Why is Sup Forums bashing Ready Player One for doing the same thing the Lego Movie and wreck it Ralph did?

Why is Sup Forums bashing Ready Player One for doing the same thing the Lego Movie and wreck it Ralph did?

Lego movie had a pastiche of pop culture references and was highly acclaimed.

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Because the LEGO movie was a goofy comedy.

Ready Player One is asking us to take Battletoads seriously.

Becuase while it has the potential to be like another the lego movie, it also has the potential to be another emoji movie

Because its literally appealing to gamer trash and fake nerds. With lego movie it made sense because they were all lego brands

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Because unlike those movies Ready Player One is written and directed by hacks for a shitty fucking studio

even the source material is trash user.

Yeah and that hack also wrote the movie

Well I'd say it's more of a bash on how it's a movie based on a piss-poor book that's preying on nerd culture and likely will just be a tone-deaf referencefest.
But it isn't out, so there's a slim chance it won't be shit I guess. Anything is possible.

Unlike the other two, this has a book you can read right now and it's terrible

They're bashing it for being bad at it. Not to mention, in both previous examples, being a shut in or a follower of trends end sup being a bad thing while those traits in Ready Player One are almost all Wade is and he's rewarded for it. It's a nerd jerkoff fest.

Everyone who played with Lego mashed the worlds and franchises together at some point, so building a movie around that felt natural. RPO brings out pop culture for a cheap 'I like that thing!' instead of trying to stand on its own.

Because the author thought'd it be funny to refer to an Asian character committing suicide as seppuku. Which aside from just being tasteless to include in the story, is entirely inaccurate.

was battletoads a thing in the movie? or book?

the movie isn't relatable and Sup Forums isn't the intended audience. lego and ralph didn't need to rely on references to be successful.

More that it's taking the approach that being immersed in geek culture gives you superpowers.

Basically, to save the world, the characters of the book get have to study up & delve into the 80's pop culture that Oasis' creator, and by extension the writer, worships.

Ready Player One is basically My Immortal written by somebody capable of using spellcheck and making a semi-coherent plot. Except replace the obsession with "goth" stuff with the Eighties/"nerd" stuff.

Quads of truth

The inclusion of Tracer from that one 3D porn series is what tipped me off.

Who would've guessed that the biggest test of Spielberg's talent as a filmmaker would be Ready Player One

He should stick to dramas. He hasn't made a good blockbuster since the first Jurassic Park. Lost World sucks, Armageddon is horrible post 9/11 wannabe Independence Day, Minority Report is the dumbest "smart" movie I've ever seen and Crystal Skull was mediocre at best.

Because the Lego Movie was a feature length commercial that embraced that fact and the corporate message of the product, and Wreck It Ralph was a quest for personal identity hidden in a crossover fanfic.

Ready Player One is basically the novel Sheldon Cooper would choose to write.

Because the ultimate message of Wreck it Ralph wasn't how you can save the world by excitedly swallowing every piece of media shot out of big corporate urethra.

>Armageddon is horrible post 9/11 wannabe Independence Day

And also directed by Michael Bay. In 1998. Three years before 9/11.

>Armageddon is horrible post 9/11 wannabe Independence Day
Well I've clearly fallen into some kind of nightmare universe

Lego Movie was about the ways we tell stories and how we take elements from old stories to tell new ones. The references tended to be quick jokes or otherwise played off of the derivative/unique nature of storytelling.

This is just seems like a bunch of references for nerds to get without necessarily commenting on much of anything.

because ready player one's a bad book with boring, soulless characters.

the Gumby movie did this, and i don't expect the same quality from Ready Player One.

>Why is Sup Forums bashing
Reddit, SB, tumblr, they're all bashing it. It's that bad.

>or doing the same thing the Lego Movie and wreck it Ralph did?
You forget how surprised everyone was by how they weren't the soulless cash grabs they thought they would be.

Sorry, meant War of the Worlds. Point still stands though.

Both Lego Movie and Lego Batman were love letters to the source material WHILE poking fun at them and acknowledging the silly parts. RP1 treats its references seriously, all while having a neckbeard chosen one protagonist that manages to get the girl on account of being the protagonist.

quads dont lie

so movie shills are already up?

You're partly right. Lego Movie is somewhat overrated and it does do the whole annoying pop culture synergy thing. But it was still pretty funny and the animation was amazing, so it gets a pass.

Ready Player One is based on a novel that is dripping with "nerd culture XD" and 80s nostalgia that it's insufferable

Because RP1 can be condensed down to this single clip.
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LEGO Movie was a good film in spite of that shit.

LEGO Batman Movie wasn't, so anyone that likes that while hating in RPO is a hypocrite bandwagoner.

