Hollywood is undead: the game: the book: the feature length film adaptation: the netflix original series: the porn parody: the documentary: the comic series delving into the backstory no one really cared about: the spinoff featuring Al Pacino.
Remember commenters, if you have to read the book to make a movie make sense, then the movie has failed in telling the story. The book being good is completely irrelevant in the context of judging a movie (Ancient comment, but I keep getting notifications, so here's an edit for clarity) This comment's aimed to those who could defend the movie by saying the book is good. I couldn't care less if the book is good or bad, it's irrelevant since this is for those who think the book is good. From the amount of comments about the book being awful, I realize this must not have been clear
Don't get me wrong...the book for this was shit too. But at least it had stuff about video games in a video game book instead of a video game movie having only movie refences cause Stephen likes to really stroke his own shaft-I mean ego hard. They changed what shouldn't have been changed for many reasons and it failed hard. They failed to tell a story that wasn't even that complex.
All the anime girls were too busy fighting in the best waifu wars to bother attending the battle from the movie. The furries were all at a... well lets just call it a party.
I made a joke years ago that in the future, we would eventually have "I Clapped When I Got the Reference: The Movie!". Well, looks like the future is NOW!
The worst part is if they said “it’s just a fun movie where the plot is dumb because it’s supposed to be dumb and we just wanted a bunch of pop culture icons to run around and fight” It would have almost definitely been a better movie
The fact that they didn’t realize on how quickly people will solve Easter eggs attest to the fact that they have never watch a cod zombies Easter egg challenge. People will scour every minute detail to solve a puzzle.
DUDE. Even Minecrafters are hard workers! They were able to find the exact world seed that was used for a title screen for various versions of Minecraft! They even had a discord server JUST to find that ONE WORLD.
@@dfquartzidn6151 I mean ngl you're kinda underselling how absurdly impressive it was for them to find the title screen seed. Still a good point though on the amount of effort people will put into stuff like that.
Same happened with the FNAF games. Within 24hrs of FNAF 3 being released, fans discovered all the easter eggs, and they were greater in both number and obscurity.
destiny 2 made a hint about whisper of the worm and people responded to the post with oh you finally going to open that cave section? and like within less than an hour people figured out the enemy they needed to kill to unlock the opening and withing a few hours people had scoured every inch of the instance found all the hidden chests nad beat the mission to get whisper
It makes more sense in the book. There's supposed to be hundreds of public school planets nobody spends any time on and one of them has a secret cave somewhere on it with the first puzzle. The whole race bullshit was made up for the movie.
4chan found a flag in a house in London from the way the light came through the window in about 3 hours, they would have solved the game before it even came out.
I seriously don't get how no one just data mined the shit out of the files to figure it out. And frankly its stuff like this that makes it feel more like a fantasy movie than a scifi. It has no anchor to reality or even pretends it does. This mind as well just be a story about a knight going on three quests.
Not only would they solve this well before the 5 year mark, they would deliberately sabotage the game for everyone else. The battletoads would become a virtual isis, seeking to propagate the holy land of kekistan. There would be a LOT more pepes.
TBH it is amazing that they spent like 5 years on the first challenge although the whole point is just going backwards. I am sorry but are they implying that no one entered this race as a newbie or drunk and did not fucked up by going reverse instead of forward? This movie is full of shit. IRL people would complete the first challenge within a month.
"Everyone should take a break from the virtual world because reality is great!" *cuts to him as a millionaire effectively controlling the entire world making out with his supermodel girlfriend* .. Cool, let me turn off Halo and go get my supermodel girlfriend. Oh and I guess I'll take one of my 250 GTOs out for a spin too, huh? ...Oh. Oh yeah.
@@Ruldolphmaker That part is quite jarring, like it’ll be like if at the end of Star Wars, A New Hope or Return of the Jedi. The Senate guard shows up and arrests Palpatine or Darth Vader
@@robinanwaldt it pretty much was. The technology is within this movie ultimately bad because it led to decline of humanity where everyone is just stuck in shipping contairners, the environment is fucked up and if you owe enough money to a corporation they are legally allowed to imprison you and torture you. The message overall was that technology can be good but only in small doses.
@@HateshWarkio I feel like the lack of laws about corporations (and any sort of intervention) would've been the problem in that case. Maybe government collapsed or something, idk. but yeah it's a pretty shit "message" as old as technology itself.
@@robinanwaldt In the movie, it kinda was. In the book it definitely was. The dude who made the Oasis was essentially a reclusive beta who wanted to bang a chick but never got the chance because he was too afraid, then became so attached to machines that he lost his sense of humanity. He literally tells Wade at the end to cut off the Oasis occasionally.
My issue with the ending is that the world is a dystopian setting. He’s basically forcing people to face the horrible reality that is poverty and pollution and shit for 2 days of the week, when most (if not all) people, even dispite the poverty, can afford/have access to literal heaven
@@KiwiOuiOui22 All I got from the movie was that the main character lived in a shit dystopian setting every time he took off his goggles. He lived in a multi-level trailer park for God sake.
“Take a break from the real world because it’s great!” Wasn’t Wayne’s life garbage though? After all, he had a crappy aunt who had a crappy abusive boyfriend who lives with them. During the movie, Wayne’s aunt threatens to KICK him out of his home after the aunt’s crappy boyfriend was getting all mad at Wayne because he lost a game he bet money on or something ( I haven’t watched this movie in a long while so I forgot a bunch of stuff) “because of Wayne” because Wayne used the bf’s gaming stuff. You would think Wayne would understand that some people use the Oasis to escape their crappy lives like he did but I guess not.
Well yeah, but now he has a gf, so not his problem anymore, suck it people with bad home lives. B) It would be like the protag of a movie being from a poor area, by the end becoming a rich property owner, and for his heroic act at the end, bumps rent prices up for everyone in his neighbourhood.
you can't forget about the giant cocks that would be everywhere. you give people freedom to create anything and you'll wind up with 90% giant cocks. just look at happened with spore.
This entire movie is just a display of ignorance towards internet culture and the different types of people who play video games. There were NO modders/hacks, No roadrunners no one who used exploits. No one who knows how to tech.
I mentioned it in another comment, but it's interesting to compare this book to Ender's Game in how an online or competitive gaming community would work. Ender's Game managed to nail it 15 years BEFORE such things existed. Ready Player One was written 10 years AFTER such things had been around, and still failed. That's just embarrassing. The thing reads like your dad trying to write your childhood nostalgia, trying to poorly transplant his 70s knowledge into the 80s.
@@dorpth while the book wasn't great it's still at least exactly what it tries to be and makes way more logical sense as to how people would've not solved any of the puzzles yet. like every conflict in the book was just copied into the movie but without whoever wrote it understanding why it was a conflict in the book. also for real these guys don't understand the internet or gamers, like the fuck? after like 3 tries someone would yeet his car backwards in that race
Just once I'd like to see a discussion on a commercial release where someone doesn't point to how much money it made as the sole deciding factor of quality. The Transformers movies are objective pieces of shit regardless of how many billions they make.
@@FoxGHosen26 Oh no, they slightly misspelled the name of an iconic brand of car. How horrible. Seriously, it's one letter off. Everyone knows what they mean. Not everyone cares about vintage cars that, apart from a unique design, brought nothing new to the table and and are only still known today as a part of pop culture history. You call the movie shitty, but you seem like the exact kind of person who would be into pandering and overly precise pop culture references.
I was really annoyed how conventionally attractive they are. They were supposed to be ugly. A little dark spot on the eye of a Natalie Portman lookalike? COME ON
Nati Whatever Well their avatars look worse. Well for Parzival and uhh, Love Interest. I am actually trying to remember her name, I remember literally almost everyone else, just not her. Her character in general was just bland and forgettable.
LL cool J It's not that. They're nerds. They're supposed to be ugly because that's the stereotype and the author wants to represent them. I've read the book and know the author so I know what he tried to do.
"There's great things in the real world, like my aunt and uncle blowing up. Why would I want escapism after that happened?" My first thought on hearing his reasoning, it comes off less like a regular kid thinking this and more like a sociopath.
lich109. People keep mentioning his aunt but he literally calls her his moms sister. He doesmt really seem to care for her outside of you are a human and I also am a human. And the way her bf or his amd whatever he is treats him who could blame him cuz fuck that guy. Normal People who jave normal relationships with their relatives sure I could see that argument but not here. I would wager that the disconnect is even greater in the book.
lich109 he did care but after you realize "oh shit a super mega corp is trying to blow me" up and then instantly get kidnapped your priorities change just a smidge. I see where you're trying to go with this but its not going to work because youre thinking about your experience with your family and not his experience with his. Uncle sucks and would probably kill him for a big chance to win on planet doom. His aunt threatened to kick him out over taking her game gloves. Would your aunt kick you out over taking her game gloves? I kinda doubt it.
''Oh i'm not attractive, im ugly don't look at me... I have a birthmark...'' I swear to god those people don't understand how insulting and damaging this kind of shit is for people who are ACTUALLY considered ugly by society's norms. this ''self-conscious trope'' thing made me rage so much, me AND my parents
To be fair, everyone has insecurities, even people others might consider very attractive. While I agree how the movie handled it was very stupid (coming from someone who also has a massive birthmark), I think it's wrong to say that just be someone is conventionally attractive they can't have insecurities in how they look. Hell, just look at all the celebrities that are constantly trying to "fix" their appearance when they were already widely considered to be very attractive.
Hell, the Iron Giant reference also makes *no sense* because in the original movie they say "he hates guns". Cue this movie having the IG use a gun. Wow, movie.
The reason it was the iron giant is because they couldn't get the rights to use Leopardon, the japanese spiderman's mechsuit from back in the 80s, which was Parzival's original choice (which he won from beating a 3d version of Black Tiger, which got replaced by the The Shining scene.)
Well technically in the original film, the Iron Giant was built to be a destructive weapon, until a rock hit it's head and made it forgot what it was. Hogarth taught him that guns were bad when he had amnesia.
Me being a veteran of the internet, when she said "You wouldn't be as attracted to me in real life", my thoughts went immediately to, "Oh, she's a dude."
I lost my shit in the theater when the main dude walks over to the chick in real life, brushes her hair to the side and plainly says "You have a birthmark." Couldn't stop laughing.
StaySkeptic Spy kids 3 is greater than this. And also kinda the same. They both have a race game, they fight with big robots, and both have an independent girl. And both of them end with a message
saw one guy arguing that this argument isn't valid because, while it is the Iron Giant, at the end of the day it's just some dude who chose the Iron Giant as an avatar. He doesn't have to have the same goals, thought processes, etc that the IG had. Not saying I agree with that argument. Just that it exists.
@@giantidiot31 let's be real, corporations don't care about the integrity of a character if they get money from them. I mean have you seen that god of war guy in fortnite?
@@ThunderWorkStudioAMGE I think they put Master Chief in Fortnite too. And with the current Twitter/Amazon/Apple shit going down, more people are realizing how money grubbing and soulless (read: shitty) a huge majority of corporations truly are. Can't expect the movie or entertainment industry to be any different.
