The thing that pissed me off the most about this movie, is that litterally not a single person before the protagonist drove backwards through the track. I know it's plot convience but my god. You'd have thought there would be one guy who thought it was funny to drive backwards in the first day of the race existing as a meme.
The book had an entirely different plot instead of just driving backwards, in fact it didn't even have a racing scene! I would recommend reading the book before you watch the film.
That kind of annoys me too, because gamers are some of the most dedicated people out their at doing what they do. Someone would've done it backwards... perfectly 100 times over... within a week if The Oasis did hypothetically exist
The book was a fun read, but struggles a lot especially with its core message. Hallidays contest really goes against his values, at first the challenges are cool and unique, having it on the school planet made me feel like he really wanted it to go to the right person.. But later on, the challenges are so difficult only someone who spent their whole time studying Halliday could complete it.. Is that really what he wanted? People to study and worship his life? Based on his characterizatiom I don't get that feeling. I think Cline really goes against the type of character he wants us to see in Halliday in the those later challenges. Then there's the whole Oasis=Bad thing....if you Halliday knew it was bad why didn't he just shut it down himself... Anywhoo, the book sacrifices a lot to give the reader a fun ride. The movie however..
It has the same flaws I mentioned above, but goes to no effort to mitigate them, at least in the book Ogden helps a bit to slightly address those issues, the movie challenges are WAY worse... Like you expect me as a gamer to believe no one has ever gone backwards? I wish they removed the movie challenge entirely because it sucked in the book too. The book overall captures this feeling of nostalgia and nerd culture that is really missing from the movies. Anyway, the movie is meh, the book is ok.. Both fun because of the all the references.
okay yeah but you're missing the big part of the book where it's a bad book and reads more like a dude listing off all the dumb nerd references he can make to wave his dick around about how much nerd shit he knows
I think the fact that halliday wanted everyone to know what he knew is the whole idea of the contest. Idk about that OASIS=bad thing you're talking about because I haven't finished the book yet, but it's clear that Halliday has a huge obsession with the 80's and acts VERY irrationally when someone doesn't share his special interest. I don't think Halliday is supposed to be portrayed as a good person. Just a genius who hates a certain corporation and, again, cares very deeply about his special interest. Also it's shown that the gunters and IOI are of similar overall power in combat.
Halliday had some kinda mental impairment, only had 3 friends that really knew him. Its not that the message was muddled, I feel he just wanted someone to care about him as a person for once an not his accomplishments (the book anyway)
"It's a movie that's catering to gamers, yet it doesn't understand modern day gaming culture." Sounds like Business 101 to me. They only care enough to give it surface level appeal to sucker a giant gaming community into watching it. It made over half a billion dollars; more than triple the budget. Easy money, minimal effort. They're probably already working on force feeding an even worse sequel.
"But this ain't the book. It's a movie that's supposed to stand on it's own two feet." Thank you. It's so glad to hear from someone who doesn't complain that movies aren't enough like the book.
While adaptations should be faithful, they also inherently need to change some things to better fit a different medium. If it's a one-to-one retread, there's zero point in adapting it.
The Iron Giant being in the film is bizarre since the film it comes from has a strong anti violence message and yet they just portray it as a big dumb violent golem
Except it's not really the iron giant. It's just a person who liked the iron giant and built it. None of the characters are the real characters, just avatars of those said chataracters.
@Godot You are a special kind of stupid. The entire premise of the movie was that the Oasis is a way for children and adult to escape and live out their dreams in a virtual world. One of the character dreams was to pilot the iron giant. It's is in no way the actual iron giant from the film, just a virtual replica.
@@johndessire399 I feel like Spielberg choosing to include it in the movie trivializes the film's message. Since they dumb it down to just its visual design. And at times even trivializes it further by getting it to do a T800 thumbs up.
@@DeadYorick Good thing it has nothing to do with the movie, you could have a dude dressed as Ghandi punching the shit out of superman because that is just how random the internet is, if a dude wants to pilot the Iron Giant and make it fight vs Mecha Godzilla then cool, they can do it because thats how a game that gives you so much freedom works, the movie is trying to portray videogames like vr chat not the character people choose as avatars.
Yeah it's like it was made for people who aren't actually gamers, while still having the “clout” for using all of the characters and having all the references.
That is so true. The book is supposed to be very similar in that regard according to some youtube book reviews I watched. So it makes a lot of sense that this movie feels this way.
that relatable gamer moment when you uhhh- when um white hair doom slayer does the epic game moments and shoots the guy. Epic gamer moment gamers rise up #friccumom #gamersriseup.
I've watched 1 second of the video, I can already tell you that yes, ready player 1 is dumber than any other videogame movie. Not because it is the dumbest, but because it takes itself more seriously and has a way bigger budget than any other video game movie and still manages to be chock full of dumb stuff.
I loved the book but even I was dissapointed by the movie. Even in the book the romance was terrible though. I'm looking forward to a review of Gamer (that's the actual title of the movie).
@@SahiPie Ernest Cline, the author of the book, wrote a poem about what kind of porn he likes, “nerd porn about smart girls”, basically, and he honest to god went up on stage and fucking read it live. It’s worse than you’re imagining.
