Uncontrollably magnficent. A tremendous artistic cyber-fantasy.
A pop culture fun fest that makes you proud to call yourself a Spielberg fan!
Enjoyable and fun watch with alot of wasted potential imo. I feel like this would have made a better show, even if only one of those single season shows. I feel like there was alot of world building and character development that could have been done, but in movie form the pacing of everything just felt very rushed and this interesting world they created didn't get very fleshed out properly.
If only Speilberg did this in parts. Part one, part two, and so on. So much went into this, and it's easy to tell. The soundtrack is awesome, unlike the score. The acting is brilliant, especially from Olivia Cooke. The vfx, sfx, cgi, motion capture, and just everything presented was beautiful. The design was just amazing, and seeing so many different eastereggs, it really is a movie nerds type of movie. The story was great but terribly done. I would allow the one-off, non sense scenes, but a good chunk of this made absolutely no sense, and if it did, then it was the epitome of stupid. Like I said, if this was done in parts, it would have been a lot better. I loved the jokes and the hidden messages, but I hated the creepiness. I don't know if it's Speilberg, but some of the ideas, whether it be visually or story wise, made me feel really uncomfortable. Anyway, long story long, it's both a masterpiece and a brain-dead fever dream. Also, I want a ready player two.
It had a lot of nalstolgic elements.
Surprisingly really good and really fun. I didn't have any expectations so I was extremely surprised with how hooked I was. I loved all the different references to the different franchises. Really enjoyed this one and will watch it again. 10/10
I rewatched it today.
It's fun, it has some adventure (the searching for the keys) and cool references and even some social criticism. But the story is stereotypical and most of the chafacters are really weakly done.
artemis carried the gam and slayed.
Cool movie about a digital universe, how it can be exploited and how it ought to best be enjoyed.
No idea why I didn't watch this sooner, but it's really fun. The movie is filled with pop culture references and is quite the treat for game/film fans. It can get a little slow at times but is worth the time overall.
Well, As I'm a gamer I don't know how i missed thisssss great movie, For real it's so cool and enjoyed every second of it, So big thanks for who made this gaming virtual masterpiece movie!
The movie was really fun.
For me as a gamer there was a lot to discover here.
I really liked the idea of the 3 easter eggs.
These created the entire plot of the film and it didn't feel far-fetched. They were secrets like I imagine them in good games.
The plot in the game world was well thought out. On the other hand, I found the plot in the real world to be a bit overdone.
I can imagine that people will eventually live as shown in the film due to their own mistakes, but I can't imagine that there are no more laws and order, whoever sets them. Throughout the movie I wondered if there weren't any police and how big corporations could just kill and blow up anything. But whatever, in the end it all added to the tension.
I'm already saving my money for a full body suit with a microfiber coating in the crotch.
Wish I’d switched off after 15 mins when I first sensed this was gonna be bad. No story, no acting as mainly computer graphics, in fact this can’t even be classed as a movie, it was an extended commercial. 1/10.
I feel slightly inclined to it, mostly from my love for the book. Overall though it was extremely disappointing, everything I loved about the book is barely present if at all, and all I'm left with is a wisp of the original.
the book is a masterpiece, this movie adaptation gets worse the more I think about it. luckily, I can just reread the book
It is a fun movie as long as you don't think about it for more than a second.
The rules of the Oasis are made up as the movie goes on, so don't try to reason and just enjoy the references.
I was positively surprised by this movie. Initially didn't want to watch but turned out so much better. Especially thanks to all the references to existing games, movies, etc.
Some things were obviously cheesy and as always wonder how much better—or rather, different—the book is, but still great,
Once you read the book this movie isn’t as good but I still love it, there’s some bad acting and the story gets a little messy at times but seeing this fantastic novel/ one big 80s reference brought to life was amazing. The music/ vfx :thumbsup_tone1::thumbsup_tone4::thumbsup_tone5::thumbsup:
What a great movie. I really liked the effects. They were well done but not too over the top. The ending teaches a powerful lesson.
