Sorry we weren't able to do a premiere on this one :(((( Something was up on UA-cam's end and it wouldn't start... I was really looking forward to finding out all of the references I missed!
The Zemeckis Cube is named after Robert Zemeckis, the director of Back to the Future, which is why the cube sends you back in time. When it is activated, you can even hear a few notes from the Back to the Future theme.
I'm sure a lot of people had that reaction as well, it was a much better choice than the original one they had (Blade Runner, which was scrapped because the sequel was coming out)
@@pringalsI don't blame her. There's a lot going on at the same time there. She has to stay focused on the movie while spotting easter eggs and trying to figure out their origin. My mind would blank too.
My wife and I met a lovely Californian guy on a holiday in France a few years ago and discovered that he was starting work at Lucasfilm in the video graphics field. We kept in touch and when he told us that he was working on Ready Player One, we had to go and see and find his name in the credits. Cudos to Max Hampton for being involved in this very entertaining movie!
Peoples enjoyment of this movie seems to be directly proportional to their pop culture knowledge. It's a fun movie on its own but the more you know about pop culture the more you get out of the movie. Getting all the references and easter eggs and whatnot takes the movie to another level.
Assorted pop culture references 1-Artemis uses the pulse rifle from Aliens 2-The spell on the shield is the Charm of Making from Excalibur 3-The holy Hand Grenade from Monty Python 4-The Zemekis cube is because of Back to The Future 5-When iRoc blows up, he has Perseus' shield from Clash Of The Titans, and they cut off his arm with the glaive from Krull 6-In the race, they race past Silvercup studios, where the final Highglander fight happened, you can also make out the van from the A-Team in the race 7-For The Shining sequence, they added film grain to the render 8-In the final charge, you see Battle Toads, Chun-Li, Spawn, He-Man, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many more 9- When Pazival is changing clothes, he dresses like Prince too. 10-In the club you see Harley Quinn And I'm sure I'm missing TONS
I wanted to point out some Star Trek references in the final scene, when Wade and Samantha were sitting in the chair. There's a Star Trek The Motion Picture poster in the window and a Bat’leth on the window sill.
iRoc's avatar is likely a reference to Gaiking with the giant skull for a chest, and his gun is supposedly from the anime Katekyo Hitman Reborn(changed to just Reborn! in the US).
If you pay attention to the ship "Dai-to" jumped out of before he became a Gundam robot.... he jumped out of Serenity, The Firefly ship from the show! :D When I saw that I was like "Serenity!!" lol "As terrifying as the real world is, it's the only place you can get a decent meal." -Groucho Marx Such a great quote from him that is relevent to this movie. Great reaction. :)
Bucakaroo Banzai is a dumb, cheesy, sci-fi action adventure movie that feels like it was written by a 10 year old and hasn't aged well at all. That's why I love it!
RE: Wade loving Buckaroo Banzai. Buckaroo Banzai is the most underappreciated amazing science fiction movie under. I would highly recommend reacting to it! Fun times Cassie!
Loyalty Centers would be like how the mining companies operated in the early 1900s, forcing workers to live in their houses and buy food & equipment from their "company stores' - never able to pay off their debts.
I think I may have just had a horrifying vision of the future thanks to this comment… as any student of history will attest, we move in cycles which tend to repeat Here I go overthinking again
Funny that you are watching this now. According to the book , Wade was born 12 August 2024. Happy Birthday Wade.. The Movie has hundreds of Easter Eggs, the book has more. The Audiobook is 15 hours or so.
The book by Ernest Cline is basically an homage to 80's culture, specifically early computer games and arcade games. The movie changed quite a bit, perhaps because much of the audience wasn't even alive when old folks like me played games like Joust which figures prominently in the book.
I love the book, I listen to the audio version, narrated by Wil Wheaton, about 3-5 times a year. I liked the movie, even though it was a complete let down as a fan of the book. I know people say that all the time about films from books but other than names, the Oasis and competition premise, it’s nothing like the book.
@@yourlifeisagreatstory I didn't like it the first time I watched it, for similar reasons. But it grew on me a bit on a second watch. I decided to look at it as its own story instead of the book story. Not an easy thing to do, because I tend to be a bit of a hard case when it comes to movies changing too much of a good story.
@yourlifeisagreatstory - same! The audiobook is one of my favs I listen to several times each year. Will Wheaton does a great job narrating. The Holy Grail walkthrough always cracks me up. And also agree the movie was a letdown. The stuff with F’Nale/Sorrento was just dumb and unnecessary add. And, they ruined Samantha and her dynamic with Wade for me.
for a lifelong gamer like me, the book was gold - i've read it 3 times and loved it each time being so familiar with most of the references to games and culture. the movie can't compare to the book but is great in it's own right - a different story perfect for non-gamers but with a ton of "hidden" gamer and culture references shoved everywhere throughout the film. i've watched the film 10 or 12 times to enjoy all those hidden eggs. however, if you're a real gamer and know the history and evolution of gaming from its' birth to VR, the movie will never suffice - READ THE BOOK !
As a pre-teen/teen, Adult Swim on Cartoon Network was me and my friends entire weekend, and I personally loved Gundam, I was 28 when this movie came out, when Daito transforms into the Gundam to fight Mecha Godzilla, I turned into a 10 year old kid on Saturday night at 1am hanging out at my friends house watching anime again...of all the nostalgia and references in the movie, that one got me the most.
@@Variable-2-actual Yeah nah. Robotech is subpar to Gundam and Macross. Gundam and Macross are both excellent in their own right. And probably the reason we don't see any Valkyrie fighters in this movie because Harmony Gold and Robotech are a bunch of douches. So while Macross and Gundam continue to produce new content, Robotech continues to be a stagnant IP.
A samurai diving out of _Serenity_ and transforming into the RX-78 Gundam to fight Mechagodzilla was _not_ something I ever expected to see in a movie.
Avengers (2012) Nick Fury: I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys. Thor: Monkeys? I do not understand. Steve Rogers: I do! [Stark rolls his eyes, while Captain America looks proud of himself] Steve Rogers: I understood that reference.
Tbh, Ready Player One is not a bad movie, but it is more or less a studio and director flexing about what can be done in visual effects. Nowadays visually speaking everything goes with movies like this, the Pandora franchise and so on... I absolute understand why it could lose against movies like Close Encounter Of The Third Kind - in that days such movies set new marks in terms of creativity or pictorial language.
@@NiersFloater Spielberg certainly likes VFX, but I don't think that was his primary motive for this movie. He's a fan of pop culture, and what he really wanted to flex was his ability to acquire all the licensing to feature the massive amount of IPs in this film much like he did w/ producing Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The difference is that when you saw Mickey & Bugs in WFRR, those are the actual cartoon characters rather than human characters disguised as them.
The craziest fact about the book to me at least, considering it came out in 2011, is that it told a world where a social media company would buy a VR company (see Facebook/Meta buying Oculus). That one I still can't get over.
I recall hearing once (not sure who to attribute it to) that all science fiction will eventually become science fact… if we can imagine it we can find a way there
Yeah, the book was perfection! I wish HBO had made the novel into a series so it could be flushed out in its entirety. The fact that the first challenge WASN'T the Tomb of Horrors from Dungeons & Dragons bums me out just a little, but I still love the movie, (more so now after having watched Cassie's reaction to it). :)
You seem like you may be quite young. As you go on in life, you may see lots of 'dark future' stories that actually turn out to be far too close to eventual reality for comfort. At least, that's been my experience.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 I hope you're not talking about me. Though I don't look it, I'm 51. And even if I was a kid, age is no brother to wisdom. If you have a problem with someone's post, maybe confront the content of the post itself, rather than the poster's perceived age, eh?
And there's haptic suits and different types of running pads available too.And of course Meta Horizon Worlds, clearly intended to be some sort of low tech Oasis.
Remember though, you need to go "pedal to the metal", full speed, risking *everything* you have on a whim. People wouldve examined the wall pixel by pixel, sure, probably bumped it a bit to find any secret openings, but unless youre *all in* doesnt work
Yup this was one of many bits she didn't react to. So the ironic part is when she gets around to seeing the original bits she will remember them from RP1 and not from the source material.
Cassie, you're not alone here. Even Addie Counts had to relive the same bad experience in the scene with that challenge involving The Shining (1980). It even happened again during the drive-in scene in Twister (1996).
Miss P. I love how you claim to be a rookie at watching Movies but I loved how you knew the name of " The Overlook" in the shining and said the name without effort. You know more than you realize.
@@andrewgrant6516?!?! Not everything in the movie is 80’s… ie the chest buster is 1979, and the Atari 2600 released in 1977, and I’m sure there are many others.
