The interesting thing about Iron Giant is that it diverges from Iron Man in a way that doesn't drag either of them down. Where once was one great story, now there are two. Job's a goodun.
The story of them getting the Rights to all that IP is pretty interesting. Ernest Cline said he thought about it when he was writing it and never thought it would be filmable. Warner Brothers was the studio and they were a big reason it could happen because they owned or had rights to such a large amount of IP. When IP holders heard what they were doing and that Spielberg was involved, response ended up really positive in what would otherwise have been a whole lot of refusals. As I understand it, Ultraman was missing because of some legal mess involving Netflix causing the IP to be unavailable to license. Disney had acquired Star Wars and wouldn't give up the rights. They allowed some smaller things to be used as Easter Eggs, but nothing major was included. The popular assumption is that Lucas would have let Star Wars be used given his close relationship with Spielberg. Blade Runner was bad timing with the sequel not out yet and a worry that the portrayal might not help with Blade Runner 2049. The Shining scene was a replacement for missing IP. It was a good tribute from Spielberg.
For the Ultraman part, it's not Netflix. An old Thai geezer claimed he created Ultraman while working with Tsubaruya as a trainee. They had to fight over it for many years. It was a big deal that held Ultraman from being released globally (and yes, even Thai Ultraman fans hate his guts and the audacity to claim the IPs as his own). If you want more info, search: Ultraman legal battle
I never read the interview with Cline. But i wonder what if he meant he didnt think it could be filmable because of something other than liscensing rights . Because the movie and the book are like 2 completely different stories that start at the same place and end at the same place but everything in the middle is COMPLETELY different. I saw the movie first then read the book and loved them both but the book is Soo much better!! I also read Ready Player Two which was equally amazing (to me anyway)
The only major Disney property I saw referenced was TRON, which I assume was allowable since it's not a particularly valuable property and fits thematically. Since Disney was so protective of its IP, anything related to Star Wars or the MCU was pretty much off-limits, despite both those franchises being major touchstones of geek fandom culture.
@@moondog3056 Nonsense. Lucas would've let Spielberg use anything. He let Mel Brooks make Spaceballs for one thing. Kathleen Kennedy's betrayal of her former employer on this issue was utterly sickening.
so with the heavy use of the magic spell from 80s movie Excalibur, you guys should totally watch it if you haven't already seen it... star packed too! Helen Mirren, Patrick Stewart, Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne & the best damn Merlin EVER!!
Excalibur is one of my fave movies ,gabriel Byrne did a pet project documentary on the making of it ,it finally just was available to watch here in the u.s. afew years ago ,excaliber the movie will blow your mind
Excellent recommendation! Excalibur is one of my top favorite movies. I've loved it ever since I was just 6-years-old. To this day, no matter how many times I've seen it, I still get chills during most of the major scenes and always cry at the end. Multiple times, in fact. Every time a bittersweet scene ends and I'm able to finally catch my breath, the next one starts and the tears flow right along with it. From the post-grail "Prepare for Battle" scene, to Arthur's reunion and conversations with the 3 people closest to him after that particular scene occurs, I am just non-stop waterworks. That movie remains the best King Arthur movie ever made! Yes, Camelot fans, I'm a major Richard Harris fangirl and yet I will still die on that hill!
I love the little detail of the "Extra Life" being a quarter, which is what was used to play older arcade games. Ps: How have you guy not see the Iron Giant?!
In the book he wins the extra life token by playing a perfect game of pac-man. It was a quarter, sitting on the marque of the arcade cabinet like people used to do to reserve their spot to play next.
a while ago Freddie Wong made an action short with Andy Whitfield (RIP). half way through it, Freddie gets shot, he turns to Andy: "I need a quarter!", the action cuts away from the fantasy, and they're at an arcade. Andy flips him a quarter, Freddie revives, and the shooting continues as before ... it's all a videogame. they shot it in an afternoon at an abandoned warehouse, when Andy was visiting in between shootings of Spartacus.
@schadenfreude5349 I get exactly what you are saying, especially being deep in nerd culture in the 1970s and 1980s. When the nostalgia is as strong as it is in the book, you are able to create pretty exact mentally images of what is being described. It's already known to you. So, your mind can literally turn it into your own movie.
Oh yes the fun thing was when I was reading the book I know what the book was describing before it told me what is was, like the Atari game Joust. The book was a massive nostalgi trip for me. I lost track of how many times I seen the movie WarGames.
Now I need you both to react to “bill and teds excellent adventure” because I was shocked and horrified you didn’t know the reference 😂😂😂 (As a time travel story junkie I REALLY want you to react to “ frequently asked questions about time travel” (it’s a great uk comedy) more then anything but I’ll admit bill and ted is more famous. A classic.)
Zemeckis cube is a time travel reference to Back to the Future which he wrote/directed. If you listen closely, right when Wade activates it, you hear the little piano jingle from the Back to the Future films.
I have to say my favorite part of this is how Haliday is portrayed. Its about as perfect a representation of geeks and nerds growing up in the 80s to 90s where. We didnt have many friends and most of our time was spent exploring these amazing worlds created by developers, even as crude and simple as they where back then.
So, as fellow Canadians you may find this interesting. The actress who played F'Nale (Hannah John-Kamen... she was also Ghost in Ant Man and the Wasp) was in an amazing Canadian science fiction show called Killjoys. Well worth checking out if you haven't seen it. Not expecting anyone to react too it, just love the show and want people too enjoy it. :) (By the way, for anyone who hasn't watched them, Canada has some amazing science fiction shows. Orphan Black, Lost Girl, Continuum, Killjoys, Sanctuary... all well worth a watch to any fan of the genre!)
Yay I am so glad you referenced Killjoys. That is one of my all time favorite SCI-FI TV shows. My favorite characters in that show are Johnny, Pre and Lucy or also Terin.
I love watching reactors who are 80's memorabila buffs watching this for their first time, but the reactors who are gamers REALLY get emotionally invested! This reaction reminded me of all of the reasons why you two are among my favorite reactors. I thoroughly enjoyed watching you watching it!
Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick (who directed The Shining) met at the Overlook hotel set in 1979 when Kubrick was making Shining and Spielberg was making Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the two became such close friends. In fact, Spielberg’s 2001 film, A.I. was originally meant to be made my Kubrick but he died before the technology could be advanced and so Spielberg made the film in his honor of an unfulfilled project (which funnily enough, Kubrick wanted Spielberg to make it). The Shining sequence was more of just Spielberg wanting to commemorate his friend’s iconic film for newer generations while being nostalgic for when their 19 years of friendship first began.
Kubrick also spent years working on a Holocaust film called Aryan Papers, but Spielberg released Schindler's List first and Kubrick bowed away from the project after seeing it.
Another fun fact about the movie A.I. is that Kubrick had spent years storyboarding the movie and Spielberg made it a point to use those story boards as his guide in order to make it as close to Kubrick’s vision as he possibly could.
"Ahnal nathrakh uthvas bethuud dochiel dienveh" is the sacred charm of making in Excalibur (1975). Also, Parzival and Daito's eyes glow red when they are confronting Sorrento, just like the replicants' in Blade Runner.
The reason you weren't bothered by the book spoiling "The Shining" for you is because it was "War Games" in the book. Which is kinda a talkie teen adventure movie, and the reciting of scenes really doesn't break the movie from working (as well as it can) in full.
The Shining was released in February 1980, it really isn't an 80s movie at all. Spielberg just likes Kubrick. The quest gets solved by someone who hasn't even seen the movie. Hardly in the spirit of the perfection Halliday was looking for. Flicksyncs is such a great idea.
@@andrewgrant6516 Spielberg likes Kubrick but like most changes in this movie, The Shining is a WB property. War Games is not. It's a lot easier to use WB properties without paying large licensing fees and going through a ton of legal loopholes.
The music was composed by Alan Silvestri who also composed the music for the Back to the Future trilogy and the Avengers movies. In case you needed another reason to love it!
Yeah, the only disappointment was all the cool references they changed for the movie as I liked the book culture references better. But the movie is good too and obviously getting all the rights from the book would’ve cost major money, but I’ll always imagine what could’ve been if the book had been filmed as is.
@@gregsteele806 Totally agree. They're both good for different reasons but the Key Tests would have bored most audiences but they work so well in a book.
If you like audiobooks, Wil Wheaton did the reading for this book, and the sequel “Ready Player Two”, and did a fantastic job! I will also add to cacophony of voices: Simone has to watch The Iron Giant!!!!
I love that they included Halliday's construct saying "Thank you for playing my game." A nearly direct quote of the late Satoru Iwata of Nintendo, thanking gamers for finding joy in his works. IMO this movie is about the mutual love that exists between people who create art and the people who admire it, derived of their mutual love of the art itself, hence the answer to the final challenge being the hidden name credit of Warren Robinett, hidden for the benefit of players who loved playing Adventure enough to discover the name of the man who had made the thing from which they got so much joy.
I saw this in the theater... I forgot how good it actually was!! As a 30-year resident of Columbus, OH, I am disappointed that none of it was shot here. Just a couple of composite skyline shots.
5:54 - The Batmobile from the 1966 Batman TV show. 6:34 - In the background: Lonestar's Winnebago from Spaceballs, a classic 1978 Battlestar Galactica Viper, a Buck Rogers Starfighter, ED-209 from Robocop, and an EVA pod from 2001: A space Odyssey. 11:38 - Beetlejuice. 28:17 - The incantation to activate/deactivate the orb is the sacred charm of making from the movie Excalibur (1981). 28:30 - Spawn, and a gremlin. 29:47 - "What's Mechagodzilla?" - Originally a replica of Godzilla created by aliens. It was exposed as a machine when Godzilla tore its skin off and destroyed it. Later depictions showed it as a human-made weapon for fighting Godzilla. Not to be confused with Mech-King Ghidorah. 30:40 - An Aliens pulse rifle. 31:13 - The Glave from Krull (1983). 31:37 - A classic blaster from Battlestar Galactica (1978). 32:12 - "So he played through the entire game?" - Adventure isn't exactly a long game. You can speedrun it in a couple of minutes if you know where to go. Probably faster, I was never a speedrunner.
Dead on about Spielberg being able to call in favors to get all of the IP, but also, think about how many things he's directed or produced himself, or have fallen under his banner with Amblin and DreamWorks. If anyone in Hollywood has pretty much carte blanche, it's him.
well kinda sorta. Most of the IP falls under Warner Brothers. There's a few that don't but for the most part it's WB, the makers of the film. That's why the Iron Giant is used. It's not in the book but they changed it to a WB property.
@@Jumpman67 Oh I know. I'm saying, in addition to the stuff he has ownership over, if anyone can call in favors to get the rest, it's Spielberg. What production company is going to say no to Steven Spielberg?
Hearing you talk about Simon Pegg made me realise that you would both *love* Spaced. I know this channel is mainly for movie reactions these days but even if it's in your own time I'd recommend you give it a watch! So many movie references in that, and lots of familiar faces for you both I'm sure.
This one where I love the changes from the book as it makes sense. The opening of the book stating "movies, tv shows, comics etc have been done, but this is the true story". Makes it feel like the movie is part of the book.
In regards to driving backwards in the race, to be fair, youd have to go ALL IN, "pedal to the metal" as he said, meaning risk zeroing out and losing everything in a car crash. Its not airtight, but makes a lil more sense why it might notve opened yet Overall, for how much nostalgia bait this movie is, noone does it better or deserves it more than Spielberg
It wasn't the Shining in the book. It was WarGames, and they had to act the whole thing out. That concept was new to the Oasis and became a very popular thing to do after the challenge was won.
There was A LOT changed from the book for the movie, but all in all, I very much enjoyed both. One thing you might like to know tho, in the book, I'm pretty sure Artemis/Samantha was Canadian. Also, recently the sequel book came out - Ready Player Two. I'm seriously hoping they make it into a sequel movie to this.
For a fun experience listen to the audiobook version. Wil Wheaton does a phenomenal job reading/performing the book. Take long walks and enjoy auditory-virtual-reality. I guarantee the pictures will be amazing.
