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Original Movie: Ready Player One

[@didonna1974]

That server crashing joke was hilarious 😂 it got me for a split second 🤣

[@MrJayateabug]

I must think like her editor because when I saw the Buffering Icon I knew immediately the editor was playing around. It's what I would have done.

[@QuayNemSorr]

I had to do a double take.

[@bovineking8927]

Wait that was part of the video haha I just thought it was a conveniently timed buffer

[@cheddargt]

I fucking love cameron, his jokes are absolutely on point.

[@Warlocke000]

Heh, my garbage connection buffers so often I probably wouldn't have even noticed, but I saw this comment thread, first...

[@OhnnyTsunami]

The absurd amount of Easter eggs here could be a fun drinking game😂

[@woeshaling6421]

if by fun you mean a direct ticket to the ICU

[@TheSolution101]

​@@woeshaling6421 or the morgue.

[@CrankyMoogle]

​​@@woeshaling6421or the closest morgue.

[@adrianr87]

Alcohol poisoning is not fun.

[@scorp77snake]

New Rockstars did a vid showing around 300 and they missed some

[@charlie53echo]

The stakes WERE high. Everyone lived, worked, and played in the Oasis. If you lost everything you had accumulated, it would be like losing your car, home, bank account, clothes, literally everything, all at once. Alive? Sure. But level 1. Penniless. Everyone lived in poverty, but the Oasis was an opportunity to escape into something better.

[@dannya951]

Even if it were just a game, losing all the gear you’d spent thousands of hours grinding for would be a devastating. But then character reset’s also tied to real-world finances and opportunities? Short of anything truly “life or death”, that’s about as high-stakes as you can get. 😮

[@DraconimLt]

Why didn't he just add save options, or at the least storage for the things you didn't need for whatever you were doing at the time?!?

[@christopherpoet458]

@@DraconimLt Congrats, you have now entered an age long discussion on which is better. Savable progress or hard resets. There is no short answer to this but I doubt you want an essay as a response. So I will try and keep a simple overview of this. Traditional games will go the safe route letting people save their characters and progress as they play and adding respawn points that don't make you loose too much progress, etc. However, a lot of these games have a common theme that once you beat the game and have the high end gear, the inventive to keep playing drops significantly. So, the proposition for a more high stakes setup came up, where progress could be permanently lost along with gear, items, currency, etc. The reason this idea came up was that even though people might lose and have to reset, they were not losing the ability to still reach the objective. They would just have to put more work into it, progress again, and cross the point they failed at. Now, I do believe in real gaming, this is taken at a half measure and is not as penalizing as the Oasis. But the debate of the possible viability of a high stakes game has been open to discussion for years. Some games have made a crack at it. But no major end titles yet. My bet is the Oasis has a "limited" storage system but your avatar could not be tied to it. Enough to get you going in the event of a reset but not so much that you would be permanently rich.

[@thomashiggins9320]

@@DraconimLt Have you ever played EVE: Online? There are no "Save" options, and every place has the potential to shift to PvP -- even the normally safe "core" systems -- if someone pays the "War Declaration" fees. When you go into combat in an expensive ship in that game, it can represent hundreds of hours of play. If you lose it, you lose most of the effort that went into it, even if you managed to successfully salvage parts -- but that never happens, because the ship(s) that killed you usually loot the wreck before you can get back to it. That makes combat in EVE: Online *surrealistically* intense. It's a continuous shot of adrenaline straight to the brain. And when you *win* ? 🤯🥳😲😊 No game offers anything like it.

[@DraconimLt]

​@@christopherpoet458 I get what you are saying, but I also think that whole 'hard reset' thing only works if you have a game that actually has an end, cos then you have to restart but the end is only a certain distance away. But the Oasis is open ended, so it doesn't really work. Unless you have a way to save your stuff, or at least a certain amount of it. Like a bank in the real world. Personally I wouldn't play a console game without a save option tbh. I can still replay it from the start again if I choose to. But in the case of something like the Oasis, I think a bank system would be best. I get it's meant to be based off real life in that sense, but in real life - short of (permanent) death, people don't lose *everything* very often (hopefully), but in the Oasis 'death' isn't permanent. It's therefore more like being knocked out or something, so you restart, which doesn't happen after real death (unless you believe in reincarnation, and then you'd be reborn a baby with some sort of support system so...), so in real life most of your stuff would still be there at home or in the bank when you 'wake up'. - You should lose everything on you, but have the option to not carry everything - it would work on a balance scale of risk vs reward - the more you carry the more you *might* win by being more prepared, but the more you might also lose if you fail, vs carry less to risk less, but have less chance of winning, you know?

