Ready Player One - Nostalgia Critic

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It's based on a hit book with tons of copyrighted characters and tributes to pop culture...so how come so few people talk about it? Nostalgia Critic looks at why Ready Player One never quite got a huge fandom.
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Ready Player One is a 2018 American science fiction action film based on Ernest Cline's novel of the same name. Directed by Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Cline, it stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance. Set in 2045, much of humanity uses the OASIS, a virtual reality simulation, to escape the real world. The orphaned Wade Watts finds clues to a contest that promises the ownership of the OASIS to the winner, and he and four allies try to complete it before a corporation run by businessman Nolan Sorrento can do so.
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[@thunderhunter4391]

Fanscription needs to fix the transformers

[@abrahammercado3860]

It’s ok I mean it could’ve been better

[@mariozaney6423]

Not good but it’s not bad

[@haydnwparker6125]

Gotta love video games. I love video games

[@wolfbane7497]

Keanu Reeves : " wake the puck up samurai we got a review to watch "

[@sweatysam6264]

"Only believable moment is millions of people joining together to fight ads from being in their media"... funniest line in the review.

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

568th

[@seancampbell2178]

“You killed my moms sister!” That stupid line is almost on par with “Because singing killed my grandma!”

[@TJB-Gaming]

"Because singing killed my moms mom!"

[@elder-woodsilverstein7716]

To be fair, I took the "Because singing killed my grandma!" line more seriously.

[@inkga10clan29]

Scharifilla's anyone?

[@elder-woodsilverstein7716]

@@inkga10clan29 Love that man's content.

[@legomarioboy08]

They could have just said "You killed my aunt!" or something but no.

[@yt_Ajay_]

I never realised he said "you killed my mom's sister." That could have been a hilarious line if it was set up properly

[@randomsimpson]

"I have a message from your sister's boyfriend's roommate's brother. He wanted me to tell You I KILLED HIM!" "Barry? Noooooo! He was a guy I met once! Damn you!"

[@GeekySquidoo]

ironically, i think it's one of the few lines which harks back to the book in a really nice way. He actually hated his Aunt. he felt bad she died and he felt guilty he was the reason but he didn't actually care SHE was dead, he was more cut up about his neighbour who actually looked out for him when he was living there.

[@ReidGarwin]

You, killed my mom's sister You killed, my mom's sister You killed my, mom's sister You killed my mom's, sister

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

I love how they add that tacked on moral about "live in the real world too" ending, as if the real world wouldn't be incredibly shitty in this universe and taking this corporation down hasn't made it any better. The fact he locks people out of this VR game every week would put a giant target on Wade's back... everyone would be gunning to take his place.

[@DeltaSpider_]

Yeah, especially because there would be a significant portion of the player base that can only play on Tuesdays and Thursdays due to their commitments and schedule, so they wouldn't be able to play at all.

[@jasondamrau9147]

I thought it was really stupid for many reasons. First off many people conduct their work business solely in the Oasis and this would completely disrupt the economy, next the Oasis is a escape from all the terrible things in the real world and it’s pretty shitty that now that he can live as a king in the real world being a billionaire he takes away this escape for everyone else. It is the same problem I had with the mentality that Artemis took in the sequel

[@linkman4432]

Not only that. But it's super obvious that a lot of people make serious livings in the Oasis. So cutting down thier income two days out their week is a serious middle finger to the working class of thier world.

[@remrad4315]

I never actually realized how stupid that was holy shit.... this movie was like a 6/10 for me. This drops it a whole point on its score now....

[@darkmyro]

@@jasondamrau9147 trillionaire* Yeah I thought that was stupid too, but I was also with doug here when he said at least 3 people would do the "back up at full speed" as a joke on the first day and stumble onto the clue in the movie. like the first clue in the book involved fighting a lich in the arcade game joust and he only figured that out cause the clue involved latin and he had an epiphany. He wasn't even the first one to figure it out, artemis was. like i'm not against them changing things for the book to make the movie flow better( cause the books had gates you had to unlock on top of the keys), but if its a clue hunt, i don't want it to be that easy to just stumble upon. I think that they could have at least thought of better clues. honestly, I think the smartest thing for him to do with that is basically use his power over the oasis to get world leaders to actually deal with problems that the world is facing.

[@zachtemoro2116]

The fact that NONE of the Halo Spartans didn’t have the Gravity Hammer or Energy Sword and didn’t T Bag in one of the scenes completely took me out of the movie

[@Sammmmmmmm617]

One of them did have the gravity hammer. On the left.

[@zachtemoro2116]

@@Sammmmmmmm617 ah, then it was just to grey and fast for me to see

[@louisduarte8763]

Or scream racist and homophobic slurs. Oh, wait, that's CoD players.

[@RettMikhal]

Yeah but it was funny that they were ALL 8-12 year olds.

[@DavidRichardson153]

I would've preferred it if they were all shades of red and blue instead...and had the most associated weapons with the colors...and one of the reds shot the orange one... I could go on, but I'd like to think people know what I'm referencing.

[@riakun]

"Minimum, *THREE* people would try that *on the first day* !" I mean... You're not wrong. Knowing my luck, I would have shown up to the race without even knowing what was going on, and I would just drive backwards because I didn't know how the controls worked.

[@MrTHEMONEEMAKER]

I’m guessing because of scheduled racing and the fact that you don’t just get a free car or free repairs might make people hesitate

[@0Defensor0]

Trying to go the opposite direction of what the game suggest you is the easiest way of finding secrets. It's not guaranteed but many games do it at some point. Some platformer games do it on the very first level: you are clearly supposed to go right like always, hidden room is right behind you on the left. Also, he is driving a Delorean but doesn't know how to win a street race? This guy is a joke.

[@piplup2009]

@@0Defensor0 Maybe you have to pay a lot to get in the race and if you die you lose everything

[@MrTHEMONEEMAKER]

@@piplup2009 Actually they did establish if you die you lose ALL your shit

[@Taurusus]

@@MrTHEMONEEMAKER if you've ever played an online pay-to-win game, you'd know there are dozens of whales for whom that is no kind of deterrent. There's just no way a broke kid was the first one to think of that, let alone try it.

[@matthewjones6786]

Oh, I hate, HATE, the "girl is embarrassed that she's only 97% conventionally beautiful" trope. Just one time, let's see someone conventionally unattractive, so that the audience AS WELL as the character has to overcome their own biases to understand their real beauty.

[@j-manjr8127]

You ever see or read Huntchback of Notre Dame?

[@wolfsruhm]

well thats the problem when you cast generally attractive actors for your roles, the characters problems with their appearancejust flies out of the window of believablity with them. Same with Wade, for most of the book he is an akne riddled chubby teenage boy, and only in the later half he kind of shapes up, due to having a more tactile oasis interface, were he actually moves in realive too.

[@CarloisBuriedAlive]

Audiences demand conventionally attractive people which is why people like Chris Pratt needed to get in shape in a short amount of time to star in Guardians or else he wouldn’t get the role, and why Superman still looks like Superman lol. If you’re already discussing things in terms of you getting over your own biases to actually be attracted to a character, the filmmakers would find it much easier to cast a conventionally attractive actress rather than do extra work to convince you into being attracted to her within 100 minutes while they’re trying to get a bunch of other plot threads done lol

[@bluestar2059]

What's funny here? I think she looks better with the birthmark. No shame to the actress, she looks absolutely fantastic, but... I have to say: I like the birthmark, I think it adds something special to the character's appearance.

[@TimeTellsNoLies90]

@@j-manjr8127 Would Shrek 1 count too?