I love the reference to the Take on Me video (Halliday’s favourite song): in Samantha‘s apartment when the IOI burst in, it copies the a-ha video when they escape through a whole in the wall but one gets left behind to fight the man with the wrench.
The spell utilized to kick off the orb is known as the "Spell of Making" from the movie Excalibur. It was funny, as soon as he started to say it, I recognized it and chanted along with him.
hen Z used the Zemeckis Cube, there was a quick musical flourish. the melody was taken from Back to the Future, the trilogy than Zemeckis directed, i can't believe you didn't catch that
The badass woman is played by Hanna John Keren. She was in a Canadian Sci-Fi show called Killjoys back in about 2016 I might be off on the year. SHe was a space bounty hunter with Aroron Ashmoore sorry for the spellings on his name. Also Luke McFarland was in it too.
This movie was always going to be challenging to adapt from the book, but getting Spielberg and nailing that corny sincere tone was exactly the right call. It makes it such a fun movie!
I'm really glad you two enjoyed this. If you enjoyed the book, I'd also recommend Ready Player Two. It's a rather fascinating continuation in a way that makes sense. Much like Ready Player one, some humour, some heart-hitting moments, all in all, worth the read.
This probably shows my age but no one else gets the reference of when I-Rok speaks the magic spell. The line he uses to activate the orb is the one Merlin uses in the eighties movie Excalibur to perform a powerful spell.
I'm glad that I was warned beforehand, that Spielberg was working with the original author to create the "alternate" version and differences in the movie compared to the book. Some folks came out disgusted that a lot of things were changed. I loved both, but I highly recommend the book for a larger, more in-depth experience.
In the book, almost all of the avatars and "skins", vehicles, robots, etc. were from the 70's, 80's and 90's. The Blizzard stuff was not in there because the book was written before any of those characters existed.
I would love yall to see Tomorrowland. It's directed by Brad Bird.....who also did The Iron Giant! And The Incredibles. It's flawed....I'm convinced his vision was marred by studio meddling. But it's still one of my favorites.
Also Simone- I don’t know if anyone’s said it but if you wanted to read the book, but didn’t have time to read it, the audiobook is fantastically narrated by Will Wheaton (Wesley on Star Trek)
FYI - since the movie is all pop culture references, the spell to activate the orb were the "Words of Making" that Merlin taught Morgana in the movie Excalibur. Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha. The Charm of Making, an incantation repeatedly uttered by both Merlin and Morgana, is in an Old Gaelic dialect that translates to "Serpent's breath, charm of death and life, thy omen of making."
the t-rex in the opening race is actually the same t-rex from Jurassic Park. and when the Batmobile skidded of the track, it 'skidded' the Batman theme tune
I haven't read the novel, but when I went to the theater to watch this movie, pretty much midway to the movie I went: "Wait, I think I have seen this before in anime form", and by the time the Easter Egg was shown it hit me, litteraly I said to myself "I knew it, I've already seen this story in anime form....its Sword Art Online". While Ready Player One and Sword Art Online(SAO) are quite different, they also have a lot of similarities, at least compared to the first two story arcs in Sword Art Online. So, if for some reason someone reading this comment has not seen or read Swort Art Online, there will be a lot of spoilers so be warned. In both SAO and RPO the setting is a virtual world, the difference is that in SAO is a VRMMORPG. In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist is a teenager with the same letters as name and last name. WW in RPO and KK in SAO. In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist lost his parents and is living with his aunt. The difference is that in SAO the main protagonist also has a cousin but considers her his sister and the aunt treats him as his son. In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist has a friend that he met in the virtual world. In SAO the difference is much more bigger, since the main protagonist at first didn't want to be friends but eventually treated him as a comarade and friend. In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist finds love with a fellow female player. In SAO however she wasn't hiding who she was, she even used her real name as her avatar name, but because she didn't really had experience with MMORPGs or virtual worlds. In both SAO and RPO the creator of the virtual world did it because that world was his childhood dream. In SAO however the creator turned it into a life or death battle royale, if you die in the game you die in the real world. In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist is not really part of a guild or party, is basically a solo player but at the end meets people who ends up being his friends and guild members or party members. In SAO however, counting the main protagonist, there are only two males and the rest are females, one is the cousin, the other is the girlfriend and there are three others and two have shown romantical interest in the main protagonist, in other words, it takes the route of the anime harem trope. In both SAO and RPO, there is an evil corporation guy who wants to take control of the virtual world. Though in SAO, they guy is much more evil in the sense that to acomplish this, he sort of "marries" the main protagonist's girlfriend while she is in a "coma" (she is trapped in the virtual world and can't get out because of the guy) to take control of the company's assets and plans to keep the girl in the virtual world and do shady things to her there that he cannot do in the real world. In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist at the end owns the Easter Egg. In SAO however is not called Easter Egg, it's called "The Seed", and doesn't grant you the ownership of a company, instead it's like a software installer, it allows to create instances of the VRMMORPG world for others to use and modify at will, so other people or even companies can have a basic distro of the VRMMORPG world and create new worlds base around it...think of it as a VRMMORPG engine. In both SAO and RPO, the creator of the virtual world is dead. However in SAO he dies at the end of the first arc but then meets the protagonist in the second arc as a sort of AI and latter reapears in another arc to help the main protagonist. In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist asks the avatar of the creator if he is alive. In SAO however the avatar does respond that he is not sure, he believes that he is the digital ghost of the creator, the remains that carries his will after dying. I don't think Ready Player One copied Sword Art Online, but if you watch them side by side, you notice there are a lot of similarities, but Sword Art Online takes the story more towards AI, as the characters in the virtual world start to exhibit sentience and, in one instance, that was the ultimate purpouse of an organization, to create an AI using the Virtual World. The virtual world also has a Mental Heath program AI character that Ready Player One (at least the movie) doesn't have.
The Halliday character was born in 1972. He took Kira to see the Shining, which would've come out in 1980. If he got a girl to go on a date at 8 or 9, that kid had more game than we realized. How did he get into a rated R movie? :)
the spell they recite is from the John Boorman movie "Excalibur" with Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Liam Neeson and so many more, if you ever decide to do an Arthurian Legend movie, then this is the one to watch for sure.
