Ready Player One

[Red Hood]

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR OVER A YEAR, LET'S GO

I've seen like 3 movies in the past year, but I live for Half in the Bag reviews of movies I'm never gonna see

 

[AutistocLolCow]

Oh, so it does have Marvel characters and references. I'm a bit surprised, I would have thought the superhero content would be DC-only since it is a Warner movie (though I suppose Warner-owned Traveler's Tales does also make Lego Marvel games, so it's not unprecedented).

It also contained characters not only from WB movies, but also movies made or produced by Spielberg.

Like the Hulkish TMNT or Iron Giant.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

So, this kinda hit me today at work.

James Halliday spends his entire life devoted to various pieces of pop culture and video games, using them as a means to escape from the real world he loathes. He even fires employees for not recognizing obscure cartoons and the like when he mentions them. He also has the hots for the girl who gamed with him, and even stopped talking to his best friend when said friend married her. When he learns he's dying and realizes you can only really be happy in the real world, what does he do?

He makes the contest. A contest based around video games and movies over 70 years old at this point, with him giving away billions to whoever finds the treasure. Instead of making the craptacular world a better place with the money, he instead makes it so everyone focuses on ignoring reality to search for the keys and influences things so they begin to obsess over the same pop culture and video games he loved. He causes such a cultural change instead of using it to improve lives, which results in god knows how much death and destruction (like Sorrento's sister who, in a now-canon fanfic by the author of the Martian, took drugs to stay awake looking for the treasure only to die of an overdose) and then the novel ends with him saying "go out and live in the real world."

Fuck this guy. Sure, the OASIS could be used for good things like education, but instead it's all about making people obsess over the shit he liked.

 

[AutistocLolCow]

Fuck this guy. Sure, the OASIS could be used for good things like education, but instead it's all about making people obsess over the shit he liked

No difference from most forms of escapism.
Supposedly why the "Hero" knew all the mistakes of Holliday and moved to make sure he didnt repeat the same ones.
While giving a gigantic fuck you to corporatism who would ruin what was designed for humanity to enjoy.

I swear Sorrento's idea of GUI was pretty much Idiocracy's TV on Frito Pendejos's home sequence (the "ow! My Balls!" segment)

 

[TheClorax]

Edit: All these autistic ratings, like I didn't compile the list you silly niggers I'm just reposting it.

Dammit. Now I want to see this movie solely for the Easter Eggs.

 

[smallmilk]

Saw it a couple of hours ago...
Its good if youre like 15 or under.

Theres a lot of questions i have like does wade go to school or work or do anything other than fuck around in oasis? What are the odds his internet dream team lives closeby? Why didnt the police get involved with ioi sooner? I mean, they arrested him at the end, so obviously he was doing something jail worthy right? Why didnt the asians talk till the second key? All of a sudden they became characters wtf
He also didnt really seem to care much about his aunt. And arty mentions her dad once just so she has a reason to get upset at wade. They have no chemistry. Getting real sick of these lame ass romances that are there just of the sake of it.

Anyways, its a dumb action movie, nothing more. See at your own discretion.

I really hate what they did to iron giant

 

[Preferred Penne]

If anybody wants to see the movie with me, I'm bringing the appropriate snacks.

 

[IdaRita]

Seen the movie and have very mixed feelings.
I was born in mid 90s in post-communist country so I have no typical nostalgia for 80s US culture, but I've always liked movies etc from this time peroid because they was fun, optimistic, got what childhood is, sentimental in not-pandering way... and Spielberg is my favourite director. Also, I'm not a gamer and don't consider myself a geek.
I liked that movie gets in some scenes WHY things from our childhood and teenage years are dear to us and influence us and I found those scenes very authentic. It's fun when we live through fiction but shouldn't forget about reality. Moral is quite well-balanced.
At the same time I hated all those references, easter eggs, parodies, even if they fit the story theoretically. They killed that authentic feeling of previously mentioned scenes and made it pandering. I just hate that trend of "wow, REFERENCE!" that is strong for example in modern cartoons. It was fun maybe 5 years ago, but now... I'm really happy when a modern cartoon does NOT have Sailor Moon transformation parody. I guess it's fatigue or just my pet peeve. It just feels like pandering.
Movie would be better if it was made 10 years ago before that "OMG, reference" and reboot craze.

BTW, I wish somebody did a movie that has that feeling od 70s-80s Spielberg without any obvious 80s references.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Edit: All these autistic ratings, like I didn't compile the list you silly niggers I'm just reposting it.

Wasn't Spielberg involved with the Transformers film series?

Unless it's a deliberate cameo by ILM (ala the Star Wars references), I call bullshit to that and most of the other things on that list.

 

[The Nothingness]

Wasn't Spielberg involved with the Transformers film series?

He is the executive producer for the series since Dreamworks is attached to it.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

He is the executive producer for the series since Dreamworks is attached to it.

That's what I mean. If he were involved, unless ILM snuck in those models (much like how they did the DeLorean, despite it also being from a film Stephen produced, I don't see how there'd be any reference to those films.

It was a whole thing that Spielberg didn't want his other films (either directed or produced) mentioned or referenced in this one. Of course, they did it anyway, but Transformers would have to have been a big red flag for them unless it was snuck in.