Spielberg's last two movies, West Side Story (2021) & The Fabelmans (2022), both flopped at the box office, due to a widespread lack of interest in movie musicals & prestige films and because they both opened around the same time as two Marvel movies, Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) & Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). In my view, Spielberg deserved better. Here's to hoping that his upcoming UFO movie does well in two years.
One of the great pleasures of this channel is seeing how far you've come with your movie knowledge, Cassie. You are justifiably proud -- and we are proud of you too!
Halliday's comment about the game "Asteroids" being perfect is basically straight from Spielberg. He made that remark when talking to the E.T. cast on the set in behind-the-scenes footage.
To testament to your humanity and to your precious soul that you couldn't watch the bathtub scene, there are things that we sometimes simply cannot see, because we cannot UN see them
So many references... 4:18 - Robocop. 4:19 - Marvin the Martian (Loony Tunes). 7:17 - Stephen King's Christine (red car, white roof). 7:41 - Akira, classic Japanese animated movie. 8:21 - Building with "SILVERCUP" sign: Site of final fight in the movie Highlander. 8:26 - Classic 60s TV show Batmobile. 9:17 - Lonestar's Winnebago from Spaceballs, a pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Starfighter and Hatchet Fighter from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and ED-209 from Robocop. 9:29 - A Viper from the classic 70s version of Battlestar Galactica (right above his arm). 13:23 - Holy Hand Grenade from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 15:26 - Goro from the game Mortal Kombat. 18:11 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. 19:41 - M41a Pulse Rifle from Aliens. 19:58 - A Judge Dread :Lawgiver (right hand), Halo pistol (left hand). 30:41 - The sacred charm of making from the movie Excalibur 34:43 - Chun Li from the game Street Fighter 2. 35:32 - Chucky from the Child's Play franchise. 36:26 - Mobile Suit Gundam, a long-running Japanese animated franchise. 37:45 - The Glave from the movie Krull (also an Atari 2600 game). 38:09 - Classic Battlestar Galactica blaster. 39:11 - Street Fighter 2 special move. 43:13 - Commodore brand floppy disk drive from the 80s. The coloring looks like a 1541c, but the name badge is wrong. 45:22 - Robby the Robot, the most famous fictional robot ever. He's appeared in movies, TV shows and even commercials. Also, a Klingon Batt'leth. And these are just the ones visible in this video, that I recognize. I'm pretty sure the army at the end had Halo Spartans and Grunts, as well as Todd McFarlane's Spawn, and I think there was an MFP cruiser from the original Mad Max in the race.
@@Variable-2-actual I don't doubt it, but I haven't watched the movie in a year or two, so I was mostly just listing the things I recognized in this video. I'm sure the girl next to Chun Li is from something, but I don't personally recognize her.
My main pondering point is how they licensed all this and if anyone refused to have their property included😂🤔. There aren't any Disney/Marvel characters there, I don't think....
@@Banterbear Maybe I'm wrong, but it was my understanding that legally, you don't need permission to show copyrighted/trademarked things in movies, if you're just showing that they exist. For example, you don't need permission to show a character drinking a can of Pepsi. However if the movie revolved around someone leading a crusade to convert people from drinking Coke to drinking Pepsi, that would be different. Again, I could be wrong, but I believe the reason movies usually license things and/or get permission is just to cover their ass in case the company doesn't like how they depict the item and decides to sue them, claiming it disparages the brand. For example if a movie showed someone being murdered by being forced to drink Liquid Plumber, the company would probably have a problem with that. When it comes to using stuff from movies and TV shows, I'm not sure what the rule is. I mean, I don't think you need DC's permission for a kid to wear a Superman T-shirt, or have a Batman figure standing on their bookcase n the background. Even with Disney stuff, it would probably be legal to show a character going to ComicCon, and having Star Wars characters walk by in the background, as long as you weren't focusing on them, or making them part of the story.
@@lurkerrekrul Definitely wrong. They had to license everything for the film. I just looked up a Quora on it. Most were already owned by Warner Brothers, some they got permission for, and others had to be left out because they couldn't get permission. Ie, there was a Blade Runner sequence in the novel, and they had to swap it out for the film. I don't know how it works for things like, say, a character wearing a T-shirt or someone using the terms Padawan, but I think they are generally allowed, one is good advertisment anyway, and the other is something that's fairly common parlance/slang. Of course, a lot of companies will PAY the movie to include their products, as again, it's a form of advertising...good example.is in Bond films with cars and watches...it's all product placement.
So many Easter eggs and references, the bike Artemis rides in the race is Kaneda’s bike from Akira, the box that contains the Orb of Osuvox is Gizmos box from Gremlins, all the posters in H’s workshop, Mad Max and the election poster for Goldie Wilson from Back to the Future. Definitely gotta watch Buckaroo Banzai, so underrated.
This movie and movie references of course are from my generation. I’m so happy to see the journey you are taking. For us, either waiting for season finale or waiting in long lines for your favorite movie will always have a special place in my heart.
12:03 "As if noones figured that out before" Yeah fair it is a surprisingly simple answer, but youve gotta remember, he said "peddle to the metal". That means full speed, no backing out, risk loosing *everything* youve got in a car crash. People probably did examine the back wall, try bumping into surfaces, etc, but it wont open unless youre going all in on a whim
The Iron Giant giving a thumbs 👍 when melting in lava is a reference from Terminator 2 when the T-800 a.k.a Arnold saying his goodbyes to Sarah & John Connor in the end of T-2. And I’m proud that you choose this movie sometimes the soul needs a little freedom, good job 👍
Artimus was riding Kaneda's bike from Akira, which i'm not sure you've seen, but if you haven't then you really need to, it's one of the greatest films ever made
@@randallwright1973 I saw Akira for the first time in a theatrical rerelease in 2020. I definitely didn't think it was the greatest movie ever made. The animation was great, but the story was quite bizarre and not all that interesting.
I love this movie. Watched it several times, but the first time in an IMAX theater was the best way to experience this one. I keep hoping they'll re-release it in the theater again, or better yet, a sequel. So many characters to catch walking around in the background as well as other Steven Spielberg hidden references that I think many haven't caught. I loved his 80s TV series "Amazing Stories" when I was a little kid, so that's the only clue I'll leave. Gave me goosebumps when I heard it and revived that old memory lost soo many years ago (40).
Some 80’s references you may have missed: - The bladed boomerang that cuts off I-R0k’s arm is the Glaive from the movie Krull - The spell to deactivate the Orb of Osuvox is the Charm of Making from the movie Excalibur
I'm extremely surprised that the writers of this movie thought that Artemis' birthmark was actually pronounced enough for her to "assume" she's ugly or that others find her unattractive. Because that actress is much to cute for something that just looks barely there to be seen as unattractive.
Jenny Nicholson says exactly this in her review. As does the yourmoviesucks guy. I assume the makers picked a verifiably hot girl to play Artemis as they felt the public wouldn't buy Wade falling in love so quickly with someone more truer to book-Arty
It’s basically the “She’s All That” trope all over again - in Hollywood, adding an incredibly 😊modest imperfection to a verifiably stunning woman makes her “ugly”
@@JohnSmith-kf8mv I suppose that makes sense superficially, but remember when they introduce her Wade is already Fan-Boying over her hard and he's never so much as seen her. When yo fanboy over someone that much, their looks dont affect your attraction to a degree that you'd lose interest. It MIGHT even make a less attractive person be MORE attractive to you because of your initial bias in their favor. But I get it. Hollywood needs pretty people to fall for pretty people. lol
I always assumed it was just her feeling self conscious about her birthmark. We all do it; every little imperfection is multiplied by a hundred in our own minds. I remember feeling insecure about my looks in high school, then decades later I happened across my old yearbook and was shocked to see my picture and come to the conclusion that I was probably above average. It was kind of sad, realizing how much that affected my self esteem when it really didn't have to. And I'm a man. I suspect women do it more because, although it's getting better, there's still a part of our culture that unfortunately implies that a woman's worth is tied to her looks. Even someone like Samantha/Artemis, who doesn't define herself by the way she looks, wouldn't necessarily be immune to insecurity. Just because we think she's attractive doesn't necessarily mean she does.
@@toddhadley9002 Yeah, I get that some women might see their slight birthmark and lose all their self confidence. But the idea the Samantha has "endured it her whole life" and people ONLY see the birthmark as if it's unattractive is where I have the issue. Her being self conscious is one thing. But saying people only see it and THAT is what causes her to be self conscious, is far fetched. There's barely anything there that makeup cannot hide. It's not as easily noticeable as a massive disfiguration.
