Don’t you just love those movies that turn out to be so much more than you expected, and just a complete surprise?
That’s what Ready Player One is – on steroids. It is literally the coolest movie I’ve ever seen.
I’m torn between telling you ALL about the movie, and trying to be chill so that you’re as blown away as I was when you watch it. But I’m a professional, so I’ll just give you a little taste of what’s to come so that when you see it, I haven’t given anything major away.
Based on the novel by Earnest Cline, the scene is Columbus, Ohio in 2045. Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) is an 18-year-old without parents, a job, or a future who lives in a block of stacked shipping containers. His salvation is a virtual reality game that he plays with millions of other people in similarly hopeless situations.
In the game, called ‘The Oasis’, Wade becomes Parzival, his super-cool avatar.
A competition begins between the players to find an “egg” – the ultimate prize – left by the game’s late creator James Halliday (Mark Rylance).
Gaming is the basic premise of the movie, but you don’t have to be into that world to understand everything, because the entire movie is really just a huge metaphor for the meaning of life.
#Deep.
Going by the plot, you’d be forgiven for thinking this is a sci-fi flick, only for millennials – but you’re wrong.
Well, technically, you’re right – but Ready Player One is so much more than that.
Top Comments
Took my kids last weekend. We all loved it.
I wasn't a fan of the book, but once I started looking at the movies and book as separate I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
I hear the book can feel a bit more like a long sequence of pop culture references in much the same way Big Bang Theory does ("we haven't really written any jokes, so here's a ThunderCats reference, you remember ThunderCats yeah? You do? Aren't we clever?!").
Any validity to that?
Definitely. That's pretty much the way i described it to my wife.
It's a big book of look how much i know about the 80's.
Fair enough. 80's nostalgia seems to be the current flavour of the month (well, couple of years now) so that's understandable.