Ready Player One Trailer

[Scarim Coral]

Ok this came straight out of SDCC

Spoiler: If you are confused at what you had watched, click here for a summary

To summed it up without spoilers, it's basically Willy Wonker and the Chocolate Factory cross with The Matrix.

Instead of reality within the Matrix, it's a console called the OASIS (it's what VR wish it could be in 10 years time) that let you played VR MMO game of anything you can imagine!

Example inside the OASIS there are planets containing different games and theme like one of them is WoW and another Star Wars etc.

The majority of humanity pretty much hooked themselved up to console willing it cos Earth had become fucked up by the time the book set up.

The Willy Wonker aspect is that the owner of OASIS passed away recently and in his will, he set up a competition to find these "eggs" and the winner will inheriate everything from the creator!

Also the book contain MANY 80's and 90's references especially the game and films!

I read the book months ago when someone suggest to me on her ages and I LOVED IT!!! Ok I can already tell the movie isn't 100% faithful adaption like the main character has a fake gamer nerd vibe going on (the mc in the book was definitely not attractive looking) and that car chase scene never happened in the book either.

On the other hand, I don't think it would had been possibly for a 100% accurate in the first place unless the varies companies whose properties were used or mention in the book made an agreement like with Disney and Warner Brother with Who Frame Rogar Rabbits with their cartoon characters.

I mean there was a Gundam, Ultraman, Voltron, Neon Genesis Evangelion, the film Wargames was in it, Pac-man, Joist, Qubert, Star Wars, BattleStar and even Cowboy Bebop in it (I am NOT making this up). Yeah, the book contain MANY references!! Actually it was a good called that Steven Spielberg is behind it since the Delorean and the Iron Giant were in the book aswell so at least we get to see some of his properties in the film!

I know not many have read the book but to those whose have read it, are you looking forward to this cos I am!!!

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

How dare that thumbnail tease me with the idea of an Iron Giant 2.

But....this movie and its mere concept is just dumb, its litirally pop culture references the movie while combining the recent trend of VR gaming.

And yet I am mildly curious.

 

[FalloutJack]

I'm curious, and I heard Simon Pegg was involved. Well, at least until he fell into a river while attacked by gulls on his way to Celebrity Braincrash.

 

[American Fox]

So, Parzival is going to look like Kratos? And one of the gates will involve a huge car race? With Art3mis having Kaneda's motorcycle?

Unless that Kratos looking guy is Aech's avatar.

By the way, Ready Player One is a terrible, terrible book. A total by the numbers little boy's fantasy. The only thing that makes it unique is the decent way it weaves the too too many pop culture references with the least amount of clunk possible.

Why can't I stop rereading it on occasion?

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I'm a big fan of the book... But considering all the pop culture in it, I'm curious (and cautious) of how it will all work out...

 

[happyninja42]

How dare that thumbnail tease me with the idea of an Iron Giant 2.

But....this movie and its mere concept is just dumb, its litirally pop culture references the movie while combining the recent trend of VR gaming.

And yet I am mildly curious.

Of course it's pop culture references the movie, because it's based on a book that is pop culture references the book. Why is this at all puzzling to you? The whole freaking book is exactly about that. Virtual Reality, and 80's pop culture.

OT: They had RUSH in the trailer, I'm instantly in favor of this film.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

I'm always paranoid about adaptations of good things. But the trailer's quite nice, aesthetic looks about right to me, and what is glimpsed of the acting looks just fine. Color me cautiously optimistic! (I imagine that that's a nice pleasing blue-grey.)

the main character has a fake gamer nerd vibe going on (the mc in the book was definitely not attractive looking)

Genuine question here, not trying to be snarky or start an argument: what is meant by this? I'm reading that as "someone has a fake gamer nerd vibe if they're somewhat attractive." I'm hoping that's me misinterpreting something.

 

[happyninja42]

I'm always paranoid about adaptations of good things. But the trailer's quite nice, aesthetic looks about right to me, and what is glimpsed of the acting looks just fine. Color me cautiously optimistic! (I imagine that that's a nice pleasing blue-grey.)

the main character has a fake gamer nerd vibe going on (the mc in the book was definitely not attractive looking)

Genuine question here, not trying to be snarky or start an argument: what is meant by this? I'm reading that as "someone has a fake gamer nerd vibe if they're somewhat attractive." I'm hoping that's me misinterpreting something.