I absolutely adore this movie, I know it’s campy, I know it’s cheesy, corny, etc. It just hits that me in a weird way, as I can assume other Spielberg films, like Jurassic Park hit other people. It just has a weird vibe to it, that makes me feel like the campiness ignorable for me to just watch it as a guilty pleasure feel good movie. In the beginning of this review, I had to take a second, and really be like “I love this movie” but I can’t be opposed to the criticism of it. An I agree with a lot of the points, almost all of them really, I also think utilizing the characters especially in the final battle like you mentioned would have been amazing, at the same time some of the stuff you mentioned, that I also noticed, I just kind of right off as that’s why I love this movie so much.
The "love letter" thing kinda falls flat in the book too. Like the whole first key is this reference to a D&D adventure but it has the wrong bad guy at the end. It almost feels like he didn't play or read the adventure, and if he did, why not faithfully recreate it? Isn't that the point?
@@Lars_Hermsen Yeah I thought so too. But instead of just battling him it's replaced with something much more interesting: testing your skills in an 80's video game.
I'm surprised at how kind you are to Ready Player One, I remember back when it came out tons of people on my feed were basically ripping the book a new one and nobody really cared for the movie.
"why would they create a suit that simulates real life pain" Several reasons. First of all the pain wont be nearly as intense. It can help with immersion. It can simulate other healing way more accurately than haptics. We already have something very similar coming out called the OWO vest(dumb name i know). It can simulate all sorts of things way more accurately than haptics. OF course not nearly as intense as real pain
Not gonna lie, I got really into the concept that I wrote a fanfic about it. Only difference is that it fills the 30 year gap between 2015 and 2045 and it's told from the perspective of a former OASIS employee, Korean War II veteran and now school teacher. He gets the blame for Wade's 'death' and has to flee to Mexico along with his estranged son. It also brings up a lot of logical questions, such as: -Are there other clans willing to go so far as to kill or commit acts of terror in-game or IRL? -Does this mean the world economy revolve around futuristic commission artists? -You know how in Star Wars there's 'ugly' starfighters that are just a mix of various parts? (Y-Ties, X-Ties, etc) Would those appear a lot? Like, imagine a J7W Shinden with a Y-Wing engine, Vulcan gatlin gun, VTOL gear and MiG wings. Could you give a Toyota Tundra the Harry Potter enchantment and make a flying truck that can tow spaceships to a repair facility? (cuz Space Shuttle Endeavor) -What other technologies exist in this world? -Who built the stacks? -What are the schools like? -If that's how The Shining looks like in the OASIS, then what about Saving Private Ryan? Could you take a field trip to Omaha Beach? -America looks like sh*t but given how IOI operates in the movie and in the book does that mean immigration flow reversed? (I theorized that Mexico becomes a world power due to its cheap, skilled labor and its relative proximity to the US. Simply put it's going through a tech miracle.)
Hey Renn you prob won't read this but I just wanted to say that your videos always manage to cheer me up and they always have such an enormous amount of production value, it's so cool to see you reach 100k. Keep on keeping on!
Following you for almost two years now, im happy you got so much attention lately. Im exited about the 100k video and about this new content around films ! Love from Paris !
You should definitely read the book. It explains a few things better. For example, the people play the OASIS not for the contest, but because the world has fallen apart due to a post-fossil fuel collapse and the OASIS is the only escape everyone has. And, the OASIS went from being just a VR game when it started in 2012, and it has expanded to basically become the Internet (the book mentions that at one point the Internet and the OASIS became synonymous with one another), and basically replaced everything, including stores, movies, TV stations, libraries, vacations and schools because it allowed you access without having to travel. After five years, there's only a small amount of users, which are the Gunters, who continue to try to complete the contest. Everyone else are just mainly using the OASIS just to live some sort of life, even if it's virtual.
@lolisbynas I did watch the video before I posted, lolisbynas. And yes, I heard what he said in the video about judging the film on it's own merrits and not factoring in the book. I'm telling him, now that he's done judging the film, that he should read the book. As it explains a lot of things that the film doesn't if he happens to be curious about what Ernest Cline, who wrote the book and co-authored the script, explained how the world became what it was (which includes, but not limited to, how the OASIS replaced the Internet and the contest isn't the sole reason why people still play it). Also, please be civil, stop using caps and start using punctuation (people would be more willing to take your comments seriously). I hope you have a nice day. :)
I really liked the book, however, the movie was nothing like the book, only the concept of it remained. IMO it's the worst movie I've ever seen. It had so much potential, but they blew it...
I read the book ages before the movie, when they announced it my first thought was: "It's going to be garbage, right?" Also keep on with your content, lights up my shittiest days ♥
I'm here because of whitelight, there was a recommendation for your channel and the thumbnail on screen seemed kinda interesting. You have gained a subscriber.
I was saying that throughout the whole movie. It's basically injected with an immense amount of boomer-bait old move references to appeal to them so they get more money from a wider demographic.
why did I discover this wholesome channel so late? this is one of the most entertaining reviews I have watched in a long time and for the record I completely agree with you. I remember being so confused by the apparent, complete lack of understanding about all things gaming related on the director's part.