You asked the other day how long each of us have been watching and what has kept us returning and after watching this one with you, I do believe I have your answer- it is simply your enthusiasm for whatever movie it maybe that you are watching- you get completely lost in whatever world is presented-and I find this trait to be very endearing so yep there it is, there is your answer.. just keep on being you
As a person who absolutely loved the book, I feel this was a worthy film adaptation. It's tough to put the book into a feature film and I feel they did a decent job without getting into a multi-part movie franchise. However, I feel they could have made this into a mini-series instead in order to be more true to the film.
I read the book after I saw the movie. I enjoyed the movie a lot even though dystopian stuff is not my fave. Thought the book was much darker and I'm not sure I would have enjoyed the movie as much if I'd done the book first.
I'm the opposite on the movie, think it's a solid film, but I also loved the book too. I think it just went under 'production hell' and that's why the movie suffered, if I remember correctly.
I read the book first, loved it, and was super excited that Spielberg was directing the movie. Sadly, the movie is good but not great. It’s Spielberg, so it’s well executed. But as Cassie noted, the VR world looks way too cartoony to me. I also don’t like the casting of Rylance for Halliday. Or maybe just his performance/take on it. 🤷🏻♂️
As someone who grew up in the 80s, and a huge nerd (still am) this movie was a treat. :) I owned an Atari 2600, my first game console and played Adventure, even found the Easter egg. Good times and good memories. I've give anything to be able to put the pedal in reverse. :D
Nobody gets all the references the first time. It was a delight to sit and watch with you. Each time you spotted something you recognized you face would light up. Maybe watch it again with the kids or a friend who plays video games and watch them as they recognize characters from video games and you will get to experience what we just did for yourself.
@@philipocallaghan, honestly, I feel like he was misrepresented and underutilized in this movie. Considering how the whole concept of the iron giant is that he doesn’t use his weapons to the fact that he doesn’t “want to be a gun”, the writers of this movie would’ve realized this. Honestly, I think a better situation would’ve seen Sorrento utilizing the Giant instead of MegaGodzilla. It would even make him just as ignorant to not understanding the whole point of certain iconic figures. When he chooses the Iron Giant, he does so because he sees it has weapons that can kill. But it’s up to the characters to see that the Giant doesn’t kill, therefore try and teach him to be good again, like Hogarth did in the movie.
@@osmanyousif7849 no, you're missing the point , he used it as an avatar , just like the DeLorean isn't a race car or the bad guy was superman/Clark Kent you use it as you wish, it doesn't reflect the true origin. I could be snow white and kill EVERYBODY ....it's just an avatar . BE WHAT YOU WANT.
I just watched this movie 2 days ago on my Quest 3 in VR chat in 3D, it sounds nerdy, and it is. It was one of the best watching experiences i've had especially the first race. This movie is a gem and even better when watched through a VR headset in VR
In the Ready Player One universe everything takes place in the Oasis. People work in the Oasis, people go to school in the Oasis. People vactaion etc all in the Oasis.
@@xxJOKeR75xx Yeah, it's a fine, fun movie, I just don't get the "One of the best films released in the past 10 years" thing. Since outside of the references, there isn't a whole lot propping it up, and references are pretty shallow entertainment.
@@Eidlones every movie doesnt need to have this fantastic story that blows our mind. If youve watched ANY movies in the last 10 years, alot of them have been complete dog shit. So "one of the best films in the last 10 years" isnt too far of a stretch. Top gun was ALL nostalgia references and it did great. Its easily one of the best when compared to the garbage weve seen.
"YES! Do Say Anything! Wait...Nooooooooo." Lol. That was kind of perfect. But I think it would be really cool if they made like ten different versions where each time they choose a different movie to visit. Like the theater showings or DVDs were all different.
@@dmichael1172 I underestimated how much she was actually traumatized by that movie. But I should've known. I remember kids at school who would refuse to talk about the movie after seeing it. lol. Same with that IT miniseries.
@@ct6852 The only part of Shining I saw as a kid was flipping through channels and seeing the elevators open and the blood come out. I was totally disturbed, ran away fast and didn't see the full movie until my adult years.
This film is based on a novel and it is way different from the book. For example...Wade and Samantha don't meet with each other until towards the end (from the book); Wade first meets with Samantha in the "Oasis" when they're going to find the first key (from the book); the High Five are all alive in the film but in the book - one of the its members dies in real life; Wade gets arrested and goes to detainment which was his plan all along to get into IOI (from the book); R2-D2 was playing the DJ from the book but in the movie didn't appear - Disney said no; Wade earned that extra life coin by playing Pac-Man arcade game for 10 straight hours (from the book). There are many differences from the book but it seems half of it appears on film - which is fine with me. Oh! Oh!! Oh!!! And one more thing...love it when Cassie says Oh No No, didn't think I'll be going back here when she sees The Shining. She made my day on that one. ha ha ha ha ha!!!
This is a great movie! I am happy you chose this one, and my favorite line in this movie is one i thought you would like, “ive never seen the Shining is it scary?!” “Uhhh I have to watch it thru my fingers!”
My favorite obscure pop culture reference is the design on the back of H's van. The demon face. It's part of the art handouts for the original module S1: Tomb of Horrors, for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
Virtual Monday Cassie Yes, you need to watch it a few times. The film is loaded with references and 'easter eggs'. "Meet me at planet Doom" is a reference to the video game "Doom". The avatars are from various other games like Mortal Kombat, Steet Fighter, Tron, Grand Theft Auto IV, Halo, Gears of War, Forza Motorsport and many others that i don't remember / know the names to. As for movie references, holding up the boombox to play "We're Not Going to Take It Anymore" from Twisted Sister from "Say Anything" "No man is a failure who has friends" from "It's a Wonderful Life", Mega Godzilla from "Godzilla vs Mega Godzilla", "Terminator", "Dragonball Z", "Saturday Night Fever", "Krull", and several others. The fact most of the main actors were unknown was because they would have distracted from the main 'virtual OASIS world'. Overall, it is a movie packed full of references and characters from movies, anime, comics. games, and tv shows.
I loved the reveal of H, AKA Helen (a woman) when they met IRL in the alley. A bit of a toss back to the time H said "she may be some old dude named Chuck" reference when Parzival claimed to Love Art3. lol
Yes. The tests to find his keys are Always the same. You have to pass each test to get clues to the next key. he also designed to be first come first serve; meaning that once the first key is found, it's still there and CAN be found again. In fact there can be hundreds - possibly even tens of thousands - of people with "the first" key. But back to your point, the tests themselves are universal to everyone. They simply have to pass the tests.
As a long-time gamer and old schooler programmer, there was not a single scene that was not chock full of references to coding, gaming, or geek culture from the last 50 years. There are so many layers to this script, and I love it.
1:45 I feel this way everytime I cook something really well. I didn’t learn to cook more than boxed food until I was 45. I was always ashamed that I didn’t know how. Now not only do I know how but I’m often better than the restaurants we go to (which is a whole other problem I never knew I would have) so I’m super proud. I tell my husband all the time about how proud of myself I am. It’s just one of those life steps that when you catch up it feels really good. Your movie culture is like that. (Movie culture has been my forte since I was a child, we are different but the same)
There's Lime Jelly Beans that choke you during the Poppies livestream... and then there's this YT Frickery... We demand justice for Cass because she kicks ass!
I loved Mark Rylance's performance as James Halliday in this movie. During the memory flashbacks in the journals, but especially during the ending when Halliday is looking around for the egg, I love how the legend who created the Oasis is stripped back and you get to see that Halliday was just a person too. A person who lived their own life, and made choices with consequences that he later regretted. Seeing those moments really hit me the first time I saw this in cinemas.
Its seriously in my top 2 movies for just playing in the background whenever. Such a fun and enjoyable film that always feels like a warm blanket on a cold rainy day.
I know people do criticize this movie, but there's one scene that made me tear up. It was when they were shopping in the game store after he won the first prize. It made me cry because it not only captured what it means to be a gamer, one of my life hobbies be summarized in one moment, it made me think, "Wow, one day we could BE THERE!" It may seem silly, but it was one of those "beautiful cinema" moments for me.
the movie isn't the problem, the book is. It's 80s nostalgia written for people who weren't alive during the 80s completely missing the context of it all and painting this weird fake history. If anything the movie corrected this.
@@RobalogotThe movie throws in even more nostalgia and the final test is completed with no skill, just niche knowledge Wade acquired somewhere. It's nerd wank in every version 🤓
@@Robalogot I don’t know where you’re getting this take from, but I don’t think you’ve read the book. The book is so much more than that, it actually sounds like you’re describing the movie instead. The book goes deep into how the real world sucks, corporations out of control and how nothing matters but capitalism, only profit matters and lives aren’t valued. Of course it’s full of 80s nostalgia, but so is the film, but unlike the film, the book dives into why people escape reality to the Oasis. The movie barely does this, leaning more toward surface level interactions with only one corporation being the enemy, instead of the whole system those corporations takes advantage of.
