The answer to the first riddle was so dumb though. You're telling me nobody ever thought to drive backwards? In three years? On the course to find the first clue? Bruh, I've done that in Mario Kart just for fun.
@@Ricardo2-dsm You'd keep paying money for three years straight achieving literally the same thing each time? Yeah, that's the smart choice there lmao.
@@Ricardo2-dsm Obviously, but that's the logical conclusion. What else are you gonna do? Play once and give up? Or try different methods when going straight clearly doesnt work?
Something that I find frustrating is that this is basically Charlie and the chocolate factory, but it totally misses the point of Charlie and the chocolate factory. Charlie passes the test at the end because it was the right thing to do. He didn't feel entitled to win like his grandfather did. In ready player one, the first key is won by doing the opposite of winning. The last key is also won the same way. But wade does "the right thing" simply because he knew it is what halliday wanted him to do. This made him no different then the villain. I find this so frustrating because I just don't understand *HOW* anyone can mess this up. Charlie won because he wasn't an entitled piece of shit like the other kids. The end. Wade won because... he worshipped a game maker like a God? Fail.
@@PKMNTrainerVic I think with the book it handles the contest as well as the characters better in a sense, they feel believable. You are completely right in the fact that Wade is an even bigger dick and creep in the book but that was kind of the point. He wasn't supposed to be likeable, he had an arc where he completely destroyed himself and then was willing to risk his life, not to win, but to stop IOI from winning. I also like the fact that multiple people had to open the final gate. The last challenge required something that Halliday never had and that's also sort of Halliday admitting that him pushing away his friends was wrong, it's him admitting he needed them. Then when Wade is the only person that wins it's because he has help and because he had a bit of luck from winning the game of pac-man. The book has a lot of weird and cringey stuff, but it doesn't shy away from having a dickwad for a protagonist, the fact that after everything he and Artemis get together is kind of upsetting and I feel like defeats some purpose, but at least Wade had some growth after being a creep unlike the film.
Prime Productions no he doesn’t, he stays the same. He literally says to his best friend that he forgives her for lying to him instead of being supportive because she had to to hide that she was a black women. When I was reading the book I thought there was going to be a twist on how bad gatekeeping nerd culture is but nope
As someone who is on the spectrum, I was really surprised by Halliday's character as alot of his characteristics really did fit what's common with being autistic. The way he speaks, how he's socially awkward when around others that aren't close friends, and having a hard time making decisions for the fear that something bad will happen and regretting not making one. There's also a common trait where a person will have intense interest in a few specific things, which we can see that being video games and movies/television.
1:45 is the closest I’ll get to Cosmonaut doing a video on Scott Pilgrim. Edit: I didn’t know cosmonaut had a canceled Scott Pilgrim video when writing this, honestly it’s kind of a bummer he never made it.
My first introduction to this property was through prozd's skit and now i can never see clips or trailers from it without thinking "it's the movie with that one anime boy"
The way you talked about Halliday and Wade reminds me of Sword Art Online Abridged's versions of and Kayaba and Kirito. Both are connected through a VR program which one of them developed and the other is really good at, and parallels between the two are made in part by their love of classic media (albeit more specifically movies in SAOA's case). The big difference is that Abridged!Kirito learns something and changes to be _less_ like Kayaba, and that the latter is actually the villain. And alive.
Rangerborn 128 Because Kirito and Kayaba never connected in the original, even though both (seemed to) perfer fake over the real world, and Kirito used deduction in the abridged version. I don't even remember how Kirito figured it out in the original. Kayaba barely had a character and didn't even remember why he did all those things in the first place... Man, I hope the author's rewrite will be good.
I urge everyone to see SAO Abridged, it gets surprisingly emotional since they rewrote characters and added them pretty good development. They even animated some brand new little scenes. I haven't read the rewrite of the original author, but for me, this is the superior version of SAO, since the original is so poor.
Timothy McLean By this point SAO Abriged should really change their title to SAO Rewritten, since it does so many great things that not even the anime accomplished. The only thing I like from it was the latest arc, Mother Rosario, which was surprisingly emotional but I really would love to see Something Witty Entertainment's interpretation of it.
I think that the movie was significantly better than the book simply because it doesn't require two full pages of text to explain various references, because you can just see them onscreen. As a result the movie felt better paced and was actually sort of fun to watch, except for the club scene, that was just fucking weird.
So basically you liked the movie better because it was a movie and you didn't have to read the details, how enlightening. The book was superior in literally every way, I have doubt you even read it based on your description.
@@RemixerUltimate Then why did they make a fucking movie out of it? Give me a break. The writing in the book had depth, character development, complex relationships, intriguing themes, captivating puzzles/mysteries, and tense situations that the movie stripped it of so we could have brain busters like "Go backwards to get the key".
The book baffled me, because every single moment that the plot could have taken a direction to create a commentary on nerd culture or to create a more interesting dynamic within the story, the author basically always decided to make it into self-insert wish fulfillment instead.
Yea, seriously. RP1 is by no means perfect but the whole point of the book is "Hey look, 80's fun shit." Then people get upset when the book is all about... 80's fun shit. What.
+Jake Colbeck - The book tied the "80's fun shit" in perfectly. They celebrated it so heavily because it was Halliday's favorite era and he just wanted to share the things he loved growing up with everyone else. The movie however completely ignored this fact and backstory for the character and the "references" felt completely random and all over the place spanning from Adventure all the way to Halo for some reason. At least the theme was consistent in the book and made sense.
@@thehumanity0 exactly. The movie just made random references. The book doesn't throw in something from "last year" because it's the popular new nerd shit. Halliday created an easter egg hunt based on the shit he loved from his childhood. The gunters obsess and reference 80's shit because that's what's relevant for the shit they do. All the references in the book are relevant to the plot. Every single reference goes back to Halliday. He is the source for everything. The movie ignores all that and just creates a cluster fuck of references with no connection to the story.
Seriously, it took me 2 days to force myself to watch it to the end. There's no way watching it in a theater would've fixed or enabled me to ignore the countless problems with it though.
The Humanity I went to a theater that let me get drunk, eat food, and gave me a milkshake. This made it much easier to ignore the flaws of the movie. 10/10 would eat there again.
1:38 - Um, it's an MMO ... Of course, Chun Li and Lara Craft would be hanging out "just cause." The movie had some pandering stuff for sure ... that was a bad example of it.
If they just show up for a second with no reason, it is pandering. Having a Lara Croft avatar try and fail at acrobatics would be a funny easter egg, otherwise it's just a "member this?" moment.
I personally found it fun in the way the Subspace Emissary was. As someone who read the book, I actually ended up liking a lot of the changes, many felt like they fit the environment of a movie more than a book. I also loved the horror movie scene, that was definitely better than its counterpart in the book. Only thing that I liked much more from the book is I really got the sense that the OASIS had this community not unlike the community around P.T., working together to try and find the secrets hidden within the game.
I read the book a long time ago and haven't seen the movie yet. Weren't the egg hunters more competitive because of the whole "winner takes all" thing?
Erik Romão They did have one detail about how any clues found were trade secrets shared through PMs, and that they look down upon his one loser who actually came to the media with one of their secrets.
I LOVED Ready Player One. Book and movie. I felt Spielberg’s treatment of the story really isolated the human story that HE enjoyed in the book. The movie was full of that old school movie magic. It had that kids vs the world theme that he has had so much fun with throughout his career with a score that brought me back to my childhood memories of his past films. 8.5 out of 10.