The Quality of your videos gets me every time. I can't even image how long it takes for you to edit and in general make these things. So, shout out to you, really appreciate your content :)
I feel like I get impressed easily by movies I loved this movie, I generally don’t criticise a film until it’s over. Of course there are movies that I don’t vibe with but generally they have to be completely terrible. Great video!
"I've read all her walkthroughs, watched all her Twitch streams-" Look, I get that the point of this whole Wade and Artemis storyline is to illustrate how immature Wade is, but Christ on a bike, did they have to write him like a fucking fourteen year old?
Question at 15:08 In the first book, it is specified that when you take your headset off, the is a 60 second log-off period during which you cannot move, causing people to log-off in safe areas, or at least while they are not in combat.
The last major Team Fortress 2 update was in 2017 but it still gets on the top 10 most played games on steam pretty often and it isn't even a VR game that that is better than real life.
The book has more detail about certain aspects that makes them make more sense. For example: the cataclyst. In the book it is made known that there are certain special items that are one of a kind. So no one else in the entire simulation has one of these. They are all pretty damn rare, and they are usually very powerful. In the book, we are told that the cataclyst was put up for bid a few year prior, and seconds before the bid ended, someone came in an outbid everyone by a lot of money. Wade (the main character), along with fellow players, assumes that IOI bought it for a rainy day because they have a shit load of money. I’m not sure about you, but I think that this is a pretty good use of a major item that is introduced early on. Also, you said at around the 15:25 mark, that you don’t understand how people are still playing a game with no new content. But there is new content, and it isn’t a game. The oasis is less of a game, and more like the internet. Sure, you can play games, but you can also shop, socialize, work, etc. in it. At this point in the story, the oasis has been used by billions of people for decades. It’s ingrained into the culture and society of this world. Just because the creator of the internet died, doesn’t mean people will just stop using it. And also, the creator didn’t make everything. Sure he made a few things, but the oasis is fucking massive. No single person could make that much content by themselves. Instead, other people are able to make their own worlds, galaxys, etc, and have them ported into the oasis. It seems like there is some sort of map builder that people can use. At one point in the book, Wade needs to have access to a certain item in a certain building from a movie. He then explains that there are hundreds or thousands of worlds that have these buildings because they exist as a template that people can just import into their worlds. So he just heads to some planet that happens to have this building on it. So the oasis would seemingly never run out of content, or users, so long as the world continues to rely on it, which it will.
The Oasis is so huge it doesn't need new content. Yet, it actually does get new content regularly. Also that's the reason IOI can't just make a new OASIS. It's so good and so unbelievably huge that you wouldn't ever run out of new things to do.
I love this movie because it introduced me to the chinese place nearby, if I didn’t watch this movie, then I wouldn’t have decided to eat at the place, which then led to me spending 12 bucks to eat there about a minimum of once a week
A lot of the dumb stuff you mentioned was explained in the books and I feel that it missed out on the hard hitting parts of the book. Some of the decisions were completely confusing, the real world death of daito gives more weight to the danger of IOI and I feel certain elements were left out for good but many things were key plot points so were left out entirely. Changing where the gates were really took out the meaning of haliday's message.
I cannot agree with you more. This movie really should have been a miniseries, then it would also have more space to include everything from the book it originated from.
This movie has the same problem you see any time anyone of influence tackles video games. It's nostalgia for the 80s and 90s coin-op arcades with VERY limited understanding of actual modern video games. Same issue as Wreck-It Ralph, in fact, in that the producers have access to a large number of iconic IPs and no real idea what to do with them. Can I call it "The Kingdom Hearts of movies," actually?
Hadn't read the book before seeing the movie, I really enjoyed the movie, but I'm sure that will change as soon as I read the book. It's the first video of yours which I've seen, however, and your editing is why I liked the vid and have commented. I wonder if your expectations of the film being "finally a movie that would be about players" exceeded what the film could do for you. Sure, it relied on old tropes about games, but I feel that was done more for the ability to welcome more people to watch and enjoy the film. End of the day, you've started a good conversation, so, thanks! :)
A few answers from the book... The race scene wasn't in it, they did that to simplify and jumpstart the story quickly. There are supposed to be 3 keys for 3 doors which offer 3 challenges. I don't remember even half of them but they were pretty hard. The first key was hidden on the school planet where everyone attends classes in thousands of identical schools. No one bothered to search for the key there (Halliday hinted in his message about you have much to learn or something). The Oasis itself is more like a platform, like Windows or iOS where tons of additional games/apps were built on top of it. There are thousands of planets most of them uninteresting (this made the key seeking even harder). One world is exclusively arcades with Pacman, all identical. Wade plays a game there to relax or something and gets the highest score giving him a quarter (extra life). Later, the big bomb thingy they showed (called a world item with 1 use only) is used in that huge battle scene with the Iron Giant, killing everyone and wiping out everything except the last door to the final challenge where Wade plays Adventure. The quarter lets him resurrect when everyone else is dead. There's a lot more, so obviously the movie was very thin compared to the book, you are right about it needing to be a miniseries (or at least several movies).
The problem with the movie it is has nothing original. It's just an amalgamation of everyone else's creation i.e. external IPs. Profiting off of nostalgia references. If you took everything unoriginal out of the movie and/or book there would be nothing left essentially.
