Ready Player One was on the plane. I watched it. It made me hate my job more than any movie I've seen in a decade. It was The Goonies combined with That's what I Call '80s! run through a Greetings Fellow Kids understanding of VR. It was abundantly clear that a "kid's movie" was quite clearly designed for GenXers and 90sKids so they could wallow in their own nostalgia at the cost of... fucking anything. Entertainment? Video games ate fucking traditional media a decade ago it's just taken a while for the husk to stop twitching. The annoying thing is that there are still those journalists that don't play video games that don't understand video games that have to reframe video games in terms of Reefer Madness or some shit. DOOM: December 93 DIABLO: December 96 GRAND THEFT AUTO: October 97 Fuckin' skiing down a bloodbath there, video games.
"So much of Ready Player One is assembled from the detritus of our past that it is less a film and more an overstuffed cultural recycling bin. A shiny, expensive, well-cast and professionally assembled recycling bin, sure, but a trash heap all the same."Ready Player One was on the plane. I watched it. It made me hate my job more than any movie I've seen in a decade. It was The Goonies combined with That's what I Call '80s! run through a Greetings Fellow Kids understanding of VR.
Yeah pretty much.But what is worse than Ready Player One’s predictability is its pervasive immaturity, which bleeds into hostility. Engineered as a backward Corinthians in which audiences are actively discouraged from putting childish things away, the film fuels the worst aspects of fan culture. It is not enough, say, to be interested in Atari to live a full and meaningful life. You must know every game produced for the system, the cheat codes, the serial numbers, the hidden meaning behind those serial numbers and the blood type of its designer. Trivia is scripture, and the path to enlightenment can only be found in your basement, staring at the screen and smashing action figures against one another.
True. I've read two different screenplays and they're both shit. I had the good fortune to work with Morgan Freeman once; he's got a model of Rama in his production company's foyer. I asked him when the movie was coming out and he said "as soon as we get a decent script." it's been said that the reason Tom Hanks owns the rights to Stranger in a Strange Land is to prevent any producer from ever fucking it up.