Ready Player One

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MetalDog

And the One Song to Rule Them All is Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones


"If its a Balrog, I don't think you get an option to not consent......." - bob

Martok

Sweet!! 

I'll second your "HELLS YEAH!!", and raise you an "Is it March yet??"  O0 
"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

Steelgrave

I dug the book, looking forward to the movie   :bd:

MetalDog

I read somewhere that Spielberg took out all the self referential material from the book.  Not that it was super important, but, it was a nice little touch (amongst all the other cultural Easter eggs I expect to remain).
And the One Song to Rule Them All is Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones


"If its a Balrog, I don't think you get an option to not consent......." - bob

bbmike

Might listen to this on the way to Florida this weekend.
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

jamus34

Dunno, I went from Gus levels of loin-moistening to lukewarm on this.

Understandable that things need to change from the book but ever new trailer they've posted up seems to have it moving further and further away from the source material.
Insert witty comment here.

JasonPratt

I heard from a source of a source (supposedly working on the film) that the Iron Giant will be fighting not only Mechagodzilla, but also Gigan. And, somewhat confusingly, that the MechaG will be "Kiryu" -- who isn't a villain like Gigan, but rather a redeemed heroic 1954 Godzilla turned into a cyborg.


Meanwhile! -- Jenny Nicholson (the cute satirist from... is it Screen Rant or Screen Crush, can't recall...) flings at least two levels of sarcasm, maybe three, with "RPO For Girls".

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JasonPratt

ICEBREAKER THESIS CHRONOLOGY! -- Victor Suvorov's Stalin Grand Strategy theory, in lots and lots of chronological order...
Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
RobO Q Campaign Generator -- archived classic CMBB/CMAK tool!

JasonPratt

More Toho Kaiju news from the film.

1.) Mechagodzilla is indeed confirmed, and is indeed Kiryu (i.e. MechaG3 from the Millennium series). This baffles me, but after all the film and book are using the characters ad hoc (not in any real context with each other), so eh.

2.) The Iron Giant wasn't in the book, and replaces Ultraman (the original one not any of the sequels), who while not a Toho Kaiju per se has close connections through Eji Tsuburaya (the guy who invented Toho's man-in-suit technology).

3.) Reportedly other kaiju in the film include Gigan (as previously heard) but also King Ghidora, Megalon, and Godzilla himself (though I haven't heard if the designs are based on any specific suits. One might suppose from this mix that they'll be referencing the two late Showa Era films which featured all those creatures, G vs. Megalon and G vs. Gigan, aka Godzilla on Monster Island).

4.) Also Gamera.

5.) Also "Clover", the original Cloverfield monster.


This means Warner Brothers at least secured the rights for using the Toho kaiju at least once. It does not necessarily mean WB secured the rights to use those characters in Legendary's Monsterverse, but that isn't impossible. (I don't know who really holds the rights to using Gamera right now, but I suspect Toho finally acquired them because he's in the upcoming street-level Toho kaiju-movie game CITY SHROUDED IN SHADOW.)
ICEBREAKER THESIS CHRONOLOGY! -- Victor Suvorov's Stalin Grand Strategy theory, in lots and lots of chronological order...
Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
RobO Q Campaign Generator -- archived classic CMBB/CMAK tool!

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus