Pronunciation usually mattersIt's Levi-OH-sa, not Levi-oh-SAH...
Maybe pronunciation isn't that important on the Charm of Making...
Whats the source for the earlyer googles or are any really accurate kits out there with the real propdimensions and stickers?
I think they are custom made. There is quite a bit of info on them in this thread:
https://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=284838&page=4
I'm fairly sure there is a free model or 2 on thingiverse, though I don't know if they're at correct scale, or what that should be.
I really like this film. One thing I don't appreciate much in some later Spielberg films is how the "world" looks. In this sense, the "real world" in the movie. Like in War of the Worlds it has this overblown weird look, where it doesn't look natural. And in a movie where it has to show the difference between the real world and the virtual reality world... you need the real world to look real. Like the look in Jurassic Park. I'm still amazed by how that looks. It looks real. It looks natural. The sequels not so much because they are screwed up by all that color correcting, which makes things look artificial and fake.
2. The love story is...I gotta be honest here, it's either gross or at best extremely juvenile. I lean towards juvenile. And I get it. This is meant to showcase a teenager's experiences, but it just struck me as the kind of thing I'd have identified with when I was a teenager, but which I now can't help but cringe at. It may be that something there was lost in translation from book to screen, where in the book both he and the girl are kind of average people in the real world, but amazing people in the game. In the movie, though, they're just two pretty people being pretty together. Plus, it all just felt...really rushed. I did appreciate that his friend told him "Dude, you don't even KNOW her." Although I wouldn't expect it to end differently, I kinda wish that maybe it ended with them going on a first date, instead of them now happily living together and smooching all the time. Meh.
It is juvenile, and doesn't cross over from the book too well, you hit it right on the head.
In the book they are a lot more insular,Wade barely leaves the oasis and rarely communicates with anyone face to face. He is infatuated with Arty the way someone could be if a celeb paid them some attention. She's not that into it. The book is vastly different, but serves as a nice companion piece to the movie.
It is juvenile, and doesn't cross over from the book too well, you hit it right on the head.
In the book they are a lot more insular,Wade barely leaves the oasis and rarely communicates with anyone face to face. He is infatuated with Arty the way someone could be if a celeb paid them some attention. She's not that into it. The book is vastly different, but serves as a nice companion piece to the movie.