@@TwelvetreeZ it just gonna be a fucking raid on oasis Where every raider is a trap anime girl, somekind of hitler skin, some other evil charater in history like hitler, pepe, that PC meme, fedora neckbeard Posting offensive meme at every corner
I completely agree with everything in this video. A couple of other points: -If you only wear gloves and a headset, how can the game tell wear the rest of your body is? Shouldn’t you be like a disembodied head and floating hands like any other VR game without the full body suit? You would think that’s why people would want a suit like that, but instead they act like it’s only there so you can “feel” stuff? -These people all live in these run down trailers and are super poor, but apparently they can all afford a high tech headset. How? And since money in the game is so valuable, wouldn’t you think that some of these people would farm money/items and sell them for real money to get them out of poverty? I mean they are already playing the game nonstop anyway, why not make some money off of it? -Why is this “Oh you lose all your stuff permanently when you die” thing so important? They clearly establish that you can give stuff and money to other players. So why don’t you buy two headsets?!?! Clearly they are cheap enough for the super poor to have them, and even if they couldn’t afford to have multiple per person you would think the corporation would. Like what about that one guy who had a crazy amount of stuff and sold the main villain that stupid spell thing? Your telling me with all of that sh*t he couldn’t have just made another account and dumped all his valuables there? -At one point, the evil corporation or whatever chases down the heros in that dance club and starts shooting at them. But it’s not like that place is planet doom, it’s clearly intended as a passive lobby where people can just dance. So your telling me that people can just shoot their guns and murder people ANYWHERE? If so, they why aren’t people constantly murdering each other for their gold? And if not, then why do they allow guns in a place like that? You would think at least one person would want to steal other's valuable loot. -At one point we see the main character’s friend (no I can’t remember anyone’s name) “modding” the game by building the iron giant. Wtf? How can you “mod” the the game while INSIDE the game?!? Did they build some kind of code modifier inside the game specifically so people could mod it? Also, WHY IS HE MODDING A MULTIPLAYER GAME? The whole system should be broken by now! Who’s to say you can’t mod yourself tons of gold, or mod your own items for free that would normally cost a ton in the store? How is his friend not rich? -While the Shining thing was cool and all, but it honestly makes no sense. Your telling me that only TWO people managed to: A) create an insane fully functioning virtual reality hardware way ahead of its time B) Create servers large enough to host literally every person in the world playing this game with no connection problems even in dingy trailer places instead of just creating a gosh darn single player game for once C) create literally hundreds of games for the system in the form of planets including f*cking MINECRAFT D) Somehow got the rights to every classic game and put them into their game E) GOT THE RIGHTS TO COUNTLESS MOVIES AND NOT ONLY PUT THEM INTO THE OASIS, BUT LITERALLY MADE THEM INTERACTIVE GAMES ON THEIR OWN!!! Seriously he’s talking about “documenting” them, but how hard would it have been to just let the movie play on it’s own? Isn’t that ruining the “documenting” part by changing it? And even if you assume that they only did this for The Shining because of the challenge or whatever, then your telling me not one of the billions and billions of people decided they wanted to watch the shining before then? They theorize that they might need the first key to unlock the other challenges, but they never actually confirm you need to get the keys in order. And honestly the amount of stuff these two guys somehow built on their own is ridiculous enough without them also putting interactive freaking movies in there. And that’s not even mentioning how he somehow cataloged literally all of his life experiences from a third person view. Like seriously was there a camera watching him his entire life? -One more tiny thing: so your movements in the game are controlled by your movements in real life right? We even see the shaking and stumbling of the truck affecting the main guy's movements in game unintentionally. So what would happen if you climbed a flight of stairs in real life while in the game? Would you just look like your climbing air and fly up into the air in the game? Seems like an easy way to farm coins safely from above lol. Also wouldn’t like climbing stairs in game be impossible without real life stairs conveniently being in the exact same place that the game’s stairs are? Overall the whole moving in real life thing seems extremely silly when you thing of all the exploits it could cause, like riding an elevator in real life to shoot straight into the air, or climbing into the basement to clip into the floor. Overall the movie is nice enough, but it’s so contrived and ridiculous it’s impossible to take it seriously even as a “turn your brain off” movie. I’ve been thinking all this stuff ever since I saw the movie and this is only the tip of the iceberg. Between these problem and the ones mentioned in the video, there are just way to many problems with this movie for what it is, and in the end it just amounts to an hour and a half of “hey don’t you remember that? Wow the 80’s sure were great!” And “Wow look how hip and cool we are we sure do know gaming culture am I right guys?”. Still, if be lying if I said that I didn’t enjoy it, because I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie with this many plot holes and inconsistencies. Not to mention such an absurd misunderstanding of how game development and games in general actually work. Anyways this comment is already way too long and I don’t know how to end it so byyeeee
Thank you! I was just ranting mostly I didn't expect anyone to actually see this haha. I was just so surprised that this review basically said everything that I was thinking about this movie, and the more I thought about it the more I realized that the review was only the tip of the iceberg.
In the book, the headsets aren't cheap. The only reason the main character had one was that the Oasis School sent him one. I don't know if the school was a thing in the movie. He was so poor that he couldn't leave the world that the school was on. Yes the game can be modified. Many players create their own worlds. I think the Iron Giant is like a mount/ride thing. I dunno. The Oasis isnt just a game, it has become their Internet. Like how anyone can build their own websites, people can build their own worlds, like I said before. The movie seems to explain movement in the Oasis horribly. Most people have headsets and gloves: headsets track eye movements and the gloves track motion control, which causes the avatar to do any movement the player wants. The big corporation probably has headsets, treadmills, bodysuits, and rigs. The employees would use whatever they might need, whenever. The rigs kinda work like those 'rollercoaster rides" that you would sit in and make you think you are on a ride. All of this was unneccesary and probably unwanted, but it should have been explained in the movie. I haven't watched it, and from the reviews, I will never watch it. Read the book. Its long and drawn out at times, but it explains the Oasis and the world MUCH better than the movie.
Morgan Heffernan The Oasis School was never mentioned in the movie. The movie made it seem like literally EVERYONE had a headset, and that all the poor people used the Oasis to escape the horrible reality they were living in. The movie never really explained mods. They simply had one scene where Wade's friend explained that he built stuff in the game for money. Considering that they called it "modding" , I assumed that it worked just like when you modded any other game: you can basically do or make whatever you want, provided you have the skill to do so. The Oasis being more of a hub makes a lot more sense. It's more like they created a console that others populated with games. However, the movie never mentions that other people can or did create world in the Oasis. The make it seem like 2 people created literally everything in the Oasis. While a lot is explained in the book, I based my argument on the movie, so I believe that the points I mentioned before still stand. Movement in the movie is never explained. It is simply shown. It is heavily implied movement in real life = movement in the game. In the movie, it showed Wade having an omni-directional treadmill, which is fine. But the movie seemed to constantly break it's own rules. In one scene crowds of people are running across the street in REAL LIFE to join in on the huge battle at the end, yet in another someone is able to control their avatar while sitting in a chair. The movie seems to act like movement in the Oasis is the exact same as movement in modern day VR, which as you can imagine causes a lot of problems. At one point, you start to wonder how Wade is doing all those intense action moves and back-flips that he does in the Oasis in real life. I don't know how the technology works in the book, but just imagine that everything that everyone does in the Oasis is done using the VR headsets and controllers that we have right now. Doesn'y make sense? Exactly. Most books do a better job of explaining their worlds than movies do, especially since they aren't restricted to an hour and a half. For example, most of the problems in the Hunger Games YMS review were explained in the book. Still, as I was judging the movie based on the movie, not the book, I think my arguments still stand. Believe it or not, I actually have the book. I didn't buy it- someone gave it to me. I never found the time the time to read it before I saw the movie, and after I saw it I didn't really have any interest in it. I have checked out the first few pages, and while some things interested me (reading about Wade's crazy family who was never mentioned in the movie) some things also greatly bored me (having to read every detail about the video Halliday made with a bunch a references to things I had never heard of). I had tried reading some reviews fort he book, but most just talk about all the "geeky" references he makes. I'm not really the target demographic for this book: I never really grew up with the 80s and I don't consider myself a geek. Considering that I've already seen the overall story from the movie, and I won't get most of the references, is there any reason that I should read the book, other than just having some things from the movie explained? I am a big reader, but i'm not a huge book critic. If a book is above average, or even average, I will probably enjoy it. Still, i have a pretty big backlog of books right now. Unless I burn through all the other books I have, and then am put into a situation where I need a book in order to pass the time, then I probably won't be reading it anytime soon.
The difference is that those would use things such as gathering resources, transporting resources over a long way, crafting etc. Not moving a box from point A to point B that are really close to each other. Especially in a world like that where you probably could just throw them around with gravity gun or so.
What annoyed me is that the protagonist was one of the most one dimensional characters ever. All he was was just a kid who liked pop culture and had a weird obsession with a game designer... that's it. There was no motivation for him to win the competition that made sense. The ugly-but-not-really-ugly girl had a much more interesting back-story that she mentions one time, but then we never hear of it again. Making her the main character and exploring that would have been a bit better imo.
But the main character's boring, so why not have Sam Cook be the lead as her story and character are more developed? She has an arc, Wade is a literal avatar.
I hate to be that guy, but in the book, Parzival seems a lot more interesting. He struggles with maintaining a healthy physique, and he has plenty of flaws, but in the movie, he seemed so "average good-looking highschooler."
It was so terribly cheesy, especially that forced romance. I don't think I've audibly gagged while watching a movie before, not even when watching slasher films.
10:38 it would be good if they used the fact that she's attractive as commentary about how untenable beauty standards fuck with people, I mean think about it, he could be like "girl you look beautiful as shit, what drugs you on?" and she could be like "no, I'm not pretty, I'l never be as attractive as Jessica Rabbit or some shit" and it can be about how the internet's photoshopping and obsession with fantasy can make us feel like the real world isn't good enough, which is something that's a theme in this movie about being consumed by fiction and not living in the real world, it can make people think they aren't pretty enough when they look just fine
It'd be better if she was just actually unattractive. Obviously people would bitch about the movie not having cute girl, but I would sure make a better point out of "You shouldn't be spending all your time on here and open your eyes to the real world".
because the creator of the oasis was an austistic boy who lived his adolescence in the 80's and when he became a millionair he made the egghunt full of 80's references just because he had the money too, gunters became obseced with 80's culture because they wanted the money and thats it
Shoulda just gone the SaO VR route. Magical headset, taps into your brain, it's all in your head. Would literally explain away all the realword inconsistencies.
Do you mean the Great Old Ones or the Outer Gods? I don't think it'd be very possible to become Azathoth tbh. Some Great Old Ones, such as Cthulhu or even Nyarla (an exception to the Outer Gods) are possible, along with other servants/spawn.
This movie would have done *amazingly* as a comedy. I kept waiting for someone to fall over after trying to lean on a wall that wasn't actually there, or cut back to IRL or in-game when something crazy was happening in one world but not the other (like the car chase scene, we never saw his character being flung around randomly, just his IRL self). His speech at the end would only give "real" people cringe, like us viewers. As no gamer would actually use such a stupid method to rally people. All he had to do was say the last key was there and people would swarm in. Such a waste... (edit) also the Shining bit was the only part I actually liked
Final Battle: Person 1: "We're being taken out! We need back up!" Person 2: "I know! We're waiting for Joe!" Person 1: "Who the hell is Joe?!" *insert giant Godzilla roar with huge foot slamming down on enemies* Person 2: *points at Kaiju* "That's Joe!"
