Sauce: http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/warner-bro...ady-player-one/

This sounds soooooo much like the One Piece manga

When the old Pirate King, Gold D. Roger died, he sends a message to everyone in the world of the ultimate treasure to find @ ONE PIECE.

In this movie, when the creator of OASIS died, he sends a message to everyone in the world of the ultimate treasure to find @ LOOT

Apparently this will have a lot of geek reference to films of 1980s. I grew up in that decade, this should bring back some awesome childhood memories.

The novel just found its publisher Random House (a nice 6 figure deal), before the ink on that deal dried it already been bought by Warner. Ernie Cline's (the author) first novel hit paydirt before the public had any chance to know of it's existence, let alone read it.

Blink and you will miss the pop cultural references. I saw Iron Giant, Some superheroes, Freddy Krueger, McFly's DeLorean, Akira bike, Tron cycle.....
Salute to the legal department for securing the rights. The teaser actually did a good job for setting up the world. They could potentially owned the pre-summer slot like Deadpool/Logan.

This post has been edited by 6so: Jul 23 2017, 01:00 PM

This trailer certainly warrant to watch in full 4k glory. The references just filled to the brim. If i have to choose will for sure watch this over Black Panther.

https://www.thewrap.com/ready-player-one-al...trailer-photos/
A pretty decent breakdown of who and what cameos in the trailer. Suppose the hardcore fans will find more hidden easter eggs to the book. Honestly those who haven't read ought to really give it a shot. It's a page turner and you bound to reread it many times over because it is really that enjoyable.

Watched the trailer. My assumption

-RPO is basically a movie just like Sword Art Online anime, where instead of setting the game to the world of dungeon n dragon, the creator mashed up all the 90s pulp culture and games till todate into one massive game world. Objective, find a special treasure containing all the creator's money. Rules : you die (or coma?) if you get killed in the game

Nope....you assume too much. The hunt only one aspect of it but the biggest hold of the story is how they used the nolstagic familiarity in a really refreshing way to an action adventure epic. Not emo anime BS.

Just here for tracer

gaaaaaandum

Spielberg a bit late to VR-game as consumer has already found VR back their home shore via Samsung VR, Google Cardbox, Playstation VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, customable VR desktop, etc but price is still steep.

More references! Can you spot them?!!

Final trailer before the barrage of movie clips and TV spots. The only obstacle this movie facing is Pacific Rim 2 release a week before. There's a potential to be a substantial hit and hope Spielberg able to stay relevant in the face of comic book movies dominance.

glad to see Iron Giant in there

I wasn't a fan of the book. I'm cautiously optimistic about the movie. I think it will at least have some cool visual moments.

It’s Spielberg baby!! Surely a must watch!!

Easter eggs & references: The Movie

I wonder if Spielberg still got it?

Favourable first impressions out in the wild while review embargo lifted by tomorrow. Hope it gets to build up by words of mouth!!

haha Spielberg from SAVING PRIVATE RYAN to VR wars interesting

I just want to see the DeLorean on the big screen again

Final trailer...at this point either you are in or out. Flock to the cinema if possible so we have more options to watch other genres in the future. There are only so much of superheroes movie you can stomach before the fatigue sets in.

Was helping my wife again to screen a preview for pr people and critics. All I gotta say this is the geekiest movie you can watch.

“This is not a film that we’ve made. It is, I promise you, a movie.” That was the quote Steven Spielberg made during the world premier. It basically telling everyone this is that classic Spielberg who defined the 80s pop culture. You will be transported to the thrilling roller coaster ride with a sense of wonder on every corner of the movie.

The middle action sequence will made you shed couple of geek tears as you are too busy to cross reference how many pop culture icons you can identify on the screen. Storming the castle sequence is a blueprint for DC Kingdom Come style of epic battle. The scope of it almost on another level.

The bad is the real world stuff a little thin and a weak villain overall. Pissy book readers will nitpick how it is not faithful...blah,blah,blah.

MCU take note this is how to do meaningful character banter and not cramming every cringey quips you can force into a scene.

To those still on the fence, perhaps give a try at Mamoru Hosada's Summer Wars to get a sense of idea what to expect. This is that more expensive and funnier version of that. 3D is a must for this one.

I'm so hyped for this movie. I hope it wipes out MCU domination. It is relevant as it has many pop cultural references from many decades.