Was not what i was expected, i very very bad, it is so bad cause i cant a rewiew about this movie.
this is the last movie I've ever watched in the movie theater and it was mediocre at best
I actually find it cool, though a bit dragged out. But reading through comments here that the book was far better or at least the movie was so different from the book, I made a decision to read the book. Maybe I'm missing out from the real deal. :v:
I struggled trying to watch this on two occasions, both times getting really tired of all the in-your-face whizz bang. It just tries FAR too hard to be something, and in the process, it succeeds in being annoying. I might give it another go after a few cups of coffee, but I did not care for the pace and the lack of connectedness I felt for any of the characters.
not as good as the book but still ok
worst thing about it : the main actor's acting!
This is a strange hybrid of a modern visual effects heavy mainstream adventure film with the sensibilities of a 1980s production, and not just in the litany of pop culture references and visuals, but also in the tone which seems to be pitched at an audience that doesn’t not exist anymore - actual children and teens from the 80s rather than modern young audiences or nostalgia-fuelled adults. It doesn’t always work - the stakes seem strangely small and at odds with what the filmmakers are trying to get across to the audience and an ending that comes with a message that reality is as important as the virtual world feels tacked on and doesn’t really convince given what the film has shown. There are some fun action sequences, once the film gets past having to explain how the Oasis works in a clunkily put-together voice-over, and there is a lot of fun to be had in spotting the many pop culture references.
Fantastic tech demo to show off your home theater. But that's it.
This is one of the worst movies I've seen in my entire life and I hated every fucking second of it. This was about as nerd culture as a stripper in glasses. Total patronizing badly written, badly acted, terrible looking tee total dog shit. I hated this movie. The porn parody was almost guaranteed better. Hated it.
Following the death of its architect, a reclusive mastermind with an appreciation for easter eggs and pop culture trivia, the virtual denizens of an MMO called OASIS embark upon a high-stakes scavenger hunt. To the victor go the spoils - in this case, untold riches and complete control of the game - which would make a big difference in the outside world, where society stands on the brink of collapse.
That premise does make for an interesting book, where there's plenty of time to elaborate, but in abridged form on the screen it feels more than a little shallow. There, our attention is more focused upon the background noise and blink-to-miss cameo appearances than the plot and central characters. Granted, those little tidbits and surprises are responsible for much of what made the book so unique, and I'm sure they cost a pretty penny to shoulder into the scenery. Are they really more valuable than character development? The main cast is basically a narrow series of templates, plain as can be, and neither the virtual world nor the real one are fleshed out any further than the fight locations in a typical game of Street Fighter.
A few fun ideas do not make for a nourishing film experience. In a couple weeks, the five-minute segment recreating Stanley Kubrick's The Shining will likely be all I can remember.
A highly subjective my rating, but how could it be different for a kid raised in the 80s and familiar with the alleys of video game culture and the entire pop culture of the last 40 years. :)
Definitely a great movie, excellent rythm and outstandings visuals. A lot of '80 reminders.
So I finally got around to see 'Ready Player One' and it was a perfectly fine. It's got some cool set pieces and the first race scene at the beginning was a chaotic thrill ride.
I've been hard on Steven Spielberg recently as I'm not always sure why he directs certian movies, and my perspective still hasn't changed yet.
Tye Sheridan is more indie than a leading man in a massive blockbuster. Great actor, but the directors he's been working with don't know what to do with him. Olivia Cooke entire character conflict with her appearance because of a birthmark on her face was laughable. Like she's freaking gorgeous. It's shameful to see The Iron Giant being turned into a killer weapon despite going against the powerful message in his own movie.
It's bloated, but still pretty enjoyable.
Ready Player One is a difficult book to make into a movie, so I was curious to see how they did it. Well... it so happens they didn't.
They based the movie in the book's backcover. You know, where you can read the synopsis in a couple of sentences. That and the character names, is all they took from the book.