It was super interesting the way the movie put you in the same position as its characters through its sound design. If you watch it in a theater or with a bunch of people, you also have to be uncomfortably quiet. That's something NyxFears pointed out in her amazing video on the subject. The fact that almost every noise in the movie was a plot point was really well done. There were a few points in the film that I was kind of confused on the rules of the monsters and wondering why (SPOILERS) the baby was so quiet the entire time. That took me out of the movie somewhat, but I enjoyed the rest of it.
It's your bog-standard zombie flick, with the added bonus of the "zombies" screaming their heads off whenever they hear you. If you've seen 28 days later, you've seen this movie.
"Don't Breathe" was a good thriller. This is James Wan-tier trash. I mean, if your taste in movies is so pleb-tier that you enjoyed this, than I can recommend a few other good horror movies for you: Jeepers Creepers, I Spit on Your Grave, Hostel, and any of the Saw films would be right up your alley.
A big problem you didn't mention is the mixed messaging. Don't get me wrong, I love the book and liked the movie. But this one issue was glaring. Here's an example: IOI wants to monetize the OASIS and place adds everywhere. This is played off as evil, which it kind of is. Yet, in one of the FIRST SHOTS OF THE MOVIE is a drone dropping off a Pizza Hut box, which is an obvious ad placement. Make up your mind, movie.
The difference is, IOI's advertisement is simply to restrict the many functions of the OASIS, such as different parts of the HUD and certain weapons. The movie doesn't exactly explain this properly, but the OASIS became such an integral part of everyone's lives that people can start up businesses and go to school, meaning that you can order food via drone drop just at the touch of a button and it will deduct from your credits. However, the OASIS doesn't have a bucket load of ads to display on due to Halliday's anti-ad policy.
I didn't have much of an issue with the branding in the movie, since they'd need sponsors for so much of the licensing they'd have to go through. IOI was more about restricting free internet, like the problems we see today, where Verizon and Comcast actively want to reduce internet speeds for certain services unless you pay for a premium package.
I thought the first half was fun, the second half just got really boring and cheesy. The main villain was laughably stupid, like they were trying too hard to parody a cold businessman.
Chase Martin really? You really wanted a scene where they go to dozens of instances of Halliday's childhood home, or recount every line from a movie from memory, or to see Wade exploring the school planet and playing I think it was Joust, over and over,or to see Wade gain tons of weight for no reason and then have to lock his rig with an exercise requirement so that he actually ends up fit enough for any of the IRL stuff at the end? …because I was totes okay with them cutting /changing all of that.
In the movie you get the feeling that Wade is just a guy who happens to know a good amount about Halliday who gets lucky and wins the Easter egg. In the book, he's absolutely fucking obsessed with Halliday. He reads Anorak's Almanac (a book Halliday wrote) until he recite the entire book word for word, he even calls it his bible. He spends his days watching the shows Halliday watched, reading the books he read, playing the games he played, etc. It gets to the point where the reader is just like "dude, stop. You're living Halliday's life more than you're living yours. If you don't get this egg, you'll have YEARS of your life wasted"
Tbh I really enjoyed it all but I'd just love to hear from Marcus and his opinion. I started with season 5 and I'm now revisiting the older episodes because it's been years since I've seen them. It's not just tv it's art.
Amazing video, good shit, coupla nitpicks. Spoilers ahead. Random characters are around because people like to use them over their Avatar as a disguise. The characters' popularity is likely why characters like Tracer and Chun Lee appear so much. There's even a Spartan Army in the battle scene you showed. They're just fans cosplaying. Wade IS punished for his reckless neckbeard pursuit, even if the movie makes it seem the consequences aren't that important. He falls in love with the first girl he sees, makes a dumb mistake and reveals his identity to her and an assassin, and his sheer stupidity literally makes her beat on him and then his remaining family is killed in a hit on his home. You didn't mention how literally all his friends just happen to live in the same city which is an odd plot point considering this us a global game and they hint at the fact that Wade sometimes forgets that he's on the web and that it's not his home, and he should stop acting like it. But later when it's revealed that every single one of his associates lives within driving distance no one makes any note of how big a coincidence that is. They just kinda roll with it. It's weird.
Yeahhh, they slapped that Deus Ex Machina into the film because Ogden Morrow didnt show up at the end (*before* the big action sequence) when he does in the book to invite the remaining members of their crew to his place up in Oregon for the final battle at Castle Anorak. Aech was in Detroit, Parzival lived in Oklahoma in the stacks (In the book, that was where the stacks were, but in the movie they were also was moved to...) Columbus Ohio, where Parz moved later in the book after the stacks get exploded. I forget where Art3mis was, but she got flown in from somewhere else. Daito wasn't flown in for *cough* reasons, and Shoto was flown from his hometown in japan. that sums up a massive plot hole that was accidentally created in the movie.
A bit of time may have passed, but are you seriously implying not one of those Spartan avatar dudes would chose the more beloved Halo 2 and 3 armor? Or be another, not just 343's Chief's?
I heard there was a minor shitstorm (shitdrizzle?) because Tracer kisses a guy in this one. Like I know this is someone using Tracer skin but it still kinda shows that people behind it didn't give a shit about stuff they're referencing, and representing it accurately.
As someone who read the book i think that they’re both just... okayish. Like they’re not terrible but they’re not incredible. It’s watchable. Fortunately I got to see it during an early screening a week before it came out so the theater was filled.
7:30 "Watching it alone would be a miserable experience."... ACTUALLY... I saw it twice in the cinema, ones on a computer with a friend and 3 times alone. One time after I saw The House That Jack Built. And the combination made me cry from the ending of Ready Player One SO HARD... I was WEEPING FOR 2 HOURS after it. ( it started when the bad guy points a gun at the kids but decided not to shoot )
I would respectfully disagree with you Marcus. Other than the moment with Halliday, the other moments fell flat for me. For example, you pointed out that the scene of abuse at the beginning worked well, but it's undermined by Wade later not using any of the money that he got from finding the first key to help his aunt move out of the stacks. The action scenes all felt too cluttered for me to know what was going on, and that bled into the story as well. Also the scene with the Shining completely fell flat for me, it seems like they completely misunderstood what made the Shining so terrifying to begin with. I just kept imagining Kubrick rolling in his grave the entire time. There was one other moment that I liked, where the IOI boss guy had a password on his VR rig. That was a really fun little humanizing moment that connects us to him and makes the world feel more real. Of course they couldn't leave it at that and had to keep bringing it up as a plot device, but for a moment I was on the movie's side.
I feel like Wade didn't use the money because it was digital currency. You could say he transferred it to real money but it was never said that was possible. We can't assume that the currency can be turned into real currency unless directly shown or stated.
But Wade's aunt's boyfriend spends some form of currency on upgrades for the first race which Wade's aunt says they were going to use to move out of the stacks. Also Wade buys a new game suit with his winnings and gets it IRL, meaning you can buy real products with in-game currency. So it would make sense that in-game currency could be used like real money. Wade's character seems like he would have helped out his aunt, but he never does which is what bothers me so much about it.
Little Fires in the book the aunt is horrible to him and if I remember correctly was addicted to drugs and probably would have spent the money on said drugs
I liked this movie. Becuase I got what I expected. A movie, which doesn't do much with the setting in the real world but is fun to watch when you want to see action. Actually a little bit like a Transformers movie. (yeah I like them too except the 5th) This movie is for people who don't have a problem with an uninspiring story, some cringy dialogues and a more than a half CG movie. It is not a bad movie, but it really has flaws. But unlike TLJ, this movie doesn't try something new as a movie and doesn't have big plot twists, which doesn't let it stand out more special.
