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Title: Ready Player One
Post by: Neumatic on September 01, 2016, 09:50:45 pm
Weird that we don't have a thread on this yet.  I just thought of it because this video just appeared online, and one look at it makes me think it HAS to be a piece of viral marketing for the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvDOeURWQwk
Title: Re: Ready Player One
Post by: Neumatic on July 22, 2017, 07:20:51 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiK2fhOY0nE

I don't know how I feel about this, and I def don't want to spoil anything that pops up, but seeing some of those things in action again felt goooood.
Title: Re: Ready Player One
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 22, 2017, 07:21:58 pm
Ah! You beat me to it! The Delorian and Iron Giant both gave me a chubby! Just sayin'.
Title: Re: Ready Player One
Post by: Neumatic on July 22, 2017, 07:25:38 pm
Exactly my thought.  And as cool as it is to see the D flying again, it's the characters of those movies that mean  so much to us.  I don't want the DeLorean, I want Back To The Future.  That's the double-edged sword of nostalgia pulls like this.

As cool as it is to see the Iron Giant walking around (although he still looks a LOT like a cartoon), so much of what made that 80s stuff cool is the characters who used it, we don't just want Ghostbusters gear, we want to hang out with the Ghostbusters, we want to time travel with Doc, etc.  This could easily turn into just watching people play with their toys (the book did feel a bit too "fanboy wishlist" at times: Wade flies the Serenity, for example).  There's only a few examples of the character interacting like with Max Headroom (who I DIDN'T see listed in the IMDB, I might add).  Most of the time, it's just cool for the sake of cool.
Title: Re: Ready Player One
Post by: Neumatic on December 10, 2017, 10:29:03 am
New trailer.  And much better look at the Deloreon, the Iron Giant, and the OG Gundam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSp1dM2Vj48
Title: Re: Ready Player One
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 13, 2017, 05:59:19 am
I seriously can't wait for this movie. Ya know, I watched the trailer once and that was enough for me because I really don't want to see or know too much more about the flick, especially the Easter eggs.