Isn't Iron Giant one of the "modern" pop culture things they added in the movie?
its just"media references" the movie, with a basic plot and forgetable characters everywhere, i cant wait for "memes" the movie that will be the true evidence for western cultural decline
REDDIT: The Movie
Have you ever wondered what life was like inside your reddit account?
It was a day like any other for our hero, generic white guy reddit user #47, when he stumbled across something he never saw before on reddit: Yes, that's right, a WOMAN! But not just any women, a punk gamer girl who don't need no man. Together, the two of them (stylized as Snoos) and their quirky minority sidekick must prevent the evil glitch from shutting down reddit forever! Along the way they must travel through the epic dank memes of reddit like BIG CHUNGUS and Keanu Reeves while avoiding the NSFW subreddits and the_donald (quick side gag).the evil glitch is cause by chapo chat brigaters trying to save the internet from reddit's evil
yeah but it turns out they are secretly just lonley and want friends so we can be in the big pop music dance number at the end that will get dated in 2 years
the emoji movie
Ah yes, the movie which ended Saudi Arabia's 35-year ban on movie theaters.
Ready player one is so popular because it appeals to the literal greatest possible nerd fantasy
That someday they'll get rewarded with wealth, popularity, power, and a hot gamer girl gf (but with a small physical flaw, so we know she's
insecurenot a bitchnice because she doesn't know she's beautiful) for no reason other than they know alot of nerd trivia, and are good at video games.It's honestly more embarrassing than it is bad (TRY to get through this section, I'd be impressed)
Very embarrasing
Although it does manage to also be transphobic as well.
And you can bet that Galileo, Newton and Einstein wouldn't have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or knocking a few protons off the old Hydrogen molecule.)
WHAT PROTONS, HYDROGEN IS JUST A SINGLE PROTON YOU FUCK
Yeah, getting their "nerd facts" wrong makes it even more embarrassing lol
(TRY to get through this section, I’d be impressed)
This is like the stuff from the diaries of some school shooter that gets published later lmao
Man, "parents died of the flu" thing doesn't seem as silly as it used to.
Truly an underrated gem. I'm surprised there was nothing about el witcherino, tho.
This movie is where pop culture references and 80s nostalgia became old and absolutely cringeworthy.
Nostalgia and especially the 80s aesthetic of it can be done well. Just look at GTA Vice City for a good example. But that game was made back in 2002 and long before 80s nostalgia became incredibly mainstream. What made Vice City fun though was that it didn't shove in your face references to popular things from the 80s. While it still had Michael Jackson's Billie Jean and a few other popular songs everyone heard growing up, there was a lot of cool music in that game that most of us had not heard before (most of the Fever radio station had obscure R&B on it). Vice City also felt like it was joking around and making fun of tropes like how it mirrored Scarface and Miami Vice (right down to having Philip Michael Thomas himself voicing a character).
Ernest Cline also wrote a poem about how he wants to jerk off to women doing math.
-Nerd Porn Auteur
I've noticed that there don't seem to be any porno movies
that are made for guys like me.
All the porn I've come across
was targeted at beer-swilling sports bar dwelling alpha-males
Men who like their women stupid and submissive
Men who can only get it up for monosyllabic cock-hungry nymphos
with gargantuan breasts and a three-word vocabulary
Adult films are populated with these collagen-injected
liposuctioned women
Many of whom have resorted to surgery and self-mutilation
in an attempt to look the way they have been told to look.
These aren't real women. They're objects.
And these movies aren't erotic. They're pathetic.
These vacuum-headed fuck bunnies don't turn me on.
They disgust me.
And it's not that I'm against pornography.
I mean, I'm a guy. And guys need porn.
Fact.
"Like a preacher needs pain, like a needle needs a vein,"
Guys need porn.
But I don't wanna watch this misogynist he-man woman-hater porn.
I want porno movies that are made with guys like me in mind:
Guys who know that the sexiest thing in the world
is a woman who is smarter than you are.
You can have the whole cheerleading squad,
I want the girl in the tweed skirt and the horn-rimmed glasses:
Betty Finnebowski, the valedictorian.
Oh yes.
First I want to copy her Trig homework,
and then I want to make mad, passionate love to her
for hours and hours
until she reluctantly asks if we can stop
because she doesn't want to miss Battlestar Galactica.
Summa cum laude, baby!
That is what I call erotic.
But do you ever see that kind of a woman in a contemporary adult film?
No.
Which is why I'm going to start writing and directing Geek Porno.
I shall be the quintessential Nerd Porn Auteur.
And the women in my porno movies will be the kind
that drive nerds like me mad with desire.
I'm talking about the girls that used to fuck up the grading curve.
The girls in the Latin Club and the National Honor Society.
Chicks with weird clothes, braces, four eyes, and 4.0 GPAs.
Brainy articulate bookworms, with MENSA cards in their purses
and chips on their shoulders.
My porn starlets will come in all shapes and sizes.
My porn starlets will be too busy working on their PhD to go to the gym.
In my kind of porno movies the girls wouldn't even have to get naked.
They'd just take the guys down to the rec room and
beat them repeatedly at chess
and then talk to them for hours about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
or the underlying social metaphors in the Aliens movies.
Buy stock in some hand cream companies
because there is about to be a major shortage.
And I'm not just talking about straight porn. Oh no.
There should be fuck films for my nerd brethren
of all sexual orientations.
Gay nerd porn flicks with titles like "Dungeons and Drag-queens."
This idea is a fucking gold mine.
I am gonna make millions,
because this country is full of database programmers
and electronics engineers
and they aren't getting the loving they so desperately need.
And you can help . . .
If you're an intelligent woman is interested in breaking into the adult film industry,
and if you can tell me the name of Luke Skywalker's home planet,
then you are hired.