That shouldn't be a problem per se, the book wasn't even that great to begin with (brilliant idea but poorly executed). No, the problem with the movie is that they removed 95% of the book, and replaced it with... nothing. There is no story. It's just a lot of CGI stuff poorly mixed together. Don't get me wrong, the CGI is as good as it gets... but they added so much of it that they forgot to include a little bit of story in between.
The major plot is there, it's roughly the same as in the book. But nothing else. There is no history progression at all, it just moves abruptly from an event to the next one. The characters don't struggle to advance in the game, or in life. Sure, bad things happen to them but they don't even react (oh, they killed my family and all my neighbors? Oh well, what can one do... I'll just flirt with Artemis). The bad guys are more moronic than evil. The good guys all happen to live in the same city? Come on. And the quests... seriously, a death race???
Der Film hat einfach alles . Action,Gefühl,Kritik an der Gesellschaft und Großkonzernen,Witz,Story,Wendung,Intelligenz und Kultur. Unglaublich ich dachte heutzutage können keine so guten Filme mehr produziert werden.
This was a lot of fun: had a great message on friendship and was FILLED with little Easter eggs aimed squarely at my demographic (nerdy 40-something y.o.). There was some silly cheesiness and more than once I felt like there was no way people wouldn't have figured out some of these clues or tricks before... But suspending disbelief just a little, this was a lot of fun and I'd definitely watch it again.
This is definitely a Spielberg film which is probably it’s biggest strength. In the 1st act Spielberg shows fantastic understanding of makes an action sequence exiting as well as how how to successfully use the references that are scattered around the film. The 3rd act is “pure Spielberg magic” as the poster reads and it does have the unique feeling of watching Spielberg at his best. My problem however is with the 2nd act, this is a long movie and it feels it length due to some very long scenes of characters talking within the real world. These real world scenes are handled well enough but compared to the incredibly action packed and existing scenes within the OASIS they drag and are honestly quite boring at points. Much like the tone, the performances are also uneven. Stand outs would be Olivia Cooke as one of the players within the OASIS her performance being genuinely charismatic and likeable and Ben Mendelsohn as a the corporate bad guy. The weakest performance in my opinion has to be from T.J. Miller whose performance seems based solely on the fact that you are already supposed to like him and for me his whole thing is getting pretty old. Overall this is an entertaining enough popcorn flick. It’s not one to think too hard over and there are some genuinely entertaining scenes. The references are pretty fun if you like that kind of thing (some personal favourites involved nods to Child’s Play, The Iron Giant and The Shining). It’s definitely uneven but it’s still fun.
I enjoyed this movie! As a child of the 80s, I can appreciate the pop culture references. Too bad people who hated on this movie couldn't just watch the movie without going in with expectations! There loss on a very enjoyable ride!
So...imagine a huge action set piece where, in the middle of it, one of the protagonists flies into the fight on Serenity, hops off so he can transform into a Gundam to fight MechaGodzilla to protect our other protagonists racing to a destination in a DeLorean. If that sounds entertaining (like it was for my inner 10 year old), you'll get a kick out of this. If you instead rolled your eyes, just stay away. This was a pretty remarkable visual treat, even if the story is so-so (it's one big fetch quest). I had a great time with it, but your mileage will vary depending upon how nerdy and nostalgic you are.
Beautiful & smooth, action-packed & littered with pop culture references; it's a true Spielberg-fest! Simplified & improved story from the novel with an OASIS convincingly brought to life. Acting is all-around great but characters and the world lacks the depth from the book.
So much was left out from the book!
Very basic characters and no description of the post-apocalipse world where they live. This seems to be a dystopic future but none of the central issues - not even the most dystopian ones such as the no-stop connection with Oasis - is tackled from a critical or "adult" point of view: just like a 80's Spielberg's movie.
Too bad... we are in 2018 (a post Black Mirror world) and the public expects these issues to be dealt with more seriously, even in blockbusters.