[@ZC-Infinity]

All throughout the movie, I had four major questions that were never answered: 1. Who's running Oasis? An enormous MMO that literally has the entire world as players would require hundreds, THOUSANDS, of employees to keep it running, updated, bug-free, hack-free, and continually negotiate with and pay the rights holders of the hundreds of copyrighted images and content that make up the game. Where is this place located, and how are they keeping their servers and network so steady, that anyone, anywhere in the world can connect into a fully-immersive experience with no lag, crash, or other issues? ...And how are they making the money to stay online? 2. Why didn't "big bad corporation"(yeah, I know they have a name, but they're just "big bad corporation") just buy or conquer Oasis? Even if the company was stupid enough to place their entire future in the hands of a contest winner, the corporation shows throughout the entire movie that it literally has an army of soldiers and drones at their command, ready to invade and destroy things with no repercussions. If they want Oasis THAT badly, then find them and perform a literal hostile takeover. 3. Why doesn't anyone just hack the system to get what they want? Originally, I thought the game was hack-proof(as unlikely as that is), but then they hack the bad guy to think he's in the real world and not still in the game. ...Why didn't the corporation just do that with Wade? Or steal his inventory, or set him up for a banning, or straight-up take over/erase his character? And you're telling me NOBODY tried to hack the game to pocket the keys and a multi-billion dollar contract? There are popular MMOs where security is crackable by 12-year-olds working with free hacking software! 4. And most importantly: Where were all the loot boxes? Maybe these questions were answered in the book, but without explanation, the movie just came across as someone writing about MMOs without ever playing one.

[@trekkieraccoon3343]

This maybe a little late but yeah most of it is explained in the book

[@survivordave]

Yeah, it should have been answered in the movie, but in case you're curious, here are the answers: 1) The scene in the movie near the beginning with Wade at the racetrack collecting coins from dead PCs demonstrates a main part of the GSS (the company that owns and runs the OASIS) business model: fuel for vehicles and avatar transportation are how GSS makes money without charging a monthly fee. GSS also makes money selling virtual real estate in the OASIS and by selling OASIS hardware (although they do allow third party hardware to connect). The book addresses crashes and lag by saying Halliday was a genius and programmed the OASIS to be extremely fault-tolerant. Wade specifically rents a fiber optic connection directly to GSS's servers to ensure he doesn't have to worry about any type of lag. 2) The book mentions IOI (the "big bad company") HAS tried hostile takeovers, but GSS's team of lawyers have fought them off successfully. IOI apparently figured devoting a division of their company to winning the contest was a cheaper option than to keep trying and failing hostile takeovers. 3) The OASIS visors perform retinal scans when logging in, so account security is actually very high in the OASIS. But it is a bit of a plothole that isn't adequately dealt with in the movie or the book other than to imply that GSS has REALLY good security. 4) Loot boxes are what IOI would introduce to the OASIS, not the good guys! XD

[@darkmyro]

To add-on to what he said, the oasis makes money off of everyone just doing business in the game. The book makes it pretty clear that the world is in a dystopian place, so most business is done in game because it's cheap to start. you pay for a headset and the game is like a quarter for a subscription if I remember right cause halliday wanted it to be like the games he played when he was kid.

[@GangsterGamer9613]

This movie was suppose to be Wreck-It Ralph and Who Framed Roger Rabbit combined.

[@sarcasticdude2320]

Too bad this turned out so terrible.

[@peter_pansexual6243]

Let's just hope they're not going to make the sequel.

[@motor4X4kombat]

and to quote jack black: "but they failed, as they were thrown to the ground"

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

@@peter_pansexual6243 Honestly, if they did, it would probably be better than the book.

[@sakunaruful]

@@peter_pansexual6243 The book does have a sequel called. Ready Player Two. Reviews can be found on KZbin.

[@compareandcontrast9833]

NC: At minimum 3 people would have tried going backwards. Me: That seems low to be honest.

[@kuromiLayfe]

It seems stupid but still people could have figured out that going backwards would open up a new route but the clue was going backwards real fast… like the whole unknown route while driving backwards (no turning around) at max speed without crashing.

[@TheWizardGamez]

At least one person would’ve shifted wrong

[@MandleRoss]

Yeah, the movie should have started like 1 minute after the Easter Egg Hunt was announced.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

some would have tried to finish the race backwards as in "going the right route but doing it while the car is backwards"

[@jbcatz5]

And that’s not counting the people who go backwards by mistake. If the challenge had required visiting that specific memory recreation to trigger the solution, a better explanation and in line with video games.

[@mrflipperinvader7922]

The whole Shining sequence just shows Speilberg needs to make another horror film

[@kelrowland3825]

Kubrick you idiot. Repent

[@alexbellon1892]

19:59 Zuko from Avatar and Todoroki from My hero academia had the same thing and Girls love them. Seriously, how is that an issue?

[@hiitsalex6780]

It look like a sunburn. Zuko and Todoroki have scars that look like actually scars.

[@inkga10clan29]

Todoroki: -And then she poured boiling water on my face. Zuko: That's rough buddy.

[@animatednerd3428]

"why not just force them to be programmers" jesus critic they're not monsters

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

plus they don't have access to Oasis's source code, so they couldn't code on a place that desn't belong to them.

[@deanjenkins3077]

@@MrKlausbaudelaire well, reverse engineering is the way

[@Fant]

@@deanjenkins3077 Considering the size of the project and how it's pretty much the biggest tech product in the movie's universe, reverse engineering would probably take so long that newer versions would come out and the process would have to start all over again. It's like trying to hack Google, for example

[@deanjenkins3077]

@@Fant How could he update Oasis from the grave? The only guy who had sources is dead, NOBODDY can update it. If they had the source, they would've already datamine the shit out of it. Plus, you didn't consider new tools aka software that would exist at that time. Or did you just wrote this comment using Assembler?

[@kaelibw34]

@@deanjenkins3077 never saw the movie or read the book but what about the guy’s partner? Wouldn’t he be the one running things in the interim?

[@ajtheva6694]

"Why do I feel like meetings at EA are similar to this?" I honestly wouldn't be surprised.

[@Andrax17]

I'm pretty sure thats the meeting that took place when Facebook decided to start running ads for Oculus stuff.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

@@Andrax17 Actualy, the guy in charge of marketing at Occulus came up with such revolutionary idea only a day after he watched Ready Player One. World is sure full of coincidences.

[@phillipharrison886]

EA wouldn't care about causing seizures

[@KingNerdius]

Nah, they're worse

[@louisduarte8763]

I also expect Activision to pull that stunt.

[@Bigbadredg14nt]

The moms sister line really makes it sound like he hated her. Even if he did, we arent really shown enough of her to care how he feels one way or the other.

[@EScoglio]

Funny enough they only share a single scene in the book, in fact they may exchange less lines than the movie, but the narration makes it clear that she treats Wade badly and he avoids her as much as possible.

[@Jemmyleedoesart]

I agree, I think the way he says it implies the only reason he’s pissed is for his (dead) mom’s sake. It could have been an interesting character study, showing how he doesn’t respect his aunt, but cares about her simply because she is the last link to his mom, the same way pop culture could also be a connection to his dad… But because we barely see them interact it just comes off as incredibly silly.

[@Aberyyyy]

"You killed my mom's sister!" I'm the cousin to the sister Of son's niece's brother Of the uncle's daughter's father Of the nephew's sister's mother And my grandpa's only cousin Was the king's daughter's sibling!

[@p.z.arnott2329]

Lone Star: What's that make us? Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing! Which is what YOU are about to become.