I'm really looking forward to this one. The trailer has done a good job of that, that's for sure. Far more interesting to me than Pacific Rim.

Bust a nut...otakus!!!

can become movie of the year or not?

i heard this movie very gooding

Haha why not

not sure it can attracts non gamers

Sure can one😄😄👌👌

Read the novel, it was a bit meh to be honest, so when I heard that the movie version is a lot different than the book, I was intrigued..

no joke, Spielberg (or the writers) changed almost 70-80% of the detail, however, it made the movie a lot better than the novel, 8/10 from me

2 minor gripes about the changes though:

Spielberg couldn't secure the rights for everything featured in the book and the others he wanted.

ya I understand that he couldn't get every rights for every character he intended to put in the movie that's why its just a small gripe for me, however



This post has been edited by dlct87: Mar 29 2018, 09:06 AM

9/10 for yesterday early screening as an ex-gamer (retired since i started self-employed) this is a wet dream come true 1999-2017 my appetite in gaming those years are glorious😄😄✌✌definitely can relate 2 my past surely hahahaha i going 4 round 2 soon

Yeah man those moments got me screaming inside haha

Goro !!

Nice movie...saw some familiar gaming characters...lol

not everyone's cup of tea.

75% animated, 25 % real actors.

feels like watching an anime though....

Avatar

Movie was awesome!

Except kissing scenes, the film is watchable by all ages (6-60)

Spielberg seems to have been heavily inspired from anime (BTOOM for example)

Entertainment in its purest form! Visual feast but for some (like myself) would feel themselves to have been bombarded by VFX over 2 hours

haha the first animation + live action ever

This post has been edited by skylinelover: Mar 30 2018, 12:10 PM

The plot is engaging but the performance is lacklustre.

This looks like another one of those movie where the loser becomes the hero and gets the girl at the end. The long running time is also putting me off but since this is from Spielberg and it has all those neat references, I'll probably give it a shot. Anyone watched it in IMAX 3D?

This post has been edited by masterelr: Mar 30 2018, 10:24 PM

Ready Player One (2018)

I am going to sound harsh...

Since A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Steven Spielberg has not made a good family base movie.

Don't get me wrong, he made good movies after that (sans Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)), but not in the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Jurassic Park (1993) kinda way.

Watched this yesterday, and it is mind-boggling how he managed to make this movie!

It is a movie about Easter egg (which is launch during Easter weekend, some marketing genius is getting a big fat bones).

And the movie is filled with NOTHING but Easter eggs and I am NOT complaining.

No need to mention the obvious (Iron Giant), I see Marvin the Martian, Freddie Kruger, Ninja Turtles, doing Gandalf, without using the name Gandalf and The DeLorean with a Kitt, kit....

Lots more that you blink and you miss....

Movie take place in a dystopia where life is so bad that everyone escapes into a virtual world and greedy corporation cashes in on this. And the rest is eye candy.

I usually complain about the lack of script, and have to say, as thin as the storyline is, the master storyteller, tells it well.

And The Shining Scene!!! OMG!!!!

BFG was a big let down. Steven had said that he sees a future with not big budget movies and everyone if their own film maker. Is this is last hurray before that happens? I hope not...

I really needed this movie and enjoyed it immensely.

Chances are, you would too

My Two Sen

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Mar 31 2018, 09:28 AM

On second watch last night, think at the end the old school of scripting still reign supreme. Its well paced with every Chekhov's gun paying out with a clearly defined act structure. Although I won't t necessary call this a deep movie with profound messaging. Leave that to the Coens, three Amigos, Fincher as they are the new zeitgeist of auteurs that make films and not movies. Above all this just show JJ Abrams is nowhere near the level of crafting an adventure movie like Spielberg.

Mind you there are severe problems with how the characterization being done with cliche motivations. Some scenes are downright corny. I won't necessarily pinned this movie as a gamer-centric movie. Old school cinemaphiles will find a lot of nod to 80s cinemas. It has a more vintage western RPG mechanic in the Easter hunt rather than modern JRPG. I see this more of Tron blended with Matrix and Willy Wonka as the basis of narration. Even you don't get the Easter eggs it still an enjoyable movie to watch without feeling at lost.