To be fair, in the book, getting the copper key was a LOT harder and less obvious than just driving backward on a race track. Highly recommend the book for a serious nostalgia trip.
I spotted a reference in this movie that nobody spotted, and I've looked online and found nothing on it. At the HQ of the "resistance" if you pause in your video at 21:56 and at 22:03, there's a wall made of loads of panes of glass. Look carefully, they're the same style and layout, with blacked out panes, that match the music-light-wall at the end of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. I think I might be the only person to ever notice it :D Bewm!
3:20 I love the enterprise floral arrangement . He had ski ball tokens on his eyes instead of gold pieces, so he could pay the ferryman or Charon to cross the river Styx.
Dude, this movie is awesome but as usual the book is better. What does that say when the movie is this good? I recommend the enhanced audiobook version. It is *amazing.* Will Wheaton is a surprisingly good narrator and whenever anything is referenced, a soundbite of that thing plays. They also play some amazing music during important scenes sometimes.
I love when audiobooks go the extra mile and take advantage of the different medium. There's a pretty good fan made one on UA-cam for The Martian with sound effects and different voice actors. Pretty impressive... My favorite audiobook is World War Z. Different actors playing the interviewer and interviewee is such a small thing, but makes all the difference.
@@lashier13 I'm gonna have to check those out. Loved RP1 and RP2. Also Will Wheaton read Armada from same author and you can feel this guys love for the 80s even in armada.
I wonder, in stead of using the Spell of Creation from "Excalibur" (1981) to activate the Orb of Osuvox, what if they would have used the Spell for Substitutionary Locomotion from "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971)? Just a thought, might have been funny, especially if they had to sing it out :D
No one ever notices that serenity comes flying in first when they go to the Disco and then at the end whenever he jumps off of it as the giant robot as the Gundam
Guys, you absolutely have to watch "The Shining" and it's legacy sequel, "Doctor Sleep" (preferably the Director's Cut). Luckily, Ready Player One remixes the elements of the movie so it doesn't really spoil it.
I have been waiting for you guys to watch this movie this is easily one of my more favorite movies I'm saying this before I even continue watching the intro to the movie I'm just worried of how many references you guys might miss LOL
The only thing with more references than this film is this reaction: Bill and Ted? Diablo Goblin Vaults? The list goes on, and warms my game designer/dev heart sooo much 😊
The Zemekis Cube is named after Robert Zemekis who wrote and directed Back to the Future.
He did know that at one point but I guess when he said he doesn't really listen to Simone that was more true than I thought it was.
@@TrickyDicky2006 Nope. It's called a Zemeckis cube because it rewinds time. Rubick's cubes to my knowledge don't have that ability.
Plus dude is driving the BTF Delorean… Geo come on man
Not only that, but when he activated it, we hear a bit of the BTTF theme (also composed by Alan Silvestri)
And because it makes things go back in time, a little of the back to the future theme can be heard when he uses it
Also ... HOW HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN "THE IRON GIANT"????? Do yourselves the favor of seeing it ASAP. You will love it so, so much.
+1 to this. Iron Giant DEFINITELY needs to make the Cinebinge list!
+1, Get it done NOW!
"Superman"... tear jerker every fudging time
Yeah!! is the best superman movie ever
yes please
Gonna take a break from my usual “You should watch Master and Commander” comment to say you all should ABSOLUTELY watch The Iron Giant! It’s perfect
The interesting thing about Iron Giant is that it diverges from Iron Man in a way that doesn't drag either of them down. Where once was one great story, now there are two. Job's a goodun.
And also, Master and Commander.
This!
They should though. Please keep making that comment.
@@jculver1674 Absolutely. It's a FANTASTIC movie. Totally underappreciated in its time, but I'm glad its getting so much traction these days.
Halliday saying, "Thanks for playing my game" always hits me in the feels no matter how many times I see it.
Damn VR ninjas cutting onions.
"no man is a failure who has friends" - Clarence the angel to George Bailey, "It's a Wonderful Life"
The story of them getting the Rights to all that IP is pretty interesting.
Ernest Cline said he thought about it when he was writing it and never thought it would be filmable.
Warner Brothers was the studio and they were a big reason it could happen because they owned or had rights to such a large amount of IP.
When IP holders heard what they were doing and that Spielberg was involved, response ended up really positive in what would otherwise have been a whole lot of refusals.
As I understand it, Ultraman was missing because of some legal mess involving Netflix causing the IP to be unavailable to license.
Disney had acquired Star Wars and wouldn't give up the rights. They allowed some smaller things to be used as Easter Eggs, but nothing major was included. The popular assumption is that Lucas would have let Star Wars be used given his close relationship with Spielberg.
Blade Runner was bad timing with the sequel not out yet and a worry that the portrayal might not help with Blade Runner 2049.
The Shining scene was a replacement for missing IP. It was a good tribute from Spielberg.
For the Ultraman part, it's not Netflix. An old Thai geezer claimed he created Ultraman while working with Tsubaruya as a trainee. They had to fight over it for many years. It was a big deal that held Ultraman from being released globally (and yes, even Thai Ultraman fans hate his guts and the audacity to claim the IPs as his own).
If you want more info, search: Ultraman legal battle
As they say, you'll need lots of lawyers. Too bad they are the only ones who profit
I never read the interview with Cline. But i wonder what if he meant he didnt think it could be filmable because of something other than liscensing rights . Because the movie and the book are like 2 completely different stories that start at the same place and end at the same place but everything in the middle is COMPLETELY different. I saw the movie first then read the book and loved them both but the book is Soo much better!! I also read Ready Player Two which was equally amazing (to me anyway)
The only major Disney property I saw referenced was TRON, which I assume was allowable since it's not a particularly valuable property and fits thematically. Since Disney was so protective of its IP, anything related to Star Wars or the MCU was pretty much off-limits, despite both those franchises being major touchstones of geek fandom culture.
@@moondog3056 Nonsense. Lucas would've let Spielberg use anything. He let Mel Brooks make Spaceballs for one thing. Kathleen Kennedy's betrayal of her former employer on this issue was utterly sickening.