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

eww family trees,just be independent

[@coffeeaddict9605]

Can you imagine how pissed someone who has Tuesday or Thursday as their day off would be?

[@MyEvilTaco]

Imagine if the game is the only respite some people have from their crappy daily job or complicated life. Yet that one asshole with the hot girlfriend and all the money dictates that. Funny or cruel?

[@SSB_Master_Hand]

I can only imagine the MASSIVE shitstorm that would occur across the internet. It would at least be on par with that time The Fine Bros tried to trademark the word "react".

[@Havoc800]

@@SSB_Master_Hand I remember that. That was a shit storm. Then again, they deserved it, for that stupid stunt.

[@BioniclesaurKing4t2]

Remember that, at least in the book, most peoples' jobs were also exclusively in the Oasis. Not sure if that helps or hurts the argument, though.

[@Silveraro]

@@BioniclesaurKing4t2 schools also in there. So there’s less education now

[@CinemaSeven]

The most unrealistic thing about this movie is that there's not a whole army of Ugandan Knuckles.

[@piglin469]

why

[@Tlukewow1]

@@piglin469 because memes are forever

[@Fleshi_Guy615]

I wonder if in the future dead memes will become Ironically funny for being dead memes, and people remember them again

[@piglin469]

@@Tlukewow1 tell that to twitter or a evil dictator

[@piglin469]

@@Fleshi_Guy615 MAYBE maybe

[@Heroshii15]

I was honestly expecting a Last Airbender reference with that “birthmark”.

[@McSquiddington]

I remember liking the book for all of, oh, three chapters, before I realized Cline was basically going on the longest and most protracted name-dropping session in the history of the written word - and I've proofread Bachelor's theses and Postgrad articles for a living, where name-dropping is essentially the bare minimum any student really needs. I stopped and thought that Ernest had probably lost sight of the *real* fun of worldbuilding, somewhere along the line. References are fine, but they're not there to be regurgitated as-is - the joy of writing is in shredding all of your influences to bits and smashing all the small particles together in new combinations. A few can help to ground a setting in the real world or to suggest your setting is as close to real as you'd like it to be, but add in too many and you either start to sound like Wade's monologue or Patrick Bateman's, in American Psycho. A better version of the book - and movie - would've taken small concepts from various influences and recombined them to create something wholly unique, as opposed to hoping to catch Who Framed Roger Rabbit's lightning in a bottle for the second time. That movie worked because of the Noir setting and the way it tied everything together, tonally - but in this case, it's clear Spielberg left half of the work to copyright lawyers and spent the rest geeking about about being able to overtly reference Kubrick in what technically was an All-Ages movie. The Overlook Hotel always felt like a really weird inclusion, to me. I bet Spielberg had tons of fun, but it really doesn't fit with the rest.

[@raymondwatt9773]

When Samantha was complaining about her birthmark, Prince Zuko would be like "Bitch please!"

[@andreasmeelie1889]

XD

[@Mr3DLC]

XD

[@TheCripsys]

Hideous freak she is.

[@scottstephenson4740]

Not to mention Two-Face, the Phantom of the Opera, Bill Weasley...

[@t84t748748t6]

reminds me of mortal engines girl got little scar om her face every 1 is like wow so ugly and the only saying that because in the books she got a huge scare but Hollywood hates ugly things so cant have it in the movie

[@SeanA099]

Spielberg just signed on because half the book is just talking about how great his movies are

[@aidencooke6709]

So true!

[@scrambledeggsth9166]

I dont remember any of that in the book

[@theroach62493]

And yet he didn’t make a single reference to one of his films in the movie. As far as I could remember.

[@DarkLotusAlpha]

@@theroach62493 Did you not see the T-Rex?

[@pokemanpey786]

@@DarkLotusAlpha oh I had know idea he created the t rex

[@shaider1982]

27:02 This portion happened because, in the book, portions heavily dip into the 1st Blade Runner. With the sequel also being developed at the time of the movie, they had to replace it with the Shining.

[@setheaves3235]

"This wasn't in the book." Just like 99% of the movie, which is why nobody talks about it

[@carsfan1995]

The book was crap anyways

[@Johnston212]

I got a copy in a lootcrate box years ago, just haven't gotten to it yet

[@codinghusky5196]

I'm confused. Is your logic that people would talk more about it if it was more like the book? Because nobody talked or talks about book 1, and book 2 hit the news for a week. Mostly bed news. And "don't read this" tweets.

[@lsh8688]

Well in russian speaking part of KZbin every one loves it

[@nothanks1239]

I read the first book. One of my favourite books. I got halfway through the movie and had to stop because I was so pissed over how much they changed. If the movie was more like the book, I think it could have been great. The only thing I thought was perfect, was the man who played halliday. He played that socially awkward genius so well.

[@mimseydemon1844]

"EA meetings are like this" Funny you should mention it, but very recently facebook tried to put ads into virtual reality games on Oculus. They backed down after a quick and sizeable user backlash.

[@theflotingheadproduc]

Yeah. I hate that. 😔 Reminds me of that song about signs. "Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blocking out the scenery, Breaking my mind." Only it's advertising.

[@evandaymon8303]

Well they are doing it again with recent talks about putting in ads anyways in games that aren’t even sport games. Yea they still haven’t stopped with idea. They still are doing it regardless of what we say about it.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

"They backed down... For Now...."

[@thealchemistking4063]

@@evandaymon8303 then they must prepare to lose their playerbase and lose massive amounts of money. We can all put up with the shitty ads on youtube and what not but the moment that crap is glued to your eyes. I wouldnt spend a dime on anything like that.

[@alphayun7401]

@@thealchemistking4063 i mean if one is going to put ads in a virtual world, put it on virtual billboards, i mean vr is supposed to be like a virtual world, but yes hell no to ads being directly into my field of view, there are ways to do it without ruining it

[@arsenelupin9697]

The only thing I remember about this movie, is how proud Mike Stoklasa sounded, when he reviewed it and used the term "NPC" that he learned from reading the book ^^

[@lutherheggs451]

372 Pages we'll never get back with Mike Nelson is far better than anything Red Letter Media....

[@adrielcruz2736]

All I remembered was the iron giant and some golden egg shit

[@LiLTailormade]

@@adrielcruz2736 yes and it was GLORIOUS!

[@michaelwilson5114]

It was the Iron Giant, Kaneda's bike, the DeLorean and Gundam for me.

[@changsiah2]

@@lutherheggs451 and they got either he notfunny anymore or controversy just have them in the background again

[@diggs808]

My mother’s sister. Now we know what Tommy Wiseau has been up to.

[@Trayxxxx]

"You killed my mom's Sister." I remember going to IMAX 3D to watch this. And nearly bursting out laughing when I heard that line.

[@supahsuit]

I always did wonder why the Easter eggs weren’t in real life if the point of the movie was that we need to spend time in REAL LIFE lmao

[@ComicCrossing]

the easter eggs were made by the crazy loner CEO dude who wasted his life. He wouldnt put them in the real world. His quest wasnt the "lesson" of the movie, it was the vehicle through which the main characters learned the "lesson" if that makes sense. Though having the main characters discover important info in the real world couldve worked with both points.

[@codinghusky5196]

​@@ComicCrossing doesn't make sense really. I dunno about the book, but in the movie, the crazy loner CEO is aware he wasted his life and wants the characters to learn this lesson by completing his quest. He wants the Oasis be inherited by a player who understands the value of real world and has created the quests to single out this person. So learning the lesson isn't the "plot vehicle" designed by the writers and the director to be transfered to the audience via the characters - it's the actual goal of the crazy CEO in the movie. This is why it makes little sense he actually put the whole quest in the Oasis. It would make much more sense if he created the challenge so it was impossible to ocmplete without something being actually done in the real world.