[@Roach_Dogg_JR]

The story behind the Easter egg in Adventure is actually really beautiful. Back then Atari didn’t allow coders to have their names in the credits. It actually caused them to be unable to really argue for more royalties, because there was no official recognition of their contribution. Games that sold millions of copies only got their creators a few thousand dollars. The maker of Adventure wanted to have their name in there somewhere, so they hid it behind some convoluted actions that were impossible for his bosses to accidentally stumble upon. It was only discovered by a kid after the creator had quit working for Atari. Back then game code was physically built into the computer chips (read-only memory), so removing the Easter egg would mean redesigning their chips and assembly line, so Atari decided to let it go. Not technically the first secret in a game, but the first secret to be named an Easter egg.

[@Stylz.]

That’s actually really cool, it’s insane that game creators didn’t get any recognition back in the day

[@highroller5335]

@@Stylz. wanna know the extra crazy and ironic bit.. the company of people that quit atari to make their own games and actually be credited was Activision. yup.

[@rhenceocampo3253]

20:22 That server crashing was a nice bit by the editor. Well done! I really thought I had a connection problem. Haha

[@craigpayne3265]

I'm glad you mentioned that as it coincided exactly with an ad-break when I was watching, which really obfuscated the joke.

[@Vogelkinder]

The book was written as a love letter to 80's culture. The movie made a good effort in lkeeping that alive.

[@RustyDust101]

Errm, no. it didn't. The book was a love letter to everything 80's. The movie was an action adventure computer game based on the 80's.

[@EShelby2127]

They tried. The book is so much richer. Would love to read/listen to a "Hyperlink edition"...

[@dougbank107]

The book is definitely better. More complex and interesting.

[@SeanBoyce-gp]

⁠agreed. For one, the stakes are much higher. Two, the existential questions emerge with a lot more clarity. What I WILL say is thst Spielberg inserting the Shining sequences is a smuch like Halliday and Morrow as we have in real life. A very famous take on the movie "A.I." is essentially that Steven made it for Stanley, because he died before it ever got made or finished (I believe he wrote several drafts of the script). In that way, referencing his old friend in a thing so far removed from what his friend would have imagined is a very touching thing to do.

[@jvillaroro5008]

oddly enough, this is the one piece of media where I prefer the film as opposed to the book

[@jkhoover]

The funniest reaction to this movie was from Addie Counts. She had a panic attack having to relive The Shining. She thought she was safe after her reaction, and wouldn't have to ever see it again.

[@NatalieGoldReacts]

😂 oh poor thing

[@josephwallace202]

​@@NatalieGoldReactsas with Addie, you should react to Come And See (1985)

[@scottvanhille5688]

I concur, I watched her reaction to it as well, made me laugh.

[@RedCaio]

​@@NatalieGoldReacts Don't worry, they're exaggerating. Not really a panic attack, just very scared of the Shining (and therefore a bit of RP1 as well)

[@67Daidalos]

Actually, what made me laugh is that Addie was so scared of that movie... I just don't get it. I know I discovered it kinda late, and maybe not under the best circumstances, but The Shining wasn't frightening the slightest bit to me.. It was just horribly boring. Like Natalie said here, the Shining segment of Ready Player One is more frightening than The Shining itself and it was designed to be funny more than scary (which it is).

[@CyberSammael]

The audio book of this is highly recommended, narrated by Will Wheaton, who does a great job. The movie cut a lot of the puzzles and riddles out to keep the action beats more consistent, but the book has them as a much more central part of the story.

[@dragonreader3817]

The Book is excellent too. It’s completely different because the challenges in the book would have been boring on film. The author helped with the script so still both are good. Worth a read.

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

Boring? Which part would have been boring?

[@ADxWales81]

(Dunno how spoiler heavy the book is gonna be for those that only watched the film so I'm writing this here first so that they have to WANT to see the bit I've wrote below) Darker, especially the brutality of IOI, This was almost a family film where the suxxorz were almost like star wars stormtroopers. The film did a good job of (almost) hitting every moment where someone claims a key or a gate in the same order as the book, with COMPLETELY different references. But The book is definitely not a "family friendly" story.