The Tuesday/Thursday thing, not only that, they make it pretty clear you can earn real money in the Oasis not just from quests but like actually working jobs. You could really be fucking with people's lives here, Wade...
My problem with video game related movies/stories including Sword Art Online and this movie: if you are writing a story about a video game, learn how to make a video game first.
That makes absolutely no sense. Steven Spielberg should have learned how to program, make graphic art and make a soundtrack to make a game just to then make a movie? Those 2 things have no correlation whatsoever.
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This seems like the epitome of something I call the “anti-story”. This is when a story relies on other stories in order to tell its story, basically being nothing but call-backs to stories you know that you could be watching instead of this two-hour-long stretch of NOTHING. This story really is ABOUT NOTHING. It’s just references with no depth. Just like late 90s and 2000s parody movies. Huh.
I don't know man, the references were just kind of that.To say the references have no depth would probably be fair, since it's just kind of "Hey, look, serenity!" "Hey, look, tracer" "There's Beetlejuice!" "Cool, he's driving the delorian!" But it does have a story, and doesn't really rely on other stories to tell it. The plot of the movie is a rebellion movie against big corporations which suck the enjoyment out of games and make them nothing but vectors for advertisements. Basically, IOI wants control of the game to make it a pay-to-win advertisement filled slog, like what EA did to Battlefront 2, when it should be fun and free for everyone, like the creator intended. I mean, granted, the plot is a little willy wonka esque with the competiton and all, (And dumb. Really dumb) but I think it's mean to say it doesn't have a story. It was the story I liked about it because fuck big corporations and them cramming their advertisements into my entertainment.
jakesammartin nope...Its about these kids trying to find three keys...It references other characters with the hope that you know who they are but,if you don't know them you can still enjoy the movie
@@kylenielsen5083 Sword Art Online, an anime that did what this movie tried to do except better and more melodramatic. It’s on Netflix. There’s an abridged parody that is better than the original tho
@@ftygdfrygg6622 yeah but SAO, despite its huge amount of failings, still became a global trend. Meanwhile this movie was meh and is barely remembered enough to acknowledge it was made at all. Either way though, the source material or Steven Spielburg dropped the ball. Gamers are some of the most conniving S.O.B. in the world and for all the easter egg hunt clues to be relatively in plain sight AND that no one has been close to finding any of them as Adam says is an insult to gamers as a whole.
I'm not inclined to look into the author's background but based on what I do know I don't think he's that bright. He just managed to belch out a product so full of pop culture that it could be easily marketed. Hence a book deal and a movie. It's like adults eating baby food. Sure you can do it and it will pass easily enough but how rewarding can it really be?
The book was actually really good imo but this movie was totally different. It was like “we used the characters and basic plot line it’s the same I promise”
The book isn't even that good. It's awfully written and full of tropes. It is indeed the literary equivalent of baby food or maybe a Cheeseburger. He wrote another one and apparently it's the same as ROP which is why it wasn't as well received.
@@kalameet1870 Ehh, that's just your opinion. Despite what you said, the book still sold incredibly well and has a lot of fans. Personally, I had an absolute blast reading it. And that's coming from someone who has read tons of books from all kinds of genres.
He's got a bunch of money, so I imagine it feels pretty good to steal a bunch of characters and ideas and get paid millions for it, with no questions asked.
@@TheRealmOfTF so in other words, you just... Enjoy reading books? I'm positive the book is better than the movie, but it's not winning any awards any time soon. (did it actually get any already ? Lol. Idk and don't care enough to look it up but I'll laugh at myself if it already has one though)
Legitimately annoyed that in the film the evil corporation had teams of researchers that couldn't figure out the last key, like seriously how do they not know that adventure was the game they had to find the easter egg in? It isn't that obscure of a fact that it's the first easter egg. I am probably overreacting, but it still kind of irks me that it was supposed to be the last key and as soon as I saw the Atari I could see i coming from a mile away. This film is for "gamers" as much as the big bang theory is for "nerds"
Something I'm surprised Adam didn't mention is why only the main characters get their own custom avatars while everyone else has to be a different video game character. And I know this is going to sound weeby as shit, but the lack of anime characters was appalling. You cannot tell me some people wouldn't nut at the chance to be Goku or Kirito (especially Kirito considering it's a VR game).
Or a dragon, or anything else remotely interesting. Out of all the crazy characters people have come up with, they went with some of the most boring and generic ones.
In all honesty I expected the Oasis to appear more like how Gary's Mod or VRChat does. Not a place with all those generic video game characters, but an abysmal hellhole full of anime girls, cartoon characters like Ed Edd and Eddy, monster girls, meme characters like Ultra Instinct Shaggy or Naruto Hank Hill, primarily non-mainstream videogame characters like 2B and Gordon Freeman, furries, and anime traps. You know, just like VRChat.
Totally agree! I'd take advantage and make myself look like some anime chick with wolf ears or some desu shit. Or a Pokemon trainer, or Akira, a fox-dragon, etc. SOMETHING beyond a generic preset in a world where you can literally be anything. Tho, in all fairness, you have to consider how painstaking of a process that would be to create several hundreds of uniquely animated cgi models. So...ehhh.
The book and movie were godawful terrible, but I think special mention needs to be made of how out of touch Ernest Cline is. He fails at pop culture callbacks because it's supposed to be the 80s but his knowledge mostly mostly begins and ends at 1977-1983. He's writing nostalgia for 30 somethings with the knowledge of a 40 something. An 80s nostalgia fest with a big chunk of it being about video games, and not one mention of Nintendo? Black Tiger and Joust as the most iconic arcade games? TRS-80 as the the most iconic 80s home computer? No Commodore 64 or Apple II? Nobody quotes any lines from Wargames that aren't from the computer. Beyond the pop culture, he totally fails at capturing online culture. He has no clue how virtual reality works. He has no clue how internet communities work. He has no clue how people interact online. He has no clue how ARG games play out. He writes the internet like someone who only watched Tron once instead of actually using the internet. The most fascinating thing though? You compare Ready Player One with Ender's Game. Orson Scott Card managed to absolutely nail how online competitive gaming works: playing against the predictable macro master AI, getting creamed playing your first human after being used to the predictable AI, rush strategies, shifting metas, etc. Card was able to perfectly write back in 1985 how modern online gaming would work, 15+ years before it happened. By comparison, Cline wrote his book AFTER online gaming had existed for over 10 years and STILL was unable to accurately portray it. That's just embarrassing. (seriously though, ARG games have been around since dial up internet. How do you write a book about them in 2011 not knowing that some obsessive message board group would burn through any of them in under 3 days?)
Your points are mostly plausible, but Joust was a big part of the book(the first quest depended on it). He also talks about Halliday owning Apple II's and a Commodore 64 and how the TRS-80 was called the "Trash-80". I agree with the rest.
Personally, I thought the first key being on the school planet made sense. Maybe not 100% sense, but some sense. It was just Author Tract: The Book, though, and the movie fucked it.
dorpth its like you dodnt read the book. the whole point of the story is about the egg hunt, and how modern gamer culture in this world is overwhelmingly driven and influenced by Halliday's interests, which are centered in the late 70s/early 80s.
Nitpick: Wargames was in the book. The second key challenge was basically taking the place of the lead character and acting out every line in the movie.
the fact that when she's literally locked in a cell performing manual labour for an evil corporation she's somehow allowed to appear in the game as her own avatar was another confusing point. Surely they wouldn't allow any kind of self-expression? And the workers trying to win the race all have exactly the same avatar except for a number (if I remember right) so what makes her different? It was just a lazy way of making her look like her original avatar in the final battle. I still had fun though even if there was a lot that didn't make sense
Yeah and if she was still going to have her avatar why does it automatically go into the battle wearing a sixer uniform? The sixer outfit is worn by avatars that were created by IOI and wore customized uniforms for that specific account. Like the actual outfits have their customized employee number on the side. Art3mis was an indentured secant, they don’t get an ID number that starts with 6 or an avatar from the company. To have her avatar she would need to log into her own OASIS account which wouldn’t have a personalized uniform. It just wasn’t well thought out and bugged me
My biggest peeve of this film: The guy plays Goldeneye as Odd Job with slappers only. For you kids out there, that was the biggest dick move in gaming evah. I swore at my laptop when he said that.
@Momo Readuth Goldeneye was an old fps. Oddjob is a character in it. Oddjob is like two feet shorter than every other character, but the aim assist still targets where other people's heads would be. This means you can't hit him unless you aim down, and free-aiming on the N64 was tedious and difficult. Slappers was a melee only game mode. Keeping everything else in mind, you're now in a setting where you can only damage other players by getting close enough that they can hurt you too. Anyone who picks Oddjob is fucking scum.
I remember playing with my brothers and we pretty much barred the use of Odd Job (we only use him for certain challenges we make up). Infuriating, but good times.
Is that not what you would do with millions of dollars? Granted, I'd buy a batsuit and batmobile and pay some celebrities to fight for my amusement first, but that is a close second.
The best thing about spielberg and this movie is the fact that he once said that once you pick up the controller, your heart shuts down, that games cannot evoke any kind of emotion. Who let him direct this movie?
They also ripped off the LEGO movie with the whole telling the world about president business’s plan. That’s what I’m calling him. His character is so forgettable lol. ( not actual president business I’m talking about the owner of the corporation in the movie, because let’s face it we all see him as that because president/lord business was a better character)
At least in that there were set rules. In this it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, I didn't see the movie but it doesn't look like everyone couldn't just show up as The Iron Giant and wreck the people to stupid to not be playing as The Iron Giant. Or better yet Superman, or some other completely overpowered bullshit. Don't they still retain some of their abilities? I saw Iron Giant shooting lasers out of his eyes. That, and who could forget the Dinkster?
The really sad thing is that, if they had just asked any random gamer, they could have patched 90% of these problems. Like the race. Make it explicit that you have to go drive it right after watching that bit from the archive, so the one unlocks the other. And don't belabor the fucking clue! There ya go!
AlexReynard yeah, and for the unjumpable gap, just say it's a challenge race that doesn't allow modifications like rockets or grappling hooks or anything
Or they could have followed the book for a change and then there would also be 90% less problems. Funny thing is that some people at Warner Bros praised the author that this book would make a good movie... then they went and ruined it.
Hibub Games two things 1: in the book the real challenge was finding the mini games so that is where everyone failed and even the first part was only solved by dumb luck and coincidence. 2: the meaning of the hunt was changed in a way that made the whole thing dumber. In the movie Halliday essentially wanted to teach his successor that the real world is a thing that should be appreciated. A message that isn’t just dumb in context but also outdated and over used in media. While in the book it was more like he just wanted to show people things he liked and wanted them to like them as well. Which is a lot closer to real “nerd” mentality then anything the movie showed.
I feel like the slave labour could be cool if they had people grinding for in game items you can sell. Kinda how people in elite dangerous would kidnap noobs and basically enslave them to get fuel light years away from any beginner area.
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How to win the game:
1. Gather a group of people
2. All choose Godzilla
3. You win
Which godzilla
@@theofficialchannel4439 Yes.
Just become Dr. Manhattan
Saitama from One Punch Man too
Well i mean
How to win the game:
1. Gather like 10 people
2. All chose to become *G* *O* *D*
3: get stonks
Hollywood still doesn't understand the internet: the game: the movie.
Hollywood doesn’t understand the internet: the game: the book: the movie
Hollywood is dead: the game: the book: the movie: the series: the parody: the porn parody
Hollywood is undead: the game: the book: the feature length film adaptation: the netflix original series: the porn parody: the documentary: the comic series delving into the backstory no one really cared about: the spinoff featuring Al Pacino.
@@ryanjoyce5171 say hello to my little coke
@@matthewpunk2012 best part is that porn parodies end up being better than originals
Remember commenters, if you have to read the book to make a movie make sense, then the movie has failed in telling the story. The book being good is completely irrelevant in the context of judging a movie
(Ancient comment, but I keep getting notifications, so here's an edit for clarity)
This comment's aimed to those who could defend the movie by saying the book is good. I couldn't care less if the book is good or bad, it's irrelevant since this is for those who think the book is good.
From the amount of comments about the book being awful, I realize this must not have been clear
saying that for years
but theres always someone who keeps bring it the "in the novel explains that..."
I definitely hadn't read the book when I saw the movie. Still thought it was an ok movie.
This and and children's movie that can only be enjoyed by children is not good children's movie.
Don't get me wrong...the book for this was shit too. But at least it had stuff about video games in a video game book instead of a video game movie having only movie refences cause Stephen likes to really stroke his own shaft-I mean ego hard.
They changed what shouldn't have been changed for many reasons and it failed hard. They failed to tell a story that wasn't even that complex.
Yeah but the book was shit
All the anime girls were too busy fighting in the best waifu wars to bother attending the battle from the movie. The furries were all at a... well lets just call it a party.
Lol
rainfurrest 2044 with digital diapers
but in the end they all lost to wario-chan
No, the furries were probably all killed off in what can only be described as a Digital Holocaust
The weebs and the furries had better things to do than play some normie kusoge.
Mater from cars would be the first person to win the race
I understand this reference so I liked your comment
Barney TheDinosaur I see what you did there...
Barney TheDinosaur Damn that's a good ass reference, it was better than all of the other meaningless spit out references in the movie. Liek
Holy shit man you’re right.
I don’t understand :(
The girl with the "ugly" birthmark I honestly though was supposed to be a sweet God of War tattoo
Well she's definitely not ugly in any sense of the word at all, so that's a logical conclusion to make!
@@NexusKin It's not how you look but how you feel...
She looks like Zuko from avatar lol
@@8005010f very true, but i would've respected this movie if she was 200 pounds and he tipped his fedora
@@danielbenitez4120 m'lady Owo
"Hey, that's a reference to some media that I've seen before!" - the movie.
I CLAPPED! I CLAPPED WHEN I SAW IT!
Me know that guy so me like movie. Movie good because I see something I know.
I made a joke years ago that in the future, we would eventually have "I Clapped When I Got the Reference: The Movie!". Well, looks like the future is NOW!
The worst part is if they said “it’s just a fun movie where the plot is dumb because it’s supposed to be dumb and we just wanted a bunch of pop culture icons to run around and fight”
It would have almost definitely been a better movie
that was the book too
The fact that they didn’t realize on how quickly people will solve Easter eggs attest to the fact that they have never watch a cod zombies Easter egg challenge. People will scour every minute detail to solve a puzzle.
DUDE. Even Minecrafters are hard workers! They were able to find the exact world seed that was used for a title screen for various versions of Minecraft! They even had a discord server JUST to find that ONE WORLD.
@@dfquartzidn6151 I mean ngl you're kinda underselling how absurdly impressive it was for them to find the title screen seed.
Still a good point though on the amount of effort people will put into stuff like that.
Same happened with the FNAF games. Within 24hrs of FNAF 3 being released, fans discovered all the easter eggs, and they were greater in both number and obscurity.
destiny 2 made a hint about whisper of the worm and people responded to the post with oh you finally going to open that cave section? and like within less than an hour people figured out the enemy they needed to kill to unlock the opening and withing a few hours people had scoured every inch of the instance found all the hidden chests nad beat the mission to get whisper
It makes more sense in the book. There's supposed to be hundreds of public school planets nobody spends any time on and one of them has a secret cave somewhere on it with the first puzzle.
The whole race bullshit was made up for the movie.
4chan found a flag in a house in London from the way the light came through the window in about 3 hours, they would have solved the game before it even came out.
Gazelle Samyueru 4Chan found a guy who attacked an innocent with a bikelock just based on imposing several photos from a protest
To be fair they happened to find a video where his mask came off which made it a LOT easier that time
I seriously don't get how no one just data mined the shit out of the files to figure it out. And frankly its stuff like this that makes it feel more like a fantasy movie than a scifi. It has no anchor to reality or even pretends it does. This mind as well just be a story about a knight going on three quests.
Not only would they solve this well before the 5 year mark, they would deliberately sabotage the game for everyone else. The battletoads would become a virtual isis, seeking to propagate the holy land of kekistan. There would be a LOT more pepes.
TBH it is amazing that they spent like 5 years on the first challenge although the whole point is just going backwards.
I am sorry but are they implying that no one entered this race as a newbie or drunk and did not fucked up by going reverse instead of forward?
This movie is full of shit. IRL people would complete the first challenge within a month.
"Everyone should take a break from the virtual world because reality is great!"
*cuts to him as a millionaire effectively controlling the entire world making out with his supermodel girlfriend*
.. Cool, let me turn off Halo and go get my supermodel girlfriend. Oh and I guess I'll take one of my 250 GTOs out for a spin too, huh?
...Oh. Oh yeah.
billionaire*
Eppur Si Muove mediator Ok... thanks? Don’t see how that adds to my comment...
@@VulKus117it adds nothing, i just thought it is even more infuriating that this guy basically owns half a trillion at the end of the movie.
Eppur Si Muove mediator Yeah, fair enough.
That whole thing pissed me off so much 😆😆 what a selfish pos
“Hey that’s a reference I know”
The book: the movie
Pajamapants Jack Tbh, though.
The book movie about book movie references and games
Very cool.
th-cam.com/video/UCHJwu7ozwo/w-d-xo.html
& Ugandan Knuckles
Noone drove backwards in a multiplayer racing game, the classic griefing tactic as old as the genre itself.
I guess they dont have speed runners in that world
i used to drive backwards out of fun on my demo game of Speed Busters as an 8-year-old kid. big lmao @thismovie
I used to drive backwards as a kid in Mario Kart to see if I could cheat
I have done that so many times in Mario Kart games.
Fr. I did that in the nascar games when I was a kid to piss off my cousin
When the cops showed up at the end, I was so thrown. I was, like, "There are laws and law enforcement in this world? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!"
Seriously the whole movie i thought it was the evil capitalist megacorperation and suddenly the cops just fucking show up.
Probably killing dogs
@@Ruldolphmaker That part is quite jarring, like it’ll be like if at the end of Star Wars, A New Hope or Return of the Jedi. The Senate guard shows up and arrests Palpatine or Darth Vader
I don't even know if there were cops in the book tbh.
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"You can be anything you want to be" - Not a single wizard in the entire movie.
Future people are dull.
No vampires. No Knack. No Ugandan Knuckles. No Anime Waifus. This movie is a drab affair.
Sir Crabsalot gandolf in the dance club.
Where's cthulhu?
There was one wizard but he was an NPC
Halliday is a wizard though
“Ready Player One” will do for women with birthmarks what “Jaws” did for the ocean.
thanks spielberg
What will it do? Make people scared of having birthmarks just like Jaws made people scared of going in the ocean?
@@dachieo Just like in real life.
mind waves um no
@@lydiawase2352 yes.
this movies entire point is "is technology bad? well no but actually yes but actually not really but actually kind of"
It’s that gamers are uh, I don’t know.
That was not the point of the movie. At all.
@@robinanwaldt it pretty much was.
The technology is within this movie ultimately bad because it led to decline of humanity where everyone is just stuck in shipping contairners, the environment is fucked up and if you owe enough money to a corporation they are legally allowed to imprison you and torture you.
The message overall was that technology can be good but only in small doses.
@@HateshWarkio I feel like the lack of laws about corporations (and any sort of intervention) would've been the problem in that case. Maybe government collapsed or something, idk.
but yeah it's a pretty shit "message" as old as technology itself.
@@robinanwaldt In the movie, it kinda was. In the book it definitely was. The dude who made the Oasis was essentially a reclusive beta who wanted to bang a chick but never got the chance because he was too afraid, then became so attached to machines that he lost his sense of humanity. He literally tells Wade at the end to cut off the Oasis occasionally.
“I understood that reference!” That’s it. That’s the whole movie.
not wrong
yeah a friend of mine said it was just pop references the whole movie, it just seems like a dumb teen movie.
Captain america’s wet dream
gabrielle.s
Yeah. The kind of the whole point.
But I thought Wreck it Ralph was pretty good.
But Adam, it had a thing you knew, you were supposed to clap.
Mysterious Jojo That's right Jay!
Oh yeah, I clapped when I saw the thing I like. That means the movie is good. 3 out of 5, not enough Knak 2
Pete Wade Im gonna cum!
RIP best of oney plays.
I CLAPPED WHEN I SAW DARTH VADER
“Why was there only one furry? Were they all quarantined?”
Declan Hargrove Probably
Declan Hargrove If the Oasis was real, there would be thousands more of those.
@@snippy3112 Furry's aren't a trend, they're a fetish.
I can only hope they were quarantined, the freaks.
@@gunmetalgrey7103
Mmm, not really.
>just log off the internet and spend some quality time with your model girlfriend
*very relatable*
Obviously there are no trolls in the future because this is from the timeline where Bully Hunters didn't flop.
Halfingr Harrassment isn't a game. Bullyhunters.org
Oh wow I just learned the site no longer exists anymore. What a failure
i understand this reference
That ended up being a stunt to sell a fucking headset
Surprised nobody did a brilliant knife move in the movie.
adam there are plenty of furries on vrchat.
Does no one sort comments by new?
It’s okay papa Stalin is here to upvote comment comrade
@@kebabremoveth5257 can you please do something about the furries, Papa?
Welp. That's good to here.
Yeah you are the biggest one, shiba king
My issue with the ending is that the world is a dystopian setting. He’s basically forcing people to face the horrible reality that is poverty and pollution and shit for 2 days of the week, when most (if not all) people, even dispite the poverty, can afford/have access to literal heaven
The Squad I think the movie was trying to insinuate that the world became dyatopian because no one would take focus on living in reality
*buddy6584*
Which won't change for the better if you force people out of this virtual reality for 2 days a week.
I completely forgot the movie had a dystopian setting and I finished watching it like 4 hours ago.
@@KiwiOuiOui22 All I got from the movie was that the main character lived in a shit dystopian setting every time he took off his goggles. He lived in a multi-level trailer park for God sake.