[@RikoZerame]

@@codinghusky5196 He had to make sure that the recipient understood the lesson, and had the capacity to realize that and stick with it after taking over. Putting up physical obstacles to test such a thing WITHOUT letting it be brute-forced is harder for a code monkey than just coding in exactly what he needs. There should have been a mix, in my opinion, but it makes sense given what the character was supposed to be capable of and the realities of having crushing amounts of slave labor to do the heavy lifting.

[@XaadeTheBlade]

The speculation here is moot. That wasn't the point of the book. It was thrown in the movie so there's a moral to the story. There is no moral to the story in the book. It's literally just a guy trying to prevent a corporation from gaining control and locking most people from being able to afford the game.

[@Greygarg]

I think by putting the easter eggs into the game every player has an equal chance to find them. If they were hidden in the real world, only people with the means to travel or who happen to live in the area the eggs are hidden in have a chance.

[@HanaNoMachi]

This is basically “How do you do, fellow kids?” the movie.

[@PHDDude13]

'Memberberries wrote this movie

[@rayzorduality2396]

Shudders in silence...

[@Ebalosus]

@@rayzorduality2396 shudders openly

[@motor4X4kombat]

When i saw tracer from overwatch in the trailer where it has the credit of Spielberg as the director, i knew we are in trouble because i doubt an old guy that grew up with errol flyn and John wayne has all the time of the world to play and know all the modern things from the Z generation. Its not like Roger rabbit where you know zemekis grew up with the golden age cartoons, (even by putting characters that weren't at the time like road runner and coyote but zemekis like them so much that he demand it for them) this is literally: "well acording to the charts this character is popular so put it some where"

[@Krusnik66]

I would've had finding the keys to be a joke and that the actual plot would've been to stay alive long enough to use them. Everyone should've been trying to kill Wade to claim his key.

[@SaucerheadTharp]

In the book he was anonymous, which is why it was so shocking when the big bad called out his name and location. Hell, the kid friend was thrown out a window and killed when they found him.

[@lildancer223]

In the book Halliday had put in a special restriction that the keys cannot be given or stolen along with Halliday also making sure that no one would be able to identify the users as well.

[@trevorpacelli8056]

"Reality is the only thing that's real." Mmm, yes. The floor here is made out of floor.

[@elder-woodsilverstein7716]

The sailboat sails.

[@tetrofita1787]

@@elder-woodsilverstein7716 The Sea Cruise Cruises on the Sea

[@elder-woodsilverstein7716]

@@tetrofita1787 This orange is orange.

[@MasterGeek-mk5ne]

Now I noticed why this movie was missing something: it was referencing a lot of movies and characters from pop culture, without actually using most of them! It just acknowledged what was saying, but didn’t used like Roger Rabbit used Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, or Donald Duck and Daffy Duck!

[@gianinabadami5341]

IKR!

[@ChiChiMooglet]

That was the book. The book was pretty much just a wiki reference instead of someone actually saying a reference without explaining it

[@Shadowkey392]

Much of that was thanks to copyright issues. Apparently Spielberg was allowed to reference a lot of properties, but not actually USE them.

[@dinosaysrawr]

THINGS EXIST! My work here is done.

[@AlejandroLZuvic]

The book was exactly the same. Literally hundreds (thousands?) of references and just a handful connect in any meaningful way to the character’s personality or are used in a way that feels connected to the reference they’re making.

[@rob.3143]

The one thing that always bothered me about them shutting down the oasis two days had to do with why people went there. Wade and others like him went there because their life was shitty. But he won, got loads of money and a girlfriend and after that decided to shut down the escapist fantasy for all those people who didn't win and get loads of money as well.

[@BatPierrot]

Yeah and fuck all the people who get those two days off. He learned a lesson, dammit !

[@scottprice4955]

Yeah if he got all that stuff outside the game the message of "live in the real world" would've come off better.

[@Scout-164]

Yep, only your life matters and can get the utmost freedom while everyone else has to shut the fuck up and accept the crumbs.

[@starmis8307]

This film is underrated. It's not great, but it is still a fun time.

[@endruler8625]

Critic, as someone who went into this movie with the book as their favorite book ever, the movie is barely anything like the book. Definitely read the book, it's amazing.

[@Gennaropacchiano]

"Luke, I am the son of your grandmother, and your mother's husband" (Star wars, ep. 6-1)

[@paulocardoso9605]

Lone Star: What's that makes us? Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing! Which is what YOU are about to become.

[@aztn19]

NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..................!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@scottprice4955]

@@paulocardoso9605 i was thinking the exact same thing. Take your like

[@LordLazaruss]

Ahahahaha !!!

[@Daniel-zp2pi]

“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my mother’s husband. Prepare to die!”

[@jbcatz5]

I think Wade’s lack of a personality is deliberate. He’s so deep in the escapism that he can only express himself through generic references instead of developing or evolving as an individual. His whole self-worth is based on his ability to regurgitate a fan wiki on anything and everything 80’s related.

[@matthewkoch6937]

I agree entirely. He's the 80's geek equivalent of "Eric Binford" from "Fade to Black"-a fan who is so deep into his fictional world, he completely rejects reality and his own personhood. Honestly, that's why the murder accusation felt hollow-we never are convinced that Wade loved his aunt, or as the line so clunkily puts it, "my mom's sister."

[@jbcatz5]

Matthew Koch In one way book Wade is even worse in his obsession, he’s able to act through Ferris Bueller and Holy Grail by memory alone and because the book is first person POV, it’s reference and exposition overload. It’s like the verbal version of hovering over a link on Wikipedia and getting the first few lines of the linked article, except it’s the whole article. It at times feels like he doesn’t experience this media to enjoy it, he experiences it so he has something to experience, like the Egg Hunt is a quest in the lotus eater machine that is the OASIS. The idea of society crumbling because everyone is obsessed with VR escapism was used in a book called The Reality Bug, and when the crisis caused by the titular bug was resolved everyone just went back in to Lifelight. This world is dangerously close to a Black Mirror setting if not there already.

[@goreman7160]

I was just about to comment this. The main thing we see about him is obsessive and stalkerish. I'm hoping to get a copy of ready player 2 soon

[@TheWizardGamez]

You just described abed from the first Season of community

[@goreman7160]

@@TheWizardGamez I'd say it's more season 2 or 3

[@simona.9730]

26:13 "It wasn't in the book (...)" That's why it's good. Like, per se.

[@mithrawnudo2152]

I think people love this movie because it shows nerds like us something we wish for: that fantasy can have meaning, that games can lead to real interactions, and that something that begins online can be brought to the real world. My fiance loves this movie, and I think loves it even more now since this is essentially how we got together. We gamed online, got to know each other and what we want out of life, and decided to meet up and see if that all was real.

[@rebornvisualministry]

The whole movie was ruined for me just by the fact that no one though of driving backwards at a video game race IN 5 YEARS, while the first thing Speedrunners do on a new racing game is precisely go backwards in a video game race...

[@simple-commentator-not-rea7345]

I THINK I once saw a video where someone tried to beat Borderlands 2 (a first person shooter) by walking backwards

[@namvu2362]

The book didn't even do that, you had to find a hidden game of Joust, and beat an NPC Player Two. Hence why it's called Ready Player One.

[@kingsleycy3450]

@@namvu2362 The book was believable enough, but given how extensively the gaming community dismembered the Five Nights at Freddy games for secrets, a hidden cave in the tutorial level would have been discovered in days.