BTW, too much things happen and too much references to the pop culture: this distracts from the story that at the bottom is... meh
I literally paused the movie at certain points, and recorded my thoughts. I've never done this before, but I somehow felt compelled to do so (which is weird, even I must admit). So, here they are (hiding the spoilers, of course)...
''18:00'' - I want to turn this off
"45:00" - Why am I watching this shit?
"1:01:00" - Am I in high school right now?
"1:17:00" - A little conflict/struggle is doing the movie some good (thankfully)
"1:18:00" - Hearing Lena Waithe's unmodulated voice is so much better
"1:32:00" - The motivating speech got a bit too cheesy
"1:51:00" - The coin was an extra life?? Booooo
"1:52:00" - At least the second time I've seen a cheesy, not-so-subtle product placement for Doritos
"2:06:00" - The movie wasn't great, but I can't say I hated it. (7/10)
It's a fun movie to watch. Yes, I played games on Atari console before.
It's more expository than it should in some ways, and it ignores others, but it's fun, funny, exciting, nostalgic, works like fiction, dystopia, and action movie. One of the biggest burials of this new generation.
The thing I don't get is why in 2045 they only have pop culture references from 1980 - 2016.
Cashes in on the current 80s obsession and gaming. I thought people caring more about the avatar VR world was depressing. Focusing on that would have been more interesting. Instead it just normalises a sad future, which tasteless. The pop culture references annoyed me after a while. It was time that could have been spent developing character, the world or plot instead of making the audience either a) remember the past fondly or b) Get a reference. The characters are also very stereotypical. Spielberg delivers a nice looking low blow.
The nerd in me loved the shit out of this movie. The movie lover in me saw the Swiss cheese plot holes.
I have not seen a movie so naive in my life. And I was raised on naive movies in the '80s.
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The actors were actually pretty horrible. I didnt care, you wont either, it is what it is. And we dont get too many acting gems now-a-days anyway. The story, well it was attrocious at times, and it was very predictible, but I didnt really care about that either. This is all about the “remember when”, and flowing the movie around that. I’d give it a solid 6. Very much a family movie, so the kids can watch with dad on this one. Not really one for the whole family, but the guys and daddy’s girls will love bonding behind something like this.
It is a tough sell, to think the whole world would play a game and that it would spill out into the streets and all. I could not get totally into the film because I did not feel like the what they built really supported that, but the movie was still very fun. Various references certainly made a lot of people happy, and the minor appearance of RX-78-2 was right on my nerd alley.
Enjoyed watching it, virtual reality games are what I look for in the future. Hopefully!!
This was a very fun movie. It has lots of pop culture references and is an underdog movie at its best. The graphics and games were well done. The only issue that I had with this movie was the ending. Obviously, I have no issued with who won, it was more the anticlimactic way it happened. Theres a huge war followed by a real life battle and chase scene, only to have it all end with the antagonist essentially changing his mind. Other than that, it was all a lot of good fun.
very weak. I did not even finish it. Waste of time.
i have mixed feelings about this movie. i appreciated the memes and everything but it falls into the category of nostalgic 80s movies that is just as progressive as actual 80s movies AKA not, at all.
goods things:
- all things back to the future, counting the music cues
- the sidekicks, with some actual diversity there
- especially the female lead
- friendship
not so good things:
- the female lead is pretty quickly dismissed as a sidekick/love interest only
- like, seriously, she takes down the barrier, meaning if she didn't risk her life to do it, no one could have won, yet she gets zero credits for it
- we barely learn anything about the main characters friends despite friendship being the literal kEY. like, if that's the main theme of your movie, maybe actually show us the kids interacting and bonding?
- the main character's friends also help a lot, but somehow, its only the main character who wins / gets credit until HE decides to share it with them. its not like they earned the reward together?