[@iwatchforknowledge2766]

I listened to the audiobook. Totally awesome. Very well read by Will Wheaton

[@maAdcity]

@@carlosspeicywiener7018 A lot of the book is them playing arcade games or re-enacting movies, which can be off putting and boring to a majority. I think people would rather look at a race, or just a fast skim through The Shining than people would wanna see a perfect score on pac-man, playing a hard game of Joust, perfectly re-enact the movie Wargames, word for word, scene for scene, even down to the expressions

[@phuzziwan_kenobi]

the book (and the sequel) are very much filled with nostalgia from the 80s. I will say the movie did add more agency to the characters in places (trying not to spoil anything here). This might have been an instance where transferring the book to a 10 episode tv series could do it more justice, I would like to see Ready Player 2 do that

[@swordmonkey6635]

IOI was using the loyalty centers for brute force data mining. The people were indentured servants. That's the profit angle. During the contest, IOI was flooding the contest with contestants in the hopes of brute force getting the victory by quantity.

[@godgirl1984]

Wait, but how did IOI make money off of them if their only purpose was to play the game?

[@swordmonkey6635]

@@godgirl1984 information was worth money.

[@4X10S]

@@godgirl1984 Bots. Literally bots. And bots accumulate gold/resources and dump it all to the main account. There were shops where you could buy guns, grenades, armor and other stuff for either gold or even real money, so P2W prospers, and where's P2W there are always gold sellers.

[@Kopie0830]

@@godgirl1984 You play the game, you win the prize. IOI takes the cut out of the winning.

[@mizrolist]

@@godgirl1984 Since you didn't use your personal account but a corporate one, everything you earned went to IOI. And a small part of it to pay back your debt. Way too small to have a real chance to get out.

[@alecstevens8467]

When Artemis was locked up all I could think was "i'm not locked in here with you, YOU are locked in here with ME!"

[@duckmandm908]

Now youse can't leave.

[@dishonoredsouls4106]

the book is VERY different than the movie, i highly recommend checking it out. the movie is great but the book is absolutely awesome

[@iwatchforknowledge2766]

Also the audiobook. Read by Will Wheaton

[@JustZy]

"I am a Gamer. I play Stardew Valley... and Wordle..." On top of that, u play Elden Ring... Nat, Ur absolutely a Gamer!

[@3DJapan]

5:02 Certain things were updated for the movie. Twitch didn't exist when the book came out so I think it was just "all her walk throughs". The leader board for the egg hunters (gunters) was also on a website. One strange change was that Shoto and Daito were brothers which makes sense because those are the names of long and short swords that go together. In the movie they're just friends.

[@CodeeXD]

I thought they were still brothers in the movie

[@CxOrillion]

If I'm remembering correctly the only tell people they're brothers, but aren't related in real life.

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

​@@CodeeXD they weren't even related. In fact when shoto suggested a real world meeting, daito flipped out and didn't speak to him for months.

[@deadpolymers3416]

@@CodeeXD Nope. In the books they were friends only. They never even met in person in the book. The other 4 met, but Daito wasn't able to be there (spoilers).

[@3DJapan]

I stand corrected. It seems my memory failed me between the book and the movie.

[@BatmanFan76]

This movie has so many references, it’s literally too many to count. And it’s not just video games, it’s also a bunch of classic movies. The Shining, Iron Giant, Chucky, the list goes on. I do like the concept of this movie and how spectacular Spielberg made it.

[@juancalderon8976]

its based on the book of the same name and spielberg didnt do it justice, he changed so much. But its base on 80s nostalgia

[@BatmanFan76]

@@juancalderon8976 Not all movies based on books have to be 100% faithful. Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter basically did the same thing, and nobody complained about those.

[@felipepadilha4737]

@@juancalderon8976 he actually did a great job. Imagine having the rights to use all that IPs. Of course some things had to be changed, of course the books have more references. But only a guy like Spilberg could gather so much Ips to make this movie possible. I like the book more, but it is definitely a good adaptation. Also, some references are way to obscure, not many people knows about joust, D&D, etc. He used more popular stuff like minecraft, king kong, batman...

