 Alright Steven Spielberg, I see you. You added again. Let's go ahead and get into this review. My name is Brenny Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. Hey everyone, thank you so much for tuning into my opinion slash review for Ready Player One and I want to let you all know that I really do appreciate it. So when it comes to Ready Player One, I just want to let you know if you didn't know already that this was one of my most anticipated films of 2018. As soon as I saw the trailer for this last shot, I was like, oh my gosh, I cannot freaking wait to see this. This seems right up my alley. Not only was I excited because it's being directed by Steven Spielberg, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, like I said, it's right up my alley. This thing looks like it has action, adventure, fantasy, science fiction, easter eggs, all that good stuff. So I was really on board with this. And if you didn't know, now you will know that Ready Player One is based on a novel of the same name that came out in 2011. Very popular book. I did not read it. The author of that book was Eric Klein, who is also the co-writer of this film alongside Zach Penn. Zach Penn is known for writing a large number of comic book films that have graced the theaters in recent years. And I really do respect him as a writer as well. And just another cool thing. Ready Player One is a phrase from the days of the classical video games. I just thought that was cool when I was just looking up stuff. And I do remember that myself from classic old video games. And what the story is about is this in 2045 Columbus, Ohio, we have Wade Wilson, or I'm sorry, Wade, is it Wade Wilson or not Wade Watts, excuse me, played by Ty Sheridan, who was Cyclops in the X-Men Fox movies. He's obsessed with the Oasis as long as everybody else in the world. And what the Oasis is, is like basically the best virtual reality experience that you have ever encountered. You can go in and do whatever you want. You can be whatever you want without too many repercussions or anything like that. And so the creator of this Oasis, a character by the name of James Holiday, played by Mark Rylance, who was another great actor. He's the creator. He created these Easter eggs and these puzzles and these maps and clues and all these things that you have to follow. And if you can beat the game, if you can beat the Oasis, if you can find all his clues and things like that, not only do you get complete control of the Oasis and everything that it contains, but you also get half a trillion dollars or five hundred billion dollars. So you can imagine that people are going to be subscribing, signing up, doing all that good stuff, trying to get, you know, some of that cheddar, trying to get that control over like the world's greatest resource. And not only are good, innocent, fun-loving people are going to be after that, but a lot of evil people, corporate giants, are going to be going after it as well. And it's just a race to the finish because I mean, some people think this is a game. Some people were cheating like, no, this is like real life. And so, you know, your life may be a stake. And so that's just the gist of the film, the plot of the film. But let's go ahead and get into some of the things that I liked as soon as this film started, I was smiling ear to ear. As soon as I heard the first ring, the first melody, the first little team of music, I was smiling ear to ear. I was on board looking at all the opening credits. It was just a beautiful soundtrack, a beautiful score that just really got me on board. Now, the score in this movie was done by Alan, excuse me, Alan Silvestri. Now, Steven Spielberg usually works with John Williams, but this is either the third or the fourth film that they were not able to work together on. The reason why is John Williams was busy working with Spielberg for the post that came out last year. And so that's just one of the reasons why he wasn't able to, you know, compose this film. But Alan Silvestri, another popular composer came through and he did hold down the reins. So first thing I noticed and first thing I like was the score. This is I don't know if I'll buy but it is something that I would say I would not mind listening again, listening to again, or jamming in my car. The next thing that I really did like about this movie was the world building and the oasis itself. And when you go actually before I talk about the world building and the oasis, something I noticed before that was just like, I'm a fan of long shots. The opening scene wasn't done in one take. But when we see Wade in his world narrating to the audience of, you know, what the stacks are, what the oasis is and things like that, there are a lot of long shots just showing Columbus, Ohio. And, you know, it's a looks a lot different than it is today. Just with these stacks just is this like an organized junkyard, you know, times two or something like that were just complexes and stacks, you know, just stacked on top of each other. Hence the name the stacks. But that sequence right there, I really like they played a pay a lot of attention to detail. So I got to give you credit there Steven Spielberg. But I just thought this was beautiful. And I was like, man, these are long, beautiful shots. And they seem like they were really difficult to take. So just kudos there. But like I was just saying the world building in the oasis itself, when we finally got into the oasis is just seeing what it was and hearing Todd Sheridan's character way to explain everything to us. I was like, you know, little kid at Christmas, just like, you know, wow, like I was smiling like I was reacting to the latest Avengers trailer or something like that. It just looked beautiful. In the real world that I'm living in right now as I'm recording this video, virtual reality is on the rise right now. But it does not peak my interest at all. I just, you know, when I see the commercials on TV with certain retailers, you know, advertising their virtual reality, hey, put on the goggles or the headset or whatever you can do this, you can do that. It just never appeased to me. It just really just, you know, in one ear out the other out of sight out of mind. But after seeing this movie, I kind of want to go into like one of these retail stores and I keep saying retail stores that I want to say their name. You know, it's like, hey, you know, where's your virtual reality stuff, you know, I kind of want to try it out. But you know, that's just what the movie did to me. It turned something that I completely didn't care about at all to something that I'm actually actually interested in. So we're on a Saturday. If I'm just kind of killing time, I may go and check it out. The next thing that I really did like is this is the action adventure. Like I said, at the very beginning of this video, people are racing to get to this Easter egg. And so, you know, there's a lot of races and hunts and things like that. There is this race at the beginning of the movie to where everybody is just going gung ho. And we did get a Easter egg right there with the DeLorean from Back to the Future. And they're just so like so many like, I could talk for 30 minutes straight just on all the Easter eggs because we got Iron Giant, Tron, Akira, Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future. I said Iron Giant. We got Chucky in this