[@namvu2362]

@@kingsleycy3450 The main problem in the book is that you wouldn't even know where to start searching, and Oasis is as big as the Internet. And most of it is actually for normal stuff, not gaming or pop-culture

[@lightworker221]

If I was playing MarioKart with friends, we would deliberately drive backwards to explore the world.

[@ComicalRealm]

Fun fact: In an interview, Steven Spielberg said this was the third most difficult movie he has made in his career, behind Jaws (1975) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).

[@cutieboychase]

Okay 🤷‍♂️

[@theodavies1374]

Yeah jaws was really bad to film but boy it is a great movie and one of the most influential films/movies of all time

[@peter_pansexual6243]

Because of all the copyrighted characters?

[@timothymorris157]

Yes but Jaws was 1975’s biggest blockbuster and Saving Private Ryan won Steven Spielberg the Academy Award for Best Director thus making these movies financially successful and a pair of classic films throughout his professional career unlike RPO.

[@kachiggamybigga9481]

@@cutieboychase ?

[@crithitjace]

This is actually a pretty accurate representation of the dialogue in the book. This is basically "REFERENCES! The Movie." The only thing that's a bummer is the fact that they couldn't get the rights to some of the things that were important in the book (i.e. Ultraman.) I feel like this needed to be more of a long form miniseries or something. They changed some big moments and it's quite painful. -_-;

[@BlondTimeWaster]

Seeing parts of two films side by side made me realize how much of emotions and storytelling in "Roger Rabbit" were made by music, actually.

[@jerekheadrick3379]

18:34 Judging by the EA cyberattacks the CEO being this dumb is one of the most realistic parts of the movie.

[@TheComicRelief9001]

"You killed my mom's sister." "And I am your father's brother's cousin's former roommate."

[@thomasnethery6718]

Lost in space- I love you wife

[@motor4X4kombat]

"and thats what makes us?" "Absolutely NOTHING, wich Is pretty much the hole theme of the movie"

[@egeorgiades93]

Why couldn’t he just say his Aunt?

[@motor4X4kombat]

@@egeorgiades93 maybe its a troll writting, like the guy who wrote this knew how cliche the scene was so he did that to see if the producers were that dumb to Green light that.

[@jeanpaulmichell7243]

Good ol' Spaceballs.

[@JoseRodriguez-un2kc]

I'm surprised Doug hasn't mentioned the badly Photoshop ready player One poster.

[@agentkmr]

32:38 *Hmm yes, the floor is made of floor.*

[@arrow_of_ravenclaw5155]

I remember Ache’s reveal actually be a suprise in the book. Now, Lena Waithe is on the poster

[@randomneko9]

Also the voice is terriblely modified which just ruins the surprise.

[@TheJadedJames]

I really hate that they made the Oasis completely CGI. For pretty much everyone that ruined the twist of what they actually looked like in real life because now you know absolutely nobody is accurately representing each other online

[@TheMichigami]

@@TheJadedJames except Art3mis, who in the book DID make her character look exactly like herself except for the birthmark, even being a plus-size model for brands in part of the book, and i'm still pissed they turned her into a skinny bug-eyed mutant chicken in the movie, they took away her looks AND her badassery. they pretty much ruined any characterization the book gave people and the visual representation of the oasis opposed to how it was described. The book had its shortcomings but the movie just turned it all into a giant CGI dumpster fire of sadness and suffering.

[@TheJadedJames]

@@TheMichigami But even then, the Art3mis thing works better in the book because in the context of the movie you know 100% that she doesn't really look like that. But in the book, I always visualized Art3mis as a real person (it is so weird that they made us watch a romance between video game avatars) and there could be drama about how much or if at all she was misrepresenting herself because we don't expect people to misrepresent themselves. The impact of her having the birthmark comes from the fact that in the book, she made her avatar look exactly the same, minus the birthmark. That expression of her insecurity is completely lost in the movie

[@wstine79]

After watching this movie, I can't watch The Shining without expecting to find video game avatars running for the Overlook Hotel looking for keys.

[@sarcasticdude2320]

You have my pity.

[@ninjanibba4259]

I haven’t even seen The Shining yet and I got 2 direct references that explains how crazy it is This movie and Dr Sleep

[@jackattacktron1000]

I’ll admit i was brought back to my inner childhood seeing Sonic in this movie he does the foot tab, spin dash, and homing attack while having the right sounds so they got that at least.

[@mightylink65]

At first I was excited to see all my favorite characters in one movie, but none of them had any dialogue or more than 10 seconds of screen time... it just felt like _Advertisements: The Movie!_ It would of been really interesting to see Master Chief help Wade develop and grow and be the father figure he never had, but he just runs and shoots for a few seconds in the final scene, don't forget to buy the next Halo! The same can be said about every other character, none of them are part of the story at all, they just show up to flash their advertisement.

[@Igorcastrochucre]

"My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my grandfather's son, prepare to die."

[@fireball1249]

That's fucking hilarious

[@egeorgiades93]

You killed my Grandfather’s Father’s Grandson.

[@justanotherchannelonyoutub126]

I really enjoyed this movie, not for what was onscreen but because of the nerdy couple next to me in the theater freaking out over everything onscreen

[@xblade149]

Same

[@trinaq]

Likewise, oh the days when we could sit right next to someone in the cinema, and get a kick out of their reactions!

[@elizabethsmith7224]

That sounds adorable.

[@cutieboychase]

Sounds obnoxious.

[@carlwheezerofsouls3273]

@@cutieboychase well, netflix exists for a reason too, so people like you can sit alone and watch movies in peace.

[@mas8705]

Suddenly it makes sense why we got a review for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" before "Ready Player One." Kind of funny how one is seemingly timeless while the other kind of feels a touch dated. Not to say Ready Player One is bad, but honestly, we could have called this "Fortnite The Movie," and it might be able to fool a few people into thinking that it totally is.

[@KAP01able]

Yep. I watched this movie. I remember enjoying parts of this movie... I had no idea who Wade was when the critic mentioned him. This film is one of those that should have been an 'animated' feature vs. 'real'. Kinda like the 'live action' Disney movies...

[@floricel_112]

19:18 to be fair, in the book it wasn't his aunt or her awful boyfriend he was devastated about, but one of his neighbours who was a sweet old granny and was nice to him. But yeah, still one single scene in the book as well, so not that much of an impact there either

[@MagisterGir]

the bad part is how EA and other gaming companies used this villain as an inspiration to what they can do.

[@wolfsruhm]

nahhh the villan is shaped after the management of the so called triple AAA companies out there

[@ContrastCopy]

I personally love ready player one. It’s not perfect and will be dated in probably a few years easily. I think it’s just so interesting. It also accidentally brought a revolution of virtual reality technology. I think it’s pretty cool message and it’s a pretty nice looking film.

[@rockylopez7846]

Man, I'm still lovin your videos, amazing job! Also, can you please do a review on one of the most underrated horror films, Tales from the Hood? It's such such a masterpiece, super scary, yet amazing!

[@ryouma1717]

halliday is bland emotionless and looks like he spends every waking second of his life waiting for it to end and yet he is the only good actor in the movie

[@TheMichigami]

in the book they make it pretty clear by behaviors and commentary about him that halliday was possibly somewhere on the autism spectrum and suffered from crippling social anxiety, and the stress of becoming famous was hell for him, so yeah dude was pretty spot on with his portrayal.

[@OliverTCrowe]

@@TheMichigami Yeah, I haven't even read the book but was able to pick up on it. It was like Alan Rickman with his characterization of Snape...it was incredibly spot on, and if I remember he had never even read the books. I wonder if the actor who played Halliday was the same, because how you described how the book portrays him, the actor was really spot on with it.

