Armada By Ernest Cline4/18/2021
The worse news is that the only other novel written by Ernest Cline was notoriously panned by critics when it was published.On Tuesday, Deadline reported that Dan Mazeau is adapting the 2014 Cline novel.The plot of Armada riffs off of the Eighties sci-fi cult classic, The Last Starfighter.Basically, its this: what if a video game was a secret recruitment device to help train people to fight real space battles Unlike Ready Player One, the novel Armada was not met with positive reviews.
Instead, most critics found the book to not only too reliant on tired tropes but also hopelessly lost in the more problematic aspects of gaming culture. Below are just a few examples of what critics said about the book three years ago. While the aims of the novel are onanistic rather than malicious, Armada nonetheless demands to be bronzed as the perfect embodiment of the impulses that so often make gamesand gaming cultureboring, self-indulgent, and regressive. Slate. Plenty of the references and geeky arguments in Armada are hilarious, from Star Wars-themed insults to debates about the relative merits of fantasy weapons. But put against such a lackluster backdrop, they cant drive the novel the way they did in Ready Player One. Instead they make Armada feel even more like a failed attempt to recapture the cleverness of Clines debut. AVClub. If you arent familiar with the works referenced here, that stretch of writing is gibberish. But what takes his breath away isnt the architecture or the scope or the grandeur or the stars in the sky or the isolation. Its the fact that it reminds him of things hes seen on the TV before. ![]() Washington Post. So, if Armada is so disliked by critics, why is it being made into a movie Well, for one thing, its not becoming a movie, yet. The fact that the screenplay is in development is whats happening. Also, just because the book was considered bad, doesnt mean the movie couldnt be good. And yet, if you fall into the camp that was worried by the overreliance of references in Ready Player One, the looming shadow of Armada will be more of the same. Related Tags Star Wars Share: Results for: Science Innovation Entertainment Mind and Body Gaming Culture About Newsletter Terms Topics Privacy Archive DMCA Browse Advertise Ethics Contact INVERSE 2020 Bustle Digital Group.
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