Personally, I like this movie but only for its amazing visuals and the fact I can look at most scene stills and be like "Oh look, a character I know. Thats cool"
I love your videos Renn but probably the thing I love the most is that by recording with that handheld recorder, it feels like you're sitting right next to me talking when you're actually being swarmed by Geese quite far away from me.
So here I am, dancing around my flat, drinking wine and listening to fallout boy like the worlds oldest emo, when BAM, my favourite little boy makes me audibly giggle with a new video.
This should’ve been an 8 episode series like he said at the end of the to seriously flesh out all the world, vr world, characters, the 3 challenges and ofc, the romance
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If VRChat taught me anything it is that people wouldn't be using all these awesome avatars but instead a bunch of half naked anime cat girls lol
Hello there, part 3 when? winkyface
It would be a spilt of awesome avatars and anime girls.
and Ugandan Knuckles .
@@Zloy_nub isnt part 3 out for a while now ? vol 0 too
@@KapitanPazur1 go back to 2018
The thing that bothers me most about this movie is that Master chief is sprinting
oh cmon, was happy until i saw that, man i hate you
i would hardly call that sprinting...
@@maximusgladi8or he was running fast and didn't have his weapon ready
Chris Ray Gun would have some hella issues lmao, don't make him make another 28 minute video on it
it was his Halo 4 model tho which is canon for sprinting
The thing that pissed me off the most about this movie, is that litterally not a single person before the protagonist drove backwards through the track. I know it's plot convience but my god. You'd have thought there would be one guy who thought it was funny to drive backwards in the first day of the race existing as a meme.
Right i know the first thing i did when i played grid on the 360 was reverse at the beggining to f up the guy behind mes car
@@HeroOfTheDay16 hahaha yeah and on Mario kart when I'm bored I just tried to block people driving the right way by head on colliding with them.
The book had an entirely different plot instead of just driving backwards, in fact it didn't even have a racing scene! I would recommend reading the book before you watch the film.
That kind of annoys me too, because gamers are some of the most dedicated people out their at doing what they do. Someone would've done it backwards... perfectly 100 times over... within a week if The Oasis did hypothetically exist
To be fair trying to finish a race driving backwards is difficult
"Who'd play a game after five years of no updates?"
TF2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Quake 3 Arena
DOOM
chess
Best game ever made
The book was a fun read, but struggles a lot especially with its core message. Hallidays contest really goes against his values, at first the challenges are cool and unique, having it on the school planet made me feel like he really wanted it to go to the right person.. But later on, the challenges are so difficult only someone who spent their whole time studying Halliday could complete it.. Is that really what he wanted? People to study and worship his life? Based on his characterizatiom I don't get that feeling. I think Cline really goes against the type of character he wants us to see in Halliday in the those later challenges. Then there's the whole Oasis=Bad thing....if you Halliday knew it was bad why didn't he just shut it down himself... Anywhoo, the book sacrifices a lot to give the reader a fun ride.
The movie however..
It has the same flaws I mentioned above, but goes to no effort to mitigate them, at least in the book Ogden helps a bit to slightly address those issues, the movie challenges are WAY worse... Like you expect me as a gamer to believe no one has ever gone backwards? I wish they removed the movie challenge entirely because it sucked in the book too. The book overall captures this feeling of nostalgia and nerd culture that is really missing from the movies.
Anyway, the movie is meh, the book is ok.. Both fun because of the all the references.
okay yeah but you're missing the big part of the book where it's a bad book and reads more like a dude listing off all the dumb nerd references he can make to wave his dick around about how much nerd shit he knows
I think the fact that halliday wanted everyone to know what he knew is the whole idea of the contest. Idk about that OASIS=bad thing you're talking about because I haven't finished the book yet, but it's clear that Halliday has a huge obsession with the 80's and acts VERY irrationally when someone doesn't share his special interest.
I don't think Halliday is supposed to be portrayed as a good person. Just a genius who hates a certain corporation and, again, cares very deeply about his special interest.
Also it's shown that the gunters and IOI are of similar overall power in combat.
Halliday had some kinda mental impairment, only had 3 friends that really knew him. Its not that the message was muddled, I feel he just wanted someone to care about him as a person for once an not his accomplishments (the book anyway)
Wade became a hypocrite in the end. He got super rich, has real life friends and a girlfriend finally made him "appreciate" reality
"It's a movie that's catering to gamers, yet it doesn't understand modern day gaming culture." Sounds like Business 101 to me. They only care enough to give it surface level appeal to sucker a giant gaming community into watching it. It made over half a billion dollars; more than triple the budget. Easy money, minimal effort. They're probably already working on force feeding an even worse sequel.
Ready player two? awww fuck you're probably right.
Hopefully they can find a random teenager to fix their script.
"But this ain't the book. It's a movie that's supposed to stand on it's own two feet."
Thank you. It's so glad to hear from someone who doesn't complain that movies aren't enough like the book.
Well if it was like the book it would be worse
@@jeyd8194 no it is not thank god. I stumbled across the book and its quite good. Worth a read
@@jeyd8194 oh I misread your comment. Books still decent though
While adaptations should be faithful, they also inherently need to change some things to better fit a different medium. If it's a one-to-one retread, there's zero point in adapting it.
