This won’t be a huge blogpost about Ready Player One, as I don’t
think it’s worth writing too much about a movie 2 weeks after release, but I did
want to jot down my thoughts.
Here are my bullet point thoughts: -
Thing I Liked
- The set-pieces were absolutely spectacular, my favourite being the first Easter Egg challenge The Race. I loved the structure of the sequence and how it was filmed, some really great angles and dynamic camera work. The Shining sequence was also great, I audibly gasps when I saw they recreated the hotel. The final battle was great from a spectacle perspective, however found this a bit underwhelming compared to the race and Shining sequence.
- Some of my favourite cameos I noticed (some obvious, some
hidden in the background) – RoboCop, Spawn, Ninja Turtles, Akira, Shelob (and
alien chest burst), Arkham Asylum version of Harley Quinn, Akira bike and of
course the Deloreon!
- Speaking of Back To The Future, I’m pretty sure they were using
the them and same music queues throughout the film (if not, they were very
similar).
- Loved the fact we had a very 80s feeling adventure movie
using state of the art FX, felt like classic Spielberg.
Things I Didn’t Like
- The lead character Wade Watts seems to have no emotional
response to his Aunt being killed, yes he runs to try and save her, but once it
happens he wakes up in the next scene and doesn’t even mention it.
- I hate the trope of the antagonist CEO going so mad, he
grabs a gun and takes it on himself to “kill” the hero in the real world. This
is done to death in movies and I didn’t believe his motivations.
- The romance wasn't earned at all, Wade just proclaims his love for Sam pretty much out of nowhere.
- The romance wasn't earned at all, Wade just proclaims his love for Sam pretty much out of nowhere.
- I get that it’s a virtual world, but because so much of the
movie was “fake looking” I did find the stakes somewhat diminished as a result.
As I said at the start though, I really enjoyed watching Ready
Player One in the cinema, great pop-corn flick.
Written by @RossBishop for MoviePush. Follow Ross on Twitter.
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