The book was exactly the type of fun schlock that I love, but I write off movie adaptations of books as a general rule and nothing I've seen of this one in particular makes me think that's a mistake. They couldn't even get the rights to use Leopardon and have fucked it up by introducing general pop culture stuff instead of keeping it contained to the 80s to keep the setting thematically consistent.

>War of the Worlds
You ... you are aware of how old of a story War of the Worlds is, right?

Because Sup Forums likes to shitpost here too

Is there a "To be fair, you need a really high IQ to understand Ready Player One" pasta?

Why do people want to get upset about a shallow hollywood movie for pre-teens who play minecraft? This movie isn't for you, the emoji movie isn't for you, just stop putting so much energy into disliking media.

Fuck you, Lost World is great.

It's the only way I can feel superior to others

Fpbp. The book is a fucking mess. Movie won't be better.

THEY CANNOT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

>Why is (x) bashing Ready Player One
Because it was a fucking awful novel and a terrible movie to boot.
Seriously, the book sucked ass. It was written so poorly.

probably because YOU CAN DO THAT WITH LEGO

The Lego Movie was for eight year olds
Ready Player One was written by a 38 year old.

The book was okay but I have no interest in the movie.

The Lego Movie was strictly only about Lego's and everything connected to them. Wreck it Ralph was specifically about video games and only video games. Both movies have one thing on common though; neither movie puts any sort of importance on the references. They're there strictly for world-building and barely take up more than a few scenes.

The plot of RPO on the other hand, is directly intertwined with the references, and the references are constant. You literally can't go a few seconds without a pop culture icon popping up, it's obnoxious. It stops being cheeky and comes off more as an autistic fanfiction.

It's memberberries the movie

So, it's a movie by a Gen Xer for Gen X, Y and Z to celebrate cherished childhood memories.

It's a movie for Gen X by Gen X

Gen X is the most pathetic generation

Compared to millennials Gen X are, brave, intrepid, stoic and virtuous heroes. Perhaps the last generation to be so before the great tide of whining tears and self-centered sobbing that has overtaken every generation since that was raised by the internet.

Guys, guys, don't fight among yourselves.
Remember, the true enemies, the baby boomers.

I literally only read it becaaue I was comiteed in a metal ward with no internet and had no choice.

Also did a puzzle and rediscovered my love for Attack of the Clones

The source material is not very good.

I hated Lego movie for doing the same thing.
Licenced properties have ruined the Lego brand.

>Gen X are, brave, intrepid, stoic and virtuous heroes.
dont break your arm patting yourself on the back

Even the book that wasnt consisistent on that. The Prequel trilogies got in there

Who cares? It has all the nerdy nerd stuff that helped us through childhood, like Transformers and Gundam and Godzilla and King Kong and Batman and the Iron Giant and video games and whatever.

This pretty much famalam.
RPO reads like a fanfic, Twilight for fake nerds.

>Ready Player One.
God I fucking remember that fucking book.

It alongside SAO are two reading experiences I will never get back.

>SB

Wow, never thought I’d see SpaceBattles mentioned on Sup Forums.

>Ready Player One is basically the novel Sheldon Cooper would choose to write.
That's too high, that would be more like cwc makes a book instead of a cartoon.

Because the author of RPO is the most insufferable cunt to have ever existed in the entire history of the world.

>hurr I'm a nerd Einstein was a nerd too right that means I'm smart like Einstein betcha can't catch all these references my views on pornography are so progressive but why won't women in post-graduate programs do porn that would be so hot do they think they're too good for it watch me "knock a few protons off the old hydrogen atom" durr

>a metal ward
I'd go there.

It's sad when Sup Forumsmblr start throwing generation names and get it all wrong because they still believe millenial are the youngest ones. If you gonna use copyrighted marketing buzzwords from pseudo sociological fanfictions, at least do it right.

Pick any generation you like, and I can show you a "moral panic" in which a huge part of the population shits themselves and froths into a frenzy over their feelings being hurt.

Even the "greatest generation" did it for some things, it's just they kinda had an existential crisis and unifying war to help keep some most of that base instinct under the rug. You can look up the literature and articles behind it, but EVERY FUCKING GENERATION has to deal with the prior ones writing articles about how "they don't know how good they have it" and "they don't value the same exact things we do" and "they don't like working using our old systems even though we taught them differently in school, so they must be lazy". People are shitty in general and the non-specific complaints you hear about generations are only talked about for the same reason you wonder why you always seem to look at the clock when it is "1:23" or "9:11"... we actually see the time more often than we realize and it's only when we think it is interesting/proves our point that we make a big deal about it.

