READY PLAYER ONE REVIEW
READY PLAYER ONE (2018)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Rating: 8.0
Welcome to a new review in Geek for Hire, Today I bring you my thoughts about one of the most anticipated movies of 2018, from none other than Steven Spielberg, I bring you Ready Player One, based on the novel by Ernest Cline.
The year is 2045, society lives in decay and in order to escape their mundane lives, people enter into the OASIS, a virtual reality world where they can be anything they want. When its founder dies, a challenge is set upon the users: An Easter Egg has been hidden, whoever finds the egg, will control the OASIS, so Wade Watts and his friends will try to find the Egg before this movie's version of EA, ahem, an evil company finds it first.
I had lots of expectations about this movie, the idea of this world filled with so much Pop Culture was insanely great, but writer Ernest Cline managed to do it on his 2011 best seller. Now it was time for a movie adaptation, and who better than Old Steve to take command of this project. This movie is basically a love letter to all of the movies, TV shows, comic books and video games from the 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's and this current decade.
However I had my doubts about this, first of all because we're saturated with 80's nostalgia down to the core, second: Spielberg hadn't impressed me since... Minority Report so to say, and third: The marketing campaign wasn't very effective.
But, at watching this movie, I asked myself: Where was THIS Spielberg? we missed you a lot. Old Man Steve is one of the greatest living filmmakers, but let's be honest, he isn't in his Prime anymore, and even though his latest movies were good, they weren't great either, they didn't give us the awe of Jaws, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, E.T., Jurassic Park and even great dramas like Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg shows us in Ready Player One his directing power, specially on those amazing action sequences, his talent is on spot here, the way that the OASIS is presented is incredible and his first time collaboration with Alan Silvestri is a force to be reckoned with.
Checking those references made my inner child fill with joy, how not to be excited when you're seeing the DeLorean racing against Kaneda's bike from Akira? or to see a TIE Fighter parking next to the Serenity as the go to a floating nightclub?, there are so many nods and Easter Eggs, but we're gonna judge this film as a film.
Ready Player One's biggest flaw is the characters, more specifically when they're in the real world. When these characters are in the OASIS, is really good, but I think the movie would've benefited from giving us a bit of backstory on this society as a whole and why they're more invested in entering a virtual world rather than the real one. Ben Mendelsohn steals every scene as the corporate dickhead, I'm not saying the other actors were bad but since there wasn't much development and they spent most of the running time as virtual avatars, I simply did not care. There's tons of exposition here, I can take one or maybe two scenes, but when it's several, it makes you question how much the filmmakers trust the audience's intelligence, the running time was too long, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed this movie but in a certain moment I was looking at my watch waiting for the movie to end.
Ready Player One is pure entertainment, Steven Spielberg is back in shape with a movie full of energy, with some added critique on how humanity is becoming more addicted to virtual worlds rather than the real one. Geeks will love and non Geeks will have a great time at the theater. It´s ironic how video game movies not based on video games are much better than the adaptations, like this flick and Wreck It Ralph, yes, I'm talking to you Assasin's Creed, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and Uwe Boll's filmography.
This was my Ready Player One review, tomorrow I'll be reviewing Jessica Jones Season 2 and on Classic Sundays, I'll be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you liked this, you can comment and share it, this blog isn't just mine, it's yours as well.
Rating: 8.0
Welcome to a new review in Geek for Hire, Today I bring you my thoughts about one of the most anticipated movies of 2018, from none other than Steven Spielberg, I bring you Ready Player One, based on the novel by Ernest Cline.
The year is 2045, society lives in decay and in order to escape their mundane lives, people enter into the OASIS, a virtual reality world where they can be anything they want. When its founder dies, a challenge is set upon the users: An Easter Egg has been hidden, whoever finds the egg, will control the OASIS, so Wade Watts and his friends will try to find the Egg before this movie's version of EA, ahem, an evil company finds it first.
I had lots of expectations about this movie, the idea of this world filled with so much Pop Culture was insanely great, but writer Ernest Cline managed to do it on his 2011 best seller. Now it was time for a movie adaptation, and who better than Old Steve to take command of this project. This movie is basically a love letter to all of the movies, TV shows, comic books and video games from the 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's and this current decade.
However I had my doubts about this, first of all because we're saturated with 80's nostalgia down to the core, second: Spielberg hadn't impressed me since... Minority Report so to say, and third: The marketing campaign wasn't very effective.
But, at watching this movie, I asked myself: Where was THIS Spielberg? we missed you a lot. Old Man Steve is one of the greatest living filmmakers, but let's be honest, he isn't in his Prime anymore, and even though his latest movies were good, they weren't great either, they didn't give us the awe of Jaws, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, E.T., Jurassic Park and even great dramas like Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg shows us in Ready Player One his directing power, specially on those amazing action sequences, his talent is on spot here, the way that the OASIS is presented is incredible and his first time collaboration with Alan Silvestri is a force to be reckoned with.
Checking those references made my inner child fill with joy, how not to be excited when you're seeing the DeLorean racing against Kaneda's bike from Akira? or to see a TIE Fighter parking next to the Serenity as the go to a floating nightclub?, there are so many nods and Easter Eggs, but we're gonna judge this film as a film.
Ready Player One's biggest flaw is the characters, more specifically when they're in the real world. When these characters are in the OASIS, is really good, but I think the movie would've benefited from giving us a bit of backstory on this society as a whole and why they're more invested in entering a virtual world rather than the real one. Ben Mendelsohn steals every scene as the corporate dickhead, I'm not saying the other actors were bad but since there wasn't much development and they spent most of the running time as virtual avatars, I simply did not care. There's tons of exposition here, I can take one or maybe two scenes, but when it's several, it makes you question how much the filmmakers trust the audience's intelligence, the running time was too long, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed this movie but in a certain moment I was looking at my watch waiting for the movie to end.
Ready Player One is pure entertainment, Steven Spielberg is back in shape with a movie full of energy, with some added critique on how humanity is becoming more addicted to virtual worlds rather than the real one. Geeks will love and non Geeks will have a great time at the theater. It´s ironic how video game movies not based on video games are much better than the adaptations, like this flick and Wreck It Ralph, yes, I'm talking to you Assasin's Creed, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and Uwe Boll's filmography.
This was my Ready Player One review, tomorrow I'll be reviewing Jessica Jones Season 2 and on Classic Sundays, I'll be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you liked this, you can comment and share it, this blog isn't just mine, it's yours as well.
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