Ready Player One Spoilers Review

hello and welcome to my spoiler review for ready player one a film that is both loving and insulting at the same time yeah I don't think gamers or non gamers will be particularly happy with how they're depicted in this movie but thankfully it has some really inventive sequences and great characters so it's still a pretty good time at the movies as long as you can take the hits okay so first I'm gonna break down my favorite sequences in the movie there's so much to cover and then I will break down my favorite characters and as always there are chapter x down below in the video description if there's a particular element you just can't wait to talk about but I'm sure I'm like pretty darn sure that you want to talk about what I want to talk about and that's the shining sequence in the movie it was amazing oh lordy Lord what a fantastic piece of filmmaking to be able to enter your favorite movies with a group of friends is genius I see a real opportunity here for just an overall game outside of this movie it was so good like when it started like first they were like oh what movie did they go on for their date you know Halladay and his one date that he ever went on and they're like oh it's the shining and like the audience kind of like laughed a little Amer like oh I like the shining too I love the shining so but then when they they actually went into the movie and they walked down the stairs into that famous room where of course Jack is working on his novel or is he there was like nervous laughter erupting from the audience because everyone was like are we really gonna do this and we did we ran through like we did a whole sequence running through the movie it was so fantastic I mean it was shockingly authentic in many places but when it deviated it did so in a really clever and heightened way like for instance when they entered the movie theater that was playing The Shining I don't know if you caught this but the doors had a perspiration on them from the air-conditioning inside the theater and just that little touch I was like this is great and then like the when the woman's in the bathtub and she comes out and you know she's it's revealed that she's a decomposing body and then she takes out a knife and that was a a knife attack like an actual knife attack like in a video game and that was really cool and the way it like kept leveling up like that you you know H found him herself in hedge maze and then you could just see Jax likes like you kept wondering if they were gonna show Jack Nicholson but I think they handled it very tastefully and then those Amba lady comes back but she's huge and she's swinging an axe down you know over the over the hedge maze I just thought it worked really well and speaking of H the the I hate horror movies and have never seen this one interaction with the shining was really really added to the to the sequence I thought it was the best sequence in the entire film and probably one of the best film sequences I've ever seen it was movie magic for sure Spielberg can be mighty proud of that one this whole movie can exist just so that does as far as I'm concerned right so next I kind of liked unlocking the keys next I was I'm surprised to put this second but I thought that the sequences really worked they had a nice magical quality to them from the way the setting would change I thought that was really great you know it would kind of like morph into the stage for the ceremony and also holidays a wizard avatar both how he came into into sight and then also Mark Rylance a subtle unassuming performance as the wizard which I thought contrasted nicely like he wasn't a Gandalf he was you know so much timid but very you know deep down grounded guy I will talk about Halladay oh but I thought it was a great touch you know the first time in the Central Park finish line when the instruments showed up it was instruments only band - you know congratulate Wade for winning I thought that was a really nice touch I thought they liked the test of whether or not he'd signed the contract was great I just I liked those sequence and also the hilariousness have been trying to put the keys Wade trying to put the keys into the into the lock but you know in real life that he was in that car chase so that was that was great and I loved when Holliday said do you want this key or don't you because he couldn't quite grab it I thought that was great so those were very nice sequences then only take a slight detour just right here to talk about the ending I really liked that in the end speaking of signing contracts that's why I put this year when he was asked to sign one for reels for the company with all those lawyers I like that way too that his whole group the high-five although I thought they never did a good job of establishing that's they were called in the movie I was like that's what you're calling yourselves I like it why did you wait until now to tell me but but all five of them would run the Oasis together I thought that was a nice touch because and highlighted how in a lot in games in real life people play they go on raids and a group you know online and you know they get the bounty together and they all share it so having that reflected in the movie I thought was nice I liked that but what was not nice about the end and was turning off the Oasis I think it was like Tuesdays and Wednesdays right or Tuesdays and Thursdays or something but forcing people that was their idea we're gonna force you to be in the real world and I had a problem with that and I'm seeing that some of you do as well I thought it just left a bad taste in my mouth and especially because they're like here's an example what you can do on your days off enjoy your amazing romantic relationship and it's like it's hard to meet somebody or else everyone would be in a loving romantic relationship it's like when someone says oh you want to meet someone go outside that's where you'll find them you're like no you know I've been outside you know it's it's uh it's it's I think it's a very personal touchy thing and I think that the movie I I don't think that they should have you know waded into that pool you know what I would have done I would have limited the hours of gameplay that's what I would