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Ready Player One (2018) [Full Reaction] (Patreon)

Published:
2026-04-04 07:15:15
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2026-04-05 23:53:19
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2026-08
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A colourful heckin' good time. Probably a gazillion Easter Eggs I either missed or just don't know, but that will make re-watching fun in the future! I hope you enjoy the reaction and I'm looking forward to your comments! 😊 Thanks for voting for this movie!

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Ready Player One (2018) | Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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Nathan Jasper

I love this movie so much. I saw it like 4 or 5 times in the theater, 2 of those in 3D. That first race hits different in 3D

Chris Thom

Really fun movie. Was just watching The Fablemans on cable, the movie Spielberg made right after this one. Also quite good.

Crimson Ace

Such a great popcorn flick. Great reaction. You should consider making this a Live Premier on YouTube so that friends like me can help point out some of the incredible Easter Eggs buried within. But since you specifically called these out, here are two for free... The car that you thought you recognized during the first big race was the Batmobile from the '60s series. As that car is braking to keep from falling off the tracks, the screeching tires sound incredibly similar to the theme song of that 60s series... NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA BATMAAAAN! lol The Zemeckis Cube turned back time 60 seconds so that Parzival and Art3mis could escape the dance club. That's named for Robert Zemeckis, the writer/director of Back to the Future. When the cube is thrown, it makes the same SFX as the BTTF twinkle to indicate that time is being altered. Alan Silvestri was the Composer for BTTF and Ready Player One. So fun.

Vincent Hollow

Alan Silvestri also did Predator and FernGully. The guy has range!

Movies with KL

Thanks Crimson! Yeah, a live premiere for this one would be a lot of fun. I wasn't sure if the Zemeckis Cube was after Zemeckis himself but I forgot he did BTTF. Appreciate the info on those.

Movies with KL

Seeing this in 3D would be an experience that's for sure.

nouvelle_vague

This is a fun movie, but very light and as you say… compared to Spielberg’s filmography, not really in the same class. Which isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy spending part of a long-weekend afternoon re-watching it with you. It’s one of those movies you stumble upon it on cable and decide ‘yeah let’s watch this.’ I am sure someone on the internet has tried to log all of the references in here, but it’s pretty overwhelming. I feel like I got a lot of the main movie references, but there has to be a ton of gaming references that went over my head. I did check to see if you’d seen The Shining before voting. Because that’s pretty much required IMO, otherwise, anything else that you pick up on is just fun bonus. I am probably overthinking it, but I didn’t love that the Iron Giant was kind of an effective killing machine in this, y’know? I agree with you about Tye Sheridan. He’s low key the least interesting part of the high five. I was curious to see you excited for Olivia Cooke, but House of the Dragon makes sense. She was in a quirky indie movie called Me, Earl and the Dying Girl that I really liked. It has some major film nerd deep cuts and it will do nothing for your channel views, but I think it’s worth seeing, especially if you like her work.

Paul Howard

I read the book back fairly soon after it came out and loved it. I also love the audiobook version read by Will Wheaton. Back when they announced this film I was really looking forward to it, although wary that they'd struggle to capture what makes it great. The fact that they got Spielberg to direct meant they had someone who could get various studios to give permission for their IPs to be used which really was needed. It's notable that he wanted to avoid using his own films though. That all being said, it is _massively_ cut down from the book which gives a much better idea of how the real world and the Oasis interact (with the Oasis replacing the internet and pretty much every real world use of computers being there now). Wade goes to school in the Oasis at the start. The challenges and riddles are much more involved too (each key involved a challenge to get, but was then needed to access a gate with it's own challenge). It's understandable having to cut that down for length though. The change I don't mind was updating the IPs used to bring them up to date. Which reminds me, yes that was Tracer from Overwatch who was pretty much the face of the game when it came out (and she shows up a lot throughout the film). That one shot of all the people coming to help has a huge number of IP Cameos alone. Hell, even when Daito jumps out and becomes a Gundum, he was jumping out of the cargo bay of Serenity!

