Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One"

[terry78]

https://www.cnet.com/news/ready-player-one-mines-the-80s-but-doesnt-dig-deep/

Review from CNET

 

[Blitzkrieg]

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Nicole Sperling
@nicsperling

If there is any audiences where a film can go down twice with no sound and come back to raves it’s #SXSW. Good times and get me a copy of that soundtrack. #ReadyPlayerOne

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Tasha Robinson
@TashaRobinson

Went into READY PLAYER ONE skeptical as hell. Came out largely as a joyous convert. I have a handful of issues with the structure and characters, but it improves on the book in important ways, the action is riveting, and I really bought the humor. #readyplayerone

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Scott Menzel @SXSW
@TheOtherScottM

Ready Player One is a pop culture extravaganza. A truly one of a kind film that combines video games, tv, movies, music, & action figures into one huge crowd pleasing film. Prepare to be wowed & see this on the biggest screen with the best sound system possible. #ReadyPlayerOne

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/ready-player-one-review-1093639?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

It's a little twisted, at a time in which much of what is soul-sucking in our world was created or enabled by the internet, to cheer for humans who risk their lives to remain in a digital reality. In a film and novel full of nostalgia, perhaps the deepest throwback is to the spirit of those early home-computer adopters — many of them trained on Dungeons and Dragons world-building — who deeply believed that wondrous things could spring from the primitive programs they were learning to write. If today's digital citizens could step back from their newsfeed troughs and think about a web they'd actually like to be caught in, maybe there's an oasis worth fighting for somewhere out there.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Say this every time, regardless of the film, a review ? Go see it yourself, that's your review, right there.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

http://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/ready-player-one-review-steven-spielberg-1202723649/

“Ready Player One” is set in a dilapidated future where fantasy rules because reality looks hellish by comparison. Yet the movie puts you in a different mindset. By the end, you’re more than ready to escape from all the escapism.

http://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/ready-player-one-review-steven-spielberg-sxsw-2018-1201938295/

“Ready Player One” is one of the more clever excuses to run wild with special effects. Of course, that outcome makes sense from a filmmaker whose entire legacy has been steeped in showmanship. As it cycles through dozens of references to past achievements, “Ready Player One” amounts to a frenetic attempt at remaking the past 30-odd years of popular culture by one of its greatest architects. Without seeing the movie, it’s hard to imagine anyone could turn it into a satisfying product; by the end, it’s clear that only Steven Spielberg can.

 

[The Shape]

Interesting. I'm not too hyped for it at this point, but I'll definitely be checking it out in theaters.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/12/ready-player-one-review-spielbergs-shiny-vr-caper-isnt-worth-playing

Those who come away cheering for Ready Player One will likely have enjoyed the film’s many references, the story’s breakneck speed and playful visual design. Others may want to unplug from the paint-by-number characters and shallow plot. The film has much to say about our present-day fixation on nostalgia. So many characters pine to go back to their 80s future, but some of us want to see what’s next. There’s no leveling up or cheat codes that can help with that.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/03/sxsw-film-review-ready-player-one-cares-more-about-virtual-reality-than-actual-reality/

At a certain point, though, Ready Player One wants to be appreciated as a film as well as a movie, no matter what Spielberg says. And that’s where it begins to falter. Real-world deaths play out in a matter of seconds, a budding romance is told instead of shown, and the movie/film adopts a half-assed message about the inherent dangers of VR; of how you can’t just ignore the problems of reality by getting lost in the OASIS. If properly executed, this could be a meaty central theme that’s very much in line with our own obsession with alternate reality and fetishization of pop culture.

 

[terry78]

Basically the story is pretty much a typical YA template but the references keep it fresh.

 

[The Big G]

Interesting. I'm not too hyped for it at this point, but I'll definitely be checking it out in theaters.

Same.

Nothing wrong with some fun nostalgia mash ups now and again.

 

[HammerDown]

75%
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 12
Rotten: 4

 

[Ivan Drago]

The positive reviews don't have scores and the negative reviews all have low scores. It's pretty wack right now on RT.