[@juancalderon8976]

@@BatmanFan76 you havent read the book, lotr was accurate to the overall story lines and harry pottery was too. This movie completely changed everything about the book except the fact that it was virtual reality.

[@juancalderon8976]

@@felipepadilha4737 its a terrible adaptation he changed so much of the story. The jail scene and how they completely made the girl the hero in the film when it was wade from start to finish. The ips i understand they couldnt get all of them its also his way of directing it just doesnt fit the book.

[@RoRo27.]

This movie was a blast in the 3D IMAX

[@TheRavenfish9]

Oh wow! I bet. I regret not having seen it in the theaters.

[@shawnadams1460]

Absolutely!!! My uncle and I saw it twice, went to IMAX first and then a Dolby theater for the sound. We both read the books and even though they changed a bunch, LOVED the movie.

[@alangarcia5693]

in the book Parzival and Artemis visited hundreds of worlds in the oasis and spent countless hours together before he told her he loved her. just not enough time in a movie to go through all that but still a great movie :)

[@ploefnora]

I love this movie, it is so accurate with humans wanting to escape the real world into the virtual world

[@R151NG5UN]

Love the 'Server Crashing' joke hahaha got me so good 😂

[@magicbrownie1357]

Seen this one a dozen times, and it never ceases to entertain me. That has to be a good sign.

[@DarkKnightBatman420]

2:27 "You can climb Mt. Everest... with Batman." I mean... uh... I'll check my schedule.

[@jamarrwalker936]

This is one of my favorite movies when it first came out. I literally had fun with this one!

[@LucianDevine]

I think when the army was summoned and everyone was in VR in the streets, they did it because of how time sensitive things were. The battle could have been over and lost if they waited until they got home.

[@lbjohnnyjohn]

I read a book where most of the population lived, worked inside the game world. The vr was so real that early users would die of starvation because they forgot to leave. They ate ingame and it gave them the sensation of eating and fullness. While irl the body was withering away. Limits to the vr had to be reached. What they did was set up a timer system. An alarm would go off and then if they didnt leave they would be kicked out. Once out they would not be let back in until ate, exercised, and showered.

[@msfeistybabe]

Can you tell us the title & author please??

[@geniegogo]

This is very good story. I think the headsets of that VR would be advanced enough to be able to tell if someone had not showered...

[@exploringandstargazing]

As a huge Halo fan, seeing the Spartans and Elites made me very happy.

[@shawnadams1460]

Same hear, but damn I loves soo much, seeing the Battletoads and Ninja Turtles just made me grin from ear to ear!!!

[@badbug72]

Seeing Commander Shepard did it for me. :)

[@josephguillerey4391]

i felt a bit alone in my cinema when i was the only one cheering for Serenity coming in in the final battle, but that was my favorite easter egg of the movie

[@yippykayakotherbuckets8870]

My Ready Player One experience goes like this; in short 10 theatre viewings, read the book, 5 more theatre viewings, bought the DVD, watched it 15 times (like 2-3 times a week). While on public transportation I would try to grab a seat so that I'm going backwards. I also had a bronze Artemis Funko Pop, and was considering Purrzival as my cat's name. At the same time I was crazy about Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I lost track after 30 viewings since 2018. My cat's name is Purralta.

[@ANCIENTxDEATH]

Purralta....a play on that skateboard guy's last name?

[@yippykayakotherbuckets8870]

@@ANCIENTxDEATH Nah, Jake Peralta from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He just happens to share Stacy's last name.

[@therealneal3034]

My biggest gripe with this film is that they tried to convince us that Olivia Cooke isn't totally gorgeous by putting a Zuko scar on her.

[@mistycrom]

No.... the film tells us that her character doesn't feel that she's attractive because of the birthmark, not that she isn't attractive because of it. Wade's response kinda makes that clear.

[@therealneal3034]

@@mistycrom I think it's in the book though, not entirely sure. Other than that, excellent point. Never thought of it that way.

[@jabbadac]

... and they made it as faint as possible too.

[@doggo9388]

Mine is that they expect us to believe not a single person ever tried driving backwards in the first challenge.