@@MetastaticMaladies i mean... did the movie really need to though? that stuff was kinda picked up on using common sense. any gamer would pick up on why they go into the oasis, especially with seeing how bad the world is.
The Spell they chant is from the 1981 Movie "Excalibur" called the "Charm of Making". Patrick Stewart (Jean Luc Picard) is also in the 81 movie Excalibur.
Let me save you one search, the spell which activated and deactivated the Orb is the Charm of Making from the movie ''Excalibur'', it's a great adaptation of the story of King Arthur!
I've never seen a Kong that looked this good. I'm not so sure it's a model of any earlier Kong directly. The face has a monster look more or less descended from the original film. The body, though, is very ape-like, as we saw in Jackson's 2005 remake. It's the perfect combination. You can see both the animalistic and otherworldly monstrous side in him. Going ape with the face like Jackson did made Kong a bit more cuddly than scary.
@@jmsmys13ify Thanks. When you are as old as I am, these things are more remembered (well, I was a bit too young to see it in the movies (I was a baby when it came out), but it came on TV a few years after
1-Snowboarding on the planet Hoth. 2-Design my own Batmobile. 3-Create and race a Judge Dredd bike from the comics 4-Visit the video game museum. And 996 other things I can't think of right now.
My favorite thing about this is the Jame Raynor from StarCraft cameo in the very beginning. For anyone who doesn't know, he's the guy in the spacesuit looking armor that's all painted up in stars and stripes. Good ol Jimmy Raynor.
As a child of the 80s, this film with all its references was a true gem and so much fun to watch...! I fondly remember when I saw it back in 2018 in a small cinema in a small Swedish town and I was the only guest in the cinema!!!
Sorry we weren't able to do a premiere on this one :(((( Something was up on UA-cam's end and it wouldn't start... I was really looking forward to finding out all of the references I missed!
Sad but will still enjoy the reaction. Thanks 😊
DISSAPPOINTED
Not your fault... would of been fun to watch with everyone but thanks for posting it 🙂
you probably got all the important ones 😁
it's okay Cassie by the way I love your Chicago sweater, mainly because I'm from Chicago. 👍
Seeing a gundam jump out of the Serenity to fight Mechagozilla will forever be the weirdest moment in all of cinema for me.
Mecha Godzilla would win. _I'm just saying_
I cried honest to God. I had those toys and played that same battle for hours as a kid. .
@@jaystarr6571 They only beat MechaGodzilla in this movie by taking out the pilot.
Mazinger Z or Eva 1 would be a mind blowing
U mean most epic...
The Zemeckis Cube is named after Robert Zemeckis, the director of Back to the Future, which is why the cube sends you back in time. When it is activated, you can even hear a few notes from the Back to the Future theme.
I never got that
@@joewhitehead3 You should always try to remember the name of the director of every movie you see.
@@jedijones No I know his name, I just never made the connection
Also I heard the Rubik's Cube brand is super protective of the name "rubik's" being used
Just like the Godzilla theme when mechagodzilla arrives
Cassie: "Oh no. No. Didn't think I'd be going back here.".
I laughed when Cassie said this about the Shining movie scene.
I said something similar when I watched this movie too, lol.
So happy she could get some references, then........THE SHINING LOL
I'm sure a lot of people had that reaction as well, it was a much better choice than the original one they had (Blade Runner, which was scrapped because the sequel was coming out)
Reminds me of how Addie Counts reacted to that scene. "Out of all the movies that we had to go into, why the Shining!"
That’s myyyy reaction.😂
As a kid in the 80's, you go to the arcade, put quarters in, hit button and it says "Ready Player One".
The best though were the four-player games like Gauntlet. It's a party and everyone's invited!
Oh that's right. Totally forgot that's what it was referencing.
@@jedijones Gauntlet was hard as heck. I got far but never beat it.
@@jedijones I have a functioning 4-player Gauntlet arcade in my garage. Just came here to flex XD
I spent so much money on Gauntlet back in the day, I loved that game.
I love when the Iron Giant fell in the hot lava and the thumbs-up, referencing Terminator 2
It seemed Casey did catch the Terminator reference but just couldn't put her finger on it during the moment.
@@pringalsI don't blame her. There's a lot going on at the same time there. She has to stay focused on the movie while spotting easter eggs and trying to figure out their origin. My mind would blank too.
My wife and I met a lovely Californian guy on a holiday in France a few years ago and discovered that he was starting work at Lucasfilm in the video graphics field. We kept in touch and when he told us that he was working on Ready Player One, we had to go and see and find his name in the credits. Cudos to Max Hampton for being involved in this very entertaining movie!
Small world, and relevant story.
Thanks for sharing!
The HQ in Presidio in SF is pretty cool if you've never seen it. There's also a neat Disney museum next door.
That's wicked!
Awesome
Peoples enjoyment of this movie seems to be directly proportional to their pop culture knowledge. It's a fun movie on its own but the more you know about pop culture the more you get out of the movie. Getting all the references and easter eggs and whatnot takes the movie to another level.
Also inversely proportional to if they read the book
Yes, like buckaroo banzai, I was so in tune with that movie. Staring Mr robocop himself, Peter Weller.
@@noisycarlosyeah, that causes a strange mix of disappointment and excitement.
"Thanks for playing my game" got me in the feels because it reminded me of Chris Metzen, one of the guys who made World of Warcraft.
Yeah the ending part always hits hard for me.
Assorted pop culture references
1-Artemis uses the pulse rifle from Aliens
2-The spell on the shield is the Charm of Making from Excalibur
3-The holy Hand Grenade from Monty Python
4-The Zemekis cube is because of Back to The Future
5-When iRoc blows up, he has Perseus' shield from Clash Of The Titans, and they cut off his arm with the glaive from Krull
6-In the race, they race past Silvercup studios, where the final Highglander fight happened, you can also make out the van from the A-Team in the race
7-For The Shining sequence, they added film grain to the render
8-In the final charge, you see Battle Toads, Chun-Li, Spawn, He-Man, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many more
9- When Pazival is changing clothes, he dresses like Prince too.
10-In the club you see Harley Quinn
And I'm sure I'm missing TONS
I was hoping Cassie would see the Serenity flying around but I get it, it was too brief and in too crowded of a scene.
Don't forget the Madball that explodes inside Mechagodzilla. MADBALLZ!
I wanted to point out some Star Trek references in the final scene, when Wade and Samantha were sitting in the chair. There's a Star Trek The Motion Picture poster in the window and a Bat’leth on the window sill.
iRoc's avatar is likely a reference to Gaiking with the giant skull for a chest, and his gun is supposedly from the anime Katekyo Hitman Reborn(changed to just Reborn! in the US).
The Orb was in the Mogwai cage from Gremlins
“No one is a failure who has friends” - It’s a Wonderful Life!
If you pay attention to the ship "Dai-to" jumped out of before he became a Gundam robot.... he jumped out of Serenity, The Firefly ship from the show! :D When I saw that I was like
"Serenity!!" lol
"As terrifying as the real world is, it's the only place you can get a decent meal." -Groucho Marx
Such a great quote from him that is relevent to this movie. Great reaction. :)
Groucho was one of a kind. Insanely sharp witted.
And today I learned that line was a reference to something. This movie is the gift that keeps on giving!
It's amazing how much the Marx Brothers movies hold up! Their humor is timeless :)
@@SilentSooYun What ever it is, I'm against it!
“The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension,” the greatest 80’s movie you’ve never heard of. My all-time favorite flick. Watch it!
I’d never heard of Buckaroo Banzai until this movie, instantly watched it, instantly loved it.
Also, Chucky, I guess! 😬
laugh while you can, Monkey boy
Bucakaroo Banzai is a dumb, cheesy, sci-fi action adventure movie that feels like it was written by a 10 year old and hasn't aged well at all. That's why I love it!
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
RE: Wade loving Buckaroo Banzai. Buckaroo Banzai is the most underappreciated amazing science fiction movie under. I would highly recommend reacting to it! Fun times Cassie!
I'd say that title should probably go to John Carpenter's Dark Star, but Buckaroo Banzai is still great.
Cassie singing to Twisted Sister made my day!!!
33:50 "No man is a failure if have friends", is from 1946 movie "Is a wonderful life"
Loyalty Centers would be like how the mining companies operated in the early 1900s, forcing workers to live in their houses and buy food & equipment from their "company stores' - never able to pay off their debts.
Or World of Warcraft gold farmers. Spending their time in game collecting gold so it could be sold for real currency.