 

[Thelostcup]

I started reading Snow Crash recently and it really feels like Cline was just sloppily trying to retread the whole book.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

I can't help but feel the people who made the movie knew how bad the book was and attempted to, you know, actually make it good. Really liked how the first challenge was already long discovered but the secret to winning was buried in Halliday's past... though I can't help but wonder why no one had ever attempted going in reverse before. You'd think there would have been at least one loon who'd do that for shits and giggles.

Other things I liked in this movie: The contest being more tied to Halliday's regrets rather than his pop culture tastes, linking it back to the first Easter egg in gaming, there being a resistance against IOI, how things didn't magically go Wade's way, Wade is less punchible, ditto Halliday, the RX78 Gundam getting a prominent cameo, Artemis being captured and working within IOI to screw them over, I-Rock being a comedy sidekick villain, Aech in general, how Wade decides to change the OASIS and how the movie tried to actually have a heart.

Overall, I'd give the movie a passing grade. It wasn't the dumpster fire I'd thought it would be and I'd much rather have it on my shelf than the book.

 

[A Useless Fish]

I can't help but feel the people who made the movie knew how bad the book was and attempted to, you know, actually make it good. Really liked how the first challenge was already long discovered but the secret to winning was buried in Halliday's past... though I can't help but wonder why no one had ever attempted going in reverse before. You'd think there would have been at least one loon who'd do that for shits and giggles.

Dude, the people who made this film and who wrote the book have no fucking idea of people work. Have you seen some of the insane shit human beings put themselves through for attention, or money? There's a fucking crazy man on youtube who apparently beat the entire Souls series on livetream, without ever being hit in any of the games. When he was, he started all the games over again! There are people who worked together to find Shia LeBeof's 'He Will Not Divide Us' flag in the middle of a field in fucking nowhere by using the location of the stars and overhead jet streams from passing planes just to fuck with him!

There is no way in hell, with that much money and power riding on it that the main character, who is a charisma black hole, would have been the only one to figure out any of this shit, let alone in however many years it took for everyone to get to this point.

This fucking easter egg hunt would have been beaten in days. Nothing can stand against the unrelenting power of Weaponized Autism!

 

[Monotony]

this movie sucks and anyone who likes it is a fag

April 8, 2018 | Rating: F (for Fresh) | Full Review​

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

Dude, the people who made this film and who wrote the book have no fucking idea of people work. Have you seen some of the insane shit human beings put themselves through for attention, or money? There's a fucking crazy man on youtube who apparently beat the entire Souls series on livetream, without ever being hit in any of the games. When he was, he started all the games over again! There are people who worked together to find Shia LeBeof's 'He Will Not Divide Us' flag in the middle of a field in fucking nowhere by using the location of the stars and overhead jet streams from passing planes just to fuck with him!

There is no way in hell, with that much money and power riding on it that the main character, who is a charisma black hole, would have been the only one to figure out any of this shit, let alone in however many years it took for everyone to get to this point.

This fucking easter egg hunt would have been beaten in days. Nothing can stand against the unrelenting power of Weaponized Autism!

And in Star Wars, the Empire would have really built the Death Star without a glaringly obvious weakness. And in Lord of the Rings, they really should have just summoned the giant eagles and flown all the way to Mordor, then hurled the ring into the Cracks of Doom. And Batman and Superman's secret identities should have been discovered inside a week. Going "well, ACKSHUALLY, they would have-" about a work of fiction and thinking that's a serious critique makes you more of a cretin than the mongs who saw this film so they could clap at all the things they recognized.

 

[XYZpdq]

I thought they didn't summon the eagles because the eagles are a bunch of jerks, like how the Ents didn't do anything outside of their immediate area.

 

[AutistocLolCow]

Wasn't Spielberg involved with the Transformers film series?

Unless it's a deliberate cameo by ILM (ala the Star Wars references), I call bullshit to that and most of the other things on that list.

He was producer of both the Bayverse TMNT and the Transformers franchise if I remember correctly.

I thought they didn't summon the eagles because the eagles are a bunch of jerks, like how the Ents didn't do anything outside of their immediate area.

Wouldnt that piss off the twats who run the Tolkien state? I know some of them are sour little shits and hate every adaptation even if they are swimming in money.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Saw it, didn't think it was anything special, honestly. It gave me too much Sword Art Online vibes covered in an 80s nostalgia cellophane except you could clearly tell the people behind Ready Player One at least knew what the fuck they were doing in creating this fictional virtual MMORPG, although the message of "stop living a false reality" was still just as ham-fisted. Aech is best character seconded by the Curator, and The Shining sequence was actually pretty nicely done.

Meanwhile, I'm still fucking confused at how it is they could get the rights for Gundam, but not Ultraman. Like huh?

5/10 lacks animu/JRPG avatars. Still better than Wrinkle in Time.

EDIT: Also it was fucking distracting to hear T.J. Miller try way too hard to be funny, not helped by recent events. Still have to put up with him for How to Train Your Dragon, but good Lord, I can't wait to no longer hear his voice ever in future films.

2: You can clearly tell I hadn't fully read the thread prior to seeing the film, so I erased spoiler tags lol.