have done I'd be like you can only play X numbers of hours a week it's up to you when to use them you think of it as a challenge right I wouldn't close the Oasis as a way to force people to do to make life choices that you think they should make I was not keen on that and I'm curious to have some cuz I'm seeing some of you who weren't happy with it either I'm curious what you thought of that development in yourselves alright so then next back to sequences I liked I liked the dance party I didn't think I would like the dance party but I did I thought it was fun for instance who's into club tonight you know Harley Quinn we saw her there for a minute sitting in the VIP room before she got kicked out that was my favorite seeing someone else have an avatar that wasn't made up specifically for the movie the other one though the close second was someone who was Hello Kitty in the archives I thought that was hilarious that someone would choose to leave their life as Hello Kitty I mean talk about the lack of articulation it was hilarious but anyway I thought the dance part was fun and flirty they actually had some literal heavy petting with Wayans sensory suit I was like you should put that in the ad for the suit that will sell a lot of suits although I'm sure it was in the end they just didn't I light it in the movie and then I also when that when the fight broke out I love this amicus cube I was like I didn't know what those amicus cube was and then I wasn't supposed to obviously but when they revealed that it turned time back for 60 seconds for everyone else but those who were like from where that was thrown I thought that was a great idea I loved expanding the mythology of back to the future I'm huge Back to the Future fan they had some goods like sound cues with it it's just that's the moment for me where I was hooked emotionally from a fan perspective into the film every every other time before that I was like you're trying too hard ready player one but that one felt authentic to me and earned I loved it now the other sequences I just want to touch on them I couldn't get into the race the very first challenge maybe because we had a 2d press screening but I felt I was not in the race it happened too fast and there's too much going on I was like oh cool it she wrecks oh cool King Kong but you know it was over almost immediately and again I didn't feel like I was a part of that that interaction maybe for those of you who seen it in 3d does it feel different there I mean I wasn't getting the impression that I needed to see this in 3d like I just don't think it was filmed in the way that it should have been and as for the very final challenge that was multi-layered multiple locations and that really worked through the character interactions and how the story progressed I thought that visually and action wise though it left a lot to be desired alright so let's talk about the characters now I'm doing the order of my favorites and my favorite was I'm sure you can guess this Ben Mendelsohn as Nolan Sorento so fabulous I liked seeing him when he was an intern getting coffee for holiday I thought those were some really good interactions than in the in and of himself and I love that he evolved to being the CEO of competitor ioio I think that nothing that's what it was called right kept throwing me off I was like I said 1 0 1 or ioio but I thought he was a their branding their branding was good if sometimes a little ridiculous I was like the shape the building is in the shape of I oh I oh I that seems a bit much but I thought overall he was a very realistic villain and I thought so his lines were just sensational my friends since he said we've determined that we can take up a tee and if someone's visual field before they before we induce a seizure I got such a big laugh from the audience as it deserved to I thought that his avatar was a great choice this muscle had like kind of like distorted leading man from like the 50's or 60's right with these piercing glowing blue eyes I thought it was great really showing what he was truly how he saw how he hoped to see himself I thought that was great and then the fact that he wrote his password down and taped it to his console you know who's you know his chair that he how he experienced the Oasis I thought that was creative so it was not only a great story story element you know they used that in the story but it was just such a great way to see who he was as a person and then when he had to negotiate with Wade and someone from his team of pop culture nerds was cyrano de bergerac agam I went to say to Wade that was great the way it was revealed and the way it was done and the way Ben Mendelsohn played it he was just a really fabulous character that the only false moment was that he didn't shoot weight at the end of the movie he was like oh he's crying it's so beautiful did I make a life mistake I was like no way this character it's gonna do a 180 now he's too far he's already gonna get arrested I mean I just that felt false to me and rushed and it was I think the one actually the one false moment the movie and I'm curious how you felt about that then second what can I say I love villains TJ Miller as mercenary I rock you know TJ Miller who's doing his usual stick but he's so good at it and he was perfectly cast here I loved him like alternating between talking about his real-world neck problems and how he might have to see physical therapists from being in the game so much to him being like oh this is a level 9 artifact for use in the game you can't just like to open it you have to cast an actual magic spell his interactions with Ben Mendelsohn were quite good I really like them a lot then next Lina wait as H R wait I thought she was great now this was supposed to be a surprise that H this male character was actually you know well I don't really think he had an ethnicity in the game but was this you know I believe she was supposed to be as Leena waithe's in real life an african-american lesbian lesbian woman but that was supposed to be like this big reveal like you don't know who you're actually interacting with etc etc but the thing is is that not only I know she was in this movie but I recognized her speech pattern her and her comedic delivery from seeing her