I always took the main character to be of average looks, and he just thought he wasn't attractive. This is after he trimmed up and slimmed down though. I mean, his negative looks boil down to "I'm fat, and I have acne". He eventually gets rid of those with exercise and improved diet. So I don't have an issue with the actor being reasonably attractive, because by the end of the book, the main character was pretty ripped.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

I'm always paranoid about adaptations of good things. But the trailer's quite nice, aesthetic looks about right to me, and what is glimpsed of the acting looks just fine. Color me cautiously optimistic! (I imagine that that's a nice pleasing blue-grey.)

the main character has a fake gamer nerd vibe going on (the mc in the book was definitely not attractive looking)

Genuine question here, not trying to be snarky or start an argument: what is meant by this? I'm reading that as "someone has a fake gamer nerd vibe if they're somewhat attractive." I'm hoping that's me misinterpreting something.

I always took the main character to be of average looks, and he just thought he wasn't attractive. This is after he trimmed up and slimmed down though. I mean, his negative looks boil down to "I'm fat, and I have acne". He eventually gets rid of those with exercise and improved diet. So I don't have an issue with the actor being reasonably attractive, because by the end of the book, the main character was pretty ripped.

Sounds like you have about the same interpretation as me, yep. This guy looks what I think of as "Hollywood average" - which is to say, someone that's pretty cute by normal standards, but isn't the typical super-hot-leading-man type. (I mean, he's no Ricky Whittle.) He's pretty close to what I imagined, and closer if I take Hollywood casting into account.

I guess I'm just a wee bit sensitive to the whole "oh, attractive person, therefore fake nerd" oddity that's so popular with some groups.

 

[happyninja42]

I'm always paranoid about adaptations of good things. But the trailer's quite nice, aesthetic looks about right to me, and what is glimpsed of the acting looks just fine. Color me cautiously optimistic! (I imagine that that's a nice pleasing blue-grey.)

the main character has a fake gamer nerd vibe going on (the mc in the book was definitely not attractive looking)

Genuine question here, not trying to be snarky or start an argument: what is meant by this? I'm reading that as "someone has a fake gamer nerd vibe if they're somewhat attractive." I'm hoping that's me misinterpreting something.

I always took the main character to be of average looks, and he just thought he wasn't attractive. This is after he trimmed up and slimmed down though. I mean, his negative looks boil down to "I'm fat, and I have acne". He eventually gets rid of those with exercise and improved diet. So I don't have an issue with the actor being reasonably attractive, because by the end of the book, the main character was pretty ripped.

Sounds like you have about the same interpretation as me, yep. This guy looks what I think of as "Hollywood average" - which is to say, someone that's pretty cute by normal standards, but isn't the typical super-hot-leading-man type. (I mean, he's no Ricky Whittle.) He's pretty close to what I imagined, and closer if I take Hollywood casting into account.

I guess I'm just a wee bit sensitive to the whole "oh, attractive person, therefore fake nerd" oddity that's so popular with some groups.

I was pretty fucking hot when I was younger, considering the number of girls who had the hots for me, and I was a nerd. So the idea that one could be attractive isn't unrealistic. Even for the MC of this story, who does think hes unattractive. But again, I think that's mostly just due to the insecurities of youth, and being out of shape. I mean, there are a plethora of real world examples of people who didn't look too good, who doubled down on the exercise and healthy eating, and the After picture for them is smoking hot. *shrugs* That's what this kid did.

I think they are just removing the "he started out fat and pimply" part, because honestly, who fucking cares. They have a 2-2.5 hour run time, there is NO way they can pack in all the minutia from the book in there. Stuff has to be left out. And considering how irrelevant to the actual plot that subplot was, I don't care that it went away. Especially since most of it happened off screen, with a time elapse. "It's 6 months later, and I'm now really buff." That's really all that the writer put into it.

 

[Drathnoxis]

I read a little bit of the book and it was pretty terrible. I don't think I even made it through 3 chapters before I couldn't take it anymore.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

To be honest, a story made pretty much out of and for only nostalgia-bait references sounds about as appealing as a horror movie made entirely out of jump scares. :/

 

[Callate]

I guess a trailer of playing 80s video games and going to a fairly ordinary school that happens to exist within virtual reality would be a hard sell.

I have mixed feelings about the novel Ready Player One. On one hand, I genuinely believe that the author has some investment in retro-geek culture, rather than that he simply did research in the hopes of hitting that particular demographic.

