Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One"

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You thought Warner Bros stopped showcasing their catalog of properties in “The LEGO Movie” & “The LEGO Batman Movie”? Boy, that was just the beginning. Nearly every film and video game property that Warner Bros owns appears in “Ready Player One”. Every horror film icon, blockbuster icon, and, especially, video game character that WB has the legal rights to make an appearance. But then, on the same level as “Wreck It Ralph”, you see plenty of other characters and icons that you’re familiar with popping up as cameos. Instead of it being so in-your-face, they’re in the background with something to do but surprise you in a way that triggers your nostalgia.



This movie is the closest thing you’ll get to a MUGEN adaptation if I’ve ever seen one because, instead only putting several pop culture characters in here, they brought EVERYTHING! From movies, anime, manga, TV, and video games, the film embraces the lore of pop culture and presents it to you in in the best way possible. “Ready Player One” is a huge love letter to the 80s from the gaming, music, and movies. Adam Sandler is currently beating himself up as we speak for ****ing up “Pixels” so bad.

To see this written world of Cline’s OASIS come to life is amazing. Whenever the film focuses on the OASIS, which is the primary reason you’re going to see this movie anyway, the film shines. The OASIS is such a spectacular, visual splendor to look at that you’re immediately immersed into the world. It has the “Wakanda effect” where this fictional world has so much imagination and clever ideas flowing like a systematic community that you wish it was real so you could live there (or at least visit).



FULL REVIEW HERE: http://www.rendyreviews.com/movies//ready-player-one-review
 
DACrowe said:
If you defend the first hour of KOTCS, I'd say the first act of Hook is far better. The lead-up to Peter going to Neverland with the "abduction" shot like a horror movie, and the use of Maggie Smith as an elderly Wendy forcing him to remember the magic, and his introduction to Tinkerbell is all very good...

It gets a little sideways at times after that, but never toxically so like Always. Always is a train wreck of a movie that he never even talks about anymore. The biggest issue is that Spielberg is awkward at filming the romance, and Richard Dreyfuss is entirely miscast as the lead in this story. It was the first and last time Spielberg cast someone because they were a friend. The only thing watchable in it is Audrey Hepburn as the angel. Otherwise, the movie is kind of shamed in how Ghost did the same overall story so much better a year later.
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I am going to be that guy and say I like Crystal Skull. Shia is a problem, the swinging with the monkeys bit is beyond awful and the CGI squirrels are just bizarre. But I think a lot of it works really well, it has some great set pieces and Harrison is just great in it.
 
DarthSkywalker said:
I am going to be that guy and say I like Crystal Skull. Shia is a problem, the swinging with the monkeys bit is beyond awful and the CGI squirrels are just bizarre. But I think a lot of it works really well, it has some great set pieces and Harrison is just great in it.
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Jesus Christ, Marie! Therye prairie dogs!
 
DarthSkywalker said:
I am going to be that guy and say I like Crystal Skull. Shia is a problem, the swinging with the monkeys bit is beyond awful and the CGI squirrels are just bizarre. But I think a lot of it works really well, it has some great set pieces and Harrison is just great in it.
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I guess that I am going to be that second guy.
I liked it, too.
 
Any word on la 3D?

I usually hate it but this seems like it'd be cool to see in that format
 
Going after work today. Preparing myself by playing Mame arcade on my laptop.
 
DarthSkywalker said:
I am going to be that guy and say I like Crystal Skull. Shia is a problem, the swinging with the monkeys bit is beyond awful and the CGI squirrels are just bizarre. But I think a lot of it works really well, it has some great set pieces and Harrison is just great in it.
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Marvolo said:
Some parts are iffy but I also enjoy most of it. I'd give it a strong 7/10.
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Pretty much my feelings as well. I don’t think it’s the unforgivable, horrendous monstrosity most people make it out to be at all.
 
I have lots of problems with KOTCS but I don’t especially mind Shia in it. Tbh I think he’s just one of those people it’s cool to hate on.
 
Went to a preview last night and a really 'packed' audience, which given the pre-release 'word' surprised me but glad it was so busy.

A lot of changes from the book but understandably so, to retro-fit the audience dynamic as such and the changes although quite major, worked, really well.

Visually amazing (as expected) but I hate 3-D and saw it in 3-D and my usual problems with it failed to materialise, the colours popped and it felt organic.

Olivia Cooke is excellent, everybody else 'service-able' performances and Mendelson in particular really needs to change up his game any time soon.

Solid film, good nods to what the core audience would have expected, and really enjoyed it.

I don't think anybody but Spielberg (maybe Zemekis) could have made this film.