[@coltafanan]

When he said “mom’s sister,” I literally burst into laughter from how awkward it was

[@jp3813]

Perhaps it's supposed to be funny?

[@comiccinema8177]

@@jp3813 I guess the idea is that because he had a poor relationship with his aunt but a great relationship with his mom he’s pissed at Sorrento for killing the only connection to the good part of his family that he had left. In other words: his mom’s sister? Forced? Absolutely. Nonsensical? Not really.

[@ASingleSpaghetti]

"I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate!"

[@christinfahrenholz7559]

@@ASingleSpaghetti "So what does that make us?"

[@illanmitaion9632]

the only thing i can think of is HOW THE F*** DID HE NOT REFERNCE SPACEBALLS!?!

[@ne0space]

Personally, I see the book and movie as two seperate stories that follow the same rough plot. I personally like the book a little more because of its pacing, but I think the movie is also good in its own right. It may deviate heavily from the book in some parts, but it still amanges to be entertaining regardless. Although, I do wish they left in the joust scene with the lich from the book. I think it could've been cool. :( Plus the movie looks great visually.

[@TnT_F0X]

I just realized my counterstrike gameplay strategy was be Chucky... I was the annoying serpentine ankle stabber especially on modded servers... super chicken, grim reaper and phoenix is the most annoying superhero combo ever and I love it. One hit killing knife chicken that is reborn 2-3 times before dying for good... man those were fun times

[@DantesGrill]

The lack of self-awareness from this movie is insane. The main plot is basically "big corps are evil" and "ads are bad" when the entire film is based on celebrating big corporations and shilling ads for whatever it is on screen. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if it just wasn't so brain numbingly boring to watch.

[@jeffreyali1456]

It was basic, but far from boring lol

[@DantesGrill]

@@jeffreyali1456 I don't get kicks from all the references and the story progression was more of an annoyance than entertaining. I also hated every character on screen. It's personally one of the worst and most boring experiences I've had.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

To be fair, the review is just as hypocritical. Doug mocking the big bad business trope takes on a different tone when you know about how Channel Awesome abused its content creators.

[@ionbing2884]

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 That's...not hypocrisy.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

@@ionbing2884 He's mocking the trope for being lazy. Meanwhile, his own company behaved like villains.

[@averymerrick]

The face of Sorrento's avatar looks like Superman; or possibly his Injustice counterpart, OR his evil counterpart from the Crime Syndicate of America, Ultraman.

[@JonnyStarwind]

It's meant to be Superman, because the powerful businessman, who is clearly overcompensating from his inadequacies and past with the creators of the Oasis, needs to have his avatar be what is typically considered one of the strongest characters in all of pop culture.

[@thenerddirector]

the superman avatar kind of reminds me of Alex Ross paintings of him

[@Dreadjaws]

It actually looks like human Shrek from Shrek 2.

[@louisduarte8763]

He viewed himself as Superman, when he's closer in personality to Lex Luthor.

[@zinkheroofyoutube8004]

I saw more of a Bruce Wayne

[@codinghusky5196]

I think this movie is amazing in it's meta value. It is a 2 hour of display of exactly HOW showing empty shells of awesome legacy characters WITHOUT including what made them awesome and legacy in the first place is absolutely infinitely uninteresting beyond that "oh I know what this is!" moment. Watching someone use all those legacy characters as avatars and then just be an uninteresting thing on the screen really displays all the failiures of the myriad of rebooted/revived franchises we had in the past decade. Every Hollywood producer should watch this movie.

[@miraeshin8652]

That contract signing scene reminded me of Community when the dean is really into his vr set up that is extremely basic yet his movements are exaggerated lol

[@Nervatel]

"Sorento's Avatar is a big bad businessman" It looks more like Clark Kent, but without glasses

[@egeorgiades93]

It looked like if Superman and Senator Armstrong had a lovechild.

[@rookhousestudios3686]

That's actually the point because halladays favorite quote is one from lex Luther so the opposite of superman

[@acheron16]

Looked like human Shrek

[@cometmoon4485]

All I could think whenever he was on screen was: "Played college ball, ya know?"

[@miguelcastillo3723]

@@cometmoon4485 "At some cushy league school?" "Try the university of Texas! Could have gone pro if I hadn't joined the navy!"

[@nagtrimers1250]

Fun fact: i-rok is totally different in the book. He is just a teenager who pretends to be a egg hunter that goes to that same school parzival does in the book. The adult guy with artifacts is better

[@RikoZerame]

THANK YOU. The book version is only in a single scene to get shown up when Wade pukes a Wikipedia article onto him (and then everybody claps, of course); as awkward as the movie one was, he was something different that actually had a reason to be there besides the author being a bad writer, and was one of the more competent people in the entire thing.

[@arrow_of_ravenclaw5155]

Also, they gave Datio Shoto’s cool moment. Datio dies during the second gate, in real life and in game

[@josephbanks1457]

but but.. i never learned how to read! thanks for the fact....I always assume the book is better than the movie.. even a remake stephen kings it lost all parts of the story that are controversial. which makes me mad cause i read it and its a really long book..

[@ZefDavenport]

Parzival's design reminds me sooo much of Bob from Reboot (the very first CGI cartoon ever made) that I wonder if they took notes on his design for Parzival.

[@wellsclassof2017]

Channel awesome I have one question for you. Did you research Gundam when making this or did you know the series before hand? 2 points for just research and 5 points if you knew it before hand.

[@o.c.kiddkidd5163]

You're right. Technology makes such leaps that the avatars would have worked better if THEY HAD USED ACTUAL ACTORS instead of CGI characters! Generic hero boy should have had as his avatar Henry Cavill or Hugh Jackman. Poor disfigured girl could have been Gal Gadot or Scarlett Johansson. Grainy digital reality could have been MCU level CGI. It could have been futuristic and Meta and made statements that matter.

[@PhoenixCommander21]

Love that the comments here are all better suggestions than the actual movie lol

[@xanderm6090]

This is kinda funny cause they did make reference in people making their avatar faces like actors and characters from different eras of the mediums and points in time in the book.

[@DarthAzabrush]

They should have had the RL version of disfigured girl played by Linda Carr if they really believed in their message.

[@Drixenol86]

Motion capture could’ve worked for this film.

[@DarthAzabrush]

@NILAY SHARMA I'd go with a Detective Chimp the Night Master avatar myself but I'm weird.

[@crisdebo]

It’s funny because when the Roblox event advertising this movie required players to find three keys, each key was found in no more than 3 days after the key released. It took them 5 years to solve one simple puzzle.

[@crane8015]

Yeah in the books it made sense for why the first key was never found until wade had figured it out (Spoilers below) The school planet had no indication it was even a possible place for the key. It was a school first and games far second. No pvp and not even a place where you can use cool gear like a sword or show off armor. And even if you did find it (like the book version of Artemis did) you have to go through a dnd module dungeon and then fight an op lich in an arcade game. And if you don't win at that you have to survive and try to kill the lich instead. So there were multiple factors for why the book version was better for the sake of hiding the keys well.

[@babyyoshi3099]

@@crane8015 Yeah but the book was way worse in like every other way.

[@emetanti]

Yeah, if the game underestimates one thing it is how gamers will go through batshit lengths to crack any puzzle.

[@joaoteixeira8349]

@@crane8015 which means it would take players a week instead of a day, like critic stated.

[@pawala7]

@@crane8015 There are people who go through and transcribe the encyclopedia content in games like Civilizations because they find it fun.