I think I may have just had a horrifying vision of the future thanks to this comment… as any student of history will attest, we move in cycles which tend to repeat
Here I go overthinking again
Sixteen Tons - I owe my soul to the company store...
Democratic slavery. Still a thing in some parts of the world.
Was that ever officially outlawed in the US?
Funny that you are watching this now. According to the book , Wade was born 12 August 2024. Happy Birthday Wade.. The Movie has hundreds of Easter Eggs, the book has more. The Audiobook is 15 hours or so.
The book and movie are very different from each other.
Been waiting for this since the reaction to seeing the Shining during the drive in scene in Twister 😂
The book by Ernest Cline is basically an homage to 80's culture, specifically early computer games and arcade games. The movie changed quite a bit, perhaps because much of the audience wasn't even alive when old folks like me played games like Joust which figures prominently in the book.
Joust is such a great game. It's a shame that it hasn't had more influence on later games.
I love the book, I listen to the audio version, narrated by Wil Wheaton, about 3-5 times a year. I liked the movie, even though it was a complete let down as a fan of the book. I know people say that all the time about films from books but other than names, the Oasis and competition premise, it’s nothing like the book.
@@yourlifeisagreatstory I didn't like it the first time I watched it, for similar reasons. But it grew on me a bit on a second watch. I decided to look at it as its own story instead of the book story. Not an easy thing to do, because I tend to be a bit of a hard case when it comes to movies changing too much of a good story.
@yourlifeisagreatstory - same! The audiobook is one of my favs I listen to several times each year. Will Wheaton does a great job narrating. The Holy Grail walkthrough always cracks me up. And also agree the movie was a letdown. The stuff with F’Nale/Sorrento was just dumb and unnecessary add. And, they ruined Samantha and her dynamic with Wade for me.
for a lifelong gamer like me, the book was gold - i've read it 3 times and loved it each time being so familiar with most of the references to games and culture. the movie can't compare to the book but is great in it's own right - a different story perfect for non-gamers but with a ton of "hidden" gamer and culture references shoved everywhere throughout the film. i've watched the film 10 or 12 times to enjoy all those hidden eggs. however, if you're a real gamer and know the history and evolution of gaming from its' birth to VR, the movie will never suffice - READ THE BOOK !
As a pre-teen/teen, Adult Swim on Cartoon Network was me and my friends entire weekend, and I personally loved Gundam, I was 28 when this movie came out, when Daito transforms into the Gundam to fight Mecha Godzilla, I turned into a 10 year old kid on Saturday night at 1am hanging out at my friends house watching anime again...of all the nostalgia and references in the movie, that one got me the most.
Gundam is subpar to robotech. A robotech m.a.c. 2 would take down mecha-godzilla in 20 seconds or so.
@@Variable-2-actual
Yeah nah. Robotech is subpar to Gundam and Macross. Gundam and Macross are both excellent in their own right.
And probably the reason we don't see any Valkyrie fighters in this movie because Harmony Gold and Robotech are a bunch of douches.
So while Macross and Gundam continue to produce new content, Robotech continues to be a stagnant IP.
@@Variable-2-actual literally no one cares bud lol. stop trying to start an argument just because.
A samurai diving out of _Serenity_ and transforming into the RX-78 Gundam to fight Mechagodzilla was _not_ something I ever expected to see in a movie.
@@Variable-2-actual _Robotech_ is long dead, strangled under a mountain of lawyers, who all tried to drag _BattleTech_ down with it.
Halliday was definitely showing signs of autism. His mannerisms and speech said it. I love that Cassie picked up on it when he was just being himself.
They pretty much reference that in the book. It was one of the reason Halliday created the Oasis. Good catch though.
1:45 You SHOULD feel validated... you should be proud of yourself if you get a movie reference... that's part of the beauty of cinema!
Avengers (2012)
Nick Fury: I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys.
Thor: Monkeys? I do not understand.
Steve Rogers: I do!
[Stark rolls his eyes, while Captain America looks proud of himself]
Steve Rogers: I understood that reference.
@@AceMoonshotyesss😂😂😂😂
I'm 99% sure it kept coming in 2nd not because people don't like it, but because people kept thinking 'no, [movie] has to be first for the reference!"
Tbh, Ready Player One is not a bad movie, but it is more or less a studio and director flexing about what can be done in visual effects. Nowadays visually speaking everything goes with movies like this, the Pandora franchise and so on...
I absolute understand why it could lose against movies like Close Encounter Of The Third Kind - in that days such movies set new marks in terms of creativity or pictorial language.
@@NiersFloater Spielberg certainly likes VFX, but I don't think that was his primary motive for this movie. He's a fan of pop culture, and what he really wanted to flex was his ability to acquire all the licensing to feature the massive amount of IPs in this film much like he did w/ producing Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The difference is that when you saw Mickey & Bugs in WFRR, those are the actual cartoon characters rather than human characters disguised as them.
"No man is a failure who has friends."
depends if they are real friends or sheeple
Have yet to see a reactor catch that reference to "It's a wonderful Life".
from its a wonderful life
@@videostash413 My imaginary friend told me to tell you to lighten up.
this is one of those where you touch your fist to your chest twice... and nod approvingly
19:10 Mark! Cassie, the song is by "The Bee Gees" as in "Brothers Gibb" and is from the popular John Travolta movie "Saturday Night Fever"! 🕺💃🪩
The craziest fact about the book to me at least, considering it came out in 2011, is that it told a world where a social media company would buy a VR company (see Facebook/Meta buying Oculus). That one I still can't get over.
I recall hearing once (not sure who to attribute it to) that all science fiction will eventually become science fact… if we can imagine it we can find a way there
Yeah, the book was perfection! I wish HBO had made the novel into a series so it could be flushed out in its entirety. The fact that the first challenge WASN'T the Tomb of Horrors from Dungeons & Dragons bums me out just a little, but I still love the movie, (more so now after having watched Cassie's reaction to it). :)
You seem like you may be quite young. As you go on in life, you may see lots of 'dark future' stories that actually turn out to be far too close to eventual reality for comfort. At least, that's been my experience.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 I hope you're not talking about me. Though I don't look it, I'm 51. And even if I was a kid, age is no brother to wisdom. If you have a problem with someone's post, maybe confront the content of the post itself, rather than the poster's perceived age, eh?
And there's haptic suits and different types of running pads available too.And of course Meta Horizon Worlds, clearly intended to be some sort of low tech Oasis.
12:06 "As if no one's ever figured that out before!" THANK YOU! People would have tried that on day 1.
I do appreciate the first challenge in the book more, but it wouldn't have been very good cinema (so they say).
Remember though, you need to go "pedal to the metal", full speed, risking *everything* you have on a whim. People wouldve examined the wall pixel by pixel, sure, probably bumped it a bit to find any secret openings, but unless youre *all in* doesnt work
This is 4 decades of Pop culture packed in one Movie. Hope U enjoying it.
i dont get it
@@paddington1670 what don't you get?
Canada eh.@ersendesat6701
There's too much to get everything. There are references to movies that are just a building in the background that you would miss if you blink.
It's "References - The Movie", the plot itself is pretty weak.
The magic spell used to operate the barrier created by the orb, was the "Charm of Making" from the movie "Excalibur".
Yup this was one of many bits she didn't react to. So the ironic part is when she gets around to seeing the original bits she will remember them from RP1 and not from the source material.
@@Stubbies2003 Somehow I doubt she'll ever watch Krull though.
Cassie, you're not alone here. Even Addie Counts had to relive the same bad experience in the scene with that challenge involving The Shining (1980). It even happened again during the drive-in scene in Twister (1996).
Not PTSD
@@jw70467 I meant to say bad experience.
@@jw70467 I meant to say bad experience.
Miss P. I love how you claim to be a rookie at watching Movies but I loved how you knew the name of " The Overlook" in the shining and said the name without effort. You know more than you realize.
Come a long way in three years through the great academy of film, right?
It would be surreal to see that many big movies in such a short amount of time. Wonder if she gets crazy dreams after some of these.
@@dougimmel The young Padawan has done well.
@@ct6852 She does have some crazy dreams. The little boy that lives in my mouth told me so.
That’s the face of someone who thought they’d never see The Shining again
To be fair, it has no business being in an 80s callback movie. Feb 1980 is basically still 70s.
1980 is 1980s. Most people saw the movie and it cemented its place in the culture during those 1980s.
@@andrewgrant6516?!?! Not everything in the movie is 80’s… ie the chest buster is 1979, and the Atari 2600 released in 1977, and I’m sure there are many others.
@@andrewgrant6516 Atari 2600? Oh, and Mechagodzilla? That one is early 70s. Almost 60s. This isn't an "80s callback movie".
@@mckrackin5324 King Kong also goes back way earlier than the '80s, LOL.