Also, they SHOWED that some people make like real money, real jobs with that game. Suddently they will not do it 2 days a week, THANKS.
“Take a break from the real world because it’s great!”
Wasn’t Wayne’s life garbage though? After all, he had a crappy aunt who had a crappy abusive boyfriend who lives with them. During the movie, Wayne’s aunt threatens to KICK him out of his home after the aunt’s crappy boyfriend was getting all mad at Wayne because he lost a game he bet money on or something ( I haven’t watched this movie in a long while so I forgot a bunch of stuff) “because of Wayne” because Wayne used the bf’s gaming stuff.
You would think Wayne would understand that some people use the Oasis to escape their crappy lives like he did but I guess not.
Well yeah, but now he has a gf, so not his problem anymore, suck it people with bad home lives. B)
It would be like the protag of a movie being from a poor area, by the end becoming a rich property owner, and for his heroic act at the end, bumps rent prices up for everyone in his neighbourhood.
@@Winasaurus lmfao damn
He is also the world's biggest celeb who is now a worlwide hero.
Half anime girls and half Ugandan knuckles... yeah that sounds about right.
Derray Productions *BRUDDAHS INTERNALLY*
And that one Saitama who goes around punching everyone.
you can't forget about the giant cocks that would be everywhere. you give people freedom to create anything and you'll wind up with 90% giant cocks. just look at happened with spore.
Derray Productions I would totally make my avatar Ugandan Knuckles just so people would cringe and say "I ain't gonna be on his team."
Ugandan knuckles died 2 months ago
I imagine there'd be a 4chan world in the Oasis.
That's where all the anime waifus are
Oh please God, no!
Don't call it the fucking "4chan world"
@@bababadalgharagh 4chan World is the best game server
Ed_ward they probably would find out about the secret of the oasis
Immersion was completely ruined by the lack of anime traps
This isn’t even a joke man why is everyone in this virtual reality so humourless
This entire movie is just a display of ignorance towards internet culture and the different types of people who play video games.
There were NO modders/hacks, No roadrunners no one who used exploits. No one who knows how to tech.
Internet sespool*
I mentioned it in another comment, but it's interesting to compare this book to Ender's Game in how an online or competitive gaming community would work. Ender's Game managed to nail it 15 years BEFORE such things existed. Ready Player One was written 10 years AFTER such things had been around, and still failed.
That's just embarrassing. The thing reads like your dad trying to write your childhood nostalgia, trying to poorly transplant his 70s knowledge into the 80s.
@@dorpth while the book wasn't great it's still at least exactly what it tries to be and makes way more logical sense as to how people would've not solved any of the puzzles yet. like every conflict in the book was just copied into the movie but without whoever wrote it understanding why it was a conflict in the book.
also for real these guys don't understand the internet or gamers, like the fuck? after like 3 tries someone would yeet his car backwards in that race
That's completely irrelevant. The film made a lot of money.
Just once I'd like to see a discussion on a commercial release where someone doesn't point to how much money it made as the sole deciding factor of quality. The Transformers movies are objective pieces of shit regardless of how many billions they make.
The main character had a BTTF Dolorean. That thing flies. Why couldn't it have just flown over King Kong?
That's what I figured tbh that the car was probably purely cosmetic with its own attributes
I presume there are rules to what the car can be, just like in other online video games.
Can you bunch of tards stop calling it a Dolorean? You are seriously dumber than this shitty ass movie.
@@FoxGHosen26 Oh no, they slightly misspelled the name of an iconic brand of car. How horrible. Seriously, it's one letter off. Everyone knows what they mean. Not everyone cares about vintage cars that, apart from a unique design, brought nothing new to the table and and are only still known today as a part of pop culture history. You call the movie shitty, but you seem like the exact kind of person who would be into pandering and overly precise pop culture references.
He redesigned the Delorean to be a normal car
Actually yeah, how come nobody decided to be the doom guy??? any of them???
Rip and tear baby
In the first age... in the first battle... when the shadows first lengthened...
Duke Nukem, baby! I've got balls of steel!
maybe because not every fucking one have those power ups
Because it's a bad movie.
I was really annoyed how conventionally attractive they are.
They were supposed to be ugly.
A little dark spot on the eye of a Natalie Portman lookalike? COME ON
Nati Whatever Well their avatars look worse. Well for Parzival and uhh, Love Interest. I am actually trying to remember her name, I remember literally almost everyone else, just not her. Her character in general was just bland and forgettable.
"Yeah it really sucks when other people are prettier than me..."
LL cool J It's not that. They're nerds. They're supposed to be ugly because that's the stereotype and the author wants to represent them. I've read the book and know the author so I know what he tried to do.
Natalie Portman isn't attractive.
Kyle Frank She is tho
“No one in this American trailer park dosent have a weapon as well” What kind of trailer park is this????
I don’t know.
Even without a weapon, you're a whole crowd against a single guy with a pistol who is within grabbing range
@@IamHueGraves Trailer Park people would devour this Rich Guy so quickly, the only thing left would be his hands
Pre 20th Century Fiction: 'It's magic! It doesn't have to make sense.'
Post-20th Centry Fiction: 'It's technology! It doesn't have to make sense.'
bloodrunsclear HOW DO YOU SPELL CENTURY RIGHT ONCE BUT MISPELL IT THE SECOND TIME
Practice
bloodrunsclear
Woo for practice
So very true
XtreameMeme Typos exist
I shut down the Oasis on Tuesdays and Thursdays because reality is great.
-The guy who literally lives in a dystopia
Justice Moore and is now rich and has a hot gf to fuck every Tuesday and Thursday. Not saying its right but now you know why.
"There's great things in the real world, like my aunt and uncle blowing up. Why would I want escapism after that happened?"
My first thought on hearing his reasoning, it comes off less like a regular kid thinking this and more like a sociopath.
lich109. People keep mentioning his aunt but he literally calls her his moms sister. He doesmt really seem to care for her outside of you are a human and I also am a human. And the way her bf or his amd whatever he is treats him who could blame him cuz fuck that guy. Normal People who jave normal relationships with their relatives sure I could see that argument but not here. I would wager that the disconnect is even greater in the book.
You should still feel something though, even if it's just sympathy for the people who knew them. This guy just doesn't seem to care in the slightest.
lich109 he did care but after you realize "oh shit a super mega corp is trying to blow me" up and then instantly get kidnapped your priorities change just a smidge.
I see where you're trying to go with this but its not going to work because youre thinking about your experience with your family and not his experience with his. Uncle sucks and would probably kill him for a big chance to win on planet doom. His aunt threatened to kick him out over taking her game gloves. Would your aunt kick you out over taking her game gloves? I kinda doubt it.
References the movie is 10/10 because it has 1 character that I love 900ft in the background.
Your opinion is invalid as mine is better
I saw battletoads and I CLAPPED!
Very cool.
WHEN THE RED SKULL REVEALED HIMSELF, I CLAPPED BECAUSE I KNOW WHO THAT IS!!!!1
TheGenericZer0 HAHA WRONG MOVIE 😂
TheGenericZer0 AWESOME COMMENT THOUGH 😂
''Oh i'm not attractive, im ugly don't look at me... I have a birthmark...'' I swear to god those people don't understand how insulting and damaging this kind of shit is for people who are ACTUALLY considered ugly by society's norms. this ''self-conscious trope'' thing made me rage so much, me AND my parents
To be fair, everyone has insecurities, even people others might consider very attractive. While I agree how the movie handled it was very stupid (coming from someone who also has a massive birthmark), I think it's wrong to say that just be someone is conventionally attractive they can't have insecurities in how they look. Hell, just look at all the celebrities that are constantly trying to "fix" their appearance when they were already widely considered to be very attractive.
For someone who considers herself unattractive,she is also incredibly good at seducing someone
Hell, the Iron Giant reference also makes *no sense* because in the original movie they say "he hates guns". Cue this movie having the IG use a gun. Wow, movie.
To be fair, it's not the real Iron Giant, it's a mech
The reason it was the iron giant is because they couldn't get the rights to use Leopardon, the japanese spiderman's mechsuit from back in the 80s, which was Parzival's original choice (which he won from beating a 3d version of Black Tiger, which got replaced by the The Shining scene.)
It doesn't The Iron Giant have a giant Blaster arm?
Originally it was meant to be something else I think in the book but they had no license to it. Dont quote me.
Well technically in the original film, the Iron Giant was built to be a destructive weapon, until a rock hit it's head and made it forgot what it was. Hogarth taught him that guns were bad when he had amnesia.
the most unrealistic part was that people in 2050 still remembered the failure of a game battleborn and wanted to be characters from it in the oasis
There was a battleborn character?
There were Attikus, Orendi, Toby, Miko and Ambra.
Some Random Dude I also saw Benedict in there
Ach yes! I remember now.
It was basically spy kids 3d on lsd
Random Dude
Shut your mouth! Don’t compare that goddamn masterpiece to Reference Player One.
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT TOOOOOOOOO
Right? SpyKids 3D v.2.0
SOMEBODY RING THE DINKSTER?!
But better
Me being a veteran of the internet, when she said "You wouldn't be as attracted to me in real life", my thoughts went immediately to, "Oh, she's a dude."
Funnily enough, in the book she actually was a dude
@@SugmaDick Rule 30.
@@SugmaDick no she wasnt?
@@SugmaDick Two different characters. And both are in both versions.
@@trapadvisor Nothing in their comment is transphobic though wtf?
I lost my shit in the theater when the main dude walks over to the chick in real life, brushes her hair to the side and plainly says "You have a birthmark."
Couldn't stop laughing.
Magnus Prophecy "By the way, I'm not disappointed" such a smooth white knight bastard
My god that was so cheesy and corny I wanted to vomit while also laughing my ass off!
I love Steven Spielberg's Sword Art Online !
Steven Spielberg’s Spy kids 3
Mr Steal Your Girl Dont forget Furries.
Reki Kawahara taught Stephen everything he knows about MMOs.
StaySkeptic Spy kids 3 is greater than this. And also kinda the same. They both have a race game, they fight with big robots, and both have an independent girl.
And both of them end with a message
Mr Steal Your Girl GRIFITH!
"or the movie has seriously underestimated how wild and crazy people's imaginations can be."
a line to be remembered.
No Lie!
The Iron Giant: "I am not a gun..."
This movie: *FOOKIN LASER SIGHTS!*
*I CANT FUCKIN’ BELIVE THIS!*
This is brilliant
saw one guy arguing that this argument isn't valid because, while it is the Iron Giant, at the end of the day it's just some dude who chose the Iron Giant as an avatar. He doesn't have to have the same goals, thought processes, etc that the IG had. Not saying I agree with that argument. Just that it exists.
@@giantidiot31 let's be real, corporations don't care about the integrity of a character if they get money from them. I mean have you seen that god of war guy in fortnite?
@@ThunderWorkStudioAMGE I think they put Master Chief in Fortnite too. And with the current Twitter/Amazon/Apple shit going down, more people are realizing how money grubbing and soulless (read: shitty) a huge majority of corporations truly are. Can't expect the movie or entertainment industry to be any different.