Zemeckis directed Back to the Future, ergo Zemeckis Cube
so with the heavy use of the magic spell from 80s movie Excalibur, you guys should totally watch it if you haven't already seen it... star packed too! Helen Mirren, Patrick Stewart, Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne & the best damn Merlin EVER!!
Excalibur is one of my fave movies ,gabriel Byrne did a pet project documentary on the making of it ,it finally just was available to watch here in the u.s. afew years ago ,excaliber the movie will blow your mind
1000 times yes! One of my favorites. IMO, Excalibur is the definitive movie version of the Arthurian legend.
Excellent recommendation! Excalibur is one of my top favorite movies. I've loved it ever since I was just 6-years-old.
To this day, no matter how many times I've seen it, I still get chills during most of the major scenes and always cry at the end. Multiple times, in fact. Every time a bittersweet scene ends and I'm able to finally catch my breath, the next one starts and the tears flow right along with it.
From the post-grail "Prepare for Battle" scene, to Arthur's reunion and conversations with the 3 people closest to him after that particular scene occurs, I am just non-stop waterworks.
That movie remains the best King Arthur movie ever made! Yes, Camelot fans, I'm a major Richard Harris fangirl and yet I will still die on that hill!
@@SquishedFaeries I can't believe I finally came across someone else who cries at the end of Excalibur! People laugh when I say that I do that.
That def was the best Merlin.
I love the little detail of the "Extra Life" being a quarter, which is what was used to play older arcade games.
Ps: How have you guy not see the Iron Giant?!
In the book he wins the extra life token by playing a perfect game of pac-man. It was a quarter, sitting on the marque of the arcade cabinet like people used to do to reserve their spot to play next.
a while ago Freddie Wong made an action short with Andy Whitfield (RIP).
half way through it, Freddie gets shot, he turns to Andy: "I need a quarter!", the action cuts away from the fantasy, and they're at an arcade.
Andy flips him a quarter, Freddie revives, and the shooting continues as before ... it's all a videogame.
they shot it in an afternoon at an abandoned warehouse, when Andy was visiting in between shootings of Spartacus.
@@gregsteele806 it was great in the book
This book, and the movie, are love letters to us 80s kids. It's a lot of fun going through the book and movie to find all the references.
@schadenfreude5349 I get exactly what you are saying, especially being deep in nerd culture in the 1970s and 1980s. When the nostalgia is as strong as it is in the book, you are able to create pretty exact mentally images of what is being described. It's already known to you. So, your mind can literally turn it into your own movie.
Oh yes the fun thing was when I was reading the book I know what the book was describing before it told me what is was, like the Atari game Joust. The book was a massive nostalgi trip for me. I lost track of how many times I seen the movie WarGames.
Now I need you both to react to “bill and teds excellent adventure” because I was shocked and horrified you didn’t know the reference 😂😂😂
(As a time travel story junkie I REALLY want you to react to “ frequently asked questions about time travel” (it’s a great uk comedy) more then anything but I’ll admit bill and ted is more famous. A classic.)
"...because I was shocked and horrified you didn’t know the reference"
Same! They NEED to watch that one.
Besides...RUFFUS
@@galadballcrusher8182 Totally Dude.
Zemeckis cube is a time travel reference to Back to the Future which he wrote/directed. If you listen closely, right when Wade activates it, you hear the little piano jingle from the Back to the Future films.
I have to say my favorite part of this is how Haliday is portrayed. Its about as perfect a representation of geeks and nerds growing up in the 80s to 90s where. We didnt have many friends and most of our time was spent exploring these amazing worlds created by developers, even as crude and simple as they where back then.
So, as fellow Canadians you may find this interesting. The actress who played F'Nale (Hannah John-Kamen... she was also Ghost in Ant Man and the Wasp) was in an amazing Canadian science fiction show called Killjoys. Well worth checking out if you haven't seen it. Not expecting anyone to react too it, just love the show and want people too enjoy it. :) (By the way, for anyone who hasn't watched them, Canada has some amazing science fiction shows. Orphan Black, Lost Girl, Continuum, Killjoys, Sanctuary... all well worth a watch to any fan of the genre!)
I watched the first few seasons of Continuum, and it was sweet, with great world building.
Sanctuary is excellent.
Yay I am so glad you referenced Killjoys. That is one of my all time favorite SCI-FI TV shows. My favorite characters in that show are Johnny, Pre and Lucy or also Terin.
Love all your callbacks mentioned. Watched them all, was a huge fan of Continuum
Sanctuary was amazing, wish they did more seasons
I love watching reactors who are 80's memorabila buffs watching this for their first time, but the reactors who are gamers REALLY get emotionally invested! This reaction reminded me of all of the reasons why you two are among my favorite reactors. I thoroughly enjoyed watching you watching it!
As a RUSH fan I loved that in the book they had to go the a planet called Syrinx that referenced the Rush album "2112".
I LOVE SIMONE'S REACTION!!! Movie is more about feelings than just having a great time, and she nailed it. Love you guys!
Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick (who directed The Shining) met at the Overlook hotel set in 1979 when Kubrick was making Shining and Spielberg was making Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the two became such close friends. In fact, Spielberg’s 2001 film, A.I. was originally meant to be made my Kubrick but he died before the technology could be advanced and so Spielberg made the film in his honor of an unfulfilled project (which funnily enough, Kubrick wanted Spielberg to make it).
The Shining sequence was more of just Spielberg wanting to commemorate his friend’s iconic film for newer generations while being nostalgic for when their 19 years of friendship first began.
Kubrick also spent years working on a Holocaust film called Aryan Papers, but Spielberg released Schindler's List first and Kubrick bowed away from the project after seeing it.
Another fun fact about the movie A.I. is that Kubrick had spent years storyboarding the movie and Spielberg made it a point to use those story boards as his guide in order to make it as close to Kubrick’s vision as he possibly could.
Zemeckis cube: a reference to Back to the Future and hence the cube’s ability to turn back time.
