Ready Player One Teaser

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Straight from Comic-Con 2017, Warner Bros. released a new teaser for its upcoming film Ready Player One based on the 2011 science-fiction novel of the same name. Directed by one of the great modern-day auteurs, Steven Spielberg, the movie has a barrage of '80s pop-culture references. Although there is no bubblegum chewing, don't miss out on hailing to one of the kings.

Check out the video.
 
Basically, it is everything you've seen in other films, and I DO mean EVERYTHING, just dialed up a notch and thrown together. It looks more like Speed Racer then anything else. Meh....
 
Were is anything 80's?

Movie makers: "The vr thing, lets capitalise that"
Other movie guys: "Make all vr scenes in 3rd person, like a regular movie, but put in unplugging scenes every 5 minutes to remind the audience it's supposed to be vr."
All of the movie guys: "We're in the money! we're in the money"! "You heard the monkey, shovel this idea".
 
Were is anything 80's?

Movie makers: "The vr thing, lets capitalise that"
Other movie guys: "Make all vr scenes in 3rd person, like a regular movie, but put in unplugging scenes every 5 minutes to remind the audience it's supposed to be vr."
All of the movie guys: "We're in the money! we're in the money"! "You heard the monkey, shovel this idea".
The book had a lot of 80's history in it. The trailer...playing Rush's Tom Sawyer was about it. I'll probably wait to watch this when it hits Netflix.
 
Were is anything 80's?

Even the book wasn't just 80s. They had Firefly and new/old Battlestar Galactica. The 80s was a stronger influence only because the eccentric billionaire owner who left his wealth hidden was nutty about the 80s. People followed the 80s only hoping to get rich.


Delorean
Joust (Atari)
A-Team van
Christine (Stephen King)
Freddy Kruger
Possibly Pole Position (Atari)
Akira
Tron

And no I didn’t watch the trailer that much. The internet was nice enough to pick it apart for most of us.

Like here...

https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-breakdown-of-all-the-clues-80s-references-and-surpr-1797175166
 
Even the book wasn't just 80s. They had Firefly and new/old Battlestar Galactica. The 80s was a stronger influence only because the eccentric billionaire owner who left his wealth hidden was nutty about the 80s. People followed the 80s only hoping to get rich.


Delorean
Joust (Atari)
A-Team van
Christine (Stephen King)
Freddy Kruger
Possibly Pole Position (Atari)
Akira
Tron

And no I didn’t watch the trailer that much. The internet was nice enough to pick it apart for most of us.

Like here...

https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-breakdown-of-all-the-clues-80s-references-and-surpr-1797175166
I watched the trailer there were only a few references to the 80's not a ton of stuff.....more of the newer games and movies than anything older than 20 years.
It looks like a good mashup but not sure really what its going to be about besides some kid in VR....
 
It's like Red Letter Media when they make fun of shows or films putting pop culture references in "Hey that's Star Wars!!!..I Know that!!!"

Boring.
 
Looks like they crashed a 3d studio swap meet. 90% focus on digital assets, 10% on character. Not holding out much hope on this one.
 
It's like Red Letter Media when they make fun of shows or films putting pop culture references in "Hey that's Star Wars!!!..I Know that!!!"

Boring.

I think the "HEY, I KNOW THAT IP!" is a big part of the novel's appeal for people, and likely one of the main reasons the movie got Greenlit (that, and WB would likely say yes to a 24-hr film of paint drying if Spielberg directed). Unfortunately, an in-your-face 110% nostalgia bomb that this movie looks to be from the trailer never works (although it would be nearly impossible to get away from this considering the source material).

Nostalgia needs to be subtly interwoven into atmosphere, plot ect for it to work well -- see Stranger Things or The Americans for examples of doing this right.
 
I tried to get through the first few chapters of the book and just couldn't get past the non-stop name drops of 80's references, the first two chapters are "loser kid wakes up, gets dressed, and heads to school" but it takes about 20 pages worth of NEW COKE and JOHN HUGHES references for us to get there. I'm sure there's a decent story here, but the book felt like it was glorifying Otaku to me and I hate those hyper-nerd stereotypes. At some point I'll catch this streamed and learn what the story is all about, which from the back-cover synapses made me think it was a low-rent Neuromancer.

Which, by the way, the fact that we live in a world that will make a Ready Player ONe movie, but not touch ANY of the Cyberpunk classics like Neuromancer........just that crappy adaption of Johnny Mnemonic.......of course today they'd just call it BLADE RUNNER III: THE NEW BLOOD or something :p
 
I watched the trailer there were only a few references to the 80's not a ton of stuff.....more of the newer games and movies than anything older than 20 years.
It looks like a good mashup but not sure really what its going to be about besides some kid in VR....


