![]() ![]() The fact that the screenplay is in development is what’s happening. So, if Armada is so disliked by critics, why is it being made into a movie? Well, for one thing, it’s not becoming a movie, yet. It’s the insularity that’s breathtaking here, the inability to imagine the world through any lens other than the one he has spent his brief 18 years marinating in.” - Washington Post. It’s the fact that it reminds him of things he’s seen on the TV before. But what takes his breath away isn’t the architecture or the scope or the grandeur or the stars in the sky or the isolation. The moon base is a “breathtaking site,” according to Zack. ![]() “If you aren’t familiar with the works referenced here, that stretch of writing is gibberish. Instead they make Armada feel even more like a failed attempt to recapture the cleverness of Cline’s debut.” - AVClub. But put against such a lackluster backdrop, they can’t drive the novel the way they did in Ready Player One. “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. ![]() ![]() “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 games-and gaming culture-boring, self-indulgent, and regressive.” - Slate. ![]()
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