[@therealneal3034]

@@doggo9388 yeah, that’s a top 5 gripe for me. I’m just saying Olivia Cooke 👀

[@wonderfulwilma]

Your empathetic nature is so wholesome and adorable during serious/sad moments 😭💓 I really love it

[@patrickcromwell7554]

One major aspect thats important to note is that The Oasis isn't "a game" in the strictest definition. It is more involved than that. It is a Virtual Reality within which one CAN play games. Also important - sonce you mentioned something about people not working and just going into VR, Nat - is that theres a system in place where a person can gain VR currency and have it converted into Real Currency. As such there are definitely activities in The Oasis that can actually pay very well. If I'm being honest, i would love a full dive VRMMO like this or really almost any genre. This one is a perfect Anything Goes kind of environment. But a specialized one such as a modern world with superheroes could be fun, or maybe you can be a special secret Government Operative like James Bond. Or Hell even a Dungeons & Dragons VRMMO. The possibilities really are endless. But fun as Hell if you're in to that stuff; which Iam.

[@jessicatennis5318]

You know Spielberg so wanted to use the Disney Properties, especially Star Wars and Indiana Jones!!!!! The music is the best part, then a really good story.

[@JGComments]

The greatest thing about Stardew is that it can be as chill or as stressful as you want it to be.

[@DXDragon38]

"TOUCH GRASS" the movie :) Loved how many references there were in the film! Was a blast watching this in theaters!

[@KiRiTO72987]

I really regret not seeing this in theaters I hope it gets a theatrical return at some point

[@FeaturingRob]

This was based on the best-selling novel by Ernest Cline, who co-wrote the screenplay. There is a sequel novel called Ready Player Two, that gets into what Halliday in the OASIS is... Tye Sheridan (Wade/Parzival) can't seem to get roles where he's not wearing headgear...RPO...X-Men...😄 This was the third film that Mark Rylance (James Halliday) made with Steven Spielberg. The first was Bridge of Spies with Tom Hanks (Rylance won Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance) and The BFG was the second film (which was also mainly motion capture).

[@Houldey]

I like how you absolutely nailed that VR these days is like barely above a gimmic and in most peoples cases, is just a beat saber machine rofl.

[@sadtragedy20]

I love your insight and comparison to Gene Wilder's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Interestingly enough, one of the trailers for "Ready Player One"' has a mixed song that samples the melody of "Pure Imagination" and is what got me invested in seeing the movie from hearing that familiar rift.

[@jason42080]

Natalie Gold at the end with Wade asking those certain Questions to Halliday with the responses that he gives Wade it's basically imposing that the James Halliday in The Oasis is "A Ghost in the Machine"...you know just like some Anime Series plot lines where a Game Player is Neurologically Linked to a VR Online Game but while Playing the Game their Physical body had/has died in the Real World, but somehow their Living Mind has become forever linked to their Avatar in the Games Server...making them "A Ghost In The Machine"

[@arctan2010]

This is a fun movie to watch with different age groups because each group will get excited with Easter Eggs from their childhood. Great reaction. Cheers

[@realghoststories1210]

2:00 Funny thing here is that there has already been a thing like this tested by a guy playing Skyrim. His goal was to walk from Whiterun to Solitude. The guy was tired by the time he reached the end.

[@IIBLVDII]

The moment I ran into your profile a few years ago on you tube. I knew that you would eventually run into this movie and you would thoroughly enjoy it. I’m glad to see the day arrive 🎉

[@jakesigalmix]

The School scenes were also in the oasis as well, school worlds where you need to go by your legal name. Book was alot of him hiding his identity from school.

[@adriangaliver]

We're not gonna take it!

[@aadityajoshi2382]

20:23 got me LMAOOOOOOOOOOO

[@ryuhitsuya21]

I was like aint no way my FIBER WIFI stuttered there lmao

[@lou7041]

It happened the same time i turned my phone 😂

[@ACU_misfit]

I'm SAYING😂😂

[@arielb102011]

oops

[@jumpman83]

She had us in the first half, not gonna lie...

[@PhazerSC]

I had a Forte VFX1 VR headset in 1996. It was the bomb! Playing Descent 1-2 in VR with my 6DOF SpaceOrb (which I still have!) was incredible.

[@FredFromKrypton78]

20:22 Well played ^^

[@ChiliConCarnage]

"This movie is *a little* cheesy" Well that's the understatement of the century. And *a little cheesy* is practically Steven Spielberg's modus operandi.