Yeah the trailer is kind of vague. Dystopian future where everyone lives in a free VR world, called Oasis, more than they do in the real world. The kid even goes to school through the Oasis. The book was more about puzzles then action. Don’t worry most of this stuff you can read on the cover of the book.


Owner of the Oasis dies and leaves in his will clues to not only his fortune but the Oasis itself. So it becomes a nerdy Da Vinci Code-ish race against “the man” (or IOI) as people try to find it. Problem is the Oasis is massive having every world you can possibly think of.


The book isn’t high art but I had fun with it. Maybe I’m a sucker for nostalgia but sometimes I need simple entertainment. Hopefully the movie can deliver.
 
The book was terrible, but it's Spielberg so I'll definitely watch it eventually.
 
The book was truly awful. It relies on nostalgia to keep the reader interested. There is never any suspense for the main character. He is never in a position where he may lose, and if he is, he is handed the solution to move forward immediately. He also comes off as a major creepy neck beard "M'lady" guy. The last 10 pages are truly hard to read as they come off as a 10 year old basement dweller's romance fantasy. I feel like I wasted my time overall.
 
I think what we are seeing is a lot of 'veteran' Directors signing up to as many big CGI movies as possible to get the 'money under the belt' before it's too late. See Ridley Scott putting his name to anything that wafts under his nose.

These CGI-fest movies are a gift to them, as 90% of the work is someone else's and 95% of it takes place in a warm/air-conditioned green screen studio in Burbank/Pinewood.
 
90% of the work is someone else's and 95% of it takes place in a warm/air-conditioned green screen studio in Burbank/Pinewood.

I scratch my head on that one, they fly a whole crew out to around the corner from me in Pontiac MI on a big flat strip of land where the GM Fiero used to be only to setup giant green screen with one set piece in the middle. Did it for Superman Vs Batman and the latest crap transformers. Hey maybe the director has a mistress out this way...
 
I'm reading the book now, only a third of the way through, but I am so far not impressed. There's nothing new in it. The Japanese have been doing things like this with manga, novels, and anime for twenty years. I hope the book gets better but if it doesn't then people in the US really need expand their horizons. It's the reason I can't stand US TV (and the overwhelming number of movies), nothing new.
 
Stacking trailers ontop of each other. Nothing could go wrong. Hopefully this isn't a practice in the plains.


It's got Duke Nukem. I'm fucking sold on this movie. The King is Back baby.


Watching a movie about VR on a VR headset. I can dig it. Maybe it'll be in 3D to boot.
 
80's Pop Culture is huge, invest in that! GO GO GO!

That's about what I got from it. They just throw in everything they can so people swoon over it. Go to Comic Con or other places. A ton of people that take it way too far. Shit we had as kids people are buying socks, hats, posters, books of. "OH MY GOD! GI JOE! That's so sick!".

I'm just bitter because I lived through that stuff and it was really awesome. It's just weird how they'll pick up on anything from the 80's and try and make it big again and people born in the 90's/00's are going ape shit over it to the point of exhaustion. It's like pop radio stations playing the same song every 20 minutes. It's annoying. Enjoy the old stuff, but for crying out loud we don't need pencils, cell phone covers, watches, glasses frames, etc.. for a damn Rubik's Cube. It just comes off as a poseur.

That's why I get from the trailer. Little content, a ton of 80's pop culture references to get teenagers and millennials to go ape shit. I guess it's like the new generation of Hipsters....
 
That's why I get from the trailer. Little content, a ton of 80's pop culture references to get teenagers and millennials to go ape shit. I guess it's like the new generation of Hipsters....

What 80's references are you referring to from the trailer? The book contained tons, but this movie has mostly recent references, judging by the trailer.
 
What 80's references are you referring to from the trailer? The book contained tons, but this movie has mostly recent references, judging by the trailer.

Delorian, Freddy Kruger, etc...

Apparently I'm not the only bitter old man - http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...-backlash-over-80s-pop-culture-nostalgia.html

I haven't read the book, though. It sounds like a good idea, but the focus on the 80's nostalgia vs. the story seems to be the theme. It still looks like a good movie, though. I'll probably watch it and read the book. I loved William Gibson's old stories, and this looks like it might go for that same type of theme.
 
The book was truly awful. It relies on nostalgia to keep the reader interested. There is never any suspense for the main character. He is never in a position where he may lose, and if he is, he is handed the solution to move forward immediately. He also comes off as a major creepy neck beard "M'lady" guy. The last 10 pages are truly hard to read as they come off as a 10 year old basement dweller's romance fantasy. I feel like I wasted my time overall.

Odd, that's almost verbatim how I felt with the Harry Potter films.... granted the books are a shade better, but not by much....
 