Tyler Foster

So, I haven't read the book, but based on everything I've ever heard or read about Cline (including a particularly notorious piece of writing I'll get to later), the impression that I get is that the book is much more driven by the references. Looking at the Wiki, I can see that the book and movie are somewhat similar, but there are quite a few changes between the two that make a big difference in terms of making the movie more palatable. Since I expect you may read the book, I won't go into them in detail, but while I can't find the pictures of the part of the book that went viral when the movie was opening, I seem to recall there was a passage from it that just literally lists the names of movies, video games, TV shows, music, and other pop culture for multiple straight pages. No commentary. Just like, "Sailor Moon" or whatever, because, if memory serves, the character is trying to provide a list. Again, I can't deny that this is a book I haven't read, so if someone reads this assessment and feels it's unfair, well, I can't deny I'm biased against the book based on what I've heard about it, and I am judging it without having even attempting to read it, but the gist I get is that in the book, Wade is ultimately rewarded with fame, fortune, and a girlfriend because he knows all of this pop culture stuff. Having watched the movie, to be as bluntly honest as possible, I am shocked that Cline does not feel cucked by Spielberg here. The references are present but seem to be *aggressively* downplayed. Spielberg has an obvious advantage: you put the Back to the Future DeLorean and King Kong on screen, and you don't *have* to describe them to anyone, and thus, the presence of them as a reference feels less pointed. Aech points out that Art3mis drives one of the futuristic motorcycles from Akira in the dialogue. One can only imagine how much more annoying that might become if the characters kept doing that for almost every reference on-screen, which is the impression I get of the book: Cline loves all this stuff and has that fanboy neediness that makes him want to prove it by explaining it. For the movie to heavily mute this aspect by making it more of a Where's Waldo?-style hunt to catch the visual references (as well as multiple musical quotations, including Alan Silvestri referencing his own Back to the Future score to, IMO, mixed effect) goes a long way to making the story easier to swallow, and makes me wonder how Cline actually felt watching the finished film. I also can't help but wonder how much less generic and more important the revolutionary aspect is in this movie compared to the book. Again, I won't actually explain any of the differences between the two, but one thing I can say is that within the movie, Art3mis/Samantha seems like she is less interested in the game and more interested in societal revolution. Really, all of the characters in the movie sound like pretty big improvements on the way they're portrayed in the book. In any case, when I said I wasn't sure I wanted to subject myself to Cline's work, it's all of this stuff that puts me off. He sounds very much like the stereotypical fanboy of the '80s: obsessively aware of every pop culture thing that was at one time categorized as being for nerds, and not much else -- and entering a world where the line between the mainstream and "nerd" culture has become increasingly less-important as the internet flattens the playing field and the notion of "gatekeeping" is pushed back on. It sounds to me like the book rewards Wade for his gatekeeping, with Halliday thrilled that Wade figured out all of his obscure references, whereas the movie focuses clearly on Halliday as a human being outside of the nerd stuff. I also posted on facebook before watching the movie, and a couple of people suggested that the movie version of Halliday at the end might be a bit of a Spielberg self-insert, where his ultimate message is essentially "don't forget to touch grass, man." Also, there's this, that notorious piece of writing. Very cringeworthy and manages to simultaneously enter "not like other guys" territory in his description of himself *and* endorse "not like other girls" as a positive way of thinking. https://x.com/portraitinflesh/status/1800461796652061120 Anyway, the movie was fine. Some traditionally great Spielberg filmmaking in there, and given how much I dislike the author, I was impressed that almost none of it made me groan, but I wish some of the film had been restructured and rearranged in a way where certain parts of it could run simultaneously. When all of the video game characters arrive at the castle for the in-world battle, I think I would've been able to take things much more seriously if this were intercut with a similar sort of thing going on somewhere outside of the OASIS, to give the whole thing more weight. Perhaps the chase at the end where the characters are in the truck would be a good thing to have put in there, rather than Parzival trying to get the keys in. By the time he has all three keys, I feel like the movie should already be triumphant rather than still racing against time, and it would also give the battle a bit more dramatic weight.