![]() ![]() All of the challenges require deep thought and echo all of your favourite video games, movies, and pop culture references Ready Player One is an over-the-top CGI love letter to fandom, mixing elements of Back To The Future, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, King Kong, The Matrix, Willy Wonka, The Wizard of Oz, The Goonies, DC Comics (is that the Batmobile?!) and John Hughes movies, to name just a few. The first player to find all three keys will inherit Halliday’s fortune, as well as the OASIS in its entirety, and in-turn, dictate its future. Before his death, he set up an intricate and thrilling contest to find three hidden keys (aka Easter eggs) within the realms of the OASIS. In the OASIS, Wade is known as Parzival, a blue-accented avatar who enters the OASIS’ utopia to escape his troubled everyday life, but he ends up finding something bigger – integrity, friendship, and above all else, love.īoth in the book and the movie, the OASIS is the brainchild of creator James Halliday aka Anorak (Mark Rylance, The BFG, Dunkirk ), a quirky and pop culture-obsessed innovator whose life ends without ever having been loved. ![]() ![]() Nearly everyone in the future is invested in the OASIS – a simulated fantasy land where the limits of reality are within the player’s own imagination. Now, he lives with his aunt and her troubled partner in “The Stacks,” a dystopian and futuristic slum in Columbus, Ohio, where reality is much less desirable than virtual reality. Ready Player One is advertised as “an adventure too big for the real world” and it follows an orphaned protagonist named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan, X-Men: Dark Phoenix ) in the year 2045, twenty years after his parents died. Steven Spielberg takes the basis of Ernest Kline’s inventive and sometimes abashing story and turned it into an epic CGI adventure that transports audiences into the very pixels of their favourite video game experiences. Ready Player One (the movie) does the same, but less crudely, and to the sounds of a nostalgic, Back To The Future- era soundtrack. Described as an “Exciting, funny, futuristic thriller about online games,” Ready Player One ( the book) is layered with inside jokes and cunning references that both celebrate and critique online gaming culture. Promotions haven’t helped answer these questions much, but that could be entirely on purpose as the audience Ready Player One is reaching already knows this movie is based on an arguably poorly written book by a celebrated yet disgruntled author, Ernest Cline. But how did we get here? How did this futuristic sci-fi/fantasy adventure set in a virtual reality come about? What is Ready Player One and why is everybody talking about it? With directing royalty at its helm and a mumble jumble of pop culture references, hidden Easter eggs, and impeccable CGI to keep your cravings satisfied, Ready Player One demands you buckle up and enjoy the ride. Now at the tail-end of March, and moving into Easter long weekend, Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is powered up and ready compete at the box office, too. ![]() More and more production studios are releasing big budget blockbusters in the month that brings us Spring Break, and in 2018, there’s been no exception: Love, Simon derailed stereotypical teen rom-coms, Lara Croft tried her best at raiding the big screen (yet again) with Tomb Raider, and though it was released back in February, Black Panther was officially crowned the highest-grossing superhero movie of all time ! Simultaneously, Pacific Rim Uprising opened last weekend with $28 million domestically, snagging the number one spot from Disney/Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) despite subpar reviews. “M arch Movie Madness” has become an alternatively popular time of year at the movies. ![]()
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