- the main premise is literally worshipping some dead guy and analyzing all his vlog and blog entries
- he had a crush on a girl, so he trapped her avatar in a mini game with zombies ? ok, not creepy at all. it's funny that we don't even learn anything else about kira, than being pretty
- the main character makes a pretty big decision for the love interest, taking away all her agency, because "it's for her own good"
- the female lead is not interested in the main guy, and dismisses his advances, but once they meet he calls her birthmark beautiful she's swoon. also, like, no offense but the writing made it seem like she had something tragic going on and then, its a completely pretty girl with a birthmark? yes, every teenage girl is an insecure mess and needs a guys approval /sarcasm
The movie was pretty good.
When I first heard about it, it felt like it would be a Fifty shades for geeks kinda movie, but having Spielberg and the expected budget, it could probably turn out pretty good. It did.
First and obviously, it is visually stunning. CGI is now on a level where it's not disrupting the story at all, it looks beautiful. So much that the real life scenes are... I first wrote "kinda disappointing in comparison", but after finishing detailling what was wrong about them I'm gonna go for "totally botched". The intro scene is actually good, when you ses the stacks and everyone connected. Almost all the other real life scene are highly defective.
The story and action in themselves are pretty basic but entertaining. Some racing, some fighting, riddle solving (kinda). It's an ok+ adventure/action movie in its own right.
Now the big selling point is the overwhelming quantity of references everywhere all the time. The biggest and most obvious ones (developped characters or actions or symbolic) are cool when they integrate in the story. Apart from that I guess it would be interesting to watch the movie frame by frame and count every little reference you can spot, but that doesn't bring anything to the experience if you just consider watching a movie, specially the first time in a cinema.
I would have expected a lot more sound and music references though, but it's mostly visual. Also, the main quest is about Halliday references and not pop cultre knowledge which makes it harder for the viewer to be invested in it.
Acting level is basic, not much needed though as most of the story is CGI.
Lots of shortcut make several things seem weird. It takes out most of the interest of what should have been the story. Instead everything is oversimplified and way too easy, there's no actual challenges it's almost children story level.
The actual challenges did not look that difficult at all. Nobody found these out in years, even by chance, and when a corporation is spending millions working on it ?
The hero knows exactly which 5 minutes part of Halliday's life holds the clue to each challenge, we never see him searching or looking at anything else.
Also it's a race to win the first economic resource in the world and total dominion over a place most of the population spends most of its time. And there's basically no competition. It's Parzival and his friends against IOI. That's it. Most people got over it because nothing was found for a lot of time. OK. But nobody else than the people he knows is working on it ? It doesn't become a big thing again after they get the first key ? Really nobody else seems interested in it. Moreover they have spent years searching, never giving up and then everyone seems to immediately accept that it's for him. There's not even a competition between them, never. That's crazy when you think what the prize is.
Most real world scenes are lacking and are definitely not on the same level as the OASIS ones. It's like they've just been added as an afterthought.
For instance security at IOI is incredibly laughable. She gets from her cell to the CEO office just like that ? Noone and nothing to stop her. Also the CEO office is conveniently located just a few floors above their almost prisons ?
Or how Sorento goes and try to take thing in his own hands at the end when he has litteral armies (of human and drones) at his disposition, even more how he just gives up in the end for no reason.
IOI has soldiers, military drones every where, they run what is a scam/forced labor business, they basically destroy a building, and nobody seems to care.
Art3mis has him kidnapped, and.. nothing. It's just accepted. No question, no how did she find him, no wondering if there wasn't a nicer way to meet, nothing.
By the way, Parzival would have been 12 when the hunt began, and Sho 5 ?
The OASIS is supposed to connect the whole world. What are the odds that everybody he knows, and everybody interested in the egg lives in a 5km radius ? I think that's really the keypoint that shows that every real life scene was crammed there as an afterthought. It really makes no sense. Maybe just to be able to push the end moral. How would you sell the "real life is more important" crap if you never show real life in the movie.