Final Fantasy 7? Cloud?

Wreck it Ralph had a good reference. Even the proper spelling.

Break+it+Ralph.jpg
 
I read the book and enjoyed it but.....

...WTF did I just watch?? Looked like a trailer for Summer Blockbuster Generic Special Effects Movie 2018.

My thoughts exactly. The (audio) book was decent for mindless entertainment. If you expected more than that, you'll be disappointed.

The trailer looks awful if it's supposed to portray the book. While the story does revolve around VR where anything is possible, the premise of the plot is about 80s nostalgia and a lot of the VR is set in real-world type scenarios ala secondlife. I know next to nothing about secondlife, so that may be a bad reference. The trailer appears to be all far-future fantasy (not 2025), with some 80s references scattered around.
 
Even the book wasn't just 80s. They had Firefly and new/old Battlestar Galactica. The 80s was a stronger influence only because the eccentric billionaire owner who left his wealth hidden was nutty about the 80s. People followed the 80s only hoping to get rich.


Delorean
Joust (Atari)
A-Team van
Christine (Stephen King)
Freddy Kruger
Possibly Pole Position (Atari)
Akira
Tron

And no I didn’t watch the trailer that much. The internet was nice enough to pick it apart for most of us.

Like here...

https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-breakdown-of-all-the-clues-80s-references-and-surpr-1797175166


I know and have nothing to do with the book.

This trailer though, yea I saw stuff, movie and tv references, not 80's references. They're things that happened in the 80's / 70's but transcend that decade for sure. They certainly are not "the 80's". May as well say 70's references too since they're going on about Willy Wonka for some reason as well.
 
I know and have nothing to do with the book.

This trailer though, yea I saw stuff, movie and tv references, not 80's references. They're things that happened in the 80's / 70's but transcend that decade for sure. They certainly are not "the 80's". May as well say 70's references too since they're going on about Willy Wonka for some reason as well.

I get that but it wasn’t just 80s. It was a world you could make up anything. The only characters who dived into the 80s where the treasure hunters or Gunter (Egg Hunter) as the book called them. Many people gave up hunting for the treasure on top of that since it took many years just to find the first clue. So by that logic the Gunters would be a minority anyways.

Plus it wouldn’t make sense just to dump say original Star Trek and pretend Kirk never happen and praise the baldness of Sir Patrick Stewart. I could very easily see all Star Treks existing in the Oasis.

Anyone else find it amusing that a movie based mostly on a VR world has too much CG? Wouldn’t it fit the setting? Might as well be saying ReBoot had too much CG. REBOOT!!
 
I seen Freddy Krueger get blasted but It still looks like a hour and a half commercial for VR
 
I seen Freddy Krueger get blasted but It still looks like a hour and a half commercial for VR

That was Lawnmower Man. Since that movie, I've only gotten to play VR a few times (and that was in the early 90's). I still really want to get into VR. I'm upgrading my PC because of it.

I'm pretty impressionable like that. That's why I don't watch gay porn.
 
Was racing that big of a thing in the book? Been a while since I read it, I enjoyed it for what it was, but was actually hoping it would be more about the world and the issues that would create the Oasis, not just, as someone above so aptly put, Da Vinci Code VR. Watching the trailer though, looks like the racing from Wreck it Ralph.
 
Was racing that big of a thing in the book? Been a while since I read it, I enjoyed it for what it was, but was actually hoping it would be more about the world and the issues that would create the Oasis, not just, as someone above so aptly put, Da Vinci Code VR. Watching the trailer though, looks like the racing from Wreck it Ralph.
There were no massive car races in the book.
Read the book once and audio book twice.
 
Also Tom Sawyer By Rush in a teaser for tech themed movie. It's almost like they are deliberately trying to be unoriginal.
 
Also Tom Sawyer By Rush in a teaser for tech themed movie. It's almost like they are deliberately trying to be unoriginal.

I'll let Neil, Geddy, and Alex speak for themselves on this one:

HGH_RUSH.jpg
 
Also Tom Sawyer By Rush in a teaser for tech themed movie. It's almost like they are deliberately trying to be unoriginal.

Authentic actually. Tom Sawyer is one of those songs burned into my brain from thousands of hours in dank, dark video arcades.

Was racing that big of a thing in the book? Been a while since I read it, I enjoyed it for what it was, but was actually hoping it would be more about the world and the issues that would create the Oasis, not just, as someone above so aptly put, Da Vinci Code VR. Watching the trailer though, looks like the racing from Wreck it Ralph.

I thought more "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World" more than Wreck It Ralph. It makes sense to replace one of the first two Key-chases with a huge action setpiece.
 
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