For people interested in the political: I love Marcus's insights here. To preface, I am an autistic geek, raised on Star Trek, ran a modding community when I was 14, and get treated like an encyclopedia. While maybe personally I can enjoy a long complicated online discussion about whether or not Dathomirian females can grow hair, I also f#@king hate bro-geek culture in which trivia shit is used as selective gatekeeping to undermine geek girls and women, especially newcomers who maybe are just trying to make in-roads into male-dominated interests. SRSLY, you don't need to know one iota about Assassin Creed's convoluted mythology to enjoy playing an AC game. I am not more of a geek for reading Wookieepedia or favoring TOS over J.J. Abrams. Jesus Christ. If male-geek gatekeepers could just get over themselves. There is no one way to be a geek. I feel like Art3mis makes for an unflattering archetype of a bro-geek dream girl (broaching on an in-game purchase) and that Marcus is on-point. I am two years late on this video, but I am curious if anyone has more thoughts on if there is more to this movie politically than bro-geek catering and (more interestingly) what might a feminist rewriting of the movie script (or book) look like?
Since I apparently hate myself and decided to read the book first, I personally thought the movie sucked. But if you see it by itself, then the movie can be okay at best.
Honestly I just don’t like how much the movie deviated from the book. I mean, Art3mis and Wade actually makes some kind of sense in the book since there is the whole email conversation that they have, which the movie just skips. The key quests are completely different and there’s no perfect pac-man. Otherwise I think I generally enjoyed both, just liking the book a bit more 🤷♂️
In the book, it's heavily implied that art3mas is smarter than wade because she is the first one to find the copper key and the jade key. yet wade is a better tactician and hacker single-handedly infiltrating the 6ers and destroying the orb that is barricading the third gate. yet in the movie, it makes both of them much dumber and making wade smarter which he shouldn't be it's highly infuriating
i can understand that with multiple viewings, you will see the cracks and plotholes in a movie and you question how you got into watching this in the first place. The many times i watched the 1986 Transformers The Movie, i can spot the many art errors and controversies, but i still like it (i watched it 78 fucking times, so i should know how to spot a good movie, or i just love Transformers period). this movie was not suppose to explain anything, it's not suppose to have a convoluted plot or a set up for a sequel and i can agree with you on the characters lacking some structure or backwards logic; two characters having the same background and experiences, but one is rewarded while the other suffers. however this movie's purpose was to cater to an entire generation of movie, anime, and video game fans old and new. Even Steven Spielberg is a video gamer; he still plays video games, including his children, so he does know how to appeal and direct with what he's given. he's just that good and creative. the whole 6/10 is only a *little* harsh; it does have problems, but if it made me smile and feel great joy from beginning to end, then it's a good movie in my opinion. i only have small nitpicks, like the movie was missing some Metal Gear, Castlevania, or Mega Man representation. Also no Nintendo, which btw is the GRANDDADDY of the video game industry!! how do you make a movie about video games and not include Mario?!?! da fuck!! despite my nitpicks and peeves, i would give this movie an 8/10. a little higher from your score, but like i said, i enjoyed it from beginning to end and i got my money's worth. i have no regrets.
Nintendo characters probably weren't in it because Nintendo didn't give them permission. Then again, this was a Universal movie and Nintendo is in talks for a Nintendo Land in Universal Studios theme parks, so I'm not 100% sure about that.
I tried super hard not to compare this movie to the book when I saw it but honestly... I like the character developments and relationships infinitely better in the book. Wade and Atr3mis have a relationship with ups and downs that feels pretty real, we get some actual friendly banter and arguments between the Aech and Wade. It worked for me because I felt like these characters knew and liked each other. In the movie they all just kind of... exist in the same space and we're supposed to believe that they're close. Idk, this movie didn't really do it for me. I'd love to see a full breakdown of it though!
Didn’t read the book? Sad! I mean the book was basically made because the author wanted to make a story including all his favorite stuff. Halliday was a self insert just to spread his tastes. Ernest Cline wrote the script, so he’s still going to shove in the shit he likes
That’s a poor projection of opinion. And who’s to say I don’t read fine literature. I enjoy Ready Player One, but it doesn’t hold a candle to my preferred genre of writing
On the reference comparison, another one that came to my mind was Dr Who and the difference in how RTD era Who and Moffat era Who handled nods to the classic series. The Moffat era had a habit of just throwing in names and monsters in episodes for no other reason than "fans will notice and geek out about it". By comparison, RTDs Who has a scene of the Master watching a clip of the teletubbies and jokingly referring to them as though they are real. As well as getting across the kind of never-quite-sure-if-srs nature of this incarnation, it's also a callback to a classic episode where the character watches an episode of the Clangers (and actually mistakes them for real creatures somehow). One is a reference just thrown in for people to go "I recognise that", the other is a little nod to something they clearly have a fondness for.
1:38 Uh that’s the whole point of the OASIS.. You get to be whatever you want to be, think of it as playing in VRCHAT, you see people that you might recognize from other games or movies and some you won’t even know.
SPOILER*** I know you said you didn't want to spoil anything, but I had a gripe about something that I'm not sure if you plan on covering when/if you do a full breakdown. It was when his aunt died. The scene felt very rushed. He's rushing to save her, the place blows up, it LOOKS like the trailers should've landed on him or something, next scene he is walking away, face is emotionless, and back to business. I expected some sort of scene with him trying to dig his way out of rubble, and at the very least, a scene of him moarning for the only blood relative he had left dying. Nope nothing. I know their relationship wasn't the greatest, but it looked like he cared a lot about her when he was running to save her. And then later on, he is talking to the bad guy and tells him how he killed his "mom's sister" that's how he phrased it. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't refer to my aunt's or uncle's as the siblings of my parents when I talk about them. The emotion was just completely detached whenever it came to anything that had to deal with the last living blood relative that he knew of. Rant over. (Edited so you would have to click "read more" to see the spoiler)
Adventur verse Honestly I'm not surprised that it was like this in the movie. It felt like that in the book. Felt really weird that he was so apathetic to his aunt getting blown the fuck up.
super1upmushroom I'm in the same boat as cosmonaut here. I never read the book, but I definitely feel like a lot of parts were rushed in the movie. From the aunt's death to Wade's relationship with Samantha. Like how he says he is in love with her after probably about a full hours worth of interactions with her, since the movie never hints at any interactions they have off screen, I can't assume they did.
they condensed it for the movie. In the book at lot more time passes between both these story lines. His meeting with Samantha and his actual confession span several months in the book, as far as i remember.
The thing that annoied me the most about this movie is the fact the the computer world was animated and the real world was live action. It kept taking out of the movie every single time they swiched between each world. They should have just made this an animated movie.
Everyone has their own opinion and should be respected. For me I absolutely loved the movie, more so than I even thought imaginable. I read the book which is currently my favorite, beating out a depressing child abuse book called A Child Called It. I’ve seen hundreds of films and have a very expansive list of films from Schindler’s List to Mad Max Fury Road, this film somehow got to number 11 on my list which is easily the most controversial thing I’ve ever done. The thing about it is that it appeals so much to me specifically that it honestly is insane to think about for me. I have maladaptive daydreaming and honestly this movie is something straight out of my dreams and only Steven Spielberg could pull it off since he’s the man that introduced me to film. I’ve seen it three times already and can’t believe how thrilled I still am to see it each time. It feels very personal for me, it captures the culture and type of person I am super well. This is why films I know that are masterpieces tend to rate lower on my list because for me it’s more about what speaks to me then what is objectively the best of the best.
