The Unrealized Potential Of Ready Player One

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Ready Player One is filled with pop culture easter eggs, and yet it still feels surprisingly empty. Today, I take a look at how the decisions made when adapting the film affected the themes of the story, and why the filmmakers could have gone further to address the issues of the source material.
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[@JustWrite]

What did you guys think of Ready Player One?

[@benh9935]

So we're not going to talk about how ironic it is that the instead of being a celebration of "nerd culture" it ended up being a hollow attempt by a corporation who doesn't really care about the material as a whole but just as a way to make profit. Which is exactly what the film was trying to criticize and rebuke with its villain.

[@thetumans1394]

DID THIS DUDE ACTUALLY NOT GET THE HOLY HAND GRENADE?????!!!

[@dmastersplinter]

Holy Hand Grenade is from Monty Python, and they totally missed a chance to count off "1, 2, 5!".

[@stephentg1]

"The best romance writing since Attack of the Clones." LOL

[@Anna-tk7ui]

The only thing I really have a problem with is it taking three years to find the keys. Nah, 4Chan would've found that shizz in a week, tops.

[@nikkovalidor4890]

we really are in the era of entertainment where "ha, i get that reference" now counts as an alternative to actually having a story

[@JC-ph3ku]

I mainly watched to see if anyone else noticed the whole "iron giant, symbol of pacifism, used as an instrument of wanton destruction" thing. Talk about getting your themes crossed

[@SpottedHares]

“A lot of writers know the rules about writing, but they don’t know how to write.”

[@SirThinkALot42]

Am I the only who thought the scene where Wade professed his love at the club was SUPPOSED to be cringe-inducting? I thought the film was showing how immature and silly he was being, to fall for Artemis so quickly.

[@RagamuffinGunner13]

"reads Harry Potter 100 times, but doesn't understand what fascism looks like." So, a large percentage of Harry Potter fans, then?

[@MayorOfEarth79]

"Ready Player One is the fantasy of never being wrong."

[@taylorscott1320]

Just Write: "So he recited the entirety of Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

[@afterdinnercreations936]

I watched an analysis of RP1, and this quote from it really hit me.

[@maxhydekyle2425]

Major theme of Iron Giant: What if a gun didn't want to be a gun?

[@ThisGuy3456]

The last five minutes of the video are great.

[@flappy7373]

"Because I love you, Arty"

[@MrDanielZie]

23:26

[@qwertyuoip1234]

Wait, if Robert Zemekis exists in this universe, then so does Back to the Future, and if Back to the Future exists then doesn’t Stephen Spielberg exist too?