Jen's Movie Review #25— Ready Player One
Gosh I miss doing a movie review. I love watching movies and I skipped few movie review already. I hope my life goes back on track LOL. Currently my boss is on holiday so I got a week by myself yay! otherwise I will be too tired to event scrolling my favorite Steemit blog. This time I think I can't miss to do the review of a new movie by Steven Spielberg Ready Player One. Here it goes!
Trailer
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg etc.
Synopsis:
In the year 2045, people can escape their harsh reality in the OASIS, an immersive virtual world where you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone-the only limits are your own imagination. OASIS creator James Halliday left his immense fortune and control of the Oasis to the winner of a contest designed to find a worthy heir. When unlikely hero Wade Watts conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends-known as the High Five-are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS and their world. Source: Rotten Tomatoes
Verdict:
Review
Your childhood sci-fi fantasy
Ready Player One is based on adaptation of Ernest Cline popular novel that has been translated into 20 languages.
When you go watch Steven Spielberg movies, you will have this high expectation of mind-blowing, eye-opener kind of ideas to be thrown at you. Jurassic Park, E.T, and Artificial Intelligence are some of Spielberg's movie worth to mention at the same category as this one. Ready Player One is trying to re-live your childhood fantasy over life within the gaming industry. Within the futuristic setting of 2045, Ready Player One re-living retro scene featuring 80's Pop Culture, 90's game console, reference to Batman, Chucky and so on. What is so obvious though, is that with a lot of sci-fi demonstration, you can feel the present element being integrated in it. VR technology is taking over right now and is not so far ahead as what the movie suggests.
Reality sadness---> Game ---> Escapism
Seems familiar right? The narrative of what the movie reveals may be close to our life after all. Currently, the world is changing towards finding alternative life online for a sense of escapism-- I think we don't have to wait until 2045 for that.
Not so convincing cast and characters
One strange thing that happens to the movie industry currently ( If you had notice) is movie industry is trying to include Asian people as a cast and this is so glaring to watch. Not that I am opposed to that, it's just that sometimes it does not work or jive that well. The cast is merely supporting whereas its suppose to add value and the impact of these casts are not felt. With that, the story feels like a Power-ranger type of movie where only the Red Ranger gives an impact, well in this movie, Wade Watts played by Tye Sheridan.
Philip Zhao and Win Morisaki
Source
Kid vs Big Corporation and Easter Egg
The main motivation for this movie is towards cracking the Easter Egg in OASIS (Online platform) that substantially move towards cracking down corporate greed. Guess who won? no brainer for that.
Employment of youth in Ready Player One
Overall, Spielberg played with nostalgia-like element captures in a futuristic scene for our enjoyment. Along with the young cast, Ready Player One is also trying to portray how big gaming industry is with corporation leverage on young generation for profit. In short, I think the movie is great for fanboy from the 80's that into retro video games but even if you not, Ready Player One is still a super cool movie to watch. However, if you are someone who enjoyed a heavy type of movie, skipped this one :P
Jen.
P/S: I blogged about other stuff too!
Nice post bro....