Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One"

[Mysteryman]

Wasn't Prince of Thieves pretty straightforward?

Thats what I was going to say.
That was Robin Hood by the basics.

 

[samsnee]

Aside from the god-awful accents, pretty much.

That was more of an origin story.

 

[moviedoors]

So I never finished the book. I really couldn't stand it. It was an endless info-dump with a navel gazing jerk of a protagonist and an uncomfortable geek-wish-fulfillment female love interest.

This however, was a blast. It addressed a lot of the problems I was having with the novel, and it's just so damn breezily entertaining. That first major setpiece challenge is completely bonkers, a complete sensory overload of a-whole-bunch-of-****-going-on, but Spielberg crushes it by simply letting the shots play out, and the bombast pays off when the challenge has a round 2 and we see it from a new angle. The 2nd setpiece is stroke-inducingly funny. And the third setpiece; as much I am resistant to nostalgia bait, [BLACKOUT]The Iron Giant[/BLACKOUT] battling [BLACKOUT]Mecha-Godzilla[/BLACKOUT] is something I am genetically incapable of resisting. The cast is all around likable, the score propulsive with plenty of fun little nuggets to properties past, the look and the staging is without challenge, and it has a perfectly timed and placed F-bomb. The ending doesn't land quite as strongly as I would've liked, but the journey is too much fun to let that ruin my night.

Solid 7/10

 

[jed]

Saw it yesterday. Great,awesome movie!!!

Love the 80s songs and pop cultures references such as A Ha's Take on me and Saturday Night Fever.

The racing sequence in the beginning with

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Kong is one of my favourite. I like how Parzival figure out that to get the key, he must drive backwards.

I also like the Shinning scene,

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paying a tribute to Stephen King's The Shinning, we see the Hi 5 goes to the cinema, and then Aech is attacked by the twin girls and the zombie and the axe.....That whole horror scene is great

And the finale battle scene, I like how Aech

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battles using the Iron Giant while Daito transforms into the Gundan robot to fight the metal Godzilla

And I also like how Parzival

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delivers Ryu's energy ball to fight Sorrento in the end

 

[I Am The Knight]

In answering 'in recent memory', because studio's don't believe audiences want 'straight forward' these days, they believe everything must be served with 'an edge, be hip or have a twist of millenisnism'.

Yeah this is why we got emo Superman from the DCEU

As for RPO...It's a lot of fun. I do think Spielberg's direction elevates a very basic script and your enjoyment will vary depending on how much you can enjoy "here's a thing from your childhood" mechanics. I enjoyed the film and it's definitely the kind of movie you want to see on the big screen.

 

[Marvel united]

This was a fun movie. Loved it

 

[jed]

Oh yeah, I find out the music from the trailer that I really really like.

It's "Jump" by Van Halen and it's the very first music that starts playing when the movie starts.

 

[Mandon Knight]

So I never finished the book. I really couldn't stand it. It was an endless info-dump with a navel gazing jerk of a protagonist and an uncomfortable geek-wish-fulfillment female love interest.

The book gets way too much 'hurrah' about it than it deserves. It's not well written at all, its 'grace, accolade and kudos' comes from it's capacity to place cultism narrative into geek-size joygasms for a generation born out of the brink of tech nirvana.

If you look at his book(s) since, his next novel is a complete re-hash of The Last Starfighter, the author doesn't have a new idea in any of his story set ups, side from pawning previous ideas, but what he does have, is an insight & nose for what his age group of readers want.

 

[Dave McFly]

was gonna see it today but I have to work today when normally I have good friday off so I am seeing tomorrow after dinner.

 

[Web-Head]

was gonna see it today but I have to work today when normally I have good friday off so I am seeing tomorrow after dinner.

Hope you enjoy it! I already wanna see it again

 

[Kane52630]

My review

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Just when people start to doubt Spielberg, he put out something like Ready Player One and proves why he's still a legend. He took what could have easily been just a onenote nostalgia cashgrab and turned it into a story driven rollercoaster ride. While the book is heavily in love with the 80s, the movie did the smart thing and include everything from the 70s to our present day. Aside from a couple set pieces and moments, they don't stop the movie and show off all the different things they're referencing, they keep moving right along. It's got great replay value, because you want to freeze frame ever second of the movie and catch all the easter eggs. Performance wise, I thought Tye Sheridan, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke and TJ Miller did a great job. The three best scenes in the movie is probably the race, the horror throwback, and the final battle which was insane. The only drawbacks that I could think of is probably Ben Mendelsohn who plays a very standard 80s style villain (which maybe was the point?). I saw it in DBOX and it's honestly the best way to see this movie, and it raises my grade for the movie. Overall, it's a great fun movie and it's probably one of my favorites from Spielberg.

9/10

 

[Schlosser85]

I kind of don't like how Ben Mendelsohn is the new go-to bad guy actor because IMO he's not very good at it. He's really, really one-note and hammy. All he does is wash rinse repeat the same sneering and spitting and plays the exact same generic bad guy in different outfits.

 

[DyeLorean]

It's been way too long without a proper Spielberg adventure. I'm glad he's back.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I love, love, love this movie. This is Spielberg at his most Spielberg, in the best way.

 

[terry78]

As soon as you see the drone deliver the pizza hut you know you're looking at vintage spielbergo.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

As soon as you see the drone deliver the pizza hut you know you're looking at vintage spielbergo.

This is so true.

 

[Broseph44]

I love, love, love this movie. This is Spielberg at his most Spielberg, in the best way.

Glad to hear you loved it Darth. I’m hoping to see it next week.

 

[Marvolo]

Marvolo I'd recommend seeing it in theaters at least once...

Then watch Sword Art Online on Netflix

I'm not going to say Ernest Cline is a plagiarist, but it did feel like a lot of ideas in this story are cribbed from SAO.

I watched the first season of Sword Art Online a couple months ago and enjoyed it.

 

[DACrowe]

As soon as you see the drone deliver the pizza hut you know you're looking at vintage spielbergo.

Yep, very Back to the Future Part II, which Spielberg only produced, but hey!

 

[Jonwo]

I really enjoyed this, proves that Spielberg has still got it when it comes to directing tentpoles.

I thought the first challenge was incredible visually but then they take it up a notch with

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The Shining challenge, I'm still unsure if it was a real replica of the Overlook Hotel or CGI because the attention to detail was incredible

 

[terry78]

If it was CG it was impressive as ****. The characters looked a lot more real in that scenario.

 

[MadVillainy]

Soooo....how is the 3D?

 

[scifiwolf]

Oooh boy. Loved the movie. It still has a few of the book’s problems, but it does an apt job of adapting the narrative. Those first two challenges had me grinning ear-to-ear. I don’t think I’ve ever exclaimed out loud so much in a movie theater. Steven had some real, pure mastery on display in this film.

 

[I Am The Knight]

I really enjoyed this, proves that Spielberg has still got it when it comes to directing tentpoles.

I thought the first challenge was incredible visually but then they take it up a notch with

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The Shining challenge, I'm still unsure if it was a real replica of the Overlook Hotel or CGI because the attention to detail was incredible

Some of it looked like actual footage from the film. Would love to know more. BTW was that sequence actually in the book? It was surreal.

 

[Kane52630]

Soooo....how is the 3D?

I didn't see it in 3D, but if you can find a local theater that as DBOX, it's a must.