"Ahnal nathrakh uthvas bethuud dochiel dienveh" is the sacred charm of making in Excalibur (1975). Also, Parzival and Daito's eyes glow red when they are confronting Sorrento, just like the replicants' in Blade Runner.
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who's seen Excalibur.
This is one of those movies, where I’m just as entertained and still get all the feels no matter how many times I watch it.
The reason you weren't bothered by the book spoiling "The Shining" for you is because it was "War Games" in the book. Which is kinda a talkie teen adventure movie, and the reciting of scenes really doesn't break the movie from working (as well as it can) in full.
The Shining was released in February 1980, it really isn't an 80s movie at all. Spielberg just likes Kubrick. The quest gets solved by someone who hasn't even seen the movie. Hardly in the spirit of the perfection Halliday was looking for. Flicksyncs is such a great idea.
@@andrewgrant6516 Spielberg likes Kubrick but like most changes in this movie, The Shining is a WB property. War Games is not. It's a lot easier to use WB properties without paying large licensing fees and going through a ton of legal loopholes.
@@andrewgrant6516 "Flicksyncs is such a great idea"
For a book maybe, for the movie? Definitely not.
@@andrewgrant6516 He wanted to use Blade Runner in the movie but couldn't get the rights. After that, he went with The Shining.
Well, now George and Simone are going to have to watch "The Shining".
The music was composed by Alan Silvestri who also composed the music for the Back to the Future trilogy and the Avengers movies. In case you needed another reason to love it!
You guys must watch the Iron Giant! I think you'll both love it.
Yeah, the only disappointment was all the cool references they changed for the movie as I liked the book culture references better. But the movie is good too and obviously getting all the rights from the book would’ve cost major money, but I’ll always imagine what could’ve been if the book had been filmed as is.
I love the book, but most of the puzzles / challenges in the books would not have translated well to screen.
@@gregsteele806 I agree. Especially how multi-layered they were. They would’ve dragged the pace down a bit.
@@gregsteele806 The Wargames quest would've been cool though
@@gregsteele806 Totally agree. They're both good for different reasons but the Key Tests would have bored most audiences but they work so well in a book.
The book is really different from the movie.
There is a behind the scenes video of Aech (H)' garage, that shows more of the vehicles and in plain sight is a Tardis
If you like audiobooks, Wil Wheaton did the reading for this book, and the sequel “Ready Player Two”, and did a fantastic job! I will also add to cacophony of voices: Simone has to watch The Iron Giant!!!!
The best thing about this movie is you can watch the whole thing and still read the book without much of a spoiler.
The worst thing about the book is everything.
The spell for the orb is from the movie Excalibur, in case you didn't know.
Man i was critical towards this movie in every way you could think but watching you two just sit and enjoy it was really wholesome, thank you
That opening race always makes me wish for a sequel to Split Second. Such a fun racing game.
I love that they included Halliday's construct saying "Thank you for playing my game."
A nearly direct quote of the late Satoru Iwata of Nintendo, thanking gamers for finding joy in his works.
IMO this movie is about the mutual love that exists between people who create art and the people who admire it, derived of their mutual love of the art itself, hence the answer to the final challenge being the hidden name credit of Warren Robinett, hidden for the benefit of players who loved playing Adventure enough to discover the name of the man who had made the thing from which they got so much joy.
I saw this in the theater... I forgot how good it actually was!!
As a 30-year resident of Columbus, OH, I am disappointed that none of it was shot here. Just a couple of composite skyline shots.
5:54 - The Batmobile from the 1966 Batman TV show.
6:34 - In the background: Lonestar's Winnebago from Spaceballs, a classic 1978 Battlestar Galactica Viper, a Buck Rogers Starfighter, ED-209 from Robocop, and an EVA pod from 2001: A space Odyssey.
11:38 - Beetlejuice.
28:17 - The incantation to activate/deactivate the orb is the sacred charm of making from the movie Excalibur (1981).
28:30 - Spawn, and a gremlin.
29:47 - "What's Mechagodzilla?" - Originally a replica of Godzilla created by aliens. It was exposed as a machine when Godzilla tore its skin off and destroyed it. Later depictions showed it as a human-made weapon for fighting Godzilla. Not to be confused with Mech-King Ghidorah.
30:40 - An Aliens pulse rifle.
31:13 - The Glave from Krull (1983).
31:37 - A classic blaster from Battlestar Galactica (1978).
32:12 - "So he played through the entire game?" - Adventure isn't exactly a long game. You can speedrun it in a couple of minutes if you know where to go. Probably faster, I was never a speedrunner.
@@lurkerrekrul When the 60s Batmobile skids to a stop, the beat of the skids is the same as the Batman theme. :)
This is a movie that needs to be seen in 3D. Even better if in VR. Saw it in 3D on my Quest 2. Amazing.
Dead on about Spielberg being able to call in favors to get all of the IP, but also, think about how many things he's directed or produced himself, or have fallen under his banner with Amblin and DreamWorks. If anyone in Hollywood has pretty much carte blanche, it's him.
well kinda sorta. Most of the IP falls under Warner Brothers. There's a few that don't but for the most part it's WB, the makers of the film. That's why the Iron Giant is used. It's not in the book but they changed it to a WB property.
@@Jumpman67 Oh I know. I'm saying, in addition to the stuff he has ownership over, if anyone can call in favors to get the rest, it's Spielberg. What production company is going to say no to Steven Spielberg?
Hearing you talk about Simon Pegg made me realise that you would both *love* Spaced. I know this channel is mainly for movie reactions these days but even if it's in your own time I'd recommend you give it a watch! So many movie references in that, and lots of familiar faces for you both I'm sure.
Pudding!
This one where I love the changes from the book as it makes sense. The opening of the book stating "movies, tv shows, comics etc have been done, but this is the true story". Makes it feel like the movie is part of the book.
"you want my treasure, you can have it I left everything I gathered together in one place. Now you'll just have to find it!."