My major problem with it was that in the book, Wade’s arc has him starting from nothing - on the free school planet, which is the way Halliday intended it to be. In the movie though, the first key is introduced through a race which is only available if you play in the oasis a LOT, and have made a ton of money there, which is the exact antithesis of the point the book was trying to make.
One of only countless problems with the adapted writing in the movie, but yeah that one really sticks out considering it takes away the majority of all the character development for Wade.
1:38 This isn't pandering at all. If anything it's world building. It is explained that this is a world where you can be *anyone*, and that the OASIS is a world comprised of many worlds. It makes sense people want to be their favorite characters! And if anything, it strengthens the idea that you could *literally* be anyone - like 41 year old man called Chuck living in his mom's basement.
Really enjoyed your review, but there was one comparison that didn't sit well with me. Scott Pilgrim Vs the World was largely a work of surrealism. All the game references and imagery seemingly sprang from the imagination of Scott Pilgrim, but then breaking through and completely permeating the reality of the film for a deliberately illogical effect. So it makes sense for every reference to relate Scott and his story, he was the reason filter through we saw everything in the story. Ready Player One was very much logically grounded in its reality, even including the super-imaginative game world. Why were Chun Li and Lara Craft just there with no meaning to the main characters or their story? Because two other players were there who happened to like Chun Li and Lara Croft. Just as if you went a gaming forum, and saw two avatars of those characters, or went to a Game Stop and saw them on someone's T-shirt. Any deeper meaning or metaphor for hun Li and Lara Croft being there would be contrary to the logic of that world. Yes, there is always room for deeper meaning in realistic films, but there also needs to be a larger world around the characters. A world that should feel that it, like our own, would exist with or without the characters. None of this, of course, is to disagree with the point you were making. There were many references that felt just "thrown in", where they could have used the opportunity to tell us more about the characters. For example, in the book, Daito and Shoto pilot a specific ship because it comes from something they both love. The film instead uses a more recognizable fan favorite, even though we have no reason to connect it to Daito.
Awesome video 👏the fact that u mentioned the shitty treatment of female characters makes you the first person I’ll actually listen to about the positive points of the movie lol
I think the best way to sum up this movie is "Good if you want something for the background". Like I'll play this movie while I'm doing homework or housework. I've probably "watched it" a dozen times but I've only sat down and paid attention once.
YYYEEESSSSS. Scott Pilgrim is a fucking masterpiece, Edgar Wright is a brilliant director. You're quickly becoming my favorite youtube reviewer! Thanks for all the fantastic content!
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"stupid Spielberg, you can't even make a bad movie as i wanted"
My favourite cousmounaut quote
Please edit your comment to fix your typos lol
@@nagi159 English is not my first language Mr. Grammar Nazi (or typo nazi idk)
where are these typos though ?
@@mostafasafwat3742 Don't worry about it chief. I wasn't trying to be rude, I was trying to be funny. Sorry if I upset you.
@@mostafasafwat3742 "Stupid Spielberg, you can't even make a bad movie as I wanted!"
"6/10 A good time, but still has problems" is now my Tinder profile.
Wait nobody’s made a reply to this yet. Well first thing for everything
It's way to flawless to have replies.
Spoilers :’(
The answer to the first riddle was so dumb though. You're telling me nobody ever thought to drive backwards? In three years? On the course to find the first clue? Bruh, I've done that in Mario Kart just for fun.
YES!
Bruh, the race is payed in the movie so i would not do that if i am paying lol
@@Ricardo2-dsm You'd keep paying money for three years straight achieving literally the same thing each time? Yeah, that's the smart choice there lmao.
@@billqiu4692 i didnt said that... But whatever
@@Ricardo2-dsm Obviously, but that's the logical conclusion.
What else are you gonna do? Play once and give up? Or try different methods when going straight clearly doesnt work?
Ready Player One, but the Oasis is Glitching and everyone is stuck in a T-Pose
Oh you mean Cyberpunk 2077
@@eliiejuhh8533 i was going to say the same thing
That sounds like hell
@@ferenkjaffet Same
So basically...Ready Player One, but the Oasis is developed by CD Projekt Red
Ready Player One is VR Chat of the future
Nah, not enough grown men pretending to be underage or barely legal anime girls
Nashor Good Point
As long as there's Ugandan Knuckles running a muck.
Nashor Just because they weren't given screen time doesn't mean they didn't exist
It's the VR chat of today tbh
Something that I find frustrating is that this is basically Charlie and the chocolate factory, but it totally misses the point of Charlie and the chocolate factory. Charlie passes the test at the end because it was the right thing to do. He didn't feel entitled to win like his grandfather did.
In ready player one, the first key is won by doing the opposite of winning. The last key is also won the same way. But wade does "the right thing" simply because he knew it is what halliday wanted him to do. This made him no different then the villain.
I find this so frustrating because I just don't understand *HOW* anyone can mess this up. Charlie won because he wasn't an entitled piece of shit like the other kids. The end. Wade won because... he worshipped a game maker like a God? Fail.
daffy f the books make more sense in both cases
batnacks dude the book is worse, especially when it comes to how shitty of a person wade is
It's like they wanted this to be something but it kind of missed the mark
@@PKMNTrainerVic I think with the book it handles the contest as well as the characters better in a sense, they feel believable. You are completely right in the fact that Wade is an even bigger dick and creep in the book but that was kind of the point. He wasn't supposed to be likeable, he had an arc where he completely destroyed himself and then was willing to risk his life, not to win, but to stop IOI from winning. I also like the fact that multiple people had to open the final gate. The last challenge required something that Halliday never had and that's also sort of Halliday admitting that him pushing away his friends was wrong, it's him admitting he needed them. Then when Wade is the only person that wins it's because he has help and because he had a bit of luck from winning the game of pac-man. The book has a lot of weird and cringey stuff, but it doesn't shy away from having a dickwad for a protagonist, the fact that after everything he and Artemis get together is kind of upsetting and I feel like defeats some purpose, but at least Wade had some growth after being a creep unlike the film.
Prime Productions no he doesn’t, he stays the same. He literally says to his best friend that he forgives her for lying to him instead of being supportive because she had to to hide that she was a black women. When I was reading the book I thought there was going to be a twist on how bad gatekeeping nerd culture is but nope
This movie panders to me on another level because I am actually from Columbus, Ohio.
Michael Patton dude same haha
I can see Columbus becoming an ever greater shithole in 30 years.
I'm somewhat around that area, dayton over here :)
Something something Zombieland
The idea that Columbus is somehow one of the best cities in the country in several decades (or at any point) is an absolute joke.
Cosmonaut: I read real books for real grown ups
*shows the Junie B. Jones series*
....you know what, I'll allow it.
It’s an older code, but it checks out
As someone who is on the spectrum, I was really surprised by Halliday's character as alot of his characteristics really did fit what's common with being autistic. The way he speaks, how he's socially awkward when around others that aren't close friends, and having a hard time making decisions for the fear that something bad will happen and regretting not making one.
There's also a common trait where a person will have intense interest in a few specific things, which we can see that being video games and movies/television.
1:45 is the closest I’ll get to Cosmonaut doing a video on Scott Pilgrim.
Edit: I didn’t know cosmonaut had a canceled Scott Pilgrim video when writing this, honestly it’s kind of a bummer he never made it.
I felt this
My first introduction to this property was through prozd's skit and now i can never see clips or trailers from it without thinking "it's the movie with that one anime boy"
Nicolle
"JUST WANNA PLAY VIDEO GAMES"
"Halliday suffers and Wade is rewarded for the same things"
So it's an accurate portrayal of ASD
Sorry whats that
@@Mr3DLC Autism spectrum disorder; includes things like Asperger's.
