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The way I see it, RPO the movie does not say whether or not schooling in the OASIS is a thing. But it does say that the protagonists - with the advice of Og - shut down the OASIS on two days a week which are generally considered to be as school days, without any indication otherwise. This means that if the OASIS is the primary method of education in the world of movie-RPO, then the ending involved the characters basically cancelling two days of school per week. This seems absurd.
Therefore, in movie-RPO, OASIS schooling isn't a thing, or isn't a major thing.

I kinda wonder, if the movie-RPO isn't so much an internet-replacement like in the book, but more like that world's replacement for Steam, except the only game in it is some kind of mashup of Wow and Gmod, but with every other game implemented as a subgame inside it. Do any other gaming platforms external to the OASIS still exist? Meh, none of this makes sense and I have a headache. I already had the headache.

Brenorenz said:
although I'm not sure how accurate the scenes in The Shining are, see above
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Same, I haven't seen it either. But judging from audience reactions (from the maybe ten other people in the theatre with me :p ) it probably did pretty well, cos whenever Aech did something in that sequence, everyone laughed knowingly.

Fivemarks said:
Hollywood needs to whitewash everything to make it palatable to mostly white audiences.
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They think they do but they don't and they're dumb for thinking they do, and doing it is just contributing to social problems :(
 
Roadie said:
Well, Summer Wars is just an incredibly obvious remake of Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!, though. Both are by the same director, and both have almost exactly the same main plot beat-for-beat.
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Thought I remembered hearing that Digimon was the movie the studio wanted, Summer Wars was the movie he had wanted to make in the first place
 
Hotdog Vendor said:
Same, I haven't seen it either. But judging from audience reactions (from the maybe ten other people in the theatre with me :p ) it probably did pretty well, cos whenever Aech did something in that sequence, everyone laughed knowingly.
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She made three mistakes that nobody who'd seen the film would have made: she followed the little girls (who are creepy ghosts), she called the elevator (which is filled with blood), and she entered room 237.



On the other hand, she did figure out that the group picture is significant. You bet it is.
 
Here's what I wonder: what would the movie be like if you replaced all the references with generics and the clues were altered enough to allow that to happen?
Would it be a better or worse movie? Would it have gotten anywhere near the attention if the book didn't exist?
 
Fandom Lord said:
Here's what I wonder: what would the movie be like if you replaced all the references with generics and the clues were altered enough to allow that to happen?
Would it be a better or worse movie? Would it have gotten anywhere near the attention if the book didn't exist?
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Well since Room 237 was brought up, Would be kind funny if Haliday was one of those guys that has a really weird interpretation of the Shinning like for him the movie basically about the gold standard
 
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Fandom Lord said:
Here's what I wonder: what would the movie be like if you replaced all the references with generics and the clues were altered enough to allow that to happen?
Would it be a better or worse movie? Would it have gotten anywhere near the attention if the book didn't exist?
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I was wondering the same thing.

If the only change was to replace the references with generics, I don't think it would make the movie better or worse. However, I believe fewer people would be interested in the movie. The references captured a large amount of attention and generated much of the hype. Also, I think that opinion of the movie would be on average lower, because more attention would be placed on criticising the substance of the movie, such as it is and what there is of it. Not all changes would be negative (because no one would be talking about the ways the movie misused or wasted the references, due to there being none) but I expect overall opinion would drop. Not because the movie would be worse, but because the references didn't really add anything to the movie other than a mask.

On another hand, I imagine that more attention and care and resources could and would have been turned to improving the substance of the movie. So without all the references weighing it down it could have been made into a different and better movie. But we'll never know, because it's based on the book by Ernest Cline :p
 


Video goes into some interesting points about Steven Spielberg's involvement with RPO and how it feels like a forced attempt to return to his 'blockbuster director' heyday, and the narrow frame of nostalgia the movie panders to.
 
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Fandom Lord said:
Here's what I wonder: what would the movie be like if you replaced all the references with generics and the clues were altered enough to allow that to happen?
Would it be a better or worse movie? Would it have gotten anywhere near the attention if the book didn't exist?
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I think it would be a lot worse since I at least got a lot of amusement and enjoyment from the references and tie-ins I knew/understood and without them the rather simplistic nature of the plot and its characters might become a bit too much...
 
Erandil said:
I think it would be a lot worse since I at least got a lot of amusement and enjoyment from the references and tie-ins I knew/understood and without them the rather simplistic nature of the plot and its characters might become a bit too much...
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That shows how weak the movie was. If something original can't stand without references then that's a problem.
 
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    official staff communication @ColdGoldLazarus seeing as that video is ten minutes long, could you please add a short summary or list some of the arguments made in the video?

    I'd ask everybody else to do so as well. When posting a video, unless it is very short one, try to add some commentary about it. Else you just have a post that is devoid of content unless people sit through video. A few short lines are more than enough.
     
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    Video goes into some interesting points about Steven Spielberg's involvement with RPO and how it feels like a forced attempt to return to his 'blockbuster director' heyday, and the narrow frame of nostalgia the movie panders to.
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    Makes perfect sense for why Spielberg did it. And the guy is so right about Wade, he was the least interesting person in the entire cast. Artemis or any of his friends would have been vastly better.
     
    Fandom Lord said:
    So the problem was that the movie was only celebrating nostalgia for what Cline liked and what the producers thought audiences would like? And Spielberg seems to be nostalgic for his own fame from films like Jaws and Jurassic Park?
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    Pretty much. I mean, just as an example, the biggest reason there's no Nintendo references in the book is that Cline was strictly an arcades-and-Atari man and couldn't give less of a shit about Nintendo. It's not remotely about Eighties nostalgia in general; it's only about Ernie Cline's and Steven Spielberg's own personal nostalgia.
     
    Well the film has Blizzard nostalgia... oh wait, the Blizzard stuff is pretty current.

    There's a bit of Gundam nostalgia though.
     

    An interesting take on the issue of the movie's treatment of Trivia over Meaning, how that problem affects the usage of the Iron Giant in particular, and how to maybe fix that.
     
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