In regards to driving backwards in the race, to be fair, youd have to go ALL IN, "pedal to the metal" as he said, meaning risk zeroing out and losing everything in a car crash. Its not airtight, but makes a lil more sense why it might notve opened yet
Overall, for how much nostalgia bait this movie is, noone does it better or deserves it more than Spielberg
This is one of my favorite movies, even though I never even heard of it until well after it was out
Took me a bit to realize that the main actress, Olivia Cooke, is also Alicent in House of the Dragon.
yep. Time flies.
It wasn't the Shining in the book. It was WarGames, and they had to act the whole thing out. That concept was new to the Oasis and became a very popular thing to do after the challenge was won.
15:08 Well , Robert Zemeckis did direct all three Back To The Future films❤️👍 and given the functionality of the cube , its not far off 😅
There was A LOT changed from the book for the movie, but all in all, I very much enjoyed both. One thing you might like to know tho, in the book, I'm pretty sure Artemis/Samantha was Canadian.
Also, recently the sequel book came out - Ready Player Two. I'm seriously hoping they make it into a sequel movie to this.
For a fun experience listen to the audiobook version. Wil Wheaton does a phenomenal job reading/performing the book. Take long walks and enjoy auditory-virtual-reality. I guarantee the pictures will be amazing.
"We can fill 80% of the visual cortex without inducing seizures.". That's exactly how I imagine every phone game and social media app to be.
It's cool that you recognized T.J.Miller's voice. He is memorable with Jay Baruchel and Alice Eve in "She's Out Of My League."
Jay Baruchel was great as Hiccup in How to Train your Dragon as well!!
I love the reference to the Take on Me video (Halliday’s favourite song): in Samantha‘s apartment when the IOI burst in, it copies the a-ha video when they escape through a whole in the wall but one gets left behind to fight the man with the wrench.
The spell utilized to kick off the orb is known as the "Spell of Making" from the movie Excalibur. It was funny, as soon as he started to say it, I recognized it and chanted along with him.
"did Zemeckis did a movie about this?"
Yeah its called back to the future xD
hen Z used the Zemeckis Cube, there was a quick musical flourish. the melody was taken from Back to the Future, the trilogy than Zemeckis directed, i can't believe you didn't catch that
The badass woman is played by Hanna John Keren. She was in a Canadian Sci-Fi show called Killjoys back in about 2016 I might be off on the year. SHe was a space bounty hunter with Aroron Ashmoore sorry for the spellings on his name. Also Luke McFarland was in it too.
This movie was always going to be challenging to adapt from the book, but getting Spielberg and nailing that corny sincere tone was exactly the right call. It makes it such a fun movie!
The Zemeckis Cube turns back time. It's called that because of Back To The Future.
Loved how the last thing the aunts boyfriend said came true
Iron Giant is amazing and has Vin Diesel voicing him. It’s a hidden masterpiece
"Goodbye, Parzival. Thanks for playing my game." *eyes explode with tears*
This should give you an entire year of movie references to look up & watch.
I'm really glad you two enjoyed this. If you enjoyed the book, I'd also recommend Ready Player Two. It's a rather fascinating continuation in a way that makes sense. Much like Ready Player one, some humour, some heart-hitting moments, all in all, worth the read.
This probably shows my age but no one else gets the reference of when I-Rok speaks the magic spell. The line he uses to activate the orb is the one Merlin uses in the eighties movie Excalibur to perform a powerful spell.
I'm glad that I was warned beforehand, that Spielberg was working with the original author to create the "alternate" version and differences in the movie compared to the book. Some folks came out disgusted that a lot of things were changed. I loved both, but I highly recommend the book for a larger, more in-depth experience.
"Like Hos on Santa." "So like three?" bwahahaha
In the book, almost all of the avatars and "skins", vehicles, robots, etc. were from the 70's, 80's and 90's. The Blizzard stuff was not in there because the book was written before any of those characters existed.
The Overlook in RPO is a perfect recreation!
The book is so different from the movie that it's still 100% worth reading. Same general idea, but vastly different in the details and how it's told.
I would love yall to see Tomorrowland. It's directed by Brad Bird.....who also did The Iron Giant! And The Incredibles. It's flawed....I'm convinced his vision was marred by studio meddling. But it's still one of my favorites.
I've been dying for you both to watch this, I'm so excited! YES!! Thank you 😊
Also Simone- I don’t know if anyone’s said it but if you wanted to read the book, but didn’t have time to read it, the audiobook is fantastically narrated by Will Wheaton (Wesley on Star Trek)
FYI - since the movie is all pop culture references, the spell to activate the orb were the "Words of Making" that Merlin taught Morgana in the movie Excalibur.
Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha. The Charm of Making, an incantation repeatedly uttered by both Merlin and Morgana, is in an Old Gaelic dialect that translates to "Serpent's breath, charm of death and life, thy omen of making."
The chant for the orb is from the movie Excalibur (1981).
I'll add my voice to those clamoring for you to see the Iron Giant. But also, you must see Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. It's loads of fun!
"How many references can we catch?" That should've been the tagline for the movie.
That kid play as Wade also played younger version of Cyclops in X-Men Apocalypse & Dark Phoenix.
the t-rex in the opening race is actually the same t-rex from Jurassic Park. and when the Batmobile skidded of the track, it 'skidded' the Batman theme tune
So Halliday uploaded his consciousness into the Oasis? That's why he says he's not an avatar but he is in fact dead???
Fun fact:
The lady who was with the Sixers is also Ghost from Ant-Man And The Wasp Hannah John-Kamen
It’s called Zemekis cube cause Back To The Future
I haven't read the novel, but when I went to the theater to watch this movie, pretty much midway to the movie I went: "Wait, I think I have seen this before in anime form", and by the time the Easter Egg was shown it hit me, litteraly I said to myself "I knew it, I've already seen this story in anime form....its Sword Art Online". While Ready Player One and Sword Art Online(SAO) are quite different, they also have a lot of similarities, at least compared to the first two story arcs in Sword Art Online. So, if for some reason someone reading this comment has not seen or read Swort Art Online, there will be a lot of spoilers so be warned.
In both SAO and RPO the setting is a virtual world, the difference is that in SAO is a VRMMORPG.
In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist is a teenager with the same letters as name and last name. WW in RPO and KK in SAO.