New UA-cam rule: Video-makers have to name the songs they play (Whether its intro, outro or anywhere in-between)
Joseph Martins he uses the Sonic Mania OST for this video (and most of the others lol)
I thought it was a Sonic 2 remix lol. I never heard the Mania OST
Sounds like the outro is some version of Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka, not sure who's singing it though.
The outro is Ghost Writer Music - Pure Imagination.
Yes! Thank you! Someone with an answer!
You’re one of the best reviewers I’ve ever seen the way you can completely break down a movie without talking about major plot points is astounding
The way you talked about Halliday and Wade reminds me of Sword Art Online Abridged's versions of and Kayaba and Kirito. Both are connected through a VR program which one of them developed and the other is really good at, and parallels between the two are made in part by their love of classic media (albeit more specifically movies in SAOA's case). The big difference is that Abridged!Kirito learns something and changes to be _less_ like Kayaba, and that the latter is actually the villain. And alive.
Rangerborn 128 Because Kirito and Kayaba never connected in the original, even though both (seemed to) perfer fake over the real world, and Kirito used deduction in the abridged version. I don't even remember how Kirito figured it out in the original. Kayaba barely had a character and didn't even remember why he did all those things in the first place...
Man, I hope the author's rewrite will be good.
I urge everyone to see SAO Abridged, it gets surprisingly emotional since they rewrote characters and added them pretty good development. They even animated some brand new little scenes. I haven't read the rewrite of the original author, but for me, this is the superior version of SAO, since the original is so poor.
Timothy McLean By this point SAO Abriged should really change their title to SAO Rewritten, since it does so many great things that not even the anime accomplished. The only thing I like from it was the latest arc, Mother Rosario, which was surprisingly emotional but I really would love to see Something Witty Entertainment's interpretation of it.
Is it me or is the eater egg highly reminiscent of that seed thing kayaba was monologuing about at the end of SAO S1
When an abridged series has better writing than a milti million dollar movie and the original series it was based on.
Weird times we're living in.
I think that the movie was significantly better than the book simply because it doesn't require two full pages of text to explain various references, because you can just see them onscreen. As a result the movie felt better paced and was actually sort of fun to watch, except for the club scene, that was just fucking weird.
Not to mention the copious amounts of exposition regarding Halliday and Og's life.
So basically you liked the movie better because it was a movie and you didn't have to read the details, how enlightening. The book was superior in literally every way, I have doubt you even read it based on your description.
@@thehumanity0 wow that was pretentious. The book's just not that great, truly it's just nerd pandering.
@@RemixerUltimate Then why did they make a fucking movie out of it? Give me a break. The writing in the book had depth, character development, complex relationships, intriguing themes, captivating puzzles/mysteries, and tense situations that the movie stripped it of so we could have brain busters like "Go backwards to get the key".
@@thehumanity0 you really sound like the targeted audience of the book
The book baffled me, because every single moment that the plot could have taken a direction to create a commentary on nerd culture or to create a more interesting dynamic within the story, the author basically always decided to make it into self-insert wish fulfillment instead.
SixCubit Well, it's not being written to throw a critical light on nerd culture and 80s' nostalgia. It's a celebration of those things.
Yea, seriously. RP1 is by no means perfect but the whole point of the book is "Hey look, 80's fun shit." Then people get upset when the book is all about... 80's fun shit. What.
Violator it’s less of a celebration and more of a jerk off
+Jake Colbeck - The book tied the "80's fun shit" in perfectly. They celebrated it so heavily because it was Halliday's favorite era and he just wanted to share the things he loved growing up with everyone else. The movie however completely ignored this fact and backstory for the character and the "references" felt completely random and all over the place spanning from Adventure all the way to Halo for some reason. At least the theme was consistent in the book and made sense.
@@thehumanity0 exactly. The movie just made random references. The book doesn't throw in something from "last year" because it's the popular new nerd shit.
Halliday created an easter egg hunt based on the shit he loved from his childhood.
The gunters obsess and reference 80's shit because that's what's relevant for the shit they do. All the references in the book are relevant to the plot. Every single reference goes back to Halliday. He is the source for everything. The movie ignores all that and just creates a cluster fuck of references with no connection to the story.
Watching it alone was miserable.
Seriously, it took me 2 days to force myself to watch it to the end. There's no way watching it in a theater would've fixed or enabled me to ignore the countless problems with it though.
You watched it in 1-Player mode, just go to the main menu and select 2-player instead.
The Humanity I went to a theater that let me get drunk, eat food, and gave me a milkshake. This made it much easier to ignore the flaws of the movie. 10/10 would eat there again.
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@@thatsallreviews two player is generally better
Battletoads is the exception not the rule
quickly becoming one of my favorite review channels
reaper Green how is it not already??? Haha I love the guy too
it's up there but I got ihe and ralphthemoviemaker
1:38 - Um, it's an MMO ... Of course, Chun Li and Lara Craft would be hanging out "just cause." The movie had some pandering stuff for sure ... that was a bad example of it.
any MMO i have seen atleast has reasons for its characters to be where they are
If they just show up for a second with no reason, it is pandering. Having a Lara Croft avatar try and fail at acrobatics would be a funny easter egg, otherwise it's just a "member this?" moment.
says who?
it could just be that that is what the movie is based on
imagine having every avatar as something made up, wheres the fun in that?
Since Ben Mendo and Simon Pegg are in this movie, does that mean Rogue One, Dark Knight Rises and JJ Abrams Star Trek don't exist in this universe?
Hmmmm , I didn't think of it like that... Weird.
If only they didn't
(would want to keep DKR tho)
BattleUp Saber I chalk it up to their characters looking like those actors. Hey! Halliday's friend! You look like Simon Pegg!
They could just look alike in that universe
If noitice, there is no reference to anything owned by Disney, which it should be referenced more than anything.
..........
"Laura croft"
It hurts man, it really, really hurts.
I personally found it fun in the way the Subspace Emissary was. As someone who read the book, I actually ended up liking a lot of the changes, many felt like they fit the environment of a movie more than a book. I also loved the horror movie scene, that was definitely better than its counterpart in the book.
Only thing that I liked much more from the book is I really got the sense that the OASIS had this community not unlike the community around P.T., working together to try and find the secrets hidden within the game.
I read the book a long time ago and haven't seen the movie yet. Weren't the egg hunters more competitive because of the whole "winner takes all" thing?
Erik Romão They did have one detail about how any clues found were trade secrets shared through PMs, and that they look down upon his one loser who actually came to the media with one of their secrets.
Hell yeah love me some Subspace Emissary!
Agreed
Xcaliber The Wise yea it made no sense but it was awesome as fuck
I love how like I’m every video he takes some swipe at the Normies
Gundam vs MechaGodzilla enough said.
I think there's plenty more to say.
It should have been Ultraman.
Joe1up Ultraman was getting sued so they couldn’t get the rights.
WHAT!? THAT'S IN THERE!? OH MY FUCKING GOD!
Aech’s Garage well that sucks.
I LOVED Ready Player One. Book and movie. I felt Spielberg’s treatment of the story really isolated the human story that HE enjoyed in the book. The movie was full of that old school movie magic. It had that kids vs the world theme that he has had so much fun with throughout his career with a score that brought me back to my childhood memories of his past films. 8.5 out of 10.
Would love to know your thoughts on A Quiet Place, I personally loved it.
It was super interesting the way the movie put you in the same position as its characters through its sound design. If you watch it in a theater or with a bunch of people, you also have to be uncomfortably quiet. That's something NyxFears pointed out in her amazing video on the subject.
