Ready Player One

Obsydian · January 12, 2018, 01:38:30 PM

Being a gamer child of the 80's myself, I loved this book, identifying with James Halliday's fixation with 80s nostalgia and references. And having grown up in the arcades playing games such as Zaxxon, Asteroids, Joust, PacMan, not to mention the ubiquitous Space Invaders, as well as playing 8-bit home computer games on my Commodore 64 such as Zork, Adventure, Attack of the Mutant Camels and Maic Miner, the game references were sheer joy to find.

I've been waiting for years for a movie to be made of this fantastic book, and Spielberg's imagining of it should finally be here at the end of March.

Here's the official trailer - it's literally packed to the rafters with Easter Eggs! - happy watching...
[video=youtube;cSp1dM2Vj48]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSp1dM2Vj48[/video]

Jamoe · January 12, 2018, 02:35:24 PM

I'm super excited about this one, more so than Star Wars TLJ, which I still haven't seen

Gorliath · February 07, 2018, 02:03:59 PM

New teaser trailer has Tracer in it as well.

Chaosphere · February 07, 2018, 02:48:16 PM

She's in the one posted here too, Gorliath. Just watched it now, made me chuckle!

When is this due out chaps?

BrotherTobious · February 07, 2018, 05:00:42 PM

Well thats one way to ruin the movie already.

TheDvEight · February 07, 2018, 06:42:30 PM

looks good, I've been wanting to see this since the first trailer.

Gorliath · February 13, 2018, 11:39:29 AM

March 29th says IMDB, not sure if that is internationally or not.

Benny · April 02, 2018, 06:10:03 PM

Goddamm this revolving door. I come knowing I can geek out here without judgment. My oh my....what a movie. Deep down in my soul, where happiness used to be before middle age, kids and work got involved, this movie has put a tiny little ray of hope.

Loved it, too many eggs to mention, the back in time music, the characters, the oh my moments. Very happy.

RogueTaylor · April 02, 2018, 06:39:30 PM

hopefully seeing this in IMAX on Wednesday and then have the audio book ready to go when my podcasts run out

TeaLeaf · April 09, 2018, 04:27:21 PM

I liked the movie. Loved the eggs, so much time spent afterwards discussing them with others who had seen the movie. Recommended! :thumbsup:

OldBloke · April 12, 2018, 07:26:04 PM

Saw it last night and was hugely disappointed. Great book, very average movie (and I'm being generous).

TeaLeaf · April 13, 2018, 07:45:06 AM

Maybe I liked the eggs too much, but I enjoyed the movie. Not at the book standard for sure, but I was constantly entertained by the eggs.

Obsydian · April 19, 2018, 01:31:11 PM

Finally got to see it the other day, going in with as few pre-conceptions as I could muster, and left very entertained.

Lots of the book's plot didn't make the cut, and the story was changed around to fit the short timeline depicted in the film (I think the book takes place oevr several years), not to mention to make more sense to the millenials it was aimed at, but on the whole I liked it.

Way too many easter eggs to spot while taking in the movie, so I'm waiting for the DVD so I can watch it a few more times and catch some more.