The ending was basically like, "It looks like you've been playing for a while, maybe you should take a break! "
It looks like you've been watching TH-cam for a while. Maybe you should take a break.
If they were gonna do that they could have at least had the good grace to make the main villain of the story the Careless Wiimote Guy
Sarah Perkins
Wow. You seriously lack comprehension skills
Unoriginal TH-cam Name ....no, that's basically what it was. There was no deeper meaning to anything.
I would if I could, mom, but that's not really an option, is it?
Trolls in this world would be fun
Yeah
I would definitely watch a 4chan version of this film tbh
@@TwelvetreeZ it just gonna be a fucking raid on oasis
Where every raider is a trap anime girl, somekind of hitler skin, some other evil charater in history like hitler, pepe, that PC meme, fedora neckbeard
Posting offensive meme at every corner
pool's closed
Virtual rapists
Adum walked into this movie WANTING to off himself on Tuesdays and Thursdays
I wish there was a moment in the final battle where Gordon Freeman was bhopping at Mach 20 bashing enemies in the head with a crowbar
*bunnyhop clan
Nice dsync ref
That would be awesome
Yeah, actually we don't need this 500 billion dollar prize
*glitches out the only entrance door with a soda can*
If that was in the movie I woulda gave this a 10/10
1/10 not enough Solaire
Praise the Sun?
\[T]/
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0/10 not enough Minesweeper - IGN
Ö _ Solaire?
I completely agree with everything in this video. A couple of other points:
-If you only wear gloves and a headset, how can the game tell wear the rest of your body is? Shouldn’t you be like a disembodied head and floating hands like any other VR game without the full body suit? You would think that’s why people would want a suit like that, but instead they act like it’s only there so you can “feel” stuff?
-These people all live in these run down trailers and are super poor, but apparently they can all afford a high tech headset. How? And since money in the game is so valuable, wouldn’t you think that some of these people would farm money/items and sell them for real money to get them out of poverty? I mean they are already playing the game nonstop anyway, why not make some money off of it?
-Why is this “Oh you lose all your stuff permanently when you die” thing so important? They clearly establish that you can give stuff and money to other players. So why don’t you buy two headsets?!?! Clearly they are cheap enough for the super poor to have them, and even if they couldn’t afford to have multiple per person you would think the corporation would. Like what about that one guy who had a crazy amount of stuff and sold the main villain that stupid spell thing? Your telling me with all of that sh*t he couldn’t have just made another account and dumped all his valuables there?
-At one point, the evil corporation or whatever chases down the heros in that dance club and starts shooting at them. But it’s not like that place is planet doom, it’s clearly intended as a passive lobby where people can just dance. So your telling me that people can just shoot their guns and murder people ANYWHERE? If so, they why aren’t people constantly murdering each other for their gold? And if not, then why do they allow guns in a place like that? You would think at least one person would want to steal other's valuable loot.
-At one point we see the main character’s friend (no I can’t remember anyone’s name) “modding” the game by building the iron giant. Wtf? How can you “mod” the the game while INSIDE the game?!? Did they build some kind of code modifier inside the game specifically so people could mod it? Also, WHY IS HE MODDING A MULTIPLAYER GAME? The whole system should be broken by now! Who’s to say you can’t mod yourself tons of gold, or mod your own items for free that would normally cost a ton in the store? How is his friend not rich?
-While the Shining thing was cool and all, but it honestly makes no sense. Your telling me that only TWO people managed to: A) create an insane fully functioning virtual reality hardware way ahead of its time B) Create servers large enough to host literally every person in the world playing this game with no connection problems even in dingy trailer places instead of just creating a gosh darn single player game for once C) create literally hundreds of games for the system in the form of planets including f*cking MINECRAFT D) Somehow got the rights to every classic game and put them into their game E) GOT THE RIGHTS TO COUNTLESS MOVIES AND NOT ONLY PUT THEM INTO THE OASIS, BUT LITERALLY MADE THEM INTERACTIVE GAMES ON THEIR OWN!!! Seriously he’s talking about “documenting” them, but how hard would it have been to just let the movie play on it’s own? Isn’t that ruining the “documenting” part by changing it? And even if you assume that they only did this for The Shining because of the challenge or whatever, then your telling me not one of the billions and billions of people decided they wanted to watch the shining before then? They theorize that they might need the first key to unlock the other challenges, but they never actually confirm you need to get the keys in order. And honestly the amount of stuff these two guys somehow built on their own is ridiculous enough without them also putting interactive freaking movies in there. And that’s not even mentioning how he somehow cataloged literally all of his life experiences from a third person view. Like seriously was there a camera watching him his entire life?
-One more tiny thing: so your movements in the game are controlled by your movements in real life right? We even see the shaking and stumbling of the truck affecting the main guy's movements in game unintentionally. So what would happen if you climbed a flight of stairs in real life while in the game? Would you just look like your climbing air and fly up into the air in the game? Seems like an easy way to farm coins safely from above lol. Also wouldn’t like climbing stairs in game be impossible without real life stairs conveniently being in the exact same place that the game’s stairs are? Overall the whole moving in real life thing seems extremely silly when you thing of all the exploits it could cause, like riding an elevator in real life to shoot straight into the air, or climbing into the basement to clip into the floor.
Overall the movie is nice enough, but it’s so contrived and ridiculous it’s impossible to take it seriously even as a “turn your brain off” movie. I’ve been thinking all this stuff ever since I saw the movie and this is only the tip of the iceberg. Between these problem and the ones mentioned in the video, there are just way to many problems with this movie for what it is, and in the end it just amounts to an hour and a half of “hey don’t you remember that? Wow the 80’s sure were great!” And “Wow look how hip and cool we are we sure do know gaming culture am I right guys?”. Still, if be lying if I said that I didn’t enjoy it, because I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie with this many plot holes and inconsistencies. Not to mention such an absurd misunderstanding of how game development and games in general actually work. Anyways this comment is already way too long and I don’t know how to end it so byyeeee
Random Person this comment alone was as good as adums entire review
Thank you! I was just ranting mostly I didn't expect anyone to actually see this haha. I was just so surprised that this review basically said everything that I was thinking about this movie, and the more I thought about it the more I realized that the review was only the tip of the iceberg.
Random Person A COUPLE
In the book, the headsets aren't cheap. The only reason the main character had one was that the Oasis School sent him one. I don't know if the school was a thing in the movie. He was so poor that he couldn't leave the world that the school was on.
Yes the game can be modified. Many players create their own worlds. I think the Iron Giant is like a mount/ride thing. I dunno.
The Oasis isnt just a game, it has become their Internet. Like how anyone can build their own websites, people can build their own worlds, like I said before.
The movie seems to explain movement in the Oasis horribly. Most people have headsets and gloves: headsets track eye movements and the gloves track motion control, which causes the avatar to do any movement the player wants. The big corporation probably has headsets, treadmills, bodysuits, and rigs. The employees would use whatever they might need, whenever. The rigs kinda work like those 'rollercoaster rides" that you would sit in and make you think you are on a ride.
All of this was unneccesary and probably unwanted, but it should have been explained in the movie. I haven't watched it, and from the reviews, I will never watch it. Read the book. Its long and drawn out at times, but it explains the Oasis and the world MUCH better than the movie.
Morgan Heffernan The Oasis School was never mentioned in the movie. The movie made it seem like literally EVERYONE had a headset, and that all the poor people used the Oasis to escape the horrible reality they were living in.
The movie never really explained mods. They simply had one scene where Wade's friend explained that he built stuff in the game for money. Considering that they called it "modding" , I assumed that it worked just like when you modded any other game: you can basically do or make whatever you want, provided you have the skill to do so.
The Oasis being more of a hub makes a lot more sense. It's more like they created a console that others populated with games. However, the movie never mentions that other people can or did create world in the Oasis. The make it seem like 2 people created literally everything in the Oasis. While a lot is explained in the book, I based my argument on the movie, so I believe that the points I mentioned before still stand.
Movement in the movie is never explained. It is simply shown. It is heavily implied movement in real life = movement in the game. In the movie, it showed Wade having an omni-directional treadmill, which is fine. But the movie seemed to constantly break it's own rules. In one scene crowds of people are running across the street in REAL LIFE to join in on the huge battle at the end, yet in another someone is able to control their avatar while sitting in a chair. The movie seems to act like movement in the Oasis is the exact same as movement in modern day VR, which as you can imagine causes a lot of problems. At one point, you start to wonder how Wade is doing all those intense action moves and back-flips that he does in the Oasis in real life. I don't know how the technology works in the book, but just imagine that everything that everyone does in the Oasis is done using the VR headsets and controllers that we have right now. Doesn'y make sense? Exactly.
Most books do a better job of explaining their worlds than movies do, especially since they aren't restricted to an hour and a half. For example, most of the problems in the Hunger Games YMS review were explained in the book. Still, as I was judging the movie based on the movie, not the book, I think my arguments still stand. Believe it or not, I actually have the book. I didn't buy it- someone gave it to me. I never found the time the time to read it before I saw the movie, and after I saw it I didn't really have any interest in it. I have checked out the first few pages, and while some things interested me (reading about Wade's crazy family who was never mentioned in the movie) some things also greatly bored me (having to read every detail about the video Halliday made with a bunch a references to things I had never heard of). I had tried reading some reviews fort he book, but most just talk about all the "geeky" references he makes. I'm not really the target demographic for this book: I never really grew up with the 80s and I don't consider myself a geek. Considering that I've already seen the overall story from the movie, and I won't get most of the references, is there any reason that I should read the book, other than just having some things from the movie explained? I am a big reader, but i'm not a huge book critic. If a book is above average, or even average, I will probably enjoy it. Still, i have a pretty big backlog of books right now. Unless I burn through all the other books I have, and then am put into a situation where I need a book in order to pass the time, then I probably won't be reading it anytime soon.
The Oasis is basically VRChat on steroids.
No
It's the other way around
Not even. VR Chat at least have more liberties than this movie aparently
VR: the movie
VRChat is the Oasis on meth.
No it’s Xbox live
"what's 4chan?" Steven Spielberg.
"What's a 'video game'?"
-Steven Spielberg
"What's an easter egg?" Steven Spielberg
“What’s the internet?” -Steven Spielberg
Whats Steven Spielberg? - Steven Spielberg
"What's 9gag?"
-Steven Spielberg
"Apparently Battletoads had a huge resurgence in 2044"
>2018
>E3
>New Battletoads game announced
That joke didn't age well
That one dude who posts stuff
a shitty cashgrab on an already dead meme game. i give it a couple of months after release before people forget
Was it for the Wii?
nikko validor battletoads is alive and well in russia (not a joke).
svnhddbst Must be the Soviet Russian opposite effect, instead of Battletoads kicking your ass, They kick Battletoad's ass
It did, everyone already forgot about it.
Its like spykids 3
Yes
Its literally a Danny Phantom episode.
Ready player one backwards is eno reyalp ydear and that's so beautiful
correction, it is spykids 3
Every movie/tv show with mass VR game experiences is spy kids 3
"how does manual labour in a virtual world make sense?"
Adum's never played an MMO lol
*laugh in chinese sweat shop WOW gold farmer*
Lol.