The fact that almost every noise in the movie was a plot point was really well done.
There were a few points in the film that I was kind of confused on the rules of the monsters and wondering why (SPOILERS) the baby was so quiet the entire time. That took me out of the movie somewhat, but I enjoyed the rest of it.
It's your bog-standard zombie flick, with the added bonus of the "zombies" screaming their heads off whenever they hear you. If you've seen 28 days later, you've seen this movie.
Ex Metu Veres so you haven’t watched the movie good to know, anyway I loved it, it was one of the best thriller movies in a while!!!
"Don't Breathe" was a good thriller. This is James Wan-tier trash.
I mean, if your taste in movies is so pleb-tier that you enjoyed this, than I can recommend a few other good horror movies for you: Jeepers Creepers, I Spit on Your Grave, Hostel, and any of the Saw films would be right up your alley.
Ex Metu Veres what's it like not having friends
A big problem you didn't mention is the mixed messaging.
Don't get me wrong, I love the book and liked the movie. But this one issue was glaring. Here's an example:
IOI wants to monetize the OASIS and place adds everywhere. This is played off as evil, which it kind of is. Yet, in one of the FIRST SHOTS OF THE MOVIE is a drone dropping off a Pizza Hut box, which is an obvious ad placement.
Make up your mind, movie.
The difference is, IOI's advertisement is simply to restrict the many functions of the OASIS, such as different parts of the HUD and certain weapons.
The movie doesn't exactly explain this properly, but the OASIS became such an integral part of everyone's lives that people can start up businesses and go to school, meaning that you can order food via drone drop just at the touch of a button and it will deduct from your credits. However, the OASIS doesn't have a bucket load of ads to display on due to Halliday's anti-ad policy.
I didn't have much of an issue with the branding in the movie, since they'd need sponsors for so much of the licensing they'd have to go through.
IOI was more about restricting free internet, like the problems we see today, where Verizon and Comcast actively want to reduce internet speeds for certain services unless you pay for a premium package.
wow. this is what happens when you don't go to college and learn nuance.
if you had to go to college to learn nuance I feel equally as bad for you
It's like actual brands exist!! Crazy right?
This movie, like the book, was tons of fun. Which is all I wanted. I didn't expect anything more.
I thought the first half was fun, the second half just got really boring and cheesy. The main villain was laughably stupid, like they were trying too hard to parody a cold businessman.
nahor88 Well that WAS the point
The movie was nothing like the book. If they would've made it like the book, it could've been a good movie.
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Chase Martin really? You really wanted a scene where they go to dozens of instances of Halliday's childhood home, or recount every line from a movie from memory, or to see Wade exploring the school planet and playing I think it was Joust, over and over,or to see Wade gain tons of weight for no reason and then have to lock his rig with an exercise requirement so that he actually ends up fit enough for any of the IRL stuff at the end?
…because I was totes okay with them cutting /changing all of that.
"I read REAL books, for real grown-ups"
Cuts to a smorgasbord of Junie B. Jones titles haha
I saw ready player one in 4dx and i was really satisfied
Same here, definitely worth it with this movie.
In the movie you get the feeling that Wade is just a guy who happens to know a good amount about Halliday who gets lucky and wins the Easter egg. In the book, he's absolutely fucking obsessed with Halliday. He reads Anorak's Almanac (a book Halliday wrote) until he recite the entire book word for word, he even calls it his bible. He spends his days watching the shows Halliday watched, reading the books he read, playing the games he played, etc. It gets to the point where the reader is just like "dude, stop. You're living Halliday's life more than you're living yours. If you don't get this egg, you'll have YEARS of your life wasted"
Can u review the rest of samurai jack
james Dunne ^^^^^ pleeeaaassseee
Inb4 Ashi becomes a Mary Sue plot device
yeah i watched it off his review and it was so good but went downhill so fast
Tbh I really enjoyed it all but I'd just love to hear from Marcus and his opinion. I started with season 5 and I'm now revisiting the older episodes because it's been years since I've seen them. It's not just tv it's art.
Season 5 was wasted potential, first five episodes were godly but after that the rest of the series was rushed with cliches and plotholes
My favorite part of the movie
Making me wanna watch Scott Pilgrim again.
Amazing video, good shit, coupla nitpicks. Spoilers ahead.
Random characters are around because people like to use them over their Avatar as a disguise. The characters' popularity is likely why characters like Tracer and Chun Lee appear so much. There's even a Spartan Army in the battle scene you showed. They're just fans cosplaying.
Wade IS punished for his reckless neckbeard pursuit, even if the movie makes it seem the consequences aren't that important. He falls in love with the first girl he sees, makes a dumb mistake and reveals his identity to her and an assassin, and his sheer stupidity literally makes her beat on him and then his remaining family is killed in a hit on his home.
You didn't mention how literally all his friends just happen to live in the same city which is an odd plot point considering this us a global game and they hint at the fact that Wade sometimes forgets that he's on the web and that it's not his home, and he should stop acting like it. But later when it's revealed that every single one of his associates lives within driving distance no one makes any note of how big a coincidence that is. They just kinda roll with it. It's weird.
isnt Aech from Detroit? or the two asian kids? :P
Yeahhh, they slapped that Deus Ex Machina into the film because Ogden Morrow didnt show up at the end (*before* the big action sequence) when he does in the book to invite the remaining members of their crew to his place up in Oregon for the final battle at Castle Anorak.
Aech was in Detroit, Parzival lived in Oklahoma in the stacks (In the book, that was where the stacks were, but in the movie they were also was moved to...) Columbus Ohio, where Parz moved later in the book after the stacks get exploded. I forget where Art3mis was, but she got flown in from somewhere else. Daito wasn't flown in for *cough* reasons, and Shoto was flown from his hometown in japan.
that sums up a massive plot hole that was accidentally created in the movie.
Also how they found out where he lived from his first name.
What about the fact that a ISP company literally enslave people and is also a PMC?
A bit of time may have passed, but are you seriously implying not one of those Spartan avatar dudes would chose the more beloved Halo 2 and 3 armor? Or be another, not just 343's Chief's?
I heard there was a minor shitstorm (shitdrizzle?) because Tracer kisses a guy in this one. Like I know this is someone using Tracer skin but it still kinda shows that people behind it didn't give a shit about stuff they're referencing, and representing it accurately.
As someone who read the book i think that they’re both just... okayish. Like they’re not terrible but they’re not incredible. It’s watchable. Fortunately I got to see it during an early screening a week before it came out so the theater was filled.
I feel like they chose to not give wade an excuse because they knew some people would complain if wade was a direct copy of halladay.
I clocked out once Wade told Artemis he was in love with her
Like wtf
7:30 "Watching it alone would be a miserable experience."... ACTUALLY... I saw it twice in the cinema, ones on a computer with a friend and 3 times alone. One time after I saw The House That Jack Built. And the combination made me cry from the ending of Ready Player One SO HARD... I was WEEPING FOR 2 HOURS after it. ( it started when the bad guy points a gun at the kids but decided not to shoot )
Boy! You remember junie b jones!?
I CLAPPED WHEN I SAW IT!!!!111!!!1!!1!1one!!!!1!!
Wait, she’s in the movie?
A Guy *AT-ST AT-ST AT-ST!!*
Camilo Torres, she’s the girl in the trailer.
I didn't until I read this comment. Fuck.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Chemical Plant Zone music in the background. Love it.
I would respectfully disagree with you Marcus. Other than the moment with Halliday, the other moments fell flat for me. For example, you pointed out that the scene of abuse at the beginning worked well, but it's undermined by Wade later not using any of the money that he got from finding the first key to help his aunt move out of the stacks.
