Forum - View topicINTEREST: New Ready Player One Trailer Includes Willy Wonka Song Cover
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rinkwolf10
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Did nobody notice that first trailer soundtrack? It was playing this exact song, I could tell it was Willy Wonka's Pure Imagination from the melody.
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Joe Carpenter
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A Cowboy Bebop reference in a Spielberg movie? What a time to be alive!
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revolutionotaku
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I've just came back from seeing Black Panther & they played the old trailer during the coming attractions. It's good to see a newer version tonight.
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Hiroki not Takuya
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Been to Columbus OH many times, the visions of skyscraping trailer trash gets me laughing every time! WTF, did a tornado go though?? Somebody must reeally hate the place. Don't know how I'll manage watching...
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Cardcaptor Takato
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They could call this Pop Culture The Movie and the title would work just as well.
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Beatdigga
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The first film written entirely by Member Berries.
The book was mindless resuscitation mixed with rants. It was awful in every sense of the word. |
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TheAnimeRevolutionizer
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The director of Ready Player One must really like Harmony Korrine's Gummo.... |
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Mr. Dent
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Terrible cover of a wonderful song. Though, I shouldn't be surprised. This'll likely be a terrible adaptation of a terrible book.
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Terrible90sDub
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I was in Columbus when I saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and one of the previews was for this movie. When "Columbus, OH [some future date]" flashed on the screen after that kind of image, pretty much the whole theater burst out laughing. I will say at least it's not NYC or LA getting destroyed for the millionth time! As for the movie itself, I love some references if they fit well into the story or are entertaining (i.e. to pick one from a well known anime, one of my favorite scenes in Haruhi is the one where they're channeling Ace Attorney). ... but this kind of looks like just a bunch of random references for the sake of it so I'm afraid I don't really get the appeal. ^^ As much as I like The Iron Giant, I kind of just have a "but... why?" reaction to seeing it here, though it's possible there's a greater context behind it as I haven't read the book. |
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EricJ2
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That, and the fact that Spielberg originally wanted old Gene Wilder to appear in the cameo as Halliday, before Wilder's death spoiled the casting...See, it's like everyone's got a golden ticket for the game, get it, get it? (But afterwards, Spielberg just did what he always does, and put Mark Rylance in the role instead.) Apart from the "Wow, remember these?" culture cameos--basically Spielberg's "Roger Rabbit of the 80's", where he threw the book out the window and tried to see how many pop icons he could play Where's Waldo with in his own film--think we can safely say that Spielberg had one OTHER preoccupation on the brain when he took on the story. Still, at least in that context, it makes more sense than "Pure Imagination" turning up in Thor: Ragnarok...What the heck was up with that?? 
As to why the Iron Giant--and the Joker and Harley Quinn--appear in the movie but not necessarily the book, that we could we can put down to who made the movie. Warner wants to remind you they did. 
As to why the 80's videogame Battletoads show up, that's because Paramount would have complained if a certain other more pop-culturally recognizable team of 80's battle amphibians did. |
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