The problem is that Lego Movie and WIR were competently written, whereas Ready Player One is based on an absolutely godawful book.

Gen X: 1962-1982
Millennials: 1982-2003ish
Homeland: 2003-on

Cline was born in 72. He's Gen X.

Sounds like a Dethklok song

Because LEGO Movie and Wreck-it-Ralph were good.

Those cameos were largely in service to the movie - they weren't a movie built around cameos.

Because the book's shit.

not even remotely the same, Wreck It Ralph and Lego Movie revolve around a made up video game character and a nothing Lego toy.

Ready Player One is the same thing as Out of Jimmy's Head a shit attempt to capitalize on Roger Rabbit when it cannot be done and will never be done and they should off themselves for trying.

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I don't particularly mind wish fulfillment but that book was just painful to read.

That's why. Because as the end of the day it wasn't tightly written or even competently written.It was a book with a shoestring plot whose prose would use references as a shorthand for narration.

The fact that it's getting an adaption instead of any of the better more recent science fiction books annoys me. Hell even the classics.

you think that's the worst thing that's happened on the internet?

Gallows humor is a major part of the internet, it definitely isn't going away once we have VR

Are you all afraid of the auteur of our time?, but seriously this shit sucks. I don't know how you can take anything this guy writes seriously

>Comedic levity
>Generally good-natured humor
>In spite of this retains some degree of self-awareness
>The above traits help to contrast the more dramatic bits excellently
>Actual effort put into the project in nearly every aspect
versus
>I hopped in a mechanized version of the Iron Giant™ from The Iron Giant™ which was released in 1999 in spite of the fact it began production starting in 1994 and was directed by Brad Bird, it was so epic.
>Much more epic compared to the plebeian choices the fake-gamer opponent had made when choosing Mechagodzilla™ which first debuted in the titular title Godzilla versus Mechagodzilla™ in 1974 and was directed by Jun Fukuda (in incredibly poor taste might I add because I don't understand the appeal of Kaiju films due in part to their incredibly poor graphics and lack of instrumental scores on par with true patrician films such as The Iron Giant™ and lacking the thrill of true video games produced in 1991 such as Battletoads™.
I get enough dumb cocksuckers sperging out over little fucking things on Sup Forums alone, why would I pay to watch the same, lackluster shit?

to be fair WB bought the movie rights before the book was published

Can't speak for RPO but the Lego movie was more about Lego as a whole, it was a goofy movie that had it's own share of references but didn't took itself too seriously about them (see:Batman). Wreck it Ralph also had references but the movie was more about Ralph himself and the other original characters.

User has been owned, humiliated, ridiculed, made a fool out of himself, and proven to be an X-Box player.
Booya.

Lego and Ralph felt like they were made out of love of the stuff, RP1 feels more about proving the author knows more about X than you do.

I dont mind the references but the premise is so unoriginal and cliche it's a joke at this point.
"Virtual reality game can kill you irl! oogabooga!"

>"Virtual reality game can kill you irl! oogabooga!"
That isn't what the premise is.

>Nothing sexier than a girl smarter than you.
Well judging by his work that won’t be too hard.

They're both full of references but RPO is all about how the Marty Stu main character uses le ebin pop culture references to save the world while the Lego Movie uses those references both because they're Lego branded and because it shows how Emmett is a terrible hero compared to the other characters and in WiR it's cameos more than anything else.

You're confusing the words has and is as meaning the same thing.

How would you guys feel about a movie based on the real VRchat?

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first post is yet again, best post

Not that user, but Spielberg's reinterpretation was heavily inspired by 9/11 footage.

Lego Movie satirized its references, RPO just makes references for the sake of it in a shameless bid to buy an audience.

You'll never match my schtoyle

Because WiR made the cameos be just that, cameos. Sure several of them spoke, but they weren't the driving focus of the film except maybe Clyde. And Lego Movie was a comedy and played that shit up for laughs.

RP1 just comes off as a manbabby's fanfiction that somehow got a big name director and film studio to fund it. I could easilly do that shit in the Hunger Games simulator and it'd be a thousand times more interesting than this thing will be.

Yikes

If you're gonna reference something, do it right. RPO looks like tossing a bunch of shit to see what sticks.
Take a scene from GotG2, where in the climax of the film Peter momentarily makes a Pacman rock formation to fight against Ego. The scene also comes off humorous and makes sense as Peter's new found powers are still in the learning stages, making "a ball" is all he knows.

This guy is so much of a nerd stereotype that I want to give him an atomic wedgie.

I honestly think The Lego Movie framing their crossovers under the guise of a kid playing with legos did it a bit better than some autist playing some second life knock off where nerds are somehow respectful of the IPs they're stealing to make custom content with.