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Title: Ready Player One (2018)

Tagline: A better reality awaits.

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Action, Fantasy

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Susan Lynch, Clare Higgins, Perdita Weeks, Letitia Wright, Mckenna Grace, Lulu Wilson, Cara Pifko, Vic Chao, Cara Theobold, Isaac Andrews, Joel MacCormack, Kit Connor, Leo Heller, Antonio Mattera, Lynne Wilmot, Kae Alexander, Michael Wildman, Adolfo Álvarez, Alonso Alvarez, Jadah Marie, Arianna Jaffier, Armani Jackson, Britain Dalton, Jacob Bertrand, Gareth Mason, Ronke Adekoluejo, Daniel Zolghadri, William Gross, Laurence Spellman, Daniel Eghan, Julia Nickson, Kiera Bell, Samantha Russell, James Dryden, Violet McGraw, Jayden Fowora-Knight, Turlough Convery, Rona Morison, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Asan N'Jie

Release: 2018-03-28

Runtime: 140

Plot: When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.




Please dont stink please don't stink please don't stink!

http://deadline.com/2015/03/ready-player-one-movie-steven-spielberg-ernest-cline-warner-bros-1201398299/

Steven Spielberg is set to direct Ready Player One, the highly anticipated project based on the popular sci-fi book by Ernest Cline that takes place in a virtual world. What a coup for Warner Bros, which will bring it to the screen along with Village Roadshow. This is expected to be Spielberg’s next movie after The BFG.
 
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This was one of the most entertaining books I have read in a long time. If there was ever a more perfect match on paper of director to material, I don't know what it is. I just hope Spielberg can recapture that fun-80s-adventure vibe that was so clearly an inspiration to Cline.
 

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I loved the book too. This is great news but.....what happened to Robopocalypse? Wasn't thar supposed to be Spielbergs next film?
 

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I had never heard of the book before, but it apparently has big cachet among a certain demographic. I'm intrigued. What's the appeal of it?
 

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Yup. If you went to the movies and played videos games in the 80's, you should love it.
 

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I say this as a child of the 1980s who was very intrigued by the descriptions I've read.


I'm 60 pages into the book, and if it doesn't improve quickly, I'm a-gonna wait for the movie. It's 10% story, 90% exposition and random '80s pop-culture references. The writing is juvenile; YA-level at best.


I'm reminded of my sister's description of Fifty Shades of Gray: "If you told me a third-grader wrote this, I would say that that third-grader was a lousy writer." It's not *that* bad, though -- it's more like the product of a mediocre sixth-grader.


Around 50 pages in, a character (named "I-r0k") appears and literally starts quizzing the narrator about '80s trivia. It took a major force of will to not give up at that point. I thought the book would weave '80s references into the story in a cool way, but no such luck. It's like the novel version of that crappy Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."
 

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Tino said:
Yup. If you went to the movies and played videos games in the 80's, you should love it.
check and check


whoa.... call me excited! I didn't know what the heck this was. I hope it's better than Ender's Game.
 

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Aaron Silverman said:
I say this as a child of the 1980s who was very intrigued by the descriptions I've read.


I'm 60 pages into the book, and if it doesn't improve quickly, I'm a-gonna wait for the movie. It's 10% story, 90% exposition and random '80s pop-culture references. The writing is juvenile; YA-level at best.


I'm reminded of my sister's description of Fifty Shades of Gray: "If you told me a third-grader wrote this, I would say that that third-grader was a lousy writer." It's not *that* bad, though -- it's more like the product of a mediocre sixth-grader.


Around 50 pages in, a character (named "I-r0k") appears and literally starts quizzing the narrator about '80s trivia. It took a major force of will to not give up at that point. I thought the book would weave '80s references into the story in a cool way, but no such luck. It's like the novel version of that crappy Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."
ruining the party! :angry:


I'm feeling all TRON and stuff. In fact, it will HAVE to be better than Tron 2.
 

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Didn't see Ender's Game or Tron 2 (yet). Wish I could compare! :)


I read a few more pages last night. . .more of the same, basically.
 

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Alan Silvestri to Score Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

The move comes because John Williams is busy composing the score for Spielberg's Pentagon Papers docudrama The Papers. That film was shot after this one, but because of the visual effects involved here, both films are in post-production at the same time and Williams couldn't do both.

Amblin released the following statement: “Steven and John decided Alan Silvestri was the perfect choice for ‘Ready Player One’ since Steven has worked (as a producer) with Alan on the ‘Back to the Future’ films in the ’80s and Alan has scored other films for Steven’s Amblin and DreamWorks.”
 

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I hate it any time that Williams isn't scoring a Spielberg movie but Silvestri is a good choice. I like that Spielberg is using different composers rather than automatically using Thomas Newman as the guy who fills in when Williams can't do it.
 

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I like the choices of who specifically is working on which project. I loved the score Williams did for Lincoln and would like to hear him doing another drama for Spielberg. And I love the huge themes Silvestri did for the first Captain America and Avengers movies and of course Back to the Future, so it'll be exciting to see what he does with a Spielberg blockbuster.
 

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This was one of the most entertaining books I have read in a long time. If there was ever a more perfect match on paper of director to material, I don't know what it is. I just hope Spielberg can recapture that fun-80s-adventure vibe that was so clearly an inspiration to Cline.

I say this as a child of the 1980s who was very intrigued by the descriptions I've read.


I'm 60 pages into the book, and if it doesn't improve quickly, I'm a-gonna wait for the movie. It's 10% story, 90% exposition and random '80s pop-culture references. The writing is juvenile; YA-level at best.


I'm reminded of my sister's description of Fifty Shades of Gray: "If you told me a third-grader wrote this, I would say that that third-grader was a lousy writer." It's not *that* bad, though -- it's more like the product of a mediocre sixth-grader.


Around 50 pages in, a character (named "I-r0k") appears and literally starts quizzing the narrator about '80s trivia. It took a major force of will to not give up at that point. I thought the book would weave '80s references into the story in a cool way, but no such luck. It's like the novel version of that crappy Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."
I'd never even heard of this book before so I checked out the reviews. 74% are 5 star and another 17 are 4 star, and that's for over 12K reviews. I'm going to have to wait until I get a promotional code to buy the book. They want $10 for the kindle version. The paperback is actually 30 cents less. I've never figured out that kind pricing.

Does the film have a release date?
 

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I'd never even heard of this book before so I checked out the reviews. 74% are 5 star and another 17 are 4 star, and that's for over 12K reviews. I'm going to have to wait until I get a promotional code to buy the book. They want $10 for the kindle version. The paperback is actually 30 cents less. I've never figured out that kind pricing.

Does the film have a release date?

The book MIGHT be worth the time it takes you to go to the library to borrow it for free.

IF you're REALLY curious, that is. :D
 
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