Ready Player One!
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UPDATED: Thursday, April 5, 2018 09:39
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Unique....there was some Disney, arcade and video game characters, TMNT. You already know about the Iron Giant from the trailer. Plus a few other mentions, which I won't reveal - Spoilers.
If any of the ones you mentioned were in there, it was fleeting among the many shown.
SGG
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Regarding the Firefly shoutout. Was this unique, or did you feel that BSG, Star Trek, Star Wars, Outer Limits, X-Files were also represented?
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I had seen and posted the date in another thread, noticing it was a Thursday.
But I hadn't noticed it was Good Friday and Easter.
Is there a reason for that, are there resurrections or multiple lives in the film?
RP1 was originally slated to open in mid-December, but was pushed back to not conflict with The Last Jedi.
So, shifting from Christmas to Easter.
How long before RP1 outgrosses TLJ?
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Interesting. Can't help but feel that Edge of Tomorrow missed an opportunity here when it was released in late May of 2014.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
How long before RP1 outgrosses TLJ?
Dunno if it will, but it damn well should. A far better movie, in most aspects. Obviously lacking the saga and 40 years of character familiarity. Unless you count the avatars.
1st time I saw the Firefly class ship ( was it SERENITY ? ) I thought to myself... " There she is ...". Just a brief - from across the dance floor I saw her - moment, like when she caught Mal's eye.
But the 2nd time was... WOW !! Hell yeah !
* ETA - of COURSE it was SERENITY, duh !
Also... Simon Pegg sure is living the dream. Another great sci-fi flick he's stumbled into. Kudos.
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So, had Parzival signed the ' contract ', what would have happened ? Still wins everything, but he didn't get the REAL prize , in discovering the joys of living in the real world ?
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I enjoyed this. Will probably see it again.
I sensed this was the sort of entertainment that Valerian was trying to be.
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I understand it is imagination, but I don't get the basis of driving a motorcycle backwards, as fast as you can.
Looks like one version of a midrange bulk transport model Firefly was made with guns. Is this the shout out that is being mentioned?
Does anybody think that Ogden was prohibited from playing for the keys? I noticed his avatar sometimes did not obey commands, which allowed key clues to be accidentally revealed to Parzival.
I watched RP1 back-to-back with Tomb Raider, so was comfortable seeing Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, although in different films. Also saw Hannah John-Kamen in each film.
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Certainly could and likely will re-watch.
Hannah John-Kamen - first noticed her in Killjoys. Very watchable. and nice to see her doing more on screen. Although, to be honest, when I first saw her in RP1, w/ her hair as it was I immediately thought of Thulsa Doom Probably not the look she was going for, at least I hope not.
JSF - I hadn't thought of the points you brought up, but of course, it's " make believe " A few other thoughts..
Gadgets and avatars can be modified, so seeing a Firefly w/ guns isn't all that big a deal. There are specs for a militarized version Firefly, so whether it was another vessel or Serenity in battle mode, it's kinda no biggie to me.
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I know, again, it's a movie, but the biggest flaws, if it is that - how did they know how to recreate the office so perfectly ? Wade had only been there via him being a hologram, so I get that he could have gotten the passcode, but every detail of the room, AND then have the time + ability to hack the feed into their own ' holo-deck' as it were, so the real life Sarrento didn't for a second doubt that Wade and Daito had waltzed into corporate , w/ guns, totally unnoticed ? The guy picked up on Wade's emotion suppression mode, yet can't decipher a CGI office and his own ? Unlikely.
Wade breaks rule 1, and what undeniably he should have been well aware of - never reveal your RL name and location while on the net / in the Oasis. That he falls for Art3mis so fast and so hard... kinda makes him look like a total noob. He could have been like 12 and she 37, for all they both knew...
Who the hell is Online Industries thinking they can send goon squads to hunt down citizens or imprison anyone they damn well please ? I guess that's ' just how things are' , in the future. Lovely.
Cells that can open up from then inside, by design, which allowed Art3mis to get easy access to everything she needed to in order for Wade and the good guys to win. As if every corporate HQ has a basement full of actual prison cells.
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Quote:I didn't have any problem with Guns version Firefly, but our introduction to the verse made such a point of it in TTJ.
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Certainly could and likely will re-watch.
Hannah John-Kamen - first noticed her in Killjoys. Very watchable. and nice to see her doing more on screen. Although, to be honest, when I first saw her in RP1, w/ her hair as it was I immediately thought of Thulsa Doom
JSF - I hadn't thought of the points you brought up, but of course, it's " make believe " A few other thoughts..
Gadgets and avatars can be modified, so seeing a Firefly w/ guns isn't all that big a deal. There are specs for a militarized version Firefly, so whether it was another vessel or Serenity in battle mode, it's kinda no biggie to me.
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I know, again, it's a movie, but the biggest flaws, if it is that - how did they know how to recreate the office so perfectly ? Wade had only been there via him being a hologram, so I get that he could have gotten the passcode, but every detail of the room, AND then have the time + ability to hack the feed into their own ' holo-deck' as it were, so the real life Sarrento didn't for a second doubt that Wade and Daito had waltzed into corporate , w/ guns, totally unnoticed ? The guy picked up on Wade's emotion suppression mode, yet can't decipher a CGI office and his own ? Unlikely.
Wade breaks rule 1, and what undeniably he should have been well aware of - never reveal your RL name and location while on the net / in the Oasis. That he falls for Art3mis so fast and so hard... kinda makes him look like a total noob. He could have been like 12 and she 37, for all they both knew...
Who the hell is Online Industries thinking they can send goon squads to hunt down citizens or imprison anyone they damn well please ? I guess that's ' just how things are' , in the future. Lovely.
Cells that can open up from then inside, by design, which allowed Art3mis to do get easy access to everything she needed to in order for Wade and the good guys to win. As if every corporate HQ has a basement full of actual prison cells.
Loyalty booths didn't seem outrageous. Before Parzival winning, they were legal to connect to Oasis. Part of their legality may have included emergency escape requirements.
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Well, there were 2 ' shout outs ', at least, that I saw. One would have been fine, but 2 was even better. Especially the 2nd, longer shot 
As for the motorcycle... umm, that's just what Art3mis chose as her ride. The means of transport wasn't so much the point though. She could have picked anything, I guess...
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Are you referring to the 1st challenge ? Riding her cycle ' backwards' was just the means of how the race was won. I'm not sure what is problematic for you, as the clue from Halliday was to ' step on the gas and go backwards ' , or there abouts. He was saying not everything has to be new and changed for it to be awesome, and he longed for the ability to turn back the clock as it were.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
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