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    • mediamogulM
      mediamogul Global Moderator @Riverstorm
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      @Riverstorm

      I'm glad you liked RPO. For better or worse, I can't wait to see the film. I've also read '11/22/63' and seen the mini series. Both were really good in their own way. The repercussions are not as you might expect and are unique to the story. I very much enjoyed the references to King's other stories set in the same time period for the book and yet I think the decision to omit them from the series entirely was wise. Stephen King is so laboriously descriptive on the page, that I personally believe the success of a good King adaptation depends just as much on what is excluded as what's included. All-in-all, I enjoyed both. I also can't wait to learn more about 'Castlerock'.

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      • RiverstormR
        Riverstorm @caver01
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        @caver01 said in Ready Player One & Armada:

        We will need to allow for some liberties.

        I will definitely be going in with an open mind. I am the worst critic as I am very forgiving with movies. I more often than not will go see something regardless of critic reviews. I almost prefer a regular Joe review. If it seems like it will be really bad then it might be the difference between going to the theater vs renting.

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        • RiverstormR
          Riverstorm @mediamogul
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          @mediamogul said in Ready Player One & Armada:

          I've also read '11/22/63' and seen the mini series.

          Well shoot I totally missed the mini-series train. Is it good? When I said I was out of my vein I meant completely off the rails as this is the first King novel I have ever read. I have watched all of his movies but never read one of his books.

          Yes he's descriptions are quite graphic. When Dunning took the sledge hammer to his family it was a bit more than I care to read in gritty detail but he adds them. I am at the part where he's in Jodie and he's chaperoning the dance with Sadie just past the part of checking out Oswald's old apartment to bug it with that antiquated equipment when he returns to America. I think I'm almost exactly in the middle and still quite curious what the yellow, orange, black card man means! ;)

          I usually read on a Paperwhite that has that nice ability to touch a word and get the definition as King shows as a seasoned writer and you can't help to learn all kinds of new words from his writing. I get the context but a lot of times I try and take a moment to learn the actual definition even if I forget it an hour later. ;)

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          • herb_fargusH
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            I very much enjoyed the book and I'm definitely going to see the movie when it comes out

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            • fabio78F
              fabio78
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              I'm probably going to sound a little snobby here, but although I enjoyed the premise and overall arch of RPO, I found it to be so badly written... Ernest Cline means well and clearly put a lot of passion into it, but he's no writer. His prose is so poor it's painful. Still wanna see the film.

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              • Howitzer99H
                Howitzer99
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                I've read RPO around 2 times in the past couple years, and really enjoy the nostalgia-romp each time!

                Just finished "Ctrl+Alt Revolt!", and shares a few similarities with RPO. Recommended.

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                • lilbudL
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                  fanboy screaming

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                    • caver01C
                      caver01 @lilbud
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                      @lilbud Hah! Fun zooming in to read the news clippings. I see a spelling error in the newspaper headline (well a word usage error). They used “then” when they should have used “than”.

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                      • lilbudL
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                        I'M JUST GOING TO START SCREAMING WITH JOY

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                          ortsac @celly
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                          @celly 11-22-63 is a series on HULU

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                          • mediamogulM
                            mediamogul Global Moderator @lilbud
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                            Obviously, the Iron Giant and the Delorean from 'Back to the Future' were on front display here, but did anyone happen to catch Freddy Krueger in there? This is an amazing first showing from the film.

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                            • lilbudL
                              lilbud @mediamogul
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                              @mediamogul

                              Also, the trailer music is Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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                              • mediamogulM
                                mediamogul Global Moderator @lilbud
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                                @lilbud

                                It's so subtly mixed in there too. Like when the Dagobah theme is briefly played when you see that kid dressed as Yoda in 'E.T.' on Halloween, or the Ark theme in the crypts under the library in 'Last Crusade'. Very, very cool!

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                                  Guys in the end of armada,what does the phrase the emissary says mean? Is (spoiler alert) it possible that the solidity will give technology advanced enough to bring back Xavier?

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