[@DaxRaider]

one of my all time favorite movies

[@jkhoover]

It's one of my all time favorite books, I wish the movie was a little better, personally.

[@DaxRaider]

@@jkhoover well it had to change because you cant film someone finishing pacman as intresting as a race xD and i think you can really feel that the script was co written by the author himself. i love the book dont get me wrong its in my top5 books but i dont think its as visuell pleasing being closer, personally

[@jkhoover]

@@DaxRaider I completely understand that they had to change a lot of the challenges. I've watched this movie at least 20 times, it's just not as good as I was hoping. I feel it drags a little in parts, and doesn't flow. I wish it had a little more character development. The book is top 5 for me, the movie is just lacking.

[@richardjaudon]

Reading the book first caused me to watch this one. I really enjoyed that. Love your reactions.

[@welessonakadubbs1544]

Such an under rated movie.. i really hope they make a #2 .. This movie gives me goonies vibes for sure

[@FrenchCelt]

If they adapt Ready Player Two into a movie, I hope they change a lot from the book, because I thought it was a very weak sequel.

[@DraconimLt]

When you said 'are these 2 going to have a crush on each other', I mean, we all know how it works, but she was an avatar - he's lucky she was even female in 'real life', let alone attractive... As for the 'closing of the Oasis on Tues and Thurs', that's great - unless those are the only days someone is able to spend on there for whatever reason. IMO they should have made it so everyone can only spend a certain number of days on it in a row or something like that instead, to be more fair to everyone.

[@streetsahead2587]

Thanks for another great video! Love your insights and positivity, you’re one of the few people I wouldn’t mind talking during a movie 😊.

[@y-tiplex]

as someone who's obsessed enough with tetris that I'm counting down the days until the classic tetris world championship but also doesn't really play much of any other games I relate to that beginning

[@jaron91]

I know it's a cliche...but the audiobook narrated by Wil Wheaton is so SO much better.

[@SDMRichie]

I really enjoyed this movie and am not one of these "the book is better" people, but I agree with this 3000. The book is absolutely amazing and Wil did a great job on the audiobook.

[@Tomeh27]

oh you fucking got me with the crash joke! hahahaha brilliant!

[@djlow9915]

The server crash moment! You got us good 😂 Amazing work, and a really fun reaction Nat 💛

[@JoshMoore1306]

Tf you mean 6 hours ago???

[@djlow9915]

@@JoshMoore1306 Being a member of Nattie's Patreon has it's perks 😉

[@FoxPurtill]

Note: Omni-directional treadmill is a thing, called "KAT WALK C 2 CORE PERSONAL VR TREADMILL" and prices start at $1000

[@CitizenScorn]

You should definitely read the book, it's even better 😊

[@imonlyhuman4020]

The loading screen got me lmaoo

[@JackMellor498]

Spielberg and Kubrick were pretty close friends. So getting to recreate The Shining for the movie was a pretty cool love letter to his friend. I really enjoyed this movie when I saw it at release. It’s rubbed off on me a bit now and at times I think it’s got a very cringy self assured feel, this whole thing of only true gamers are capable of seeing the truth, and Wade being considered an acceptable hero and a decent guy for falling in love with an avatar and then the story kinda congratulating him for looking past the fact she’s not as good looking IRL, when he explicitly fell in love with how she doesn’t appear. Idk man, the recent bout of 80s nostalgia thing with the exception of Stranger Things has kinda drained me a bit how excessive it’s gotten lately. It’s still a pretty entertaining movie, loved the Iron Giant’s appearance just on the basis of that being an underrated movie and I’m happy to see him represented in movies. It’s well made and well acted and the heart’s there but this is like a 5 or 6/10 movie for me. Just imo.

[@justarandomveryintelligent8934]

So in the book its less about true gamers and more about gunters. The easter egg hunters. The people who put in the effort to study Halliday and his perspective. The people who are against capitalism running amok. The book also doesn't congratulate Wade. Firstly, nobody meets in person until literally the last few pages and secondly Wade gets a brutal reality check from Art3mis after he tries to say he's in love with her at the club which sends him into a depressive spiral he has to make his way out of. They also make it clear that Art3mis's avatar is almost identical to her real world appearance except for the one facial feature she wishes she didn't have which means they have the same body type which is a body type that is not typically seen in hollywood. That facial feature that i mentioned is in the movie and its what their conversations about her appearance are meant to allude to in the real world but the book makes it explicit and the feature is executed in a way more subtle way in the movie than the book describes it.