And isn't it weird that Morrow is totally ok with the egg hunt ? Doesn't he want to participate. And how weird is it that he seems totally ok with the key to one of the challenges being that Halliday didn't score with his wife?
I get that people are addicted to the OASIS, it's better than real life, etc. It's really well shown in the beginning, but would people seriously play fighting VR games while out on the street ?? That scene during the final fight where every single person in the street is actually randomly kicking and punching around is ridiculous.
I find it really weird that nobody is hacking the OASIS. First if there's an easter egg, there's some code of it somewhere. Nobody looked for it ? Given the economic power of it, nobody is hacking or using glitches in the OASIS to exploit it. There's no character that just multiply equipment or whatever. It also would have been interesting to show people's knowledge of the OASIS by taking advantage of glitches, but no. And when IOI is looking for someone, it's only via drones and agents in real life. No hacking, IP tracing or whatever. This all would be weird but passable if it was totally ignored but seeing that they DO hack Sorento's feed at some point. And given the difficulty of that and that it apparently didn't gave them any sweat, how come simpler stuff is not omnipresent ?
The pseudo moral is stupid. It's shown in the intro how and why real life sucks for most people, including the hero. And then, now that he's a billionaire, he decides that it's more important to spend time in real life, well color me suprised! That's a shocker. And so he decides to shut down the OASIS two days a week to force people to live in real life. Well, how does that handle time zones ? What about people that could only access it on these days because of their real life work maybe ? What about people whose work is in the OASIS ? Because there certainly seem to be a huge business there.
In the end, I'm not sure how rewatchable it is, except for looking for references or fast forwarding to action scenes.
Although it sidestepped and deviated from the book quite a lot, and made changes (that worked surprisingly well), I thought this was a pretty well done book to movie adaptation. I won't lie, I was extremely hesitant about is as those first couple trailers came out for it, and really all the way up until finally seeing it, but I'm glad I gave it a shot, surprised me in more ways than one. Its a vision done by someone, other than what you've pictured in your head while reading it. Yes there are plot holes, and giant character flaws and stupid things you can nitpick all day. But this came out WAY better than I saw it going, which is to say, terribly.
Extremely "Spielberg-y", ie. Family issues, dad issues, and so on, but that's to be expected.
I consider nostalgia to be a mental defect, so I fully expected to be annoyed as hell by a movie that fawned over nerd crap that was popular (and I was definitely into) when I was growing up. But I went anyway.
And that's probably exactly what we would've gotten if not for Spielberg's mastery of his craft. Instead, he manages to weave a pop-culture mishmash into a fine tapestry that almost never goes overboard. It all makes sense in the context of the story. And really, who's better suited to tell an 80s-style story about a group of teens than Steven Spielberg?
The movie's not perfect, and there are some big plot holes and logical leaps. But it's a really fun movie, and it also has some interesting things to say about our current-day culture and where we're heading.
Lived the 80s, loved the 80s, know the story's references, but only got half way through the book because the nostalgia was actually nauseating. It was like the author was force-feeding it down your throat, and I couldn't really imagine people worshipping the 80s as described. Movie was less like that, but still too much. Watching CG attempting to just be CG, as opposed to CG attempting to be real, was actually refreshing. Decent idea, story and was creative - would have liked to see more VR interaction with the 80s (like the interaction with a particular 80s movie, in the movie) - but seemed to fall short on its potential.
The movie is not related to the book at all. I have read the book and I found it amazing, right after finishing the book I went to see the movie and I was totally disappointed on how the movie doesn't reflect the book. The plot in the book is awesome but for some reason a lot was changed, the "dramatization" or "they had to fit in" arguments doesn't apply as a reason to not follow the incredible story line in the book.
Anyways, for someone who didn't read the book it might be a cool movie........
Too much heavy handed nostalgia. A memories quilt in film form. But not cleverly done. The book, too.