The biggest gripe is they did not do the 1,2,5 joke with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Truth be told I love the book not because its well written. Its no GRRM material. But it's damn entertaining and nerdy thrashy in a good way just like the movie. Hope Ernest Cline exposure with the real master storytellers like Spielberg and Zak Penn able to improve upon the announced sequel to the book. So Parzival next adventure will still go on but a sequel to the movie will wait and see.

The grenade has made it appearance in popular game like Worms, Fallout Vegas, Witcher 3....
Daito's avatar skin is Toshiro Mifune the great samurai actor, coincidentally first name of Daito is Toshiro. A favourite among the "Hollywood Brats" film directors.

It was ok...the writing was questionable and the acting was bland. But I do enjoy the action and some pop culture reference. MechaGodzilla and Gundam are the highlight

I expect brainless action movie. It is one...just not as good as I was hoping

Watched it on imax 3d, was amazing Worth to watch at imax and 3D.

I think it's pretty good, enjoyed it, especially looking at all the easter eggs, and knowing soo many of them. Story was ok overall, the enjoyment was a lot mostly looking at references and what not.

Overall it turned out to be quite alright I guess. There were a lot of people clapping at the end and most people seem to enjoy it. Didn't exactly felt like it was two and a half hours long. Oh and everyone lost their shit when Gundam appeared.
I'll just say that the last time I was mind blown by such amazing special effects is when I watched Sucker Punch.

Olivia Cooke

Best video game movie since Wreck it Ralph

All references in the movie if you missed it



And if you didn't get the ending..



This post has been edited by gaeria84: Apr 1 2018, 12:03 AM

Let me guess, the average Malaysia hall lost their shit at gundam but not .

I really enjoyed the movie, but whether it stands the test of time remains to be seen. I don't think it will.

Look beyond the gaudy hair and tight jeans. This is a great early hair metal track. The song also was used recently in Wolfenstein 2.

This post has been edited by 6so: Apr 1 2018, 04:35 PM

Haha interesting

Haha malaysians not in 2 golden era of 70s sadly😅😅😂😂

I suppose most Asians in general aren't that familiar with The Shining. If that scene was replaced with maybe Alien or Jaws then maybe there would be more squeals.

Not just The Shining, it also paying homage to Citizen Kane the grand daddy of all movies by making...

Again another Chekhov's gun payoff.

The whole Overlook horror house moment was not even in the book and actually an improvement over what was written.

This post has been edited by 6so: Apr 1 2018, 09:47 PM

Yup, this is fishy... who is copying who?

Er, just wanna ask, for imax is there is still promo maybank buy1 free 1?

And you quote 8 years ago posting TS inactive liao😂

Not sure about this one, sorry

Just came back from the movie. One thing keeps bugging me..

Fun trivia fact

Watched on IMAX at 1u earlier today, hall was pretty empty so, I was pretty much the only one laughing

Such an awesome movie, so much fun. Thought it was a little emotional close to the end, thinking how we really do not have many passionate game developers and mostly dominated by greedy money grabbing big corps.

Watched on IMAX in Sunway Pyramid today. The hall pack and laughing, enjoying themselves. We all went wild when Gundam shows up 🤗

Watched in 1u IMAX too, heard one guy laughing, might be you.

Sadly true, games nowadays are view as a serious business. Devs are making their games with tie hand, block of creativity cause every games need to be milked.

I thought this was a superb movie. Didnt read the book so cant really comment on how the book transpired on screen.

(on the whole iron giant ultraman thing, I think ultraman wouldve been damn amazing, but iron giant aint too shabby - plus, I've been told the book is so so so much different).

But in any case, I really enjoyed all the "easter eggs" and pop-culture reference. Probably those who were growing up in the Atari-age would appreciate some of the things more, but I did enjoy the movie a lot.

A solid 7.5/10 , where were the police throughout the whole movie?

Well the book is more nerdy with convoluted Easter egg hunts. Like recreating scenes from Wargames and Monthly Python, winning Pacman high score for one-up coin,etc....

Sorrento was a better villain in the book but Ben Mendelsohn did enough to make him the guy you want to punch in the face. Obviously he can't go "Una" type of creepy villain.

but haptic suit not fully consumer production yet

Cough *EA* Cough👊👊👊👊

Haha there are still hidden gems in steam

Gotta keep on looking hard

😄😄😅😅Its us customers 2 determine the survival of these greedy corps💸💸💸💸