The Iron Giant being in the film is bizarre since the film it comes from has a strong anti violence message and yet they just portray it as a big dumb violent golem
Gg bro gg
Except it's not really the iron giant. It's just a person who liked the iron giant and built it. None of the characters are the real characters, just avatars of those said chataracters.
@Godot You are a special kind of stupid. The entire premise of the movie was that the Oasis is a way for children and adult to escape and live out their dreams in a virtual world. One of the character dreams was to pilot the iron giant. It's is in no way the actual iron giant from the film, just a virtual replica.
@@johndessire399 I feel like Spielberg choosing to include it in the movie trivializes the film's message. Since they dumb it down to just its visual design. And at times even trivializes it further by getting it to do a T800 thumbs up.
@@DeadYorick Good thing it has nothing to do with the movie, you could have a dude dressed as Ghandi punching the shit out of superman because that is just how random the internet is, if a dude wants to pilot the Iron Giant and make it fight vs Mecha Godzilla then cool, they can do it because thats how a game that gives you so much freedom works, the movie is trying to portray videogames like vr chat not the character people choose as avatars.
I watched this movie whilst overdosing on meth. Safe to say my heart exploding was still better than the film
"Ready Player One" felt like they asked my mom to make a movie about videogame culture, and funnily enough, my mom enjoyed it way more than I did.
Yeah it's like it was made for people who aren't actually gamers, while still having the “clout” for using all of the characters and having all the references.
That is so true. The book is supposed to be very similar in that regard according to some youtube book reviews I watched. So it makes a lot of sense that this movie feels this way.
*Spy kids 3: Game Over*
the race scene in that movie is 10x better than the one in ready player one
Yes please, review this!
Spy Kids trilogy is kino
@@peglord-ld2tk Lets not be ridiculous. These are both bad video game movies written by people who don't play video games.
yes.
You are the most underrated little boy I know
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@@GayFurryFromROA Did You Mean: Pedo
@@bradShank why not both?
Bradley Shankster lick lick
All little boys are underrated.
that relatable gamer moment when you uhhh- when um white hair doom slayer does the epic game moments and shoots the guy. Epic gamer moment gamers rise up #friccumom #gamersriseup.
Stickmaster! Finally we've met
This isn’t stick after this man is an imposter a fake he lied on the internet banish him to the depths of hell
“The Shining” portion of the movie was the only part I genuinely enjoyed
And I thought it was one of the worst parts lol. Nothing like having to use another movie to make your boring movie feel interesting.
give me your music
it was so long and boring like why do we have 30 minutes of one reference...
If Re"NN" is just a character what does the real Renn look like? I'm impressed you got the kid from 6th sense all grown up to act in your videos.
It's clearly the kid from Secondhand Lions.
I thought this was opie from the Andy Griffith Show
Ur pfp confuses me
The company isn’t called “IOI”. It’s called lol because it’s so funny how hard they try but lose XD
XDDDDDD (i dont like people who use "XD")
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I've watched 1 second of the video, I can already tell you that yes, ready player 1 is dumber than any other videogame movie. Not because it is the dumbest, but because it takes itself more seriously and has a way bigger budget than any other video game movie and still manages to be chock full of dumb stuff.
I have so much to say about this mess of a movie I’m just gonna cut it short and leave y’all with this:
Book meh, Movie bleh, Renn’s review? Heck yeh!
Jesus christ look at his calves at 1:44. Dude can probably lift half a ton just by moving his feet.
I don’t think that’s muscle pretty sure it’s fat
He has them fat man leg muscles. It's one of the positives of getting in shape after being fat for years: your leg muscles begin to stand out.
@@atomlib did you just call this lardo in shape? Hold up imma stop you right there and reccomwend you Amanda Todd yourself
absolutely B I L T
my boi renn lokin' like uraraka
I loved the book but even I was dissapointed by the movie. Even in the book the romance was terrible though.
I'm looking forward to a review of Gamer (that's the actual title of the movie).
The book spent a super long time about the author’s favorite porn, I heard-
That's the same one FilmBrain reviewed right? My God, that may actually be even worse than this.
@@jackstoutamore8541 what?
@@SahiPie Ernest Cline, the author of the book, wrote a poem about what kind of porn he likes, “nerd porn about smart girls”, basically, and he honest to god went up on stage and fucking read it live. It’s worse than you’re imagining.
@@phearamax4146 oh god
"CEO of Activision" had me rolling over.
I absolutely adore this movie, I know it’s campy, I know it’s cheesy, corny, etc. It just hits that me in a weird way, as I can assume other Spielberg films, like Jurassic Park hit other people. It just has a weird vibe to it, that makes me feel like the campiness ignorable for me to just watch it as a guilty pleasure feel good movie. In the beginning of this review, I had to take a second, and really be like “I love this movie” but I can’t be opposed to the criticism of it. An I agree with a lot of the points, almost all of them really, I also think utilizing the characters especially in the final battle like you mentioned would have been amazing, at the same time some of the stuff you mentioned, that I also noticed, I just kind of right off as that’s why I love this movie so much.