It doesn't matter if you think you're overweight or unattractive.
It doesn't matter if you don't think you're beautiful.
You are beautiful. . .
And I will make you a star.
This comment does not have the cringe warning it desperately needs
What the fuck. I have tinitus and I'm not even bullshitting the ringing in my right ear got progressively louder as I read this and now it won't get quieter.
It's the psychic virus embedded into the poem
Welcome to the club
We get it, Ernie. You want your calculus professor to step on you.
You know there's a draft out there of a version of Ready Player One that's all about this
I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting laid than anyone. Without the built-in sexual release valve provided by masturbation, it's doubtful that early humans would have ever mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe.”
Quote from Ready Player One
You just know that when he banged that one out, he said to himself "Yeah, Ernest, that's the good stuff"
It's honestly impressive that he know that millions of people have now read it, and he still hasn't invested his fortune into one of the memory removing machines from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom
He managed to pick the one element whose molecules are composed of a single proton and nothing else. Amazing.
He's also wrong about masturbation being the "human animal's" adaptation - have you ever seen chimpanzees at the zoo? They don't give a fuck what month it is or how many people are watching.
molecules
Atoms. And they have electrons too, plus there are isotopes of hydrogen which have neutrons too. You tried to criticise him for getting things wrong and YOU GOT IT WRONG YOURSELF HAHAHAGA DESTROYED HAHAHHA
Atoms
Fair point
Some give electrons, some have neutrons
No extra protons tho, so moot point. Also I never wrote a book about it lmao
Yes cool but NOW YOU'RE DESTROYED EBIC STYLE LMFAO ROFL HAHAHAHA GET OWNED LIBTARD
BTW I agree with your point 100%, I just wanted to nitpick the nitpick and be annoying lol
read the book when younger and impressionable
love it
used part of it as a username for years
realize how trashy the book was later on
book is now a movie
my shitty taste as a teen is now forever visibleStill sticking with the username, though. I refuse to see the movie and ruin whatever illusion is left.
trashy kids books are fine. youre allowed to love them, youre just not allowed to base your life/ideology around them. otherwise youre a :LIB:
stares at harry potter
also maybe learn to seperate the book from the author, idk anything about whomever wrote Dorky Gamer Book but i assume its a chud.
p.s. the movie was the most cringe thing i have ever been forced to suffer through on an otherwise good date.
The author wrote another book called 'Armada' which is essentially the same thing, only he stole the plot from the Last Starfighter and made it worse.
I threw the book at the wall when they unironically started quoting star wars at each other as though it were a heart-warming moment.
It was a rip off of The Last Starfighter but with POP CULTURE REFERENCES!!!
This music video reminded me of all this. Just random pop culture references and 80s nostalgia shit, and they even have to flash the movie posters and names to tell you what they're referencing.
Yeah, I can forgive pop-culture references when they're well done. Especially when it's done awesome stop motion by Lee Hardcastle.
This book could have been good. The fact that everyone has nostalgia for someone else’s nostalgia simply because he was rich as fuck and therefore has enormous social influence and could use his wealth and influence to create an economic incentive to obsess over the things he obsessed with from his youth. That could have made for good social commentary. But he fucked it up.
It's the literary equivalent of an anime where you read a description, go "huh, cool premise", and then give up after the pilot because the coolest premise in the world couldn't justify the trash characters and chronic dependency on tropes.
Except I made the mistake of thinking the book must be building to something interesting, and read it all the way through.
Except I made the mistake of thinking the book must be building to something interesting, and read it all the way through.
This is the curse that all fans of Sci-Fi and Fantasy books must suffer through.
Oh, I haven't really seen a proper critique of Sanderson's works. Why do you think he/his books suck?
I’ve only read SA till book 2 but I’m assuming you’re speaking of the
spoiler
Parshendi?
There was actually an interesting setup in the beginning of the film. The "city" that the main character lives in is essentially a giant landfill, and people have fled to VR en masse to avoid having to deal with reality. There's a Matrix-like direction they could have gone with it, where humans were essentially choosing to be plugged in all day and ceding control of the world to a cyberpunk corporation, but instead they chose to make the most predictable Hollywood narrative imaginable. Literally every single plot element is exactly what you figure it will be, and the moral at the end of the story (which I'm 99% sure was shoved in by Stephen Spielberg) was just to stop playing video games.
(which I’m 99% sure was shoved in by Stephen Spielberg) was just to stop playing video games.
Read the book. Can confirm.
It doesn't even make sense in the context of the film, let alone the book. A huge chunk of the world building in both is spent spelling out that for all intents and purposes: the economy of the oasis has become the defacto world economy. People use it to go to school, work remotely, engage with other people for trade, etc. Shutting it down two days out of the week is less analogous to turning off a videogame, or even the internet, and more akin to shutting down ALL commerce in general for two days out of the week.
the moral at the end of the story (which I’m 99% sure was shoved in by Stephen Spielberg) was just to stop playing video games.
"Stop playing video games and go watch all my movies instead."
Who the fuck is making films telling me to log off.
Show yourself cowards, I will never log off.
The book is not as bad as the movie, IMO. The book has a lot of issues, but is certainly not the worst sci-fi written for young men. Though it is particularly masturbatory for the author.
Read the book first as part of a summer reading program for a school I taught at. It was a quick read, and I enjoyed parts of it (like the idea that it was a big puzzle hunt), but yeah, it's not a literary classic. It was a frustrating read because Cline came up with a decent idea for a novel, but can't write to save his life.
It's alright in terms of a pop-corn flick. But yeah: The book is just references a minute, and that translated into the movie.
It's no Snow Crash no matter how much the writer wanted it to be.
