Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One"

[Mandon Knight]

Stranger Things has a lot to answer for.... t:

 

[Guts]

 

[Mandon Knight]

Okay, enough already studio, we get it.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Those are obviously fake. They have the original films credits on the bottom.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Those are obviously fake. They have the original films credits on the bottom.

I was the proof reader....

 

[Ivan Drago]

Ready Player One tracking for sluggish $35M+ debut.

Variety is more optimistic, predicting between 45-55 million.

But they still have 3 weeks to really market this thing.

 

[terry78]

I feel like this is something they should be marketing like hell on Nick and Cartoon Network.

 

[Ivan Drago]

I'm not really surprised. From what I've seen, the marketing for this has been either non-existent or greatly overshadowed by Black Panther. I've even been seeing more ads for Pacific Rim: Uprising. There's still three weeks left so I'm sure there'll be more rolling out but still...a $35 million opening for a Spielberg movie of this scale is pretty sad. Reviews will be a deciding factor too. I'm just hoping it does the book justice, even if it isn't 100% faithful.

It seems like we have a rave reaction from Empire Magazine
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[def28]

And this is the problem that studios are going to have to face, you can't cater to us 80's and 90's kids forever.

That's kind of the crazy thing when a lot of these franchises won't die though. Properties like Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Transformers, Disney movies, DC characters etc all have different generations who grew up with them now. They'll be nostalgic to every generation in some form. Likewise with video games.

They might originate or have hit their major marketing origins from the 80s and 90s but they'll just keep going since the studios want their properties to continue forever and their characters to be timeless.

 

[jmc]

That's kind of the crazy thing when a lot of these franchises won't die though. Properties like Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Transformers, Disney movies, DC characters etc all have different generations who grew up with them now. They'll be nostalgic to every generation in some form. Likewise with video games.

They might originate or have hit their major marketing origins from the 80s and 90s but they'll just keep going since the studios want their properties to continue forever and their characters to be timeless.

Which is a recipe for disaster in the long term. But hey, if they don't want to invest in new properties it's their choice.

 

[def28]

Which is a recipe for disaster in the long term. But hey, if they don't want to invest in new properties it's their choice.

Oh I agree. There needs to be a balance. When they force feed it like we have seen with numerous remakes it's not a guarantee. They'll get another Robocop or Ghostbusters when it's not handled right. The name and nostalgia won't be enough.

They want that money though. The merch alone is worth more then most original properties box office gross in their eyes.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

It seems the advertising for this film has sold only the visuals and action within the gaming system while showing almost nothing of what the film's plot is about. That's never a good sign.

 

[Marvolo]

Ready Player One tracking for sluggish $35M+ debut.

Cant say Im surprised. The Virtual Reality stuff looks like a chaotic confusing mess of substandard cgi. Anyone that doesnt know the book isnt going to consider that the visual effects are supposed to be video game-like quality. They will just think its a film with extremely fake looking cgi. And the people that havent read the book probably dont know why the film is a cluster**** of pop culture items and characters.

 

[nite-owl]

It seems the advertising for this film has sold only the visuals and action within the gaming system while showing almost nothing of what the film's plot is about. That's never a good sign.

It's basically about a dystopian future were we are stuck regurgitating manufactured nostalgia from the 80s and 90s.


Which seems unbelievable to me.

 

[Kane52630]

They should have released it closer to Summer.

 

[2kt09]

It's basically about a dystopian future were we are stuck regurgitating manufactured nostalgia from the 80s and 90s.

Which seems unbelievable to me.

Sounds like reality to me. Hollywood will stop when consumers make it stop.
This is the chance to relish in irony.

 

[Mandon Knight]

It's basically about a dystopian future were we are stuck regurgitating manufactured nostalgia from the 80s and 90s.


Which seems unbelievable to me.

Absurd notion t:

I was looking at the author's other work in my local bookshop the other day and he just seems to mine or rip off (dependent on one's point of view), other established stories, change a few details, here and there and ta-dah, you have a new book. Armada reads as The Last Starfighter, lucky guy if you can put a cheap spin on something and have it 'hailed' as ground breaking when it clearly isn't.

 

[Jonwo]

I wouldn't be surprised if the final film is different from the book, it wouldn't be the first time that Spielberg has made big changes to the source material, it did the same with Jaws and Jurassic Park.

 

[DyeLorean]

Some things on the book HAD to be changed, are unfilmable or pretty boring if they did.

 

[Mysteryman]

I wouldn't be surprised if the final film is different from the book, it wouldn't be the first time that Spielberg has made big changes to the source material, it did the same with Jaws and Jurassic Park.

Maybe so, but look how those two films turned out.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Maybe so, but look how those two films turned out.

Even at my most optimistic, I don't see Jaws or Jurassic Park here, LOL! This is looking like BFG quality.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Enter a New Reality in This Ready Player One Extended Spot

 

[2kt09]

I legit saw this as Spielberg trying to get his own Avatar foot through the door.

 

[Jonwo]

Even at my most optimistic, I don't see Jaws or Jurassic Park here, LOL! This is looking like BFG quality.

The BFG was good though,

 

[Spider-Fan]

The BFG was good though,

Not saying it wasn't. But, was it Jaws or Jurassic Park? No.