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[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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Me (to myself): Remember when you went to see Ready Player One at the movie theater and it was so bad that you cried silently for a little bit. And then you didn't want to go see any movie in the theater for fears your heart and soul might be broken even further by the commercialization of stories that are dear to you? And then COVID happened and hasn't ended?

Me: i do. sadly.

Me: well i think we should go to the movies just for the popcorn mothafucka!

[dnkboston@apobangpo.space]

@afreytes FWIW, I genuinely enjoyed Marty Supreme, and I regret that I didn't get to see Judas and the Black Messiah in a theater.

[invadersil@mastodon.social]

@afreytes Oh no. That was the last movie you saw in theaters? My condolences.

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@afreytes
That movie looked like it must have been really really bad. I'm very sorry you experienced it full force.
The Green Hornet was when I realized I was no longer capable of watching movies just for the sake of watching movies.

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ohmu I adored the book for a hot minute. It's not Shakespeare, or Cervantes, but it doesn't need to be that.

I don't remember now why I was so disappointed (my brain may be protecting itself from the trauma) that I for reals got tears in my eyes. But the movie felt, to me, very very different from the book, to a degree that I thought the people who made the movie had only read summaries of the book.

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@afreytes
I enjoyed the book, too, even realizing it was basically high grade nostalgia drip IV.
I suspect part of the issue is nostalgia in movies feels very different from reading it.
I also recall reading that the producers were not able to secure licenses to use many of likenesses in the book. So they had to do a lot of replacing.

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ohmu I think, I don't recall having an issue with what they had to change because of licensing, and I had no issue with some of the pop-culture additions.

It was more of, the spirit of the characters in the book don't match or aren't as important as the spirit of the same characters in the movie.

The movie may tell the same story, but somehow it does not have the same weight that it had on the page.

And it could be just as you say, the nostalgia hits different.