[@AtrocityUD]

The way this movie was directed really reminds me of 2000s Disney movies they aired on their TV channels. Gave me a whole different level of appreciation for this movie.

[@chewiethenord8025]

in the book I believe either daito or sho died irl, one of them lived in a high rise building in Tokyo, and he ended up falling out the window. Obviously hinting that IOI went to his apartment and pushed him out the window. Oh and each of them had a mecha like Daito's, which was obtained by doing a side quest in an old arcade room. The one thing that always amazed me about this movie was how he was able to get so many rights for all the easter eggs.

[@axr7149]

Next stop: WEST SIDE STORY (2021) and THE FABELMANS (2022) (Spielberg's 2 most recent films).

[@JoshMoore1306]

How the hell was this 1 day ago?!

[@danishprince2760]

@@JoshMoore1306 Patreons got early access to this one :)

[@nellnee72]

I just finished listening to the audiobook. The Mary Sue-ness of Wade … the meme should be renamed for him.

[@Omne118]

I was tempted to bail on the book about a quarter of the way through and I’m still ticked that I wasted my own time by reading the whole thing

[@nellnee72]

@@Omne118 I listened to it on. Road trip. Wil Wheaton narrating is what kept me going.

[@Needler13]

Yeah, the book is pretty shit and the second one is even worse. The movie is vastly better

[@tylerwilson2515]

13:45 back to the future music. It’s when doc figures some shit out

[@zorigooleo]

While traveling across the US, I watched this movie in the new iMax theatre in 3D in San Francisco. It was definitely a Wild Ride. I did catch every single iconic video game and cartoon character. One of the most fantastic experiences of my life.

[@Chris-ws2oh]

Ready Player One is the precursor to the Metaverse

[@reverseprime141]

Ready Pkayer One is one of my favorite Warner Brothers movie.

[@scottvanhille5688]

Nice reaction and intro Nat. The characters in this film really hit home and the best one in my opinion was seeing Chucky having his moment lol. It's not even Easter and so many eggs. This was a fun movie for everyone that's played video games and even seeing their avatars was cool. Great soundtrack. May I suggest these films for Patreon: Scanners, Shipwrecked, Condorman, The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad, the original Time Machine, Let The Right One In, and it's remake, Let Me In.

[@kenwheeler3637]

The story, much more so in the book, was made for us nerds that were actually there throughout the 80's and experienced all of this stuff when it happened. The games, computer systems and movies all faithfully referenced. I recall talking with others back then in the local arcade about that easter egg in Adventure and how excited I was when I went home and performed it myself. Sometimes I really miss the 80's.

[@Zombiesnyder13]

Hollywood needs the old-school auteurs like Spielberg more than ever

[@Codametal]

Sooo happy you watched this. It is a really fun and nostalgic movie! But too bad Nat didnt understand gaming as much as she said she did. In an online multi world system, players could spend years building up their avatars. And the stakes get higher the longer you've been building. Because of the draw the Oasis had on people, it becomes an addiction. That's why the people in the real world lose their minds when their avatar gets killed. Some would have no doubt committed suicide because of the loss. Its a real addiction people have in the real world today. That's why the movie ended with them shutting down the Oasis twice a week. It tells the audience to get out of our computers and cell phones and go outside and do stuff unplugged.

[@lurkerrekrul]

In H's shop was the Winnebago from Spaceballs, a classic Battlestar Galactica Viper, a Buck Rogers Starfighter, a pod from 2001, and probably other stuff I'm forgetting. The chant to activate/deactivate the shield is the sacred charm of making from the movie Excalibur. Wade shoots Sam with a classic Battlestar Galactica blaster. The throwing star like weapon is the Glave from the movie Krull. At the end, Wade has a full-sized replica of Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet standing in the background. This movie is packed with pop culture references.

[@JamesASharp]

I saw this film in IMAX. It was a very good experience. Great reaction! 👍🏿

[@JustSomeGuy23232]

I would recommend reading the book, it was less comedy and higher stakes. The challenges were also a lot more intense

[@thetomgibson]

31:31 you should watch Bruce Willis in Surrogates for a darker and lethal take on people spending their days interacting through a real-world avatar.