 

[Kuwolski]

I have no issue with critics not giving avg. scores, but then why post your review to an aggregate site? It should be mandatory if that's a key feature for the site.

 

[Drizzle]

75%
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 12
Rotten: 4

I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up landing in the 70's. All of Spielberg's recent blockbusters going back the last 10 years or so usually end up in that range while his more serious movies like The Post, Bridge of Spies and Lincoln score much higher among critics. Even Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has a 77% on RT, even though the audience score is at 53, which is a better indicator of how it was really received.

Anyway, at the very least I'm expecting Ready Player One to be entertaining.

 

[HammerDown]

75%
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 15
Rotten: 5

The average score has gone up a bit.

 

[Ivan Drago]

I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up landing in the 70's. All of Spielberg's recent blockbusters going back the last 10 years or so usually end up in that range while his more serious movies like The Post, Bridge of Spies and Lincoln score much higher among critics. Even Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has a 77% on RT, even though the audience score is at 53, which is a better indicator of how it was really received.

Anyway, at the very least I'm expecting Ready Player One to be entertaining.

Lol really? I'm not trying to defend Crystal Skull, but the RT audience "score" is notoriously unreliable and has zero credibility. It directly converts the "want to see the movie" ratings to "liked the movie" ratings, so a great big chunk of any major release is "people who rated the movie before even seeing it". Then there's issue of spam accounts and people giving everything 1/10 stars or 10/10 stars.

Also, films that have 30,000,000+ user ratings always have low scores because of the sheer number of ratings, even classic films. It's a broken system.

 

[redhawk23]

I read a description of the films extended sequence based off [BLACKOUT] Stanley Kubrick's The Shining[/BLACKOUT] As an actual friend of that filmmaker, Spielberg should be ashamed.

Here's a reference for you, nuke this film from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

 

[Drizzle]

Lol really? I'm not trying to defend Crystal Skull, but the RT audience "score" is notoriously unreliable and has zero credibility. It directly converts the "want to see the movie" ratings to "liked the movie" ratings, so a great big chunk of any major release is "people who rated the movie before even seeing it". Then there's issue of spam accounts and people giving everything 1/10 stars or 10/10 stars.

Also, films that have 30,000,000+ user ratings always have low scores because of the sheer number of ratings, even classic films. It's a broken system.

I'm not saying I agree with the audience score. Most of the time I don't. But in that case, it pretty much echoes the reaction to Crystal Skull.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I'm not saying I agree with the audience score. Most of the time I don't. But in that case, it pretty much echoes the reaction to Crystal Skull.

Based on?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I read a description of the films extended sequence based off [BLACKOUT] Stanley Kubrick's The Shining[/BLACKOUT] As an actual friend of that filmmaker, Spielberg should be ashamed.

Here's a reference for you, nuke this film from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Why should he be ashamed, exactly? Because great films and film makers have never lifted from other's works before?




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I have a feeling that this film is going to be divisive for reasons that have little to do with it's merit as a story or it's quality of execution but because the online cult of the pose of authenticity is so very, very strong in the demographics this movie's BO is chasing.

 

[Drizzle]

Based on?

It's not really a secret that Crystal Skull is regarded as the worst Indy movie.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is pretty much regarded as a bad movie at this point. Nuke the fridge is a phrase now, like jumping the shark. Whether you like it or not is one thing, but as far as the verdict of the masses, it has a bad reputation.

 

[Ivan Drago]

I read a description of the films extended sequence based off [BLACKOUT] Stanley Kubrick's The Shining[/BLACKOUT] As an actual friend of that filmmaker, Spielberg should be ashamed.

Here's a reference for you, nuke this film from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

? People are praising that scene and describing how imaginative it is.

 

[terry78]

You really can't gripe about that stuff considering the entire concept is based on Robot Chicken like references.

 

[HammerDown]

78%
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 18
Rotten: 5

The rating keeps on going up.

 

[redhawk23]

? People are praising that scene and describing how imaginative it is.

Imagination in 2018: Recreating scenes and iconography from 38 year old movies.

 

[redhawk23]

You really can't gripe about that stuff considering the entire concept is based on Robot Chicken like references.

I mean, you can gripe about that being the basis for a film at all...