Ready Player One is as exciting as a blockbuster can be offering thrills around every corner with a beautifully-created virtual world at the centre of it. The ensemble cast is great and the film is mostly filled with little references rather than the direct references that the book takes. The film can seem a little rushed at the start in setting the world and the final act can feel a little prolonged but that all doesn’t matter when the story gets tied up perfectly in Spielberg-fashion.
Steven Spielberg took what I thought would be an unfilmable book and created a magical world, full to the brim of pop culture references that everyone can enjoy. Who really doubted Spielberg though?
I really hope they'll make it as good as the book. It's almost everything I like about SciFi
I sat through the first 45 minutes and turned it off. Completely ridiculous. As a boomer that grew up with the creation/expansion of the video game world, and who spent no telling how many hours and quarters in arcades immersing myself in the video game world, I expected something entirely different. Like so many of the review have already stated, this movie "isn't for everyone" and you can count me among that number. I have no interest at all in watching any more of this. Scratched it from my watchlist and won't bother finishing; it was just silly.
At least learned that this style of movie is not my cup of tea.
Having never read the novel and only seen a few reviews of Ready Player One so I went into the film with no idea what to expect.
I’ll say from the start as a slightly dull, fifty-six year old man with a grey beard I find the current trend for nostalgia-porn dull in itself. Naval gazing and eulogising about the glorious past leaves me cold. I was eighteen in 1980 and it was not fantastic nor was it ‘crap’ it was just a time. Some of the music was good, some was awful, some films were great, some were dross – do you know what? Just like now.
The acting in this film is good with Olivia Cooke once again showing why she is getting picked for roles left right and centre, and none of the vocal-fry that irritated me so much in TV’s Vanity Fair. Tyler Sheriden is believable and sympathetic and very ‘normal’ for the role of ‘hero’ likewise the supporting roles – all are believable ‘video gamers’. It would be too easy not to miss the target of the video gamers avatar and what the real person is like and this film hammers that to the hilt – like I said it was too easy a target. The baddy, played with some lovely scenery chewing, by Ben Mendelsohn, seems to exist to be bad, his motive, like so many films, is just to be corporate greedy. I understand this trope and there is some truth in it but it would be nice to see some nuance from time to time.
The film moves along at an exciting pace and certainly has some great visuals of the near future and it was fun for ten minutes, when in the OASIS, to see which ‘characters’ and pieces of nostalgia you can spot but like so many modern blockbusters we do end up with hugely confusing set-pieces of explosions, impossible derring-do escapes and confusing pyrotechnics. This type of action must be for the younger generation because in every film I ever seen featuring these ‘exciting’ battle and set pieces I usually get bored and confused. Near the end of Ready Player One I had no idea what was going on and ended seeing how many repeated place-holder creatures were popping in the scenes – they are there too.
Certainly, as film, I don’t know the book, Ready Player One seems to be a blatant nostalgia-fest with constant references both oblique and obvious but this to me is the real reason for its existence, the story is fairly simple, made to appeal to the video-game generation but nothing that you have not seen here or there. The trouble is when I see Robo Cop for a fleeting second it makes me want to the original Robo Cop and not Ready Player One. For me that is biggest problem of Ready Player One, from time-to-time it reminded me of better films I had not seen for a while.
All in all, it is a well-made film, and well-acted, with some stunning visuals and rip-roaring storyline but on the negative side it is not as original as it thinks it is, it wallows in nostalgia, loves exposition and can be confusing at times, especially near the end with the battles and set pieces.
Ready Player One is okay but I won’t be watching it again in thirty-years time.
Um bom filme em tempos! Todo mundo já sabe que é um bom filme sobre cultura pop, mas também sobre a preocupação real com o futuro da humanidade e a realidade virtual. Não estamos muito distantes disso, um oásis é tudo o que queremos após um dia fatídico.
I am so hyped for this one, this wednesday I will check this out! :D
a'm also waiting this movie
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The only media reference they left out that would have made the movie perfect for me would be VJ EMMIE ON THE MICROPHONE! “THE MOVIE’S ON!”