Ready Player One
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:31 pm
If you want your overdose of 80s indulgence then go see Ready Player One. Good luck spotting all the references--you won't be able to find them all and watch the movie at the same time.
Criticisms of RPO are mostly "it doesn't follow the book". You don't say? No movie ever follows the book exactly, otherwise most movies would be 4.5 hours long and bore the audience to death. Besides, the book is a Young Adult novel--not the best literature available...but Liebeschoen really wants to read it now.
Anyway, the acting is decent but this is not a movie where you are going to be inspired by the actors. No, the star of this movie is the OASIS itself, the world in which the story (most of it, anyway) takes place. It is sort of like The Grid from Tron except you aren't physically transported there and it is sort of like The Matrix except it isn't wired into your central nervous system and it won't kill you here if you die there--the OASIS avoids both of those problems, allowing you to drop out by removing your VR equipment (unless you zero out, in which case all you lose is your in-game loot). The true beauty of the OASIS, though, is all those wonderful 80s references--nostalgia overload. This is a world which definitely needs a lot more exploration.
Later on we can discuss the deeper ramifications of the OASIS and how it could easily become more real than the real world, which could cause significant problems in your personal life. Some people already have this problem--being online virtually every waking moment. The darker sides of the OASIS aren't really explored--the character of I-R0k should be menacing but he (she?) just comes off as weak and almost isn't even needed in the plot. The main villain, on the other hand, doesn't seem very villainous in either world even though he is regularly violating people's human rights.
If you want a highly enjoyable movie then go see Ready Player One.
Criticisms of RPO are mostly "it doesn't follow the book". You don't say? No movie ever follows the book exactly, otherwise most movies would be 4.5 hours long and bore the audience to death. Besides, the book is a Young Adult novel--not the best literature available...but Liebeschoen really wants to read it now.
Anyway, the acting is decent but this is not a movie where you are going to be inspired by the actors. No, the star of this movie is the OASIS itself, the world in which the story (most of it, anyway) takes place. It is sort of like The Grid from Tron except you aren't physically transported there and it is sort of like The Matrix except it isn't wired into your central nervous system and it won't kill you here if you die there--the OASIS avoids both of those problems, allowing you to drop out by removing your VR equipment (unless you zero out, in which case all you lose is your in-game loot). The true beauty of the OASIS, though, is all those wonderful 80s references--nostalgia overload. This is a world which definitely needs a lot more exploration.
Later on we can discuss the deeper ramifications of the OASIS and how it could easily become more real than the real world, which could cause significant problems in your personal life. Some people already have this problem--being online virtually every waking moment. The darker sides of the OASIS aren't really explored--the character of I-R0k should be menacing but he (she?) just comes off as weak and almost isn't even needed in the plot. The main villain, on the other hand, doesn't seem very villainous in either world even though he is regularly violating people's human rights.
If you want a highly enjoyable movie then go see Ready Player One.