"People come to The Oasis for all the things they can do but they stay because of all the things they can be."
Like furry, big-boobed kitties.
The Zemeckis Cube - the director of Back to The Future, why they went back in time.
"No man is a failure who has friends" It's a Wonderful Life.
Oh good ones. I thought that line sounded familiar.
Hollywood needs old-school titans like Spielberg more than ever
I think we are past that honestly and sorowly
@@Arivva777 Nolan can prove you wrong
Spielberg's last two movies, West Side Story (2021) & The Fabelmans (2022), both flopped at the box office, due to a widespread lack of interest in movie musicals & prestige films and because they both opened around the same time as two Marvel movies, Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) & Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). In my view, Spielberg deserved better. Here's to hoping that his upcoming UFO movie does well in two years.
I agree. He's still going strong in Hollywood.
@alextan1478 Spielberg will be fine because his talent as a director hasn't diminished at all.
This was an amazing visual feast in the theatre. It has its flaws, but as just a pop culture explosion, it's a lot of fun.
Zemeckis Cube is named after Bob Zemeckis the director/writer of Back to the Future trilogy. The cube is the Rubiks cube from the 80s.
One of the great pleasures of this channel is seeing how far you've come with your movie knowledge, Cassie. You are justifiably proud -- and we are proud of you too!
Halliday's comment about the game "Asteroids" being perfect is basically straight from Spielberg. He made that remark when talking to the E.T. cast on the set in behind-the-scenes footage.
It's also a dialogue in E.T.
Michael tells Elliot that Tyler made 69.000 points and then pulled the plug.
Two things can be true at the same time:
1) This movie stinks to high heavens
2) Watching Cassie react to anything brings me sublime joy
To testament to your humanity and to your precious soul that you couldn't watch the bathtub scene, there are things that we sometimes simply cannot see, because we cannot UN see them
"thats the red rum"... cassie thought it was a tidal wave of red rum? thats adorably hilarious 🤣
Yes, she saw it as an on-the-nose message about the dangers of alcohol abuse.
@@jedijones well that makes more sense than it being about the moon landings. 😂
So many references...
4:18 - Robocop.
4:19 - Marvin the Martian (Loony Tunes).
7:17 - Stephen King's Christine (red car, white roof).
7:41 - Akira, classic Japanese animated movie.
8:21 - Building with "SILVERCUP" sign: Site of final fight in the movie Highlander.
8:26 - Classic 60s TV show Batmobile.
9:17 - Lonestar's Winnebago from Spaceballs, a pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey,
Starfighter and Hatchet Fighter from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and ED-209
from Robocop.
9:29 - A Viper from the classic 70s version of Battlestar Galactica (right above his arm).
13:23 - Holy Hand Grenade from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
15:26 - Goro from the game Mortal Kombat.
18:11 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
19:41 - M41a Pulse Rifle from Aliens.
19:58 - A Judge Dread :Lawgiver (right hand), Halo pistol (left hand).
30:41 - The sacred charm of making from the movie Excalibur
34:43 - Chun Li from the game Street Fighter 2.
35:32 - Chucky from the Child's Play franchise.
36:26 - Mobile Suit Gundam, a long-running Japanese animated franchise.
37:45 - The Glave from the movie Krull (also an Atari 2600 game).
38:09 - Classic Battlestar Galactica blaster.
39:11 - Street Fighter 2 special move.
43:13 - Commodore brand floppy disk drive from the 80s. The coloring looks like a 1541c,
but the name badge is wrong.
45:22 - Robby the Robot, the most famous fictional robot ever. He's appeared in movies,
TV shows and even commercials. Also, a Klingon Batt'leth.
And these are just the ones visible in this video, that I recognize. I'm pretty sure the army at the end had Halo Spartans and Grunts, as well as Todd McFarlane's Spawn, and I think there was an MFP cruiser from the original Mad Max in the race.
That's less than a quarter of the number of references.
@@Variable-2-actual I don't doubt it, but I haven't watched the movie in a year or two, so I was mostly just listing the things I recognized in this video. I'm sure the girl next to Chun Li is from something, but I don't personally recognize her.
My main pondering point is how they licensed all this and if anyone refused to have their property included😂🤔. There aren't any Disney/Marvel characters there, I don't think....
@@Banterbear Maybe I'm wrong, but it was my understanding that legally, you don't need permission to show copyrighted/trademarked things in movies, if you're just showing that they exist. For example, you don't need permission to show a character drinking a can of Pepsi. However if the movie revolved around someone leading a crusade to convert people from drinking Coke to drinking Pepsi, that would be different.
Again, I could be wrong, but I believe the reason movies usually license things and/or get permission is just to cover their ass in case the company doesn't like how they depict the item and decides to sue them, claiming it disparages the brand. For example if a movie showed someone being murdered by being forced to drink Liquid Plumber, the company would probably have a problem with that.
When it comes to using stuff from movies and TV shows, I'm not sure what the rule is. I mean, I don't think you need DC's permission for a kid to wear a Superman T-shirt, or have a Batman figure standing on their bookcase n the background. Even with Disney stuff, it would probably be legal to show a character going to ComicCon, and having Star Wars characters walk by in the background, as long as you weren't focusing on them, or making them part of the story.
@@lurkerrekrul Definitely wrong. They had to license everything for the film. I just looked up a Quora on it. Most were already owned by Warner Brothers, some they got permission for, and others had to be left out because they couldn't get permission. Ie, there was a Blade Runner sequence in the novel, and they had to swap it out for the film.
I don't know how it works for things like, say, a character wearing a T-shirt or someone using the terms Padawan, but I think they are generally allowed, one is good advertisment anyway, and the other is something that's fairly common parlance/slang.
Of course, a lot of companies will PAY the movie to include their products, as again, it's a form of advertising...good example.is in Bond films with cars and watches...it's all product placement.
So many Easter eggs and references, the bike Artemis rides in the race is Kaneda’s bike from Akira, the box that contains the Orb of Osuvox is Gizmos box from Gremlins, all the posters in H’s workshop, Mad Max and the election poster for Goldie Wilson from Back to the Future. Definitely gotta watch Buckaroo Banzai, so underrated.
I remember seeing this on TV in the 60s & 70s.... "Technical Difficulties, PLEASE STAND BY"
Well heck at that point we had all of three VHF channels and they actually didn't operate 24/7 but shut down transmission at like 12 AM or something.
and the Spanish Flea song by Herb Alpert immediately starts playing in my head. arghhhh.... 🤦♀😅
This movie and movie references of course are from my generation. I’m so happy to see the journey you are taking. For us, either waiting for season finale or waiting in long lines for your favorite movie will always have a special place in my heart.
18:42 Steven Spielberg had to teach Tye Sheridan how to dance to “Staying Alive”.
KIDS!
Spielberg probably could've called up John Travolta and had him teach the dance to Tye.
12:03 "As if noones figured that out before"
Yeah fair it is a surprisingly simple answer, but youve gotta remember, he said "peddle to the metal". That means full speed, no backing out, risk loosing *everything* youve got in a car crash. People probably did examine the back wall, try bumping into surfaces, etc, but it wont open unless youre going all in on a whim
"Close Adventures of the third kind" man I love this channel
The Iron Giant giving a thumbs 👍 when melting in lava is a reference from Terminator 2 when the T-800 a.k.a Arnold saying his goodbyes to Sarah & John Connor in the end of T-2. And I’m proud that you choose this movie sometimes the soul needs a little freedom, good job 👍
Artimus was riding Kaneda's bike from Akira, which i'm not sure you've seen, but if you haven't then you really need to, it's one of the greatest films ever made
"Tetsuoooo!"
Cassie will never be ready for Akira. I’ve seen Akira twice and I was ready neither time.
Well she missed a ton of references in the movie to other bits she hasn't seen yet. This just being one of many.
@@randallwright1973 I saw Akira for the first time in a theatrical rerelease in 2020. I definitely didn't think it was the greatest movie ever made. The animation was great, but the story was quite bizarre and not all that interesting.
@@Stubbies2003 Well, she doesn’t have decades of experience like us. 🤣
I love this movie. Watched it several times, but the first time in an IMAX theater was the best way to experience this one. I keep hoping they'll re-release it in the theater again, or better yet, a sequel. So many characters to catch walking around in the background as well as other Steven Spielberg hidden references that I think many haven't caught. I loved his 80s TV series "Amazing Stories" when I was a little kid, so that's the only clue I'll leave. Gave me goosebumps when I heard it and revived that old memory lost soo many years ago (40).
Some 80’s references you may have missed:
- The bladed boomerang that cuts off I-R0k’s arm is the Glaive from the movie Krull
- The spell to deactivate the Orb of Osuvox is the Charm of Making from the movie Excalibur
The Cyclops From Krull would be a badass avatar
Also.... long before DDR, there was *Disco* !
ooh, sweet...