The "love letter" thing kinda falls flat in the book too. Like the whole first key is this reference to a D&D adventure but it has the wrong bad guy at the end. It almost feels like he didn't play or read the adventure, and if he did, why not faithfully recreate it? Isn't that the point?
But... the first key was the tomb of horrors, so Acererak, right? Isn’t that the right guy?
@@Lars_Hermsen Yeah I thought so too. But instead of just battling him it's replaced with something much more interesting: testing your skills in an 80's video game.
The movie was pretty terrible. It's like member berries the movie.
damn.
Member cool 80s stuff?
Ahhhhhh I member
Oh you mean Vr chat the movie.
At least that movie it would have some actual cat girls
mohmar2010 this feels all too realistic
@@Mohmar2010 and furries in 3D
I'm surprised at how kind you are to Ready Player One, I remember back when it came out tons of people on my feed were basically ripping the book a new one and nobody really cared for the movie.
14:20 a bomb that kills everyone in the game? Looks like some ex rockstar devs worked on the oasis
I literally had the same complaint as you did. Not once in 5 years did anyone think to go backwards!?!?
0:14 I don’t know why but that stomp is so funny. You can actually tell that he hated it
"why would they create a suit that simulates real life pain" Several reasons. First of all the pain wont be nearly as intense. It can help with immersion. It can simulate other healing way more accurately than haptics. We already have something very similar coming out called the OWO vest(dumb name i know). It can simulate all sorts of things way more accurately than haptics. OF course not nearly as intense as real pain
Renns Catch phrase might as well be "I really wanted to love this... but"
too true! I might find myself saying that in my next video even...
Not gonna lie, I got really into the concept that I wrote a fanfic about it. Only difference is that it fills the 30 year gap between 2015 and 2045 and it's told from the perspective of a former OASIS employee, Korean War II veteran and now school teacher. He gets the blame for Wade's 'death' and has to flee to Mexico along with his estranged son.
It also brings up a lot of logical questions, such as:
-Are there other clans willing to go so far as to kill or commit acts of terror in-game or IRL?
-Does this mean the world economy revolve around futuristic commission artists?
-You know how in Star Wars there's 'ugly' starfighters that are just a mix of various parts? (Y-Ties, X-Ties, etc) Would those appear a lot? Like, imagine a J7W Shinden with a Y-Wing engine, Vulcan gatlin gun, VTOL gear and MiG wings. Could you give a Toyota Tundra the Harry Potter enchantment and make a flying truck that can tow spaceships to a repair facility? (cuz Space Shuttle Endeavor)
-What other technologies exist in this world?
-Who built the stacks?
-What are the schools like?
-If that's how The Shining looks like in the OASIS, then what about Saving Private Ryan? Could you take a field trip to Omaha Beach?
-America looks like sh*t but given how IOI operates in the movie and in the book does that mean immigration flow reversed? (I theorized that Mexico becomes a world power due to its cheap, skilled labor and its relative proximity to the US. Simply put it's going through a tech miracle.)
Hey Renn you prob won't read this but I just wanted to say that your videos always manage to cheer me up and they always have such an enormous amount of production value, it's so cool to see you reach 100k. Keep on keeping on!
Following you for almost two years now, im happy you got so much attention lately. Im exited about the 100k video and about this new content around films ! Love from Paris !
ill defend the bad dialogue by saying that this movie depicts gamers
😂
You should definitely read the book. It explains a few things better. For example, the people play the OASIS not for the contest, but because the world has fallen apart due to a post-fossil fuel collapse and the OASIS is the only escape everyone has. And, the OASIS went from being just a VR game when it started in 2012, and it has expanded to basically become the Internet (the book mentions that at one point the Internet and the OASIS became synonymous with one another), and basically replaced everything, including stores, movies, TV stations, libraries, vacations and schools because it allowed you access without having to travel. After five years, there's only a small amount of users, which are the Gunters, who continue to try to complete the contest. Everyone else are just mainly using the OASIS just to live some sort of life, even if it's virtual.
@lolisbynas I did watch the video before I posted, lolisbynas. And yes, I heard what he said in the video about judging the film on it's own merrits and not factoring in the book. I'm telling him, now that he's done judging the film, that he should read the book. As it explains a lot of things that the film doesn't if he happens to be curious about what Ernest Cline, who wrote the book and co-authored the script, explained how the world became what it was (which includes, but not limited to, how the OASIS replaced the Internet and the contest isn't the sole reason why people still play it). Also, please be civil, stop using caps and start using punctuation (people would be more willing to take your comments seriously). I hope you have a nice day. :)
I really liked the book, however, the movie was nothing like the book, only the concept of it remained. IMO it's the worst movie I've ever seen. It had so much potential, but they blew it...
There is a lot of problems the movie has to face that the book did not like licensing.
Worst movie you have ever seen? You need to watch more movies!
I thought the book was terrible too. It was just a guy listing a bunch of shit he liked from the 80s
Congrats on 100k subs Renn! I can always count on you for good content. Excited for that 100k special.
I read the book ages before the movie, when they announced it my first thought was: "It's going to be garbage, right?"
