Rented it today. Fun summer movie. Loved the Pulse Rifle, Han Solo holster and even caught a glimpse of the logo from Real American Hero. Recognized the OG Colonial Blaster.
The big question is, since much of that fun is just reveling in the geek references, would it stand on its own without them (using made-up generic ones instead)?
You've got a lot to notice. XD
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I thought we were past Japanese characters bowing to Westerners instead of shaking hands and doing martial arts.
At least the Chinese kid didn’t call himself Short Round.At least the Chinese character doesn't bow. In fact, he doesn't seem to give one f#*k (unless you're complimenting him) and includes snark. XD
I just saw the movie yesterday for the first time. I was dreading it a bit as I'm just really against fan-service without substance (Rogue One for example went down the drain with me for this). I thought it was an okay movie, it didn't make me angry or felt that it insulted my intelligence, it was a very simple story with 20 mph bends in the narrative (at least it didn't pretend that it has some really shocking reveal that we've seen a thousand times) fine for a normal weekday evening.The movie is not without flaws (although I did thoroughly enjoy it), but one area I feel in which it massively improves on the book is in making the references LESS important to the overall story. The book gets a bit tedious at times, both in endless explanations of references (without driving the story forward), or with almost every in-OASIS action set piece being directly tied to some pop-culture icon (D&D, Wargames, Monty Python, etc.).
The best thing the film does is to put *most* of the references in the background. If you spot 'em, good for you. If you don't, doesn't matter because they aren't vital to the narrative.
Now having said that, without the references, the story (both book and film) is a pretty generic wish-fulfillment story with characters that aren't quite paper thin, but could definitely use a bit more than what we're given. It's fun and pretty entertaining, but about as deep as a wading pool.
I rented this a few days ago. I enjoyed it. I thought the references where a bit much, but I bet if we could become trillionaires by finding clues from 1950's culture then we would be up to our eyeballs in Leave it to Beaver, war movies, and Captain America.
I did smile when they played the original Godzilla theme when Mecha Godzilla came out.
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If you haven't checked out the book, I recommend it. It does a better job at explaining a lot of things. It's more focused on 1980s pop culture (due to the Egg Hunt, the 1980s is back in style, so we don't get much outside of that). However, Cline is working on the second book and he states he'll use more references outside of the 1980s.
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I thought we were past Japanese characters bowing to Westerners instead of shaking hands and doing flourishy martial arts.
That's how we shake hands in TaeKwonDo, apparently its to show there is nothing up your sleeve with which to cause harm.I've encountered and seen many a Korean living in the US how still bow (slightly) when shaking hands and so with their left hand on their right wrist as they would do in Korea.
I totally geeked out at the use of the charm of making which I'd memorised as a kid. The Shining set up was just so good, the film just impressed me at every step.
I must admit my inner high school geek was critical of the pronunciation.This may well be my new favourite movie, I absolutely loved it. The references were done well, it wasn't thrown in your face, it was just there. I totally geeked out at the use of the charm of making which I'd memorised as a kid.