Posted on 03/31/2018 3:42:27 PM PDT by ethom
Spielberg’s only achievement is making a sci-fi movie dumber than Elysium, but that Matt Damon dud at least offered some real stakes and decent world building. The OASIS is a smoldering garbage pile of CGI, a frenetic video game filled with pops of pop culture.
If that is not exhausting enough, there are no rules in the OASIS, and therefore there is no tension. People conjure up whatever weapons they need, gravity is not an issue, and the worst that can happen is a Game Over — so, you know, you go right back in.
If recognizing RoboCop gives you a sense of self-satisfaction unavailable to you in mom’s basement, this movie is for you. For the rest of us, the entire experience is numbing and uninvolving, like watching a middle-aged man play a video game for 140 minutes.
Without giving anything away, the movie’s last few minutes might be the most morally bankrupt ever put on film.
Ready Player One is nothing less than an exercise in toxic metrosexuality.
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Sounds like “1941” all over again.
If you really want to see some interesting movies that are out right now, I HIGHLY recommend both “Death of Stalin” and “Isle of Dogs”. Both are really fine examples of film making.
Sounds like the perfect movie for people who live glued to their cell phone and between tats and piercings experience their stoned lives mainly through their on line persona.
Ugh! I have to sit through this Tuesday night as one of my boys wanted to go. Half price, but still now dreading.
Speilberg has lost the fastball...
Regret today for having gone to see the movie BLACK PANTHER. Totally unreal, non message, just about a virtual world of make up ideas. Sounds like this movie is something equally crazy.
and they were expecting from a Dumb, Shallow Metrosexual exactly what...
He hasn't had it since Schindler's List.
He’s Hollywood’s chief liberal propagandist.He dosen’t try to hide it anymore!
Actually liked 1941 inits goffyness
Well at least its not a Superhero movie
Everyone hated A.I.
But I dug it.
I thought Duel was an amazing movie, for its’ time, and as a made-for-TV movie.
The book was excellent. RPO (book) is set in a dystopian future that at least does not involve zombies.
It does involve corrupt media institutions. Sounds familiar. Plus, there’s a 1980’s retro undercurrent.
My wife and I are looking forward to seeing RPO next week, since listening to the book last year driving to the eclipse in Oregon.
Sounds interesting, but only because I haunted video game parlors in the 80s and 90s. I’m still gonna #boycottHollywood and not see this, however.
I really liked it!
Duel was pretty amazing.
In the book _Ready Player One,_ I think the band Rush was referenced several times. But those references weren’t included in the movie. I wonder why they were pulled?
Anyway, the premise of RPO didn’t grab me. It sounded like a cross between TRON and Scott Pilgrim Saves The World. I imagine that sounds spectacular to some folks, but not me.
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