On the other hand, the novel panders so hard to that demographic, right down to the "and then all that arcane minutiae that your parents and more popular peers make fun of you for spending so much time on prove to be the key to winning, like, everything, ever" trope.

As for the trailer... I'll wait for the reviews. But if it wasn't for Spielberg's involvement, my big take would be "I haven't seen that much garish visual noise on screen since the Wachowskis tried to make a live action version of Speed Racer."

With Spielberg... There's an outside bet that the garish noise will add up to something, maybe even be transportive rather than merely deadening.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Honestly, it looks like pandering, overly referencial hipster trash. And maybe it a bit hypocritical for me to say that because one of my honest to god favourite movies ever made is Scott Pilgrim vs The World about which you might very well be able to say the same but, you know, that one had a genuinely relatable love story in there. This just looks like a more serious version of those Seltzer and Friedber parody movies where you have characters from other movies showing up, saying "Hi, I'm a character from another movie!" and that's the whole joke.

 

[Ftaghn To You Too]

I started out interested in the book, but by around the middle point it took a harsh nosedive and became a dumpster fire by the end. I only finished it because it was required for a class.

The movie appears to be just as endlessly grating as the book.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Wow, I never realise many people hated the book....
I end up liking the book cos I kinda find it relatable and yeah I did grow up in the 80's to get most of the references.

I'm always paranoid about adaptations of good things. But the trailer's quite nice, aesthetic looks about right to me, and what is glimpsed of the acting looks just fine. Color me cautiously optimistic! (I imagine that that's a nice pleasing blue-grey.)

the main character has a fake gamer nerd vibe going on (the mc in the book was definitely not attractive looking)

Genuine question here, not trying to be snarky or start an argument: what is meant by this? I'm reading that as "someone has a fake gamer nerd vibe if they're somewhat attractive." I'm hoping that's me misinterpreting something.

What Happyninja42 quotes you beforehand. At the start of the story, he was greasy, has acne and was slightly overweight (I think). Yes he did excersice overtime. Assuming the trailer scene is going to be used in the film, the scene of him going from the trailer part tower to the place to played the game, that part only happened at the beginning part of the book meaning he's doesn't got acne and not greasy looking at the start. I guess this was to cut time in the film and it wasn't that important to the book as Happyninja42 state.

I have mixed feelings about the novel Ready Player One. On one hand, I genuinely believe that the author has some investment in retro-geek culture, rather than that he simply did research in the hopes of hitting that particular demographic.

I liked to think he did his reseach and aswell did grow up in that era. He made another book after Ready Player One called Amarda which is basically The Last Starfighter but with similar references to the last book. Granted unlike RPO, I couldn't get into it and I only ready a few chapters at best so now it's gathering dust. I may get back into it if I got nothing better to do.

I started out interested in the book, but by around the middle point it took a harsh nosedive and became a dumpster fire by the end. I only finished it because it was required for a class.

The movie appears to be just as endlessly grating as the book.

Ok which classes that made you to read that book? English Literature?

 

[Ftaghn To You Too]

Ok which classes that made you to read that book? English Literature?

A comparative literature course, about how games are written about in literature and other media. We also covered works about Chess and Go ranging from The Master of Go to a time where we were assigned the first six episodes of Hikaru no Go.

 

[McElroy]

Looks like a by-the-numbers Hollywood version that tries to amp up the "awesomeness" of the other gunters and thus making all of them unstoppable badasses in the process (they certainly weren't in the book, as OASIS is a game in which you win with stats and items). A faithful adaptation wouldn't sell too many tickets (and would be wasting Spielberg's time anyway).

 

[09philj]

Book's alright, not as good as Christopher Brookmyre's Bedlam by any stretch, but a reasonably fun time.

I really hope they keep Art3mis fat like she was in the book.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

How dare that thumbnail tease me with the idea of an Iron Giant 2.

But....this movie and its mere concept is just dumb, its litirally pop culture references the movie while combining the recent trend of VR gaming.

And yet I am mildly curious.

Of course it's pop culture references the movie, because it's based on a book that is pop culture references the book. Why is this at all puzzling to you? The whole freaking book is exactly about that. Virtual Reality, and 80's pop culture.

OT: They had RUSH in the trailer, I'm instantly in favor of this film.

All I know is the movie is gonna be so dated.