The action scenes all felt too cluttered for me to know what was going on, and that bled into the story as well. Also the scene with the Shining completely fell flat for me, it seems like they completely misunderstood what made the Shining so terrifying to begin with. I just kept imagining Kubrick rolling in his grave the entire time.
There was one other moment that I liked, where the IOI boss guy had a password on his VR rig. That was a really fun little humanizing moment that connects us to him and makes the world feel more real. Of course they couldn't leave it at that and had to keep bringing it up as a plot device, but for a moment I was on the movie's side.
I feel like Wade didn't use the money because it was digital currency. You could say he transferred it to real money but it was never said that was possible. We can't assume that the currency can be turned into real currency unless directly shown or stated.
But Wade's aunt's boyfriend spends some form of currency on upgrades for the first race which Wade's aunt says they were going to use to move out of the stacks. Also Wade buys a new game suit with his winnings and gets it IRL, meaning you can buy real products with in-game currency. So it would make sense that in-game currency could be used like real money. Wade's character seems like he would have helped out his aunt, but he never does which is what bothers me so much about it.
Did you all just convienently forget that his aunt and her shit boyfriend FUCKING DIED because IOI bombed their house?
Crimson Reaper No, but it didn't matter to me because i wasn't connected to those characters and didn't care about their relation to Wade at all.
Little Fires in the book the aunt is horrible to him and if I remember correctly was addicted to drugs and probably would have spent the money on said drugs
“Everytime I went back to the real world I actually lost interest.” And THAT pretty much sums up the obsession with the Oasis in this universe. Lol
I liked this movie. Becuase I got what I expected.
A movie, which doesn't do much with the setting in the real world but is fun to watch when you want to see action. Actually a little bit like a Transformers movie. (yeah I like them too except the 5th)
This movie is for people who don't have a problem with an uninspiring story, some cringy dialogues and a more than a half CG movie.
It is not a bad movie, but it really has flaws. But unlike TLJ, this movie doesn't try something new as a movie and doesn't have big plot twists, which doesn't let it stand out more special.
Dude you can’t just throw the tidal wave of nostalgia on me like that with those Junie B. Jones books on screen
B b b b but Marcus!?!?
For people interested in the political: I love Marcus's insights here. To preface, I am an autistic geek, raised on Star Trek, ran a modding community when I was 14, and get treated like an encyclopedia. While maybe personally I can enjoy a long complicated online discussion about whether or not Dathomirian females can grow hair, I also f#@king hate bro-geek culture in which trivia shit is used as selective gatekeeping to undermine geek girls and women, especially newcomers who maybe are just trying to make in-roads into male-dominated interests. SRSLY, you don't need to know one iota about Assassin Creed's convoluted mythology to enjoy playing an AC game. I am not more of a geek for reading Wookieepedia or favoring TOS over J.J. Abrams. Jesus Christ. If male-geek gatekeepers could just get over themselves. There is no one way to be a geek. I feel like Art3mis makes for an unflattering archetype of a bro-geek dream girl (broaching on an in-game purchase) and that Marcus is on-point. I am two years late on this video, but I am curious if anyone has more thoughts on if there is more to this movie politically than bro-geek catering and (more interestingly) what might a feminist rewriting of the movie script (or book) look like?
Since I apparently hate myself and decided to read the book first, I personally thought the movie sucked. But if you see it by itself, then the movie can be okay at best.
Taylor Snow I'm re-reading the book just so I rag on the movie with great confidence *sips book-elitist tea*
aangita haha yeah this movie is perfect if you enjoy doing that 😂😂
Yes I did the exact same thing and the movie was nearly unwatchable for me.
The book is terrible.
Honestly I just don’t like how much the movie deviated from the book. I mean, Art3mis and Wade actually makes some kind of sense in the book since there is the whole email conversation that they have, which the movie just skips. The key quests are completely different and there’s no perfect pac-man. Otherwise I think I generally enjoyed both, just liking the book a bit more 🤷♂️
The outro music is Pure Imagination from the Ready Player One trailer.
In the book, it's heavily implied that art3mas is smarter than wade because she is the first one to find the copper key and the jade key. yet wade is a better tactician and hacker single-handedly infiltrating the 6ers and destroying the orb that is barricading the third gate. yet in the movie, it makes both of them much dumber and making wade smarter which he shouldn't be it's highly infuriating
Steven Steilberg pretends he's a gamer
When I left the theater after watching Ready Player One is was pissed that I would never get that money and time back.
"I am not a gun"
*proceeds to shoot eyelasers*
1:22 bro how long is this kid's leg
It was a theater ticket to see 30 seconds of something you’d never think you would ever get to see in big live action.
i can understand that with multiple viewings, you will see the cracks and plotholes in a movie and you question how you got into watching this in the first place. The many times i watched the 1986 Transformers The Movie, i can spot the many art errors and controversies, but i still like it (i watched it 78 fucking times, so i should know how to spot a good movie, or i just love Transformers period). this movie was not suppose to explain anything, it's not suppose to have a convoluted plot or a set up for a sequel and i can agree with you on the characters lacking some structure or backwards logic; two characters having the same background and experiences, but one is rewarded while the other suffers. however this movie's purpose was to cater to an entire generation of movie, anime, and video game fans old and new. Even Steven Spielberg is a video gamer; he still plays video games, including his children, so he does know how to appeal and direct with what he's given. he's just that good and creative. the whole 6/10 is only a *little* harsh; it does have problems, but if it made me smile and feel great joy from beginning to end, then it's a good movie in my opinion. i only have small nitpicks, like the movie was missing some Metal Gear, Castlevania, or Mega Man representation. Also no Nintendo, which btw is the GRANDDADDY of the video game industry!! how do you make a movie about video games and not include Mario?!?! da fuck!!
despite my nitpicks and peeves, i would give this movie an 8/10. a little higher from your score, but like i said, i enjoyed it from beginning to end and i got my money's worth. i have no regrets.
Nintendo characters probably weren't in it because Nintendo didn't give them permission. Then again, this was a Universal movie and Nintendo is in talks for a Nintendo Land in Universal Studios theme parks, so I'm not 100% sure about that.
I tried super hard not to compare this movie to the book when I saw it but honestly... I like the character developments and relationships infinitely better in the book. Wade and Atr3mis have a relationship with ups and downs that feels pretty real, we get some actual friendly banter and arguments between the Aech and Wade. It worked for me because I felt like these characters knew and liked each other. In the movie they all just kind of... exist in the same space and we're supposed to believe that they're close. Idk, this movie didn't really do it for me. I'd love to see a full breakdown of it though!
Didn’t read the book? Sad!
I mean the book was basically made because the author wanted to make a story including all his favorite stuff. Halliday was a self insert just to spread his tastes.
Ernest Cline wrote the script, so he’s still going to shove in the shit he likes
Chiiin Thanos the book is not good; go read some good literature
That’s a poor projection of opinion. And who’s to say I don’t read fine literature. I enjoy Ready Player One, but it doesn’t hold a candle to my preferred genre of writing
CONSIDER THE DEMAND HIGH ENOUGH. Would watch, and rewatch, and rewatch a full video.
I largely enjoyed this movie although it is VERY different than the book
I get that they gave them custom avatars to make it have less uncanny valley, but in the book, Art3mis and Parzival’s avatars look like themselves.
I honestly didn't think the audio was like you said it was.
Really good video man. You make great content, keep on going!
is it me, or did the thumb nail for this look like scarlet witch and quicksilver.
On the reference comparison, another one that came to my mind was Dr Who and the difference in how RTD era Who and Moffat era Who handled nods to the classic series.
