Spielberg: Ready Player One trailer...

[Yosef_Malkovitch]

Originally Posted by Yosef_Malkovitch

Where RP1 actually worked the pop culture stuff into the story, it felt like in Armada he was just throwing out nostalgic things for the sake of doing so. It got to the point where it was embarrassingly obvious that the references were contrived just to make the audience happy.

I think the final straw for me--although I had already been rolling my eyes for chapters--was when aliens overran the moon base and one guy went down fighting while quoting Khan from Star Trek (in turn a quote from Moby Dick).

Nobody, in their last moments as they were being obliterated by aliens, would have the presence of mind to spew Star Trek quotes.

At that point, he went too far, and I just shut the book. I had already been reading it more out of a sense of duty to finish the thing as opposed to actually enjoying it.