Message from @Dedenga

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2018-04-02 13:54:58 UTC  

they wanted to get these shots of dudes running around city streets and cut to their virtual avatars running around the battlefield

2018-04-02 13:56:35 UTC  

it didn't make sense even within the context of the movie

2018-04-02 13:59:03 UTC  

Wait really?

2018-04-02 13:59:08 UTC  

That sounds fucking stupid

2018-04-02 13:59:32 UTC  

yeah it is obvious gen x writing

2018-04-02 13:59:42 UTC  

no thought given to consistency at all

2018-04-02 14:00:08 UTC  

Seems like clear commercial writing

2018-04-02 14:00:11 UTC  

you'd think spielberg would have caught some shit like that but i'm sure the movie had a team of 50 executive faggots working on it

2018-04-02 14:00:25 UTC  

"The audience is stupid so show them this"

2018-04-02 14:00:56 UTC  

like maybe it's just because i actually play videogames but i did not need that constant reinforcement to remember there's real players behind the avatars

2018-04-02 14:01:31 UTC  

and they could have just showed different people in their little rigs having reactions to in-game events

2018-04-02 14:01:34 UTC  

which they did a few times

2018-04-02 14:01:48 UTC  

but they also put in scenes of people jumping over their couches and running around in public

2018-04-02 14:03:27 UTC  

like there was just a lot of shit that i don't understand except in the worst way

2018-04-02 14:03:53 UTC  

shit clearly written knowing the absurdity of it but done so because the audience will mostly not notice or care

2018-04-02 14:04:44 UTC  

stuff where if you've spent even 5 minutes around videogames you know it wouldn't work that way

2018-04-02 14:08:11 UTC  

Shoulda had a scene where someone runs into a fucking wall

2018-04-02 14:09:37 UTC  

yeah that's what i was thinking every time they showed someone with the headset on outside of a rig

2018-04-02 14:10:37 UTC  

i will say this

2018-04-02 14:11:15 UTC  

it took a minute but i totally bought into the anime ass virtual avatars of the main characters

2018-04-02 14:13:43 UTC  

Looking at shit like vrchat of course it's what they'd have

2018-04-02 14:16:02 UTC  

I'm looking forward to rlm doing a review on it.

2018-04-02 14:16:40 UTC  

same

2018-04-02 14:16:57 UTC  

They're going to tear it apart

2018-04-02 14:16:59 UTC  

It'll be fun

2018-04-02 14:18:50 UTC  

i think we're about to see some serious *shit*

2018-04-02 14:18:58 UTC  

with anime faces

2018-04-02 14:19:01 UTC  

in all movies now

2018-04-02 14:20:23 UTC  

we're finally coming up out on the other side of the uncanny valley

2018-04-02 14:21:18 UTC  

i'm interested to see what the reception will be like for that battle angel alita movie

2018-04-02 14:23:35 UTC  

I don't see that working out well

2018-04-02 14:23:39 UTC  

Even if it's good

2018-04-02 14:41:57 UTC  

200 years in the future, people refer to the CLASSICS such as "ready player one" as the definitive historical representation of gamer culture

2018-04-02 14:44:44 UTC  

i liked ben mendehlson in it

2018-04-02 14:44:47 UTC  

he's a good actor

2018-04-02 14:48:15 UTC  

I liked the lead actor in mud

2018-04-02 14:48:25 UTC  

The other work I've seen isn't much

2018-04-02 14:52:05 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/371875015018283009/430378897222402048/image.png

2018-04-02 14:52:10 UTC  

These fucking people

2018-04-02 14:52:15 UTC  

This fucking group

2018-04-02 14:52:32 UTC  

Wait