[@Shelikesfutarule34]

Loved the movie and imagination of the script as far as "Oasis" itself was a wonder. Makes me look fwd to virtual reality and the future... the books are good. I hope it continues but im the same person who hopes for another "Enders Game" movie so ig im just weird.

[@Maggerama]

Oh man, you are in your best shape for real. A great, thoughtful video.

[@UndeadEggmiester]

This movie just proves that nostalgia alone doesn't make a good or compiling story.

[@Drixenol86]

There has to be heart.

[@jamalthadon819]

I don’t know if you’re an Avatar The Last Airbender fan, but The Legend of Korra fell into this exact same problem.

[@Drixenol86]

JamalThaDon I just started watching Avatar: The Last Airbender but I understand what you mean.

[@gianinabadami5341]

Me too, @@Drixenol86

[@UndeadEggmiester]

Yeah korra wasn't as good as the last air bender. I liked 3/4 ofkorra but that final season was just a mess. Not sure if it's because of being Nickelodeon online only or what but it lacked the fun of past seasons.

[@juanfisi]

I honestly wasnt bored at any point during this movie, and even feel for the emotional moment at the end. When the creator says "thanks for playing my game" it hit me hard, as a small animator that is the way I feel when people see my content. The seense fo self realization I feel when someone comments on one of my animations I worked hard on never gets old. Yeah is corny but honestly I don't care, it worked for me.

[@phillipmoghaddam7240]

I'd watch this movie again in the future. As long as I was entertained, who cares about how a movie performs.

[@ninjanibba4259]

Same here

[@gianinabadami5341]

From what I could even a little bit I felt the same way, Juan Frate. But I also got into the nostalgic cameos more which kind of hard to keep up at times

[@lShadowdark]

Yes but you be happy with a character you developed hard through years ajus tto appear 0,1 seconds and just be an image? That is bad pop culture referencing, just only acknoling their existence, not what they mean, the iron giant is just the drop that tipped the water.

[@juanfisi]

@@lShadowdark Honestly I dont care with this movie, its like seeing gameplay of a videogame. You know what moves the character is a person behind a screen, but you don't care. It is entertaining to me nontheless, but I can't tell you how to watch the movie. You do you.

[@nathanielgarza9198]

19:33 I expected Doug to say “is that me?”

[@Jemmyleedoesart]

I’ll be honest, I’ve never read the book, but I do have a soft spot for this movie. It came out during an extremely traumatic time in my life (stranded abroad for four months because my daughter was born 15 weeks premature in a foreign country). The nurses recommended my partner and I get out and about for a day of normality, and we went to see this. Honestly, it was a fun escape from our dark reality… and I think that’s kind of the point of the movie. I do agree that the main characters could have been developed more, I think their reliance on pop culture should be seen as a detriment rather than a gift, which is something I’ve learned growing up and developing a personality of my own. But for the most part, it IS really fun seeing all these characters and references in one movie. I got all excited like a kid seeing the Iron Giant, the Delorean, Chuckie, Gremlins and so on. It looks good, and feels like an old-school Spielberg movie, and while not ground-breaking, it’s a fun way to spend 2 hours. I’ve heard it’s actually an improvement on the book. And I second the fact that the whole scene set during The Shining is legitimately so well done and awesome!

[@Nightshift10000]

They’re really doing the “Online girl might actually be a dude” Twist thing? Yeah, The Movie “Fanboys” already did that, & the payoff was a shit ton better.

[@Phoenix19851]

Funny you mention that. Fanboys was written by the author of Ready Player One, before the book came out in 2011.

[@gianinabadami5341]

That was definitely a "Called it!" moment for me while I had great laugh at it at the same time

[@olleselin]

Eoah

[@rustyshackleford6633]

@@Phoenix19851 I didnt know this but you know what, it makes total sense

[@Phoenix19851]

@@rustyshackleford6633 Go read the book. It is 1000% better than the movie.

[@Fant]

The fact that characters only talk about what's relevant to the game rather than jump to better knowing each other is surprisingly realistic since it takes time for people to warm up to each other in MMOs but the guy going "I'm in love with you" out of nowhere is very conflicting. It's weird but also does happen A LOT in online gaming, especially if the person feels lonely or has a lack of human contact. In a sense the movie bizarrely portrays some aspects very accurately but for the wrong reasons.

[@saisameer8771]

There was this video where a guy in csgo who suddenly stopped playing and started singing for a random girl out of nowhere. The girl tried to be nice but was obviously cringing so hard from that. Unfortunately I can't find that video of pure, glorious cringe anymore.

[@LuisHernandez-pm4yv]

Wrong reasons indeed. The thing with realism in a movie is that it should be in the right places. Those characters talking about themselves would've helped the quality a lot, thus talking about what's relevant to the game or about pop culture references being realistic doesn’t help the film. It's like having the characters of a video game eating and going to the bathroom every several hours of playing because it would be realistic.

[@codinghusky5196]

I think... it's how it's framed and handled by the movie, rather than the actual content of the scene. Like, I understand MMOs work like that and are filled with socially awkward cringe inducing people; but if that's what we're watching, then the movie needs to make it clear that IS in fact what we're watching. If this makes sense. Here, it's played 100% straight, so it actually FEELS like the writers/directors don't understand human interactions, rather than that they're showing how weird these people are. I can't quite expand on the technical details here. But it's the same difference like when incredibly stupid and over the top scenes in Sharknado or Jason X feel ingeniously hilarious, while in The Predator they feel like the rape of the franchise.

[@yuvalgabay1023]

@@saisameer8771 its batter that way. this amount of cring can kill a person

[@galogiha]

When a friend recommended the book to me he described it as "Alice in wonderland meets the matrix", so of course I read it. I just improved on the "immersion" aspect by reading it next to my computer and complementing the references with the internet. Watching the movies and shows, playing the games and listening to the music as they became relevant. Yes, it took me a while to finish the book, but it was worth it. Now, for the obligatory cliche: the book is better than the movie. Especially with my "augmented" reading method. The Kubrick segment was pretty good, though. If you find the time and patience, I would recommend you give the book a try. With my "hypertext" approach if possible.

[@hawkboys2465]

At 29:27 ngl I think that would make the perfect battlefield, that or a forest. Idk about anyone else but I don't wanna have a huge battle in a place where a battle wouldn't make sense to take place

[@Codraroll]

The moment that took me out of the "nerd immersion" in this movie was the central moment in the big battle at the end, where Wade throws the Holy Hand Grenade. If there's one takeaway from the scene where that grenade originates, it's that you must count to three before throwing it (not two, not four, certainly not five, etc.). A small "one, two, three!" before chucking it away would have elevated the moment a lot, but without it it ends up as a throwaway reference clearly written without much knowledge of the source material.

[@DianavanderPluijm]

'... it ends up as a throwaway reference clearly written without much knowledge of the source material.' That kinda sums up the entire movie (and book) in my opinion. It lacks heart, emotion, and it just a collection of pop culture references that someone probably put together by using Google or something.

[@Codraroll]

@@DianavanderPluijm Or maybe like someone said "We have to include this!" in the ideas phase, and by the time it got to the script phase it was boiled down to a checklist item: "Use this keyword in one of the lines". In the case of the Holy Hand Grenade, those in charge probably knew it was a thing that existed, but otherwise assumed it would just be a powerful hand grenade with a certain iconic look, and so it was written. "The character throws a hand grenade, specifically this grenade from pop culture". It could have been swapped with a Star Wars thermal detonator, or for that matter any generic thrown explosive with absolutely no changes to the script. It was used as a "visual keyword" without any understanding of what it's supposed to be like. Same as how the Iron Giant felt like just a visual skin over a generic fighting robot or the time-travelling deLorean was just a skin over a generic car. The script didn't budge to accommodate the original properties/lore of those items in any way. That makes it feel quite shallow.