Also keep on with your content, lights up my shittiest days ♥
I'm here because of whitelight, there was a recommendation for your channel and the thumbnail on screen seemed kinda interesting. You have gained a subscriber.
I didn't really think of it as a "videogame" movie tbh
For a video game movie it has a lot of movie references taking center stage.
I was saying that throughout the whole movie. It's basically injected with an immense amount of boomer-bait old move references to appeal to them so they get more money from a wider demographic.
why did I discover this wholesome channel so late? this is one of the most entertaining reviews I have watched in a long time and for the record I completely agree with you. I remember being so confused by the apparent, complete lack of understanding about all things gaming related on the director's part.
I'm mixed on this movie. I mean I liked it but there's alot of questionable things about it. Also I kinda wanna know your thoughts on the Sonic movie
The Quality of your videos gets me every time. I can't even image how long it takes for you to edit and in general make these things. So, shout out to you, really appreciate your content :)
Omg, that Tree Stand Safety shirt is the greatest thing of all time.
This is just about the best and most unexpected way to see a movie review presented. How has your channel not blown up into the millions?
Karen: sees minion meme. 2:04
I think a suit that allows you to feel pain would be pretty cool
I'm not sure what movie but I really suggest you see a movie with the act man.
I get so excited when my favourite little boy, Renn with two Ns, uploads what I know will be another one of my favourite videos.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. A childhood favourite that everyone seems to ahte.
How could a movie so boring be a childhood favorite? Can't you be a normal kid and love Little Nemo?
Ahte?
I feel like I get impressed easily by movies I loved this movie, I generally don’t criticise a film until it’s over. Of course there are movies that I don’t vibe with but generally they have to be completely terrible. Great video!
Don’t read the book. Bad plot with references that act as decade old duct tape.
Yea I made the mistake of buying a copy after a friend told me it was great
The book is not as bad as you make it out to be. Much better than the film, I can tell you that.
Oh god yes, that book was a dreadful chore to read.
@@tlam3028 yet y’all read it
I think that no matter anything, videogame and youtuber movies will never be executed well.
Lara croft is living proof of that....
"I've read all her walkthroughs, watched all her Twitch streams-" Look, I get that the point of this whole Wade and Artemis storyline is to illustrate how immature Wade is, but Christ on a bike, did they have to write him like a fucking fourteen year old?
I'm surprised Twitch is still a thing in the future.
Question at 15:08
In the first book, it is specified that when you take your headset off, the is a 60 second log-off period during which you cannot move, causing people to log-off in safe areas, or at least while they are not in combat.
Do "Stay Alive" (2006) and convince Frankie Muniz to join you
Renn: why in the world is there an item for sale that can be used to destroy all avatars on the planet
GTA Online: introducing the orbital cannon
I'm glad I wasn't using big screen to watch this, that would be kind of trippy
Has anyone else ever realised how Genius Renns ad placements are! You are genuinely so amazingly talented man.
first 2 minutes:
OBJECTIVE: SURVIVE
Very amazing video as always, love the vr chat segment.
That pure imagination outro slaps so hard
The last major Team Fortress 2 update was in 2017 but it still gets on the top 10 most played games on steam pretty often and it isn't even a VR game that that is better than real life.
From now on I will refer to master chief as cortanas boyfriend
What about percissa
I was genuinely upset the CEO guy was not Senator Armstrong in the Oasis
Renn! This isn't Depressitny 2!
This is one of my favourite videos on this site. I just love you’re energy throughout it!
I watched it, was disappointed how....empty the storyline was, it's a "soulless" movie imo.
"There was just so much dumb stuff that got in the way."
Ad immedietly plays
"Maybe it's handled better in the book" - trust me, the book is so much worse...
What was worse about the book? And which one did you read/watch first?
I don't think the book was that bad. I'd give it around a 7/10.
I agree, the book reads like Buzzfeed - The Movie
@Daniel Woytowich Nor yours!
@@olbeans Watched the film first, then tried the book. I found the phraseology stodgy and sophomoric. But then I'm an opinionated Englishman.
It's a "How do you do fellow gamers" the movie
Bring on James Charles
Everytime you upload a video is an exuse for me to pop a beer and have a grat time, no matter how fucked up my day was before. Thank you dude.
Honestly I wanna see you talk about the awful DOOM movie with The Rock in it.
this feels like very lame sprouting of random nonsensical hate mail
The book has more detail about certain aspects that makes them make more sense. For example: the cataclyst. In the book it is made known that there are certain special items that are one of a kind. So no one else in the entire simulation has one of these. They are all pretty damn rare, and they are usually very powerful. In the book, we are told that the cataclyst was put up for bid a few year prior, and seconds before the bid ended, someone came in an outbid everyone by a lot of money. Wade (the main character), along with fellow players, assumes that IOI bought it for a rainy day because they have a shit load of money. I’m not sure about you, but I think that this is a pretty good use of a major item that is introduced early on. Also, you said at around the 15:25 mark, that you don’t understand how people are still playing a game with no new content. But there is new content, and it isn’t a game. The oasis is less of a game, and more like the internet. Sure, you can play games, but you can also shop, socialize, work, etc. in it. At this point in the story, the oasis has been used by billions of people for decades. It’s ingrained into the culture and society of this world. Just because the creator of the internet died, doesn’t mean people will just stop using it. And also, the creator didn’t make everything. Sure he made a few things, but the oasis is fucking massive. No single person could make that much content by themselves. Instead, other people are able to make their own worlds, galaxys, etc, and have them ported into the oasis. It seems like there is some sort of map builder that people can use. At one point in the book, Wade needs to have access to a certain item in a certain building from a movie. He then explains that there are hundreds or thousands of worlds that have these buildings because they exist as a template that people can just import into their worlds. So he just heads to some planet that happens to have this building on it. So the oasis would seemingly never run out of content, or users, so long as the world continues to rely on it, which it will.
