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Ready Player One has no replay value

posted 6 years ago by [deleted]
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It's just so utterly forgettable. A real low point for Spielberg.

[–] xfool (923) 6 years ago

one could rewatch to spot more pop culture references.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

That's what I thought watching the trailers too. But having watched it there is just no appeal left.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

That's what I'm planning on doing sometime, It turned out better than I thought it would be.

[–] moviefanman (17) 6 years ago

It's a bit like Tron of this generation. Tron had groundbreaking CGI (for 1982) but the storyline never wowed enough people. My guess is people will look back on Ready Player One and think "nice visuals, storyline didn't grab me."

The plot felt a bit mumbo jumbo. The stuff with that orb and the shield and then people playing old Atari games. It did feel a bit "make it up as you go along" in plot. I think the best sci-fi/cgi movies have a coherent internal logic world. The rules are established in act one and you believe in them. Ready Player One - due to its virtual reality 'anything is possible' scenario - does suffer a bit from "and if we find the silly orb of silliness we win at Adventure and the key will be unlocked and the bad guy from Rogue One won't win the day and I'll get the girl!" mumbo jumbo. Having said that, I did enjoy the movie.

If anything the movie had too much plot and detail. It's a bit overwhelming. These modern CGI movies are amazing in that regard. They can overwhelm you with all their detail. That car chase sequence was incredible.

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 6 years ago

I rewatched it and it reminds me of a few deeply flawed Spielberg films. The enjoyable parts are really good. I think some of the stuff in the Oasis is really fun (the effortless zooming and camera gliding as he's driving in the Delorean and collecting coins are kind of exhilarating to watch). Other times, this movie feels like a mess and reminds me of Luc Besson's Valerian.

Spielberg admitted he was doing a lot of trial & error for this film, and I guess it shows. He said this movie was the hardest work he's ever had to do after Jaws and Saving Private Ryan, due to the excessive amount of virtual world footage that needed choreographing.

Some of it works and I think he actually got some good performances out of those CG faces (Artemis, who looked weird, still had a very engaging and expressive face). Other parts of the film did feel like Spielberg's lowest point. It could be that he filmed this and The Post back and forth, while waiting for the effects to finish for RPO. And in comparing the two, The Post shows far more love and care in each scene.