I'm extremely surprised that the writers of this movie thought that Artemis' birthmark was actually pronounced enough for her to "assume" she's ugly or that others find her unattractive. Because that actress is much to cute for something that just looks barely there to be seen as unattractive.
Jenny Nicholson says exactly this in her review. As does the yourmoviesucks guy.
I assume the makers picked a verifiably hot girl to play Artemis as they felt the public wouldn't buy Wade falling in love so quickly with someone more truer to book-Arty
It’s basically the “She’s All That” trope all over again - in Hollywood, adding an incredibly 😊modest imperfection to a verifiably stunning woman makes her “ugly”
@@JohnSmith-kf8mv I suppose that makes sense superficially, but remember when they introduce her Wade is already Fan-Boying over her hard and he's never so much as seen her. When yo fanboy over someone that much, their looks dont affect your attraction to a degree that you'd lose interest. It MIGHT even make a less attractive person be MORE attractive to you because of your initial bias in their favor. But I get it. Hollywood needs pretty people to fall for pretty people. lol
I always assumed it was just her feeling self conscious about her birthmark. We all do it; every little imperfection is multiplied by a hundred in our own minds. I remember feeling insecure about my looks in high school, then decades later I happened across my old yearbook and was shocked to see my picture and come to the conclusion that I was probably above average. It was kind of sad, realizing how much that affected my self esteem when it really didn't have to.
And I'm a man. I suspect women do it more because, although it's getting better, there's still a part of our culture that unfortunately implies that a woman's worth is tied to her looks. Even someone like Samantha/Artemis, who doesn't define herself by the way she looks, wouldn't necessarily be immune to insecurity. Just because we think she's attractive doesn't necessarily mean she does.
@@toddhadley9002 Yeah, I get that some women might see their slight birthmark and lose all their self confidence. But the idea the Samantha has "endured it her whole life" and people ONLY see the birthmark as if it's unattractive is where I have the issue. Her being self conscious is one thing. But saying people only see it and THAT is what causes her to be self conscious, is far fetched. There's barely anything there that makeup cannot hide. It's not as easily noticeable as a massive disfiguration.
The book was so good and way more detailed with even more movie/pop culture references. Amazing they were able to add what they did for this movie.
You asked the other day how long each of us have been watching and what has kept us returning and after watching this one with you, I do believe I have your answer- it is simply your enthusiasm for whatever movie it maybe that you are watching- you get completely lost in whatever world is presented-and I find this trait to be very endearing so yep there it is, there is your answer.. just keep on being you
I agree, she becomes a fan of the movie and that is the most awesome thing ever.
I've been waiting for Cassie to see enough movies for this film to make an impact, I'm really looking forward to this one.
"Activate the Iron Giant!" Cassie: No way, Oh I'm glad I watched this. ME TOO!
Perfect timing for her to watch this one imo.
As a person who absolutely loved the book, I feel this was a worthy film adaptation. It's tough to put the book into a feature film and I feel they did a decent job without getting into a multi-part movie franchise. However, I feel they could have made this into a mini-series instead in order to be more true to the film.
I read the book after I saw the movie. I enjoyed the movie a lot even though dystopian stuff is not my fave. Thought the book was much darker and I'm not sure I would have enjoyed the movie as much if I'd done the book first.
I'm the opposite on the movie, think it's a solid film, but I also loved the book too. I think it just went under 'production hell' and that's why the movie suffered, if I remember correctly.
I really loved both the book and the movie. They're very different, but I feel like they have the same heart.
I read the book first, loved it, and was super excited that Spielberg was directing the movie. Sadly, the movie is good but not great. It’s Spielberg, so it’s well executed. But as Cassie noted, the VR world looks way too cartoony to me. I also don’t like the casting of Rylance for Halliday. Or maybe just his performance/take on it. 🤷🏻♂️
Listen to the book on audio. Will Wheaton (Wesley Crusher, Star Trek NG) does the reading. It's fantastic.
Agreed. Not only is the book good Will Wheaton's reading and voice acting elevates it to new heights.
As someone who grew up in the 80s, and a huge nerd (still am) this movie was a treat. :) I owned an Atari 2600, my first game console and played Adventure, even found the Easter egg. Good times and good memories. I've give anything to be able to put the pedal in reverse. :D
I think I may have accidentally found the dot, but never thought to take it back to the beginning.
I never owned an Atari 2600 but a couple of friends did, and I have fond memories of Enduro and Pitfall especially.
Pitfall!
Nobody gets all the references the first time. It was a delight to sit and watch with you. Each time you spotted something you recognized you face would light up. Maybe watch it again with the kids or a friend who plays video games and watch them as they recognize characters from video games and you will get to experience what we just did for yourself.
This movie is so awesome!!! The nostalgia and Easter eggs are unmatched... every time I watch it, I see something different.
wait till she recognises the IR....... GIA......., she'll lose it
@@philipocallaghan, honestly, I feel like he was misrepresented and underutilized in this movie. Considering how the whole concept of the iron giant is that he doesn’t use his weapons to the fact that he doesn’t “want to be a gun”, the writers of this movie would’ve realized this. Honestly, I think a better situation would’ve seen Sorrento utilizing the Giant instead of MegaGodzilla. It would even make him just as ignorant to not understanding the whole point of certain iconic figures. When he chooses the Iron Giant, he does so because he sees it has weapons that can kill. But it’s up to the characters to see that the Giant doesn’t kill, therefore try and teach him to be good again, like Hogarth did in the movie.
@@osmanyousif7849 no, you're missing the point , he used it as an avatar , just like the DeLorean isn't a race car or the bad guy was superman/Clark Kent you use it as you wish, it doesn't reflect the true origin. I could be snow white and kill EVERYBODY ....it's just an avatar . BE WHAT YOU WANT.
@@philipocallaghan Right. Wouldn't mind if they brought in Johnny Five and had him blasting ass with that laser too.
@@osmanyousif7849 This isn't real violence. It's a game. I guarantee you Wade wouldn't have shot Samantha if this was real violence.
I just watched this movie 2 days ago on my Quest 3 in VR chat in 3D, it sounds nerdy, and it is. It was one of the best watching experiences i've had especially the first race. This movie is a gem and even better when watched through a VR headset in VR
I have a Quest 2 but haven't done the movie thing. Do you sit in a theater when you watch it? Can you talk to the other people there?
The final key playing Adventure was a real game, and getting the easter egg was a pretty big deal for kids.
I had no idea about it as a kid. I didn't find out about it until the '90s. But just beating Adventure and seeing the flashing lights was a big deal!
In the Ready Player One universe everything takes place in the Oasis. People work in the Oasis, people go to school in the Oasis. People vactaion etc all in the Oasis.
So much nostaglia in this film. One of the best films released in the past 10 years.
I prefer quality writing over "I know what that is"
@@Eidlones Yeah, but it's okay writing with a ton of "i know and love this!". It's not the greatest book/film but it's really good fun.
@@xxJOKeR75xx Yeah, it's a fine, fun movie, I just don't get the "One of the best films released in the past 10 years" thing. Since outside of the references, there isn't a whole lot propping it up, and references are pretty shallow entertainment.
@@Eidlones every movie doesnt need to have this fantastic story that blows our mind. If youve watched ANY movies in the last 10 years, alot of them have been complete dog shit. So "one of the best films in the last 10 years" isnt too far of a stretch. Top gun was ALL nostalgia references and it did great. Its easily one of the best when compared to the garbage weve seen.
@@JoshuaDay0550 Watch more movies released in the past 10 years.
Cassie: "I really hope the world doesn't come to this"
YT comments:"We needs this... like YESTERDAY!!!"
"YES! Do Say Anything! Wait...Nooooooooo." Lol. That was kind of perfect. But I think it would be really cool if they made like ten different versions where each time they choose a different movie to visit. Like the theater showings or DVDs were all different.
I told you that you'd like how she reacted to that part of the movie
@@dmichael1172 I underestimated how much she was actually traumatized by that movie. But I should've known. I remember kids at school who would refuse to talk about the movie after seeing it. lol. Same with that IT miniseries.
Yeah, I was like, oh she's not gonna like this.... 😱
@@Linda-qp9kp I mean she's not even a little bit curious about what her old friends at the Overlook have been up to? Lol
@@ct6852 The only part of Shining I saw as a kid was flipping through channels and seeing the elevators open and the blood come out. I was totally disturbed, ran away fast and didn't see the full movie until my adult years.