The difference is that those would use things such as gathering resources, transporting resources over a long way, crafting etc.
Not moving a box from point A to point B that are really close to each other.
Especially in a world like that where you probably could just throw them around with gravity gun or so.
@Romano Coombs I read about that!! I was absolutely amazed by the dedication and creativity
@Romano Coombs you said "rip EvE;" what happened to it? Never played it but got the ads on TH-cam a couple of times.
Enough people must have asked GameStop for Battle Toads that they actually decided to stock it.
What annoyed me is that the protagonist was one of the most one dimensional characters ever. All he was was just a kid who liked pop culture and had a weird obsession with a game designer... that's it. There was no motivation for him to win the competition that made sense. The ugly-but-not-really-ugly girl had a much more interesting back-story that she mentions one time, but then we never hear of it again. Making her the main character and exploring that would have been a bit better imo.
Good job at understanding what I said, I'm glad you have basic reading comprehension. For extra credit, can you explain why I said that?
This gon b guud
But the main character's boring, so why not have Sam Cook be the lead as her story and character are more developed? She has an arc, Wade is a literal avatar.
I hate to be that guy, but in the book, Parzival seems a lot more interesting. He struggles with maintaining a healthy physique, and he has plenty of flaws, but in the movie, he seemed so "average good-looking highschooler."
Tye Sheridan might be the only child actor to actually be far better as a kid than as an adult. Mud was great, but this performance was garbage.
It was so terribly cheesy, especially that forced romance. I don't think I've audibly gagged while watching a movie before, not even when watching slasher films.
KAWAITA LOUD NOISES!!!!!
Avoid the book at all costs.
The book is alright, but its still not good. Its way better than the movie though
So wait, the key to all of this was the reverse-drive-bug in Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing?
Imagine someone just used the big rigs vehicles for that race. Done in .2 seconds.
W E ' V E G O N E T O P L A I D
More like when you're playing NASCAR or something and decide to go the wrong way and cause big wrecks
BIG MUTHERFUCKING RIGS
Disappointed Turtle *bad rats
10:38 it would be good if they used the fact that she's attractive as commentary about how untenable beauty standards fuck with people, I mean think about it, he could be like "girl you look beautiful as shit, what drugs you on?" and she could be like "no, I'm not pretty, I'l never be as attractive as Jessica Rabbit or some shit" and it can be about how the internet's photoshopping and obsession with fantasy can make us feel like the real world isn't good enough, which is something that's a theme in this movie about being consumed by fiction and not living in the real world, it can make people think they aren't pretty enough when they look just fine
It'd be better if she was just actually unattractive. Obviously people would bitch about the movie not having cute girl, but I would sure make a better point out of "You shouldn't be spending all your time on here and open your eyes to the real world".
It definitely could have but the author is already on the Jessica Rabbit side of that spectrum so.
Why would the people in the 2040s reference stuff from the 80s??
scoop poop boi easy. The director is someone who is badly out of touch and needs to retire. Battle toads. Just gonna leave that there.
It'd called getting old. Steven is as clueless as the movie was.
Keegan Gates
Nice try on bad-mouthing, but the director did *not* write the movie. So...fail, I guess.
because the creator of the oasis was an austistic boy who lived his adolescence in the 80's and when he became a millionair he made the egghunt full of 80's references just because he had the money too, gunters became obseced with 80's culture because they wanted the money and thats it
Because copyright
Shoulda just gone the SaO VR route. Magical headset, taps into your brain, it's all in your head. Would literally explain away all the realword inconsistencies.
I think it would've been a pretty good visual gag if they cut to the people fighting in the real world without any weapons
And then getting hit by traffic
Despite the fact that apperantly the 80's was the highest point in pop culture references, the movie forgot one main thing to reference.
DOOM
Shaq shhhh
Doom is 90's
*D I C K H E A D*
Quantum Mechanic not gonna lie I was lowkey hoping for some stuff like portal, tf2 or half life too
Actually, there's a Doom reference in this movie
And Eva
The VR technology displayed in this movie somehow makes even less sense that that of something like SAO.
The first thing you see in the movie is Minecraft.
10/10
Yeah, they could of shown some minecraft players using hacks to kill the corperation's players in a matter of seconds
Ready player one is just a high budget version of spy kids 3
Shut the fuck up how dare you compare the best fucking movie in the world to ready player one
HavocPigeon Higher budget, lower substance
HavocPigeon it’s a less retarded/autistic version of Ready Player One
Yeah and it’s nowhere near as good
"Not everyone has a girl friend." You said.
Man, how can I not love you.
He gay.
If you're going into an EPIC battle where you can be anything, I think a lovecraftian god would be much better than a battle toad
Do you mean the Great Old Ones or the Outer Gods? I don't think it'd be very possible to become Azathoth tbh. Some Great Old Ones, such as Cthulhu or even Nyarla (an exception to the Outer Gods) are possible, along with other servants/spawn.
I do love the idea of a Kaiju. I’d so choose Godzilla.
I thought avout the exact thing
Are you fucking implying that Zitz from the battle toads ISNT a Lovecraftian God?
This movie would have done *amazingly* as a comedy.
I kept waiting for someone to fall over after trying to lean on a wall that wasn't actually there, or cut back to IRL or in-game when something crazy was happening in one world but not the other (like the car chase scene, we never saw his character being flung around randomly, just his IRL self).
His speech at the end would only give "real" people cringe, like us viewers. As no gamer would actually use such a stupid method to rally people. All he had to do was say the last key was there and people would swarm in.
Such a waste...
(edit) also the Shining bit was the only part I actually liked
Final Battle:
Person 1: "We're being taken out! We need back up!"
Person 2: "I know! We're waiting for Joe!"
Person 1: "Who the hell is Joe?!"
*insert giant Godzilla roar with huge foot slamming down on enemies*
Person 2: *points at Kaiju* "That's Joe!"
Damn near predicted joe mama
@@Dawcio6262 holy fuck you're right lmao
Who the hell is Joe?
Joe Mama!
Nearly two years later no one even remembers this movie.
Maybe they were quarantined
@@aliveslice no, it’s just incredibly forgettable
Don't worry, they had the author write a terrible sequel so they can make another movie.
Just because you don't remember dumb f***k doesn't mean no one remembers
@@TheZigzagman so the majority don't like this movie at all ? I thought it was a classic
I really really liked RPO and had lots of fun watching it, but I also can’t dispute anything said in this review.
lol my response to most yms but i love it haha
This was a pretty accurate representation of the book tbh. Fucking confusing
Remin Wooten the book had absolutely terrible writing, the movie, while dumb, is still directed by Spielberg so it's at least good to look at.
Same
Primo Does that mean the movie is better than the book?
online game with custom avatars from any franchise
no cute anime girls not even one cat girl
immersion blown
There was a cat girl, but she was a furry.
No suicidal Kermits -100/10
They must've kermited suicide before the beginning of the film.
The characters would be at least 15% Hatsune Miku alone
>no qt maids to suit up as in combat
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The Tuesday/Thursday thing, not only that, they make it pretty clear you can earn real money in the Oasis not just from quests but like actually working jobs. You could really be fucking with people's lives here, Wade...
Didn't his mom use to work in the OASIS as a person who worked over calls in a office room or something? lol
"Maybe the furies where quarantined"
Are we all furries now
Yes
No
Not yet
If so I’m gonna jump
The furries were at that IOI prison
I know I am sadly
quarantine furries
Oh shit, a maus!
You know your a savage memer when
Why are you everywhere?
would.
But then we will have to say goodbye to Adam
*Wouldn't everyone be running around as anime girls*
Finally someone get's it.
My problem with video game related movies/stories including Sword Art Online and this movie: if you are writing a story about a video game, learn how to make a video game first.
what
That makes absolutely no sense. Steven Spielberg should have learned how to program, make graphic art and make a soundtrack to make a game just to then make a movie? Those 2 things have no correlation whatsoever.
thats like saying you have to come into contact with real aliens before creating a sci fi film
@@sophiam2439 no cuz the fun of sci fi is that it's made up hence the name sience FICTION. But yeah his reason is stupid
If you are writing a story about warfare, make sure you have a PhD in medieval warfare first
YMS is the only channel i keep rewatching again and again, and still keep getting entertained by every single time. I watched almost every video on this channel, and I have a few favourites that change in a while.
Thank you Adum (and editor(s))!!! I appreciate your work and love your personality.
I saw Tracer and I clapped!
I know her from all the hentai I watch!
*Que picardia*
Andrew Heard
*Watch* it
That's right, Jay!
The Bandog Lmao I’m like 99% sure they’re joking
Sylvanas Windrunner same!
This seems like the epitome of something I call the “anti-story”. This is when a story relies on other stories in order to tell its story, basically being nothing but call-backs to stories you know that you could be watching instead of this two-hour-long stretch of NOTHING. This story really is ABOUT NOTHING. It’s just references with no depth.
Just like late 90s and 2000s parody movies.
Huh.
I don't know man, the references were just kind of that.To say the references have no depth would probably be fair, since it's just kind of "Hey, look, serenity!" "Hey, look, tracer" "There's Beetlejuice!" "Cool, he's driving the delorian!" But it does have a story, and doesn't really rely on other stories to tell it.
The plot of the movie is a rebellion movie against big corporations which suck the enjoyment out of games and make them nothing but vectors for advertisements. Basically, IOI wants control of the game to make it a pay-to-win advertisement filled slog, like what EA did to Battlefront 2, when it should be fun and free for everyone, like the creator intended.
I mean, granted, the plot is a little willy wonka esque with the competiton and all, (And dumb. Really dumb) but I think it's mean to say it doesn't have a story. It was the story I liked about it because fuck big corporations and them cramming their advertisements into my entertainment.
jakesammartin nope...Its about these kids trying to find three keys...It references other characters with the hope that you know who they are but,if you don't know them you can still enjoy the movie
0/10 No anime girls.
You just summed up every thing I love.But you missed Grand Dad.
Papa Bless
Best Boy Emporio Armani you piece of cow excretion, the best boi is obviously Koichi from part 4.
But yo, It has a cat character that has hairy breasts...try to beat that
Best Boy Emporio Armani I agree
people: “SAO was bad”.
Steven Spielburg: “Hold my drink”
When's the vastly superior Abridged version of Ready Player One when you need it?
SAO?
@@kylenielsen5083 Sword Art Online, an anime that did what this movie tried to do except better and more melodramatic. It’s on Netflix. There’s an abridged parody that is better than the original tho
Ok im ngl i hate this movie but its no where as bad as sao
@@ftygdfrygg6622 yeah but SAO, despite its huge amount of failings, still became a global trend. Meanwhile this movie was meh and is barely remembered enough to acknowledge it was made at all. Either way though, the source material or Steven Spielburg dropped the ball. Gamers are some of the most conniving S.O.B. in the world and for all the easter egg hunt clues to be relatively in plain sight AND that no one has been close to finding any of them as Adam says is an insult to gamers as a whole.
I'm not inclined to look into the author's background but based on what I do know I don't think he's that bright. He just managed to belch out a product so full of pop culture that it could be easily marketed. Hence a book deal and a movie. It's like adults eating baby food. Sure you can do it and it will pass easily enough but how rewarding can it really be?
