Escape to the Movies: Wreck-It Ralph
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Don't remind me about that, why the hell us Brits have to wait 3 months later to watch this film???Little Duck said:
I do got to agreed that it would of been a clever makerting if Disney did actually make some Wreck-it Ralph arcade machine game. I guess they are too preoccupy with the recent Star Wars purchase to think about that idea.
Over the past few months, Bob has lost loads of his enthusiasm in his voice while reviewing. They're still great reviews, he just doesn't get excited any more, nor does he seem like he's enjoying any of it, which as a viewer, gives me a hard time enjoying it myself.
I was extremely prepared for a scathingly negative review, and when I didn't get it I realised that Yahtzee was completely wrong.
So I've spent the entire year expecting this movie to suck. Now that I know it doesn't, I should be pleasantly surprised. Except... I'm not relieved. I still think this movie's going to suck. It has a Metacritic rating of 77, which is in the green zone, and I still think this movie's going to suck. It's, according to Bob, more than just a string of shallow references... and I still think this movie's going to suck.
I hate being a pessimist.
Wait, why am I talking about this?
So I've spent the entire year expecting this movie to suck. Now that I know it doesn't, I should be pleasantly surprised. Except... I'm not relieved. I still think this movie's going to suck. It has a Metacritic rating of 77, which is in the green zone, and I still think this movie's going to suck. It's, according to Bob, more than just a string of shallow references... and I still think this movie's going to suck.
I hate being a pessimist.
I always thought Samus Aran was always shipped with Snake, or Ike. Then again, EVERYONE shipped with Ike. And Samus/Mario is a relatively tame pairing that I have never, ever seen.kajinking said:
Wait, why am I talking about this?
What's interesting to me is the whole "what if these non-sentient collections of bytes were actually sentient" thing - opined first by Ray Kurzweil, who predicted a "singularity moment" in artificial intelligence years before any of us understood just how much computers were going to take over the world - got its cinematic foundation in TRON, largely overlooked at the time and regarded nostalgically only by super-nerds.
While that movie didn't overtly change the way the world sees computers the way, for example, the Beatles redefined pop music for a generation, the seeds of the idea that were planted in that movie have extended into numerous different areas of pop culture. By the time this movie got around to expanding on the idea of video game characters being "alive", it's appeared in various forms elsewhere. Ghost in the Shell is an obvious example of blurring the line between dehumanized people and humanized software; the Matrix borrows heavily from this idea in constructing its virtual universe. Yahtzee's book Mogworld explores some existential questions revolving around self-aware programs. In a broader sense, movies like Galaxy Quest and Stranger than Fiction and books like Redshirts explore the "what if your TV show was real" idea. What makes Scott Pilgrim interesting is that it inverts the TRON idea; rather than the video games being real, real life is the video game.
Maybe I'm off base on this but it just seems like TRON was the catalyst for a subtle but snowballing shift in storytellers embracing the prospect of digital life the same way their forebears imagined robotic life. Maybe Bob could do a Big Picture on digital existentialism in film one of these days and show me all the little things I missed that completely change the narrative.
While that movie didn't overtly change the way the world sees computers the way, for example, the Beatles redefined pop music for a generation, the seeds of the idea that were planted in that movie have extended into numerous different areas of pop culture. By the time this movie got around to expanding on the idea of video game characters being "alive", it's appeared in various forms elsewhere. Ghost in the Shell is an obvious example of blurring the line between dehumanized people and humanized software; the Matrix borrows heavily from this idea in constructing its virtual universe. Yahtzee's book Mogworld explores some existential questions revolving around self-aware programs. In a broader sense, movies like Galaxy Quest and Stranger than Fiction and books like Redshirts explore the "what if your TV show was real" idea. What makes Scott Pilgrim interesting is that it inverts the TRON idea; rather than the video games being real, real life is the video game.
Maybe I'm off base on this but it just seems like TRON was the catalyst for a subtle but snowballing shift in storytellers embracing the prospect of digital life the same way their forebears imagined robotic life. Maybe Bob could do a Big Picture on digital existentialism in film one of these days and show me all the little things I missed that completely change the narrative.
I think I will hold off on watching this vid Sure it is a good why...only thing I do not understand.
Most of the world got this movie the other day why do us brits have to wait till feb
I am sure I will be able to get a copy of the DVD before this is out in the cinema.
Most of the world got this movie the other day why do us brits have to wait till feb
I am sure I will be able to get a copy of the DVD before this is out in the cinema.
Again with the comparisons to Toy Story... Kind of like the comparisons to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, I've been told that they're similar, though this new movie can't quite stand up to them... Not that I blame it, those were two hard acts to follow. Also, I've been told the video game references die down around the beginning of the second act... Not that I care, I'm going to see it anyway, and I'm almost sure I'm going to love it regardless.