game in which I am such a fan of the book it was too hard not to pick out things they left out or changed. A lot of plot points blown by too quickly. He fell in love with Artemis pretty darn fast (I suppose what can you do in a 2 hour 20 minute movie)

However, visually it was pretty stunning. The animation, CGI, really made the Oasis come to life. And the CG facial expressions were pretty darn good. It felt like watching a video game for a good part of 2+ hours. I feel like I probably need to see again to find hidden gems, or "easter eggs" if you will (see what I did there).

One final thought - the music was of course great. But where was the Rush??
 
ucsdguy1 said:
Okay saw Ready Player One last night.

Once again I fall into the trap of Ender's Game in which I am such a fan of the book it was too hard not to pick out things they left out or changed. A lot of plot points blown by too quickly. He fell in love with Artemis pretty darn fast (I suppose what can you do in a 2 hour 20 minute movie)

However, visually it was pretty stunning. The animation, CGI, really made the Oasis come to life. And the CG facial expressions were pretty darn good. It felt like watching a video game for a good part of 2+ hours. I feel like I probably need to see again to find hidden gems, or "easter eggs" if you will (see what I did there).

One final thought - the music was of course great. But where was the Rush??
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Man, Rylance did a fantastic job.
 
ucsdguy1 said:
Okay saw Ready Player One last night.

Once again I fall into the trap of Ender's Game in which I am such a fan of the book it was too hard not to pick out things they left out or changed. A lot of plot points blown by too quickly. He fell in love with Artemis pretty darn fast (I suppose what can you do in a 2 hour 20 minute movie)

However, visually it was pretty stunning. The animation, CGI, really made the Oasis come to life. And the CG facial expressions were pretty darn good. It felt like watching a video game for a good part of 2+ hours. I feel like I probably need to see again to find hidden gems, or "easter eggs" if you will (see what I did there).

One final thought - the music was of course great. But where was the Rush??
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Rush's music was nowhere to be found. Plenty of visual references, though. Aech's shirt. The poster in Halliday's room.

A LOT of cannon from the book was missing. I'd suspected when this movie's production started that that would be the case. How difficult and expensive would it have been to grab all the appropriate licensing? Also, I suspected they'd modernize the pop-culture of it a bit to grab the appeal of younger crowds who've never seen, read, played, or listened to a vast majority of the properties from the book.

Didn't care much for the plot changes (WAY too easy to get the Copper Key, for instance) or some of the aesthetic changes. Did have some fun finding easter eggs (my favorite was spotting Spike Spiegel's Swordfish II Monoracer from Cowboy Bebop sitting in Aech's hangar).

Still...after I got over the disappointment of it being "Not Like The Book," I thought it was worth seeing. Our 13-year-old daughter loved it, as well.
 
FBJ said:
Rush's music was nowhere to be found. Plenty of visual references, though. Aech's shirt. The poster in Halliday's room.

A LOT of cannon from the book was missing. I'd suspected when this movie's production started that that would be the case. How difficult and expensive would it have been to grab all the appropriate licensing? Also, I suspected they'd modernize the pop-culture of it a bit to grab the appeal of younger crowds who've never seen, read, played, or listened to a vast majority of the properties from the book.

Didn't care much for the plot changes (WAY too easy to get the Copper Key, for instance) or some of the aesthetic changes. Did have some fun finding easter eggs (my favorite was spotting Spike Spiegel's Swordfish II Monoracer from Cowboy Bebop sitting in Aech's hangar).

Still...after I got over the disappointment of it being "Not Like The Book," I thought it was worth seeing. Our 13-year-old daughter loved it, as well.
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I believe when Spielberg started the project he said he wasn't going to use any of his own properties. That might explain some of it.
 
FBJ said:
Rush's music was nowhere to be found. Plenty of visual references, though. Aech's shirt. The poster in Halliday's room.

A LOT of cannon from the book was missing. I'd suspected when this movie's production started that that would be the case. How difficult and expensive would it have been to grab all the appropriate licensing? Also, I suspected they'd modernize the pop-culture of it a bit to grab the appeal of younger crowds who've never seen, read, played, or listened to a vast majority of the properties from the book.

Didn't care much for the plot changes (WAY too easy to get the Copper Key, for instance) or some of the aesthetic changes. Did have some fun finding easter eggs (my favorite was spotting Spike Spiegel's Swordfish II Monoracer from Cowboy Bebop sitting in Aech's hangar).

Still...after I got over the disappointment of it being "Not Like The Book," I thought it was worth seeing. Our 13-year-old daughter loved it, as well.
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I loved it even though it was way different then the book. My youngest (19) thought completely different and just couldn't get her mind around it and hated it.

I looked at it like the original Dune theater release. It was a hot mess but at least Lynch tried to bring to life the vision we had in our mind while reading the book.
 
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