8/10
 
I just got back from seeing this. Spielberg is still the king.

I really enjoyed it a lot. It made a few significant changes from the book, and for the most part, the changes worked. I'm gonna be honest, when seeing some of the trailers and spots I was iffy about the deviations made from the book, but they really were made for the better. Much like Spielberg's other adaptation films like Jaws and Jurassic Park, both book and film can coexist as two very unique and great experiences.

I thought the performances were pretty good, but I have a new crush on Olivia Cooke. She really stole the show here.

As far as the pop culture references and easter eggs, I thought they were used to good effect, much like the book. Much like Stranger Things, it doesn't beat you over the head with nostalgia, they're just window dressing in telling a good story.

As a huge fan of the book, I was thoroughly pleased with it. As a huge fan of Spielberg, I can say with confidence that this is his best blockbuster (to reiterate, blockbuster, not best film in general) since Jurassic Park 25 years ago.
 
Hmm, that's a bold claim... but I have trouble disputing it. The only exception would be Minority Report, which I think had a better story and smarter sense of world-building... but I'm not sure it is much fun as this because it was so by nature depressing. Also it depends whether you count Catch Me If You Can as a blockbuster. It's a definite crowd pleaser.

But otherwise, yeah, I have to agree it is most entertaining blockbuster in that long.
 
DarthSkywalker said:
I am going to be that guy and say I like Crystal Skull. Shia is a problem, the swinging with the monkeys bit is beyond awful and the CGI squirrels are just bizarre. But I think a lot of it works really well, it has some great set pieces and Harrison is just great in it.
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I actually like KOTCS well enough for the first half (yes, including nuking the fridge). But once we hit the swinging monkeys, it really does take a nosedive in quality that it never recovers from. The college sequence is really fun though. I wish the whole movie had that kind of energy.
 
The college chase feels like old school Indiana Jones before we get to excessive CGI.
 
Mandon Knight said:
Went to a preview last night and a really 'packed' audience, which given the pre-release 'word' surprised me but glad it was so busy.

A lot of changes from the book but understandably so, to retro-fit the audience dynamic as such and the changes although quite major, worked, really well.

Visually amazing (as expected) but I hate 3-D and saw it in 3-D and my usual problems with it failed to materialise, the colours popped and it felt organic.

Olivia Cooke is excellent, everybody else 'service-able' performances and Mendelson in particular really needs to change up his game any time soon.

Solid film, good nods to what the core audience would have expected, and really enjoyed it.

I don't think anybody but Spielberg (maybe Zemekis) could have made this film.

8/10
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I thought the other members of High Five clan put in good performances. Yeah, Mendelsohn was pretty one-note corporate bad guy.
 
Yeah, Mendelsohn is really getting typecast. I assume he's playing some sort of Corporate Skrull in Captain Marvel. At least when Gary Oldman was in his "I only play villains" phase in the '90s, he changed it up and played different types of psychos. I like Mendelsohn and he's good at what he does, but Sorrento, Krennic and even the sleazy CEO he played in TDKR all seem like similar characters. But hey, he's playing the Sheriff of Nottingham next in that new Robin Hood movie later this year, so at least then time he'll be playing a greedy bastard in a medieval setting for a change.
 
Well the trade-off is that he's getting steady work in all these huge movies. That can pretty much set him for life.
 
Drizzle said:
Yeah, Mendelsohn is really getting typecast. I assume he's playing some sort of Corporate Skrull in Captain Marvel. At least when Gary Oldman was in his "I only play villains" phase in the '90s, he changed it up and played different types of psychos. I like Mendelsohn and he's good at what he does, but Sorrento, Krennic and even the sleazy CEO he played in TDKR all seem like similar characters. But hey, he's playing the Sheriff of Nottingham next in that new Robin Hood movie later this year, so at least then time he'll be playing a greedy bastard in a medieval setting for a change.
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Daggett.
 
So it looks like the movie might open to $50 million. It's gone up a bit from that early tracking. Let's see how it plays out.

I'll see the film tonight.
 
Drizzle said:
Yeah, Mendelsohn is really getting typecast. I assume he's playing some sort of Corporate Skrull in Captain Marvel. At least when Gary Oldman was in his "I only play villains" phase in the '90s, he changed it up and played different types of psychos. I like Mendelsohn and he's good at what he does, but Sorrento, Krennic and even the sleazy CEO he played in TDKR all seem like similar characters. But hey, he's playing the Sheriff of Nottingham next in that new Robin Hood movie later this year, so at least then time he'll be playing a greedy bastard in a medieval setting for a change.
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It looks more like he is playing the CEO of Nottingham Corp.:

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