This film is based on a novel and it is way different from the book. For example...Wade and Samantha don't meet with each other until towards the end (from the book); Wade first meets with Samantha in the "Oasis" when they're going to find the first key (from the book); the High Five are all alive in the film but in the book - one of the its members dies in real life; Wade gets arrested and goes to detainment which was his plan all along to get into IOI (from the book); R2-D2 was playing the DJ from the book but in the movie didn't appear - Disney said no; Wade earned that extra life coin by playing Pac-Man arcade game for 10 straight hours (from the book). There are many differences from the book but it seems half of it appears on film - which is fine with me.
Oh! Oh!! Oh!!! And one more thing...love it when Cassie says Oh No No, didn't think I'll be going back here when she sees The Shining. She made my day on that one. ha ha ha ha ha!!!
I think Cassie is now driving 88 MPH now... HOORAY!!! 😀 😀 😀
This is a great movie! I am happy you chose this one, and my favorite line in this movie is one i thought you would like, “ive never seen the Shining is it scary?!” “Uhhh I have to watch it thru my fingers!”
My favorite obscure pop culture reference is the design on the back of H's van. The demon face. It's part of the art handouts for the original module S1: Tomb of Horrors, for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
Other than that, the major references to Tomb of Horrors from the book weren't used in the movie :(
Oh God, the orb of annihilation. Lost my character to that. "It looks like a small tunnel you can get in"
Virtual Monday Cassie
Yes, you need to watch it a few times. The film is loaded with references and 'easter eggs'.
"Meet me at planet Doom" is a reference to the video game "Doom". The avatars are from various other games like Mortal Kombat, Steet Fighter, Tron, Grand Theft Auto IV, Halo, Gears of War, Forza Motorsport and many others that i don't remember / know the names to.
As for movie references, holding up the boombox to play "We're Not Going to Take It Anymore" from Twisted Sister from "Say Anything" "No man is a failure who has friends" from "It's a Wonderful Life", Mega Godzilla from "Godzilla vs Mega Godzilla", "Terminator", "Dragonball Z", "Saturday Night Fever", "Krull", and several others.
The fact most of the main actors were unknown was because they would have distracted from the main 'virtual OASIS world'.
Overall, it is a movie packed full of references and characters from movies, anime, comics. games, and tv shows.
I loved the reveal of H, AKA Helen (a woman) when they met IRL in the alley. A bit of a toss back to the time H said "she may be some old dude named Chuck" reference when Parzival claimed to Love Art3. lol
Yes. The tests to find his keys are Always the same. You have to pass each test to get clues to the next key. he also designed to be first come first serve; meaning that once the first key is found, it's still there and CAN be found again. In fact there can be hundreds - possibly even tens of thousands - of people with "the first" key. But back to your point, the tests themselves are universal to everyone. They simply have to pass the tests.
as a long time fan of your channel i gotta say: I'M SO PROUD OF YOU GETTING ALL THE REFERENCES!!!!❤❤🎉🎉🎉 you've become officially movie -savant!!!
As a long-time gamer and old schooler programmer, there was not a single scene that was not chock full of references to coding, gaming, or geek culture from the last 50 years. There are so many layers to this script, and I love it.
wow so cool... "Ha do~o~o~o~o~o~ken!"
This is one of my Favorite Movies based on Games, I never expected Cassie to watch this but I am SO HAPPY that she did
I suppose this movie would be like the final exam for a react channel.
1:45 I feel this way everytime I cook something really well. I didn’t learn to cook more than boxed food until I was 45. I was always ashamed that I didn’t know how. Now not only do I know how but I’m often better than the restaurants we go to (which is a whole other problem I never knew I would have) so I’m super proud. I tell my husband all the time about how proud of myself I am. It’s just one of those life steps that when you catch up it feels really good. Your movie culture is like that. (Movie culture has been my forte since I was a child, we are different but the same)
There's Lime Jelly Beans that choke you during the Poppies livestream... and then there's this YT Frickery...
We demand justice for Cass because she kicks ass!
I loved Mark Rylance's performance as James Halliday in this movie. During the memory flashbacks in the journals, but especially during the ending when Halliday is looking around for the egg, I love how the legend who created the Oasis is stripped back and you get to see that Halliday was just a person too. A person who lived their own life, and made choices with consequences that he later regretted. Seeing those moments really hit me the first time I saw this in cinemas.
I literally had this running in the background yesterday for like the 6th time. I guess I'll have to "watch" it again lol.
Its seriously in my top 2 movies for just playing in the background whenever. Such a fun and enjoyable film that always feels like a warm blanket on a cold rainy day.
I like that the magic spell is the charm of making from 1981 Excalibur. Merlin was awesome.
I know people do criticize this movie, but there's one scene that made me tear up.
It was when they were shopping in the game store after he won the first prize. It made me cry because it not only captured what it means to be a gamer, one of my life hobbies be summarized in one moment, it made me think, "Wow, one day we could BE THERE!"
It may seem silly, but it was one of those "beautiful cinema" moments for me.
the movie isn't the problem, the book is. It's 80s nostalgia written for people who weren't alive during the 80s completely missing the context of it all and painting this weird fake history. If anything the movie corrected this.
@@RobalogotThe movie throws in even more nostalgia and the final test is completed with no skill, just niche knowledge Wade acquired somewhere. It's nerd wank in every version 🤓
@@Robalogot I don’t know where you’re getting this take from, but I don’t think you’ve read the book. The book is so much more than that, it actually sounds like you’re describing the movie instead. The book goes deep into how the real world sucks, corporations out of control and how nothing matters but capitalism, only profit matters and lives aren’t valued. Of course it’s full of 80s nostalgia, but so is the film, but unlike the film, the book dives into why people escape reality to the Oasis. The movie barely does this, leaning more toward surface level interactions with only one corporation being the enemy, instead of the whole system those corporations takes advantage of.
@@MetastaticMaladies wait this is not a "No PVP" zone? 😂
@@MetastaticMaladies i mean... did the movie really need to though? that stuff was kinda picked up on using common sense. any gamer would pick up on why they go into the oasis, especially with seeing how bad the world is.
The Spell they chant is from the 1981 Movie "Excalibur" called the "Charm of Making". Patrick Stewart (Jean Luc Picard) is also in the 81 movie Excalibur.
There are sooooooo many Easter eggs in this movie! I'm glad that you are finally watching it!
Ready Player One should have been called Easter Egg: The Movie.
Let me save you one search, the spell which activated and deactivated the Orb is the Charm of Making from the movie ''Excalibur'', it's a great adaptation of the story of King Arthur!
I do appreciate that they modeled the Kong's look after 1976.
'76
I've never seen a Kong that looked this good. I'm not so sure it's a model of any earlier Kong directly. The face has a monster look more or less descended from the original film. The body, though, is very ape-like, as we saw in Jackson's 2005 remake. It's the perfect combination. You can see both the animalistic and otherworldly monstrous side in him. Going ape with the face like Jackson did made Kong a bit more cuddly than scary.
@@SJHFoto Happy to be corrected.
@@jedijones I don't know why there was a need for such a long reply. But the face of Kong was molded after the '76/"Kong Lives" suit.
@@jmsmys13ify Thanks. When you are as old as I am, these things are more remembered (well, I was a bit too young to see it in the movies (I was a baby when it came out), but it came on TV a few years after
The spell to turn the Orb “bomb” on and off is from the movie “Excalibur”, one of the best film adaptations of King Arthur.
Sorry for all your trouble. Thanks for all your hard work creating this, Cassie & Co. ❤
Cass naming off reference after reference just struck such joy in my soul, girliepop you've come SO FAR!
if you could do anything in the Oasis, where would you go? what would you do?
@@PopcornInBed 😢😢😭😭
@@PopcornInBed go to a Harry Potter World and the Star Trek Universe.
1-Snowboarding on the planet Hoth.
2-Design my own Batmobile.
3-Create and race a Judge Dredd bike from the comics
4-Visit the video game museum.
And 996 other things I can't think of right now.
@@PopcornInBed Harry Potter 8 movie
Take my avatar to the movie Avatar and have him become another avatar on Pandora. 😹
My favorite thing about this is the Jame Raynor from StarCraft cameo in the very beginning. For anyone who doesn't know, he's the guy in the spacesuit looking armor that's all painted up in stars and stripes. Good ol Jimmy Raynor.
Irony: we all watch a young lady making a living ,watch old movies as if we are together . And it's virtual reality...and we still love it 😂
As a child of the 80s, this film with all its references was a true gem and so much fun to watch...! I fondly remember when I saw it back in 2018 in a small cinema in a small Swedish town and I was the only guest in the cinema!!!
I came here directly for Cassie's reaction to the Shining references!!!
I skipped straight to it to be honest. lol
I'm digging how many references she's identifying. She's paid attention through all these movies!