In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist lost his parents and is living with his aunt. The difference is that in SAO the main protagonist also has a cousin but considers her his sister and the aunt treats him as his son.
In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist has a friend that he met in the virtual world. In SAO the difference is much more bigger, since the main protagonist at first didn't want to be friends but eventually treated him as a comarade and friend.
In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist finds love with a fellow female player. In SAO however she wasn't hiding who she was, she even used her real name as her avatar name, but because she didn't really had experience with MMORPGs or virtual worlds.
In both SAO and RPO the creator of the virtual world did it because that world was his childhood dream. In SAO however the creator turned it into a life or death battle royale, if you die in the game you die in the real world.
In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist is not really part of a guild or party, is basically a solo player but at the end meets people who ends up being his friends and guild members or party members. In SAO however, counting the main protagonist, there are only two males and the rest are females, one is the cousin, the other is the girlfriend and there are three others and two have shown romantical interest in the main protagonist, in other words, it takes the route of the anime harem trope.
In both SAO and RPO, there is an evil corporation guy who wants to take control of the virtual world. Though in SAO, they guy is much more evil in the sense that to acomplish this, he sort of "marries" the main protagonist's girlfriend while she is in a "coma" (she is trapped in the virtual world and can't get out because of the guy) to take control of the company's assets and plans to keep the girl in the virtual world and do shady things to her there that he cannot do in the real world.
In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist at the end owns the Easter Egg. In SAO however is not called Easter Egg, it's called "The Seed", and doesn't grant you the ownership of a company, instead it's like a software installer, it allows to create instances of the VRMMORPG world for others to use and modify at will, so other people or even companies can have a basic distro of the VRMMORPG world and create new worlds base around it...think of it as a VRMMORPG engine.
In both SAO and RPO, the creator of the virtual world is dead. However in SAO he dies at the end of the first arc but then meets the protagonist in the second arc as a sort of AI and latter reapears in another arc to help the main protagonist.
In both SAO and RPO the main protagonist asks the avatar of the creator if he is alive. In SAO however the avatar does respond that he is not sure, he believes that he is the digital ghost of the creator, the remains that carries his will after dying.
I don't think Ready Player One copied Sword Art Online, but if you watch them side by side, you notice there are a lot of similarities, but Sword Art Online takes the story more towards AI, as the characters in the virtual world start to exhibit sentience and, in one instance, that was the ultimate purpouse of an organization, to create an AI using the Virtual World. The virtual world also has a Mental Heath program AI character that Ready Player One (at least the movie) doesn't have.
Great flick. So many references such awesome music...
The Halliday character was born in 1972. He took Kira to see the Shining, which would've come out in 1980. If he got a girl to go on a date at 8 or 9, that kid had more game than we realized. How did he get into a rated R movie? :)
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I love your reactions so much ❤ thanks a lot - greetings from germany
"It goes back in time? Why do they call it the Zemeckis cube? Did he do a movie about that?" STAAAHP...I'm so disappointed in you George... 😋🤗
the spell they recite is from the John Boorman movie "Excalibur" with Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Liam Neeson and so many more, if you ever decide to do an Arthurian Legend movie, then this is the one to watch for sure.
To be fair, in the book, getting the copper key was a LOT harder and less obvious than just driving backward on a race track. Highly recommend the book for a serious nostalgia trip.
I spotted a reference in this movie that nobody spotted, and I've looked online and found nothing on it.
At the HQ of the "resistance" if you pause in your video at 21:56 and at 22:03, there's a wall made of loads of panes of glass.
Look carefully, they're the same style and layout, with blacked out panes, that match the music-light-wall at the end of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
I think I might be the only person to ever notice it :D Bewm!
also not many get the reference of the Glaive from Krull (5 point throwing knife-star) that cuts of I-Rok´s arm
3:20 I love the enterprise floral arrangement . He had ski ball tokens on his eyes instead of gold pieces, so he could pay the ferryman or Charon to cross the river Styx.
Rylance shoulda been nominated for Best Supporting Actor for this role
15:08 Zemeckis directed Back to the Future, they're playing the theme music in this scene.
Dude, this movie is awesome but as usual the book is better. What does that say when the movie is this good? I recommend the enhanced audiobook version. It is *amazing.* Will Wheaton is a surprisingly good narrator and whenever anything is referenced, a soundbite of that thing plays. They also play some amazing music during important scenes sometimes.
I love when audiobooks go the extra mile and take advantage of the different medium. There's a pretty good fan made one on UA-cam for The Martian with sound effects and different voice actors. Pretty impressive... My favorite audiobook is World War Z. Different actors playing the interviewer and interviewee is such a small thing, but makes all the difference.
@@lashier13 I'm gonna have to check those out. Loved RP1 and RP2. Also Will Wheaton read Armada from same author and you can feel this guys love for the 80s even in armada.
I wonder, in stead of using the Spell of Creation from "Excalibur" (1981) to activate the Orb of Osuvox, what if they would have used the Spell for Substitutionary Locomotion from "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971)? Just a thought, might have been funny, especially if they had to sing it out :D
No one ever notices that serenity comes flying in first when they go to the Disco and then at the end whenever he jumps off of it as the giant robot as the Gundam
One of the most underrated movies of our generation. What a blast for every geek soul of all ages
Yesss!!😆this movie is actually really good, glad you guys reacted to it, hope you make it to 100k soon.
I love that they got the Glaive from Krull to take out that guy's BFG. If you guys haven't seen that movie, you need to.
Guys, you absolutely have to watch "The Shining" and it's legacy sequel, "Doctor Sleep" (preferably the Director's Cut).
Luckily, Ready Player One remixes the elements of the movie so it doesn't really spoil it.
The book is great, but I strongly suggest listening to the audiobook. Great performance by Wil Wheaton
I have been waiting for you guys to watch this movie this is easily one of my more favorite movies I'm saying this before I even continue watching the intro to the movie I'm just worried of how many references you guys might miss LOL
Took me a couple of watches to notice Sorrento's avatar was Superman.
The only thing with more references than this film is this reaction: Bill and Ted? Diablo Goblin Vaults? The list goes on, and warms my game designer/dev heart sooo much 😊