The Moffat era had a habit of just throwing in names and monsters in episodes for no other reason than "fans will notice and geek out about it". By comparison, RTDs Who has a scene of the Master watching a clip of the teletubbies and jokingly referring to them as though they are real. As well as getting across the kind of never-quite-sure-if-srs nature of this incarnation, it's also a callback to a classic episode where the character watches an episode of the Clangers (and actually mistakes them for real creatures somehow).
One is a reference just thrown in for people to go "I recognise that", the other is a little nod to something they clearly have a fondness for.
it missed the mark somehow. i was not invested. just felt like a lot of 'stuff' on screen
1:38 Uh that’s the whole point of the OASIS.. You get to be whatever you want to be, think of it as playing in VRCHAT, you see people that you might recognize from other games or movies and some you won’t even know.
0:32 kingdom of the crystal skull?
How has it been 1.5 years and I just now found footage of Marcus praising Scott Pilgrim, I’m fucking JUICING on my screen.
My short answer: It doesn't
I'm looking forward to a breakdown!!
Well, this is still my favourite movie
The Junie B Jones hit me with massive nostalgia
SPOILER***
I know you said you didn't want to spoil anything, but I had a gripe about something that I'm not sure if you plan on covering when/if you do a full breakdown.
It was when his aunt died. The scene felt very rushed. He's rushing to save her, the place blows up, it LOOKS like the trailers should've landed on him or something, next scene he is walking away, face is emotionless, and back to business. I expected some sort of scene with him trying to dig his way out of rubble, and at the very least, a scene of him moarning for the only blood relative he had left dying. Nope nothing. I know their relationship wasn't the greatest, but it looked like he cared a lot about her when he was running to save her. And then later on, he is talking to the bad guy and tells him how he killed his "mom's sister" that's how he phrased it. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't refer to my aunt's or uncle's as the siblings of my parents when I talk about them. The emotion was just completely detached whenever it came to anything that had to deal with the last living blood relative that he knew of. Rant over. (Edited so you would have to click "read more" to see the spoiler)
Adventur verse Honestly I'm not surprised that it was like this in the movie. It felt like that in the book. Felt really weird that he was so apathetic to his aunt getting blown the fuck up.
super1upmushroom I'm in the same boat as cosmonaut here. I never read the book, but I definitely feel like a lot of parts were rushed in the movie. From the aunt's death to Wade's relationship with Samantha. Like how he says he is in love with her after probably about a full hours worth of interactions with her, since the movie never hints at any interactions they have off screen, I can't assume they did.
they condensed it for the movie. In the book at lot more time passes between both these story lines. His meeting with Samantha and his actual confession span several months in the book, as far as i remember.
The thing that annoied me the most about this movie is the fact the the computer world was animated and the real world was live action. It kept taking out of the movie every single time they swiched between each world.
They should have just made this an animated movie.
Everyone has their own opinion and should be respected. For me I absolutely loved the movie, more so than I even thought imaginable. I read the book which is currently my favorite, beating out a depressing child abuse book called A Child Called It. I’ve seen hundreds of films and have a very expansive list of films from Schindler’s List to Mad Max Fury Road, this film somehow got to number 11 on my list which is easily the most controversial thing I’ve ever done. The thing about it is that it appeals so much to me specifically that it honestly is insane to think about for me. I have maladaptive daydreaming and honestly this movie is something straight out of my dreams and only Steven Spielberg could pull it off since he’s the man that introduced me to film. I’ve seen it three times already and can’t believe how thrilled I still am to see it each time. It feels very personal for me, it captures the culture and type of person I am super well. This is why films I know that are masterpieces tend to rate lower on my list because for me it’s more about what speaks to me then what is objectively the best of the best.
Coletrain Hetrick The only part of this comment that wasn’t extremely pretentious was the last sentence
Zach Levan not sure how me giving my opinion and explaining myself is remotely pretentious
I love how he has the sonic mania music in the background
My major problem with it was that in the book, Wade’s arc has him starting from nothing - on the free school planet, which is the way Halliday intended it to be. In the movie though, the first key is introduced through a race which is only available if you play in the oasis a LOT, and have made a ton of money there, which is the exact antithesis of the point the book was trying to make.
One of only countless problems with the adapted writing in the movie, but yeah that one really sticks out considering it takes away the majority of all the character development for Wade.
1:38 This isn't pandering at all. If anything it's world building. It is explained that this is a world where you can be *anyone*, and that the OASIS is a world comprised of many worlds. It makes sense people want to be their favorite characters! And if anything, it strengthens the idea that you could *literally* be anyone - like 41 year old man called Chuck living in his mom's basement.
Really enjoyed your review, but there was one comparison that didn't sit well with me.
Scott Pilgrim Vs the World was largely a work of surrealism. All the game references and imagery seemingly sprang from the imagination of Scott Pilgrim, but then breaking through and completely permeating the reality of the film for a deliberately illogical effect. So it makes sense for every reference to relate Scott and his story, he was the reason filter through we saw everything in the story.
Ready Player One was very much logically grounded in its reality, even including the super-imaginative game world. Why were Chun Li and Lara Craft just there with no meaning to the main characters or their story? Because two other players were there who happened to like Chun Li and Lara Croft. Just as if you went a gaming forum, and saw two avatars of those characters, or went to a Game Stop and saw them on someone's T-shirt. Any deeper meaning or metaphor for hun Li and Lara Croft being there would be contrary to the logic of that world.
Yes, there is always room for deeper meaning in realistic films, but there also needs to be a larger world around the characters. A world that should feel that it, like our own, would exist with or without the characters.
None of this, of course, is to disagree with the point you were making. There were many references that felt just "thrown in", where they could have used the opportunity to tell us more about the characters. For example, in the book, Daito and Shoto pilot a specific ship because it comes from something they both love. The film instead uses a more recognizable fan favorite, even though we have no reason to connect it to Daito.
I love how you use sonic mania music in you background. It's cool.
It wasn’t miserable for me when I watched it.
I can't wait for your Infinity War and Solo ASWS reviews!
“Oops, bitch you thought” I lost it laughing so hard
I like how all the Spartans are wearing the Spartan armor from 343s era. I'd wear Bungies Halo 2 armor
Nah I don’t think it sucks, my family really enjoyed it. I would give it a 7.5/10
Yoo bro we need more , your movie and Game reviews are the shit.
Awesome video 👏the fact that u mentioned the shitty treatment of female characters makes you the first person I’ll actually listen to about the positive points of the movie lol
Saw Mark Rylance as Iago in Othello, he is a next level amazing actor. So so so impressive
You should read the book. There are cringe worthy scenes but most of it is pretty good and it’s a lot better than the movie.
The final battle scene was pure eye candy, it was so great.
ready player one is no lie the best movie I've ever seen have fun yelling at me
HECK * I liked it too
This the only movie I’ve seen in the last 5(probably more) years that’s actually worth seeing in 3D. It worked so goddamn well with it
Meh, I had a good time. :P
0:52 Junie B. Jones IS the shit though 😂
I liked it. I recommend it.
I think the best way to sum up this movie is "Good if you want something for the background". Like I'll play this movie while I'm doing homework or housework. I've probably "watched it" a dozen times but I've only sat down and paid attention once.
In other words "Good, if you don't pay attention to the writing and plot in any substantive way"
The book was bad and the movie was bad too.
YYYEEESSSSS. Scott Pilgrim is a fucking masterpiece, Edgar Wright is a brilliant director. You're quickly becoming my favorite youtube reviewer! Thanks for all the fantastic content!