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cgod  ·  3407 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Some thoughts on Ready Player One

Are you going to watch the movie?





JTHipster  ·  3407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I mean I'll have to, won't I? Just to see it come to fruition. To see it all there. Like watching a nuclear explosion.

Hopefully I have some terminal illness where I know my exact time of death, so that I can plan to die right as the movie ends and blame it for everything.

cgod  ·  3407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't even know there was going to be a movie but after I read you're review I thought "this sounds like the kind of stupid shit Hollywood will make into a movie" and so I looked it up...

kleinbl00  ·  3407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, it's got Spielberg attached which usually means it'll never happen. It's also got Zak Penn writing a draft, which also means it's going into development hell. Kind of like the live-action Akira, this is a fast-buck makework project for a studio so they can look like they're busy without actually having to risk a hundred million dollars on a book that everyone will have forgotten by 2016.

Snow Crash has been "in development" for 20 years, and Neuromancer for 30.

Isherwood  ·  3407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was wondering how they could get the rights to all the references.

I guess wreck it ralph did it.

Elrond  ·  3407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's one part of I don't understand. If you despise it so much - and I agree with pretty much everything you said - why would you watch the movie?!

JTHipster  ·  3407 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Weirdly enough, the movie would somehow be worse, and I need to see how