on master of none where by the way she doesn't get a lot of screen time or a chance to shine well that's not the case here this is another perfect casting and she really runs with this opportunity I mean this is a role that we usually go to like Eddie Murphy or Kevin Hart and she did it perfectly and on par with them it wasn't like the female version of what they would do she did what they would do and just as well I'm so impressed I hope she gets another opportunity to play this sort of role but where she delivers all of her jokes in person on screen I couldn't be happier for her she really was fantastic here then next time share Dan is wade AKA pars of all a little bland but his voice work was very rich I thought he thought he did a nice job and he had an earnestness to him as a hero that made him very likable but you know sometimes he tried too hard for I understand was part of his character and again he was a bit bland and he didn't seem very much like a leader to me I mean the rest of the high five easily pulled focus from him everyone could pull focus from him throughout the movie it's just the reason you kept going back to him is because the story did he's no Michael J Fox let's put it that way now next mark Rylance is James Halliday I have very mixed feelings about this character in performance I felt that overall this was a very dated portrayal of who a gamer is and the strokes were just too broad I mean you took they took what was a very complex life including emotionally and just broke it down to be way too simplified and I thought they stripped it of all of its nuance I had a problem with that it was just it was a very negative again a very negative depiction of a gamer and one that I think is based on assumptions that are I think unfairly applied by non gamer so I didn't like that at all but Rylance adds as much nuance as he can to the role which I appreciated and I think he made the character very compelling nevertheless however just like ty Sheridan was no Michael J Fox Mark Rylance was no Gene Wilder all right so other cast members let's touch on them quickly Olivia Cooke is Samantha aka Artemis literally the female version of Wade terms of both positive and that positives and negatives and in terms of the performance and the characterization they were just really were you know the pink literally the pink and blue versions of the exact same character then simon pegg such a tiny role not sure why he bothered or why they you know I guess cuz they're like hey look at Simon Pegg I mean he both he and Nick Frost always plus the material just like Nick Frost had a very small role in Tomb Raider but I still it was happy he was there here though Pegg and I think the real path obviously was realized realizing he was the robot in charge of the archives that was nice and I didn't see it coming but by the way I loved with the one speaking of the robot in the archives we'll take another little sign detour here I love the extra life save I knew that that bet was important when it happened but I thought he was gonna get like a ton of credits or something I never saw that that would be the twist and it was I think really worked well and it was definitely earned I loved it but I didn't like the archives I'm curious to how you guys felt about this it just didn't work for me I mean to search an entire person's life for clues every single conversation and every single interaction it would take decades to sift through all that not just a few years like with Wade I mean how he could find the exact conversation that would give him a clue it was truly a needle in the biggest haystack conceivable and it was inconceivable to me in terms of how it could work all right not a fan I'm curious now that I think about it there are a lot of Warner Brothers references in this movie just as you're there gonna be a lot of Disney references and Rec and Ralph breaks the internet which is cut is the same thing - and I didn't it didn't distract me here like it's so overtly Disney and wreck-it Ralph but we'll see how it works out but it's weird to see this story you know told us it twice in the same year in such a different way no that's and I said as I said in my non-spoiler review I thought the first record Ralph's captured gaming a little bit better than this movie did so we'll see who does a better job with the Internet alright so then I'm speaking of Tomb Raider Hannah John came and had a blink and you'll miss it roll there and hear her role was slightly bigger as Ben Mendelsohn's henchwoman she had a great look I mean I loved her bangs I thought she did a nice job at the role but again she wasn't given much to do I'm just excited about seeing her get more and more screen time as we ramped up to her playing ghost the main or one of the main bags and ant-man and the wasp I hope I hope she gets some more screen time there then when morisaki and Philip Dow as brothers show and die toe this is from the book so you know they didn't do this just for the Chinese aunt and they you know the Asian audience and I did think that the big save with the Gundam at the end was nice although of course the Iron Giant was the one who had to go in for the final kill and also I didn't appreciate the the Terminator 2 reference when the Iron Giant went out in the lava but you know I have to say it really just seems such an obvious overture to the Asian audience to Asian audiences but I felt it was a little hollow you know and I don't know how much longer Hollywood can get away with just giving Asian audiences a nod rather than genuine roles that are thought out and are a part of the storyline but they were both very likeable for the very small amount of screen time that they had but really it was just almost they should just turn to the audience and wink and be like I know Asian you're in part of this too that's how I think obvious it was so ready player one is a very interesting film indeed and since I'm sure it touches a nerve both good and bad for a lot of you you know as gamers and his fans of pop culture or you know either/or I'm very curious to hear your own thoughts your spoiler thoughts about this movie down below where we will now continue the conversation and of course as always you can check out some more videos right now