The book was actually really good imo but this movie was totally different. It was like “we used the characters and basic plot line it’s the same I promise”
The book isn't even that good. It's awfully written and full of tropes. It is indeed the literary equivalent of baby food or maybe a Cheeseburger.
He wrote another one and apparently it's the same as ROP which is why it wasn't as well received.
@@kalameet1870 Ehh, that's just your opinion. Despite what you said, the book still sold incredibly well and has a lot of fans. Personally, I had an absolute blast reading it. And that's coming from someone who has read tons of books from all kinds of genres.
He's got a bunch of money, so I imagine it feels pretty good to steal a bunch of characters and ideas and get paid millions for it, with no questions asked.
@@TheRealmOfTF so in other words, you just... Enjoy reading books?
I'm positive the book is better than the movie, but it's not winning any awards any time soon.
(did it actually get any already ? Lol. Idk and don't care enough to look it up but I'll laugh at myself if it already has one though)
Legitimately annoyed that in the film the evil corporation had teams of researchers that couldn't figure out the last key, like seriously how do they not know that adventure was the game they had to find the easter egg in? It isn't that obscure of a fact that it's the first easter egg. I am probably overreacting, but it still kind of irks me that it was supposed to be the last key and as soon as I saw the Atari I could see i coming from a mile away. This film is for "gamers" as much as the big bang theory is for "nerds"
For a movie that's _aaaall_ about references, you'd think the protagonist would count to three-no more, no less-before lobbing the holy hand grenade!
Something I'm surprised Adam didn't mention is why only the main characters get their own custom avatars while everyone else has to be a different video game character. And I know this is going to sound weeby as shit, but the lack of anime characters was appalling. You cannot tell me some people wouldn't nut at the chance to be Goku or Kirito (especially Kirito considering it's a VR game).
Or a dragon, or anything else remotely interesting. Out of all the crazy characters people have come up with, they went with some of the most boring and generic ones.
In all honesty I expected the Oasis to appear more like how Gary's Mod or VRChat does. Not a place with all those generic video game characters, but an abysmal hellhole full of anime girls, cartoon characters like Ed Edd and Eddy, monster girls, meme characters like Ultra Instinct Shaggy or Naruto Hank Hill, primarily non-mainstream videogame characters like 2B and Gordon Freeman, furries, and anime traps.
You know, just like VRChat.
But Gundam...
Totally agree! I'd take advantage and make myself look like some anime chick with wolf ears or some desu shit. Or a Pokemon trainer, or Akira, a fox-dragon, etc. SOMETHING beyond a generic preset in a world where you can literally be anything.
Tho, in all fairness, you have to consider how painstaking of a process that would be to create several hundreds of uniquely animated cgi models. So...ehhh.
That and getting permission to use the rights for them.
As far as I'm aware the people from Japan aren't very keen on that sort of thing.
The book and movie were godawful terrible, but I think special mention needs to be made of how out of touch Ernest Cline is.
He fails at pop culture callbacks because it's supposed to be the 80s but his knowledge mostly mostly begins and ends at 1977-1983. He's writing nostalgia for 30 somethings with the knowledge of a 40 something. An 80s nostalgia fest with a big chunk of it being about video games, and not one mention of Nintendo? Black Tiger and Joust as the most iconic arcade games? TRS-80 as the the most iconic 80s home computer? No Commodore 64 or Apple II? Nobody quotes any lines from Wargames that aren't from the computer.
Beyond the pop culture, he totally fails at capturing online culture. He has no clue how virtual reality works. He has no clue how internet communities work. He has no clue how people interact online. He has no clue how ARG games play out. He writes the internet like someone who only watched Tron once instead of actually using the internet.
The most fascinating thing though? You compare Ready Player One with Ender's Game. Orson Scott Card managed to absolutely nail how online competitive gaming works: playing against the predictable macro master AI, getting creamed playing your first human after being used to the predictable AI, rush strategies, shifting metas, etc. Card was able to perfectly write back in 1985 how modern online gaming would work, 15+ years before it happened. By comparison, Cline wrote his book AFTER online gaming had existed for over 10 years and STILL was unable to accurately portray it.
That's just embarrassing.
(seriously though, ARG games have been around since dial up internet. How do you write a book about them in 2011 not knowing that some obsessive message board group would burn through any of them in under 3 days?)
Your points are mostly plausible, but Joust was a big part of the book(the first quest depended on it).
He also talks about Halliday owning Apple II's and a Commodore 64 and how the TRS-80 was called the "Trash-80".
I agree with the rest.
Personally, I thought the first key being on the school planet made sense. Maybe not 100% sense, but some sense.
It was just Author Tract: The Book, though, and the movie fucked it.
Westworld more accurately portrays gamers than Ready Player One
dorpth its like you dodnt read the book. the whole point of the story is about the egg hunt, and how modern gamer culture in this world is overwhelmingly driven and influenced by Halliday's interests, which are centered in the late 70s/early 80s.
Nitpick: Wargames was in the book. The second key challenge was basically taking the place of the lead character and acting out every line in the movie.
The army of 4chan would have figured out this puzzle in an hour
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братишка : It's not secret or elite, it's (in their own words) "weaponized autism". 4channers hyperfocus on that kind of shit like a laser.
Joinsideke Very cool hip internet forum!
Who is that?
Bubbadoobop he's a hacker named anonymous
Yeah there was a lot of inconsistencies and plot-holes in this film.
But not gonna lie, I still had a lot of fun watching it.
Same. It's very much a garbage movie, but at least it was entertaining garbage.
"Makes No Sense But is Still Fun to Watch: The Movie"
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TheLonelyGoomba hello internet welcome to game theory
Why are you suddenly commenting on every video now?
the fact that when she's literally locked in a cell performing manual labour for an evil corporation she's somehow allowed to appear in the game as her own avatar was another confusing point. Surely they wouldn't allow any kind of self-expression? And the workers trying to win the race all have exactly the same avatar except for a number (if I remember right) so what makes her different? It was just a lazy way of making her look like her original avatar in the final battle. I still had fun though even if there was a lot that didn't make sense
Yeah and if she was still going to have her avatar why does it automatically go into the battle wearing a sixer uniform? The sixer outfit is worn by avatars that were created by IOI and wore customized uniforms for that specific account. Like the actual outfits have their customized employee number on the side. Art3mis was an indentured secant, they don’t get an ID number that starts with 6 or an avatar from the company. To have her avatar she would need to log into her own OASIS account which wouldn’t have a personalized uniform. It just wasn’t well thought out and bugged me
My biggest peeve of this film:
The guy plays Goldeneye as Odd Job with slappers only. For you kids out there, that was the biggest dick move in gaming evah.
I swore at my laptop when he said that.
Playing as jaws is the big dick move, I haven’t even played golden eye and even I know he’s a foot taller than everyone else.
@Momo Readuth
Goldeneye was an old fps. Oddjob is a character in it.
Oddjob is like two feet shorter than every other character, but the aim assist still targets where other people's heads would be. This means you can't hit him unless you aim down, and free-aiming on the N64 was tedious and difficult.
Slappers was a melee only game mode. Keeping everything else in mind, you're now in a setting where you can only damage other players by getting close enough that they can hurt you too.
Anyone who picks Oddjob is fucking scum.
I remember playing with my brothers and we pretty much barred the use of Odd Job (we only use him for certain challenges we make up). Infuriating, but good times.
@Readuth In multilayer goldeneye, Odd Job is shorter and therefore the reticle is naturally above his head, so he has a huge advantage
To me, this movie was just Steven Spielberg saying: "Hey, i'm a millionaire, time to spend it all so i can see Chucky vs. A T-rex."
Wowza Bowza most accurate comment here
Is that not what you would do with millions of dollars?
Granted, I'd buy a batsuit and batmobile and pay some celebrities to fight for my amusement first, but that is a close second.
The best thing about spielberg and this movie is the fact that he once said that once you pick up the controller, your heart shuts down, that games cannot evoke any kind of emotion.
Who let him direct this movie?
Steven Spielberg's a Billionaire, not a Millionaire. Plus most of the IP's were Warner Bros who funded the movie, so it didn't cost them anything.
You think that in a virtual world where you can choose any form that there'd be so many memes everywhere
Attiboy I am the furfags and sonic RPers
Better plot twist than this movie
nah It would be full of weebs, just look at vrchat
They must've all died out...... too edgy?
It's already full of weebs. You see the anime eyes?
Basically, they ripped off Spykids 3
Sawyee Kwan and, Sword Art Online ripped off Spy Kids 3
They also ripped off the LEGO movie with the whole telling the world about president business’s plan. That’s what I’m calling him. His character is so forgettable lol. ( not actual president business I’m talking about the owner of the corporation in the movie, because let’s face it we all see him as that because president/lord business was a better character)
I know, right?
Vaibhav Shah That or Tron.
this is like that movie dark dungeon that “teaches” people that rpgs and larping are satanic and/or endorse satanism.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but...
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Spy Kids 3 did it better.
both horrible movies but at least spy kids 3 didnt pretend to be amazing.
DID SOMEBODY RING THE DINKSTER????
Roflcopter_launchpad 111 It really didn't
I think everybody agrees with it
At least in that there were set rules. In this it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, I didn't see the movie but it doesn't look like everyone couldn't just show up as The Iron Giant and wreck the people to stupid to not be playing as The Iron Giant. Or better yet Superman, or some other completely overpowered bullshit. Don't they still retain some of their abilities? I saw Iron Giant shooting lasers out of his eyes.
That, and who could forget the Dinkster?
The really sad thing is that, if they had just asked any random gamer, they could have patched 90% of these problems. Like the race. Make it explicit that you have to go drive it right after watching that bit from the archive, so the one unlocks the other. And don't belabor the fucking clue! There ya go!
AlexReynard yeah, and for the unjumpable gap, just say it's a challenge race that doesn't allow modifications like rockets or grappling hooks or anything
Or they could have followed the book for a change and then there would also be 90% less problems. Funny thing is that some people at Warner Bros praised the author that this book would make a good movie... then they went and ruined it.
Afelers Jones Aren't the challenges in the book like playing a game and repeating the script of a movie?
Who the fuck would watch that?
Hibub Games two things
1: in the book the real challenge was finding the mini games so that is where everyone failed and even the first part was only solved by dumb luck and coincidence.
2: the meaning of the hunt was changed in a way that made the whole thing dumber. In the movie Halliday essentially wanted to teach his successor that the real world is a thing that should be appreciated. A message that isn’t just dumb in context but also outdated and over used in media. While in the book it was more like he just wanted to show people things he liked and wanted them to like them as well. Which is a lot closer to real “nerd” mentality then anything the movie showed.
They just copied a Danny Phantom episode, and shoved in pop culture references.
Pff, Danny Phantom copied spy kids 3d
Ah i see you also watched RLM's review.
And you just copied RLM.
Dude this movie is just a terrible book to movie. The book is more fleshed out and much better
@@thatepicperson5208 lolwut
I feel like the slave labour could be cool if they had people grinding for in game items you can sell. Kinda how people in elite dangerous would kidnap noobs and basically enslave them to get fuel light years away from any beginner area.