[@mctazman407]

Nah mate... "One, two, five" should've been the line before chucking it.

[@ChienandKun]

Given the context, being a 'throw away reference', is still apt.

[@stevenhedge2850]

makes sense that the only scene in the movie that actaully had love and affection to the source material was the Shining; aka the movie made by Spielberg's old friend and mentor.

[@miraculousismyguiltypleasu9372]

This movie is one that actually looked really great to watch in theaters in 3D.

[@indiecinemaster4699]

FUCK YEAH IT WAS!!!

[@Toastedtasty42]

I hadn't thought of that, thanks for adding something to the list of stuff I'll never do

[@Dthehalfdragon]

Yeah I got the 3d bluray to watch it in 3d. If you want to watch it the ps4 with psvr I think is the easy way to set it up

[@Valentina-ng4hh]

When I saw it it was one of those 4D theatres. Me and my cousin had no idea we got 4d tickets so when the race happened and we felt our seats shaking we were so confused until I looked down and saw the buttons that controlled the seat's reaction the movie. I INSTANTLY turned it all the way up and OMG IT WAS SO MUCH FUN.

[@GoldenMan1002]

Nando vs Movies had an interesting change on Ready Player One. Have The Iron Giant be the bad guys weapon At full weaponized mode and the players got to dent his skull to make him nice again. Then he just graves the good guys and shields them to the goal. Even have a Superman avatar fly by to do the Superman line.

[@EvilFJester]

Hey doug, long time fan here, probably been watching since the first moulin rouge came out. Was wondering if you'd ever review (or even seen) My favorite movie, "What Dreams May Come."it's a fantastically depressing romance with Robin Williams and Cuba gooding Jr, but almost nobody I've ever talked to is ever even heard of it.

[@beardedgeek973]

This movie is just like Avatar (the blue smurf one): When you watch it, you are immersed, but as soon as it stops you don't really remember anything about it. It is not fun enough OR awesome enough.

[@justanscv]

That may be true, but is that a problem? A movie that you just watch to be immersed in a different world isn’t automatically worse than a movie that has an impact on your life, and just because you don’t remember the content doesn’t mean you forget the feeling. I’m talking more about Avatar, as RPO didn’t really live up to expectations.

[@rolandchilde19]

AVATAR is CITIZEN KANE compared to this. IMHO. :-)

[@CarloisBuriedAlive]

I’m a huge movie guy and I talk about movies constantly with people and I don’t think I’ve had Avatar come up once in conversation lol

[@SuperHns]

I love this movie, and I also love the book.

[@carsfan1995]

I like this movie. Hadn’t seen the trailer prior to my sister taking me to see it and I was pleasantly surprised by how much fun it was.

[@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat]

Mark Rylance seems to playing an elderly Garth from Wayne's World.

[@scottmantooth8785]

*Wayne's World 3: the Search for Garth*

[@superstarultra28]

@@scottmantooth8785 I'd MUCH rather watch that film than RPO.

[@scottmantooth8785]

@@superstarultra28 *perhaps with the success of Bill and Ted 3 there's hope that such a thing might eventually transpire and become a reality....fingers, toes and eyes crossed*

[@DaDestroyer1986]

Do the most influential action movie ever made: “Dirty Harry.”

[@drakesmisfort1018]

I definitely agree

[@adam1984pl]

also Commando.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

@@adam1984pl he did commando.

[@Historyguy-xu5ht]

Yes

[@LegitMan335]

Do I feel lucky , well , do ya, punk? 😬

[@TheHysteriaMan]

33:08 "doing a convincing American accent" Something I've noticed when a person from the UK does an American accent, it usually has a rough/gravelly pitch to it. Simon Pegg does it here and Hugh Laurie does it in House.

[@TslilTapiro]

her: he's probably with some other girls him: STAMPS

[@cian.o]

Don't even have to go to the post office.

[@gleibeffrime2528]

with other girls, you can have temporary relationships with STAMPS DOT COM, you can ship ANYTIME

[@TslilTapiro]

@@gleibeffrime2528 ANYWHERE ANY KIND OF MAIL

[@ChrisDogg2k6]

"You killed my father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roomate!" "... So what does that make your aunt?" "ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!""

[@francisthecreation2707]

Pls shut up I don't know why is it bad and I don't get it

[@ChrisDogg2k6]

@@francisthecreation2707 Hmm? For a review of a movie full of pop culture references, you didn't get my pop culture reference?

[@bradyhoneycutt3564]

Which is what your going to be.

[@francisthecreation2707]

@@bradyhoneycutt3564 why is critic laughing the person or an animal die like the review of the lion king 2019 and mummy returns

[@robertbennion3166]

Spaceballs reference. I loved it! 😉 It's only one of my top favorite comedies of all time. Great reference! "Which is What You Are About to Become"

[@pundertalefan4391]

Not gonna lie, I really like this movie. It's pure geekdom, and i love it. Heck, they had KRULL. FREAKING KRULL!!! It's why I also want to see Space Jam two at some point. I know it's just a sell out, but heck, the first movie was kind of one too, and I still like it anyways. Though I gotta admit, I would watch a version more about the characters like Critic suggested as well.

[@Ails1234]

37:02 gotta love when Malcolm quotes Bill

[@ryansinbela6396]

This has some wasted potential There should be a game like this with more interesting worlds, a better story and engaging characters (also engaging with the references) The plot would follow you as you have fun in this world until an AI is trying to assimilate with all the players to keep them in forever Also the villain’s plan literally is KZbin

[@questworldiangreenknight7455]

😂😂😂😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣

[@lancer737]

Hello have you played Fortnite?

[@evandaymon8303]

Fortnite only has shooting to be last one standing. It does have a mode to create other games within but a actual game with many different game modes and not having one mode be main focus. It’s impossible to make but one day

[@TheWizardGamez]

Cod is 100 gigs, I don’t think it’s possible, I mean Gary’s mod or roblox(as a common infrastructure and portal) come close to the infinite possibilities mark.

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

@@lancer737 The only thing fortnite has is copyright royalties for all the skins available each season pass.

[@zuulmeister8409]

I remember reading a book in high school called Epic, and I ended up liking that more than Ready Player One. It was kind of a weird premise, focusing on a population of humans who have colonized a new world commerce and interaction is done through a VR medieval fantasy game called Epic. Society is controlled by a council of people who have such high leveled and well equipped characters that they are basically unbeatable. But one thing that book had over Ready was that the main character had some personality. Our first impression of him is him creating a female character with all of his points dumped into Charisma, giving him no real combat skill and he has to bluff his way out of his various problems.

[@chrisdaughen5257]

Sounds like the perfect premise for a gender-bender anime.

[@thungoda3082]

I remember that one! The MC keeper running across new situations no one else had because no one had ever gone minmax on CHA.

[@zuulmeister8409]

@@thungoda3082 Ayyyyyyy! *points* Nice to see a fellow reader! Yeah, I liked the setup of Epic over RP1 and we saw people exploiting bugs like real gamers do. The whole thing went kinda batshit at the end, though.

[@pinky75910]

Even if a character's death is telegraphed, even if the dead character means nothing to you - doesn't mean they mean nothing to the characters. Artemis and Parzival lived in a world of fantasy. The point was that she felt like she was unacceptable. She didn't want to lose a friend. Happens to a lot of online relationships.