[@christophvogel1080]

Now that's what I call a interesting coincidence. Just got to watch the movie for the first time myself, about a week ago. Love the nostalgia, the easter-eggs and references. And yes, it's not a super deep movie, but perfectly fine when you need something to watch, with a bowl of popcorn on a sunday afternoon.

[@WhiteWolfDarkpaw]

I really, REALLY would encourage you to check out the book, as well. Or the Audiobook read by Wil Wheaton. The quests are different, more involved, and there were more steps. Start with a riddle, find the location of the first key, complete a challenge to get the key, get a riddle to the gate, complete a COMPLETELY different challenge, get a riddle to the next key... Some of the tech they've got in the book sounds a lot better, too XD Edit: They didn't include a server lag joke because they explain in the book that every user connected to the OASIS is also adding their system to a massive processing network. So the more users connected, the greater the processing power of the OASIS itself.

[@Thrawnwalker]

The book is really amazing. Different tasks, different battles. It's an amazing and quick read.

[@JoshMoore1306]

21:14 LOLL that's not just any dinosaur, it's (mecha)Godzilla! It's been nearly 6 years and I only just noticed Godzilla's theme playing when it's fully built because thanks to Minus One I'm able to recognise it now :D

[@STKReacts]

This movie was soo good! I barely watched it for the first time a few weeks ago on my channel. This was my second time watching it through someone elses eyes! SO GOOD!

[@Aluzard]

Sorrento is the face for all the god damn triple A and now quad A game maker :P IF we all had more Halladay in the world making games we would have such an awesome time =D

[@mbowlin07]

Holy stinking moly. I’ve been waiting for this one forever and while. I’m pumped to see your reaction!!!!

[@Tairongo]

I actually feel like recording your intro after you've seen whatever it is you're watching to be quite cool! It gives the intro a much more comprehensive feel, it helps to set expectations a lot and made me excited to see why you enjoyed it.

[@johnnieangel99]

So many great throwbacks and quick inserts boggles the mind.

[@allanvanuga9196]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@skulkyyy]

The absolutely MASSIVE foreshadowing that happens towards the end of the movie when Wade gets the egg from Halliday is missed by so many people because they haven't read Ready Player Two. I read both the books after I saw the movie and was blown away by this foreshadowing during a rewatch of the movie.

[@scotty2553]

Love this movie! Glad we got to watch it with you!

[@rikmoran3963]

VR had been around for a while in 2018. I bought the Oculus Rift DK1 back in 2013, so the concept of it was really well know, even if the technology itself was not that widespread.

[@israfel070]

Ready Player One is the most realistic dystopian future. Where people live in stacks of trailers in Ohio with VR headsets.

[@orangeflames05]

I loved listening to the audiobook!

[@T.016]

I'm so glad you react to this underrate gem! It's one of my comfort movies

[@tiba242424]

14:14 IBRO! ducking love how you started whispering cuz you were worried the lady in the tub would hear. LOL (because she was ... listening.)

[@goofamatic]

This movie got me. I had read the book beforehand. I have NEVER seen a movie that was SO DIFFERENT from the book.

[@Journeyman.71]

As a 30+ year resident of Columbus, I was disappointed that they did show more of what the city was supposed to look like by that time!

[@coreyhughes1456]

2:12 I think the idea is that eventually VR will become so convincing that there won't be much of a difference.

[@sibarra417]

probably my all time favorite movie based on a book and the book was amazing read it all the way through five times before watching the movie.

[@nixian_zwaylus]

In the book, ioi breaks in to daito's apartment and throws him off a window right before the capsole runs out. So he just freezez in place and his character dies.

[@wal6377]

The truck Aech/Helena drives in the race, is a (THE) monster truck CALLED Bigfoot, and yes it had two American flags out back. The aircraft that Daito jumps from in the final battle, i think is a Firefly/Serenity.

[@dsembr]

Wait, did you think the significance of Charlie giving Wonka the Everlasting Gobstopper back was that he didn't eat it? I think you may have missed a much larger point in that scene...

[@jamesrippy1161]

All I can say is thank God for physical media because there are scenes that have been edited into this reaction video that aren’t on the DVD and weren’t in the original theatrical cut

[@ayeshaakhtar4727]

Love your reactions ❤❤❤❤