The Oasis is so huge it doesn't need new content. Yet, it actually does get new content regularly. Also that's the reason IOI can't just make a new OASIS. It's so good and so unbelievably huge that you wouldn't ever run out of new things to do.
I absolutely agree, I couldn't finish this one. I've played it and it loses me about the time they met in real world.
I love this movie because it introduced me to the chinese place nearby, if I didn’t watch this movie, then I wouldn’t have decided to eat at the place, which then led to me spending 12 bucks to eat there about a minimum of once a week
A lot of the dumb stuff you mentioned was explained in the books and I feel that it missed out on the hard hitting parts of the book. Some of the decisions were completely confusing, the real world death of daito gives more weight to the danger of IOI and I feel certain elements were left out for good but many things were key plot points so were left out entirely. Changing where the gates were really took out the meaning of haliday's message.
Of course as expected great video!
I cannot agree with you more. This movie really should have been a miniseries, then it would also have more space to include everything from the book it originated from.
I really don't like to ring the bell, but the quality you put into your videos is fantastic.
This movie was honestly one of the best movies I've seen in my life so I don't agree that you even make this video, that's coming from a fan btw
This movie has the same problem you see any time anyone of influence tackles video games. It's nostalgia for the 80s and 90s coin-op arcades with VERY limited understanding of actual modern video games. Same issue as Wreck-It Ralph, in fact, in that the producers have access to a large number of iconic IPs and no real idea what to do with them. Can I call it "The Kingdom Hearts of movies," actually?
Hadn't read the book before seeing the movie, I really enjoyed the movie, but I'm sure that will change as soon as I read the book.
It's the first video of yours which I've seen, however, and your editing is why I liked the vid and have commented.
I wonder if your expectations of the film being "finally a movie that would be about players" exceeded what the film could do for you. Sure, it relied on old tropes about games, but I feel that was done more for the ability to welcome more people to watch and enjoy the film. End of the day, you've started a good conversation, so, thanks! :)
A few answers from the book...
The race scene wasn't in it, they did that to simplify and jumpstart the story quickly. There are supposed to be 3 keys for 3 doors which offer 3 challenges. I don't remember even half of them but they were pretty hard. The first key was hidden on the school planet where everyone attends classes in thousands of identical schools. No one bothered to search for the key there (Halliday hinted in his message about you have much to learn or something).
The Oasis itself is more like a platform, like Windows or iOS where tons of additional games/apps were built on top of it. There are thousands of planets most of them uninteresting (this made the key seeking even harder). One world is exclusively arcades with Pacman, all identical. Wade plays a game there to relax or something and gets the highest score giving him a quarter (extra life). Later, the big bomb thingy they showed (called a world item with 1 use only) is used in that huge battle scene with the Iron Giant, killing everyone and wiping out everything except the last door to the final challenge where Wade plays Adventure. The quarter lets him resurrect when everyone else is dead.
There's a lot more, so obviously the movie was very thin compared to the book, you are right about it needing to be a miniseries (or at least several movies).
Your personality is infectious. I think I speak for many when I say we don’t care what medium you’re covering, keep doing it.
Silent hill next plz
Idk how, but I had managed to not spoil the plot of RDR2, and you just spoiled it for me Renn. Thanks mate.
Still a huge fan of your work, and this video.
I was waiting for this movie to get good the entire runtime 😂
imagine if the oasis was made in source 1 everybodu would be doing accelereted backhops
We need to stop letting Spielberg make movies.
He's clearly losing his fucking mind.
The problem with the movie it is has nothing original. It's just an amalgamation of everyone else's creation i.e. external IPs. Profiting off of nostalgia references.
If you took everything unoriginal out of the movie and/or book there would be nothing left essentially.
Took me way too long to realize you're around Sparks Nevada. I could've said hi to my favorite underrated boy in the whole wide world.
I dont know why your channel isnt bigger! You put more work into your vids than 90% of the people on this diggity darn website.
Personally, I like this movie but only for its amazing visuals and the fact I can look at most scene stills and be like "Oh look, a character I know. Thats cool"
Same
I love your videos Renn but probably the thing I love the most is that by recording with that handheld recorder, it feels like you're sitting right next to me talking when you're actually being swarmed by Geese quite far away from me.
So here I am, dancing around my flat, drinking wine and listening to fallout boy like the worlds oldest emo, when BAM, my favourite little boy makes me audibly giggle with a new video.
This should’ve been an 8 episode series like he said at the end of the to seriously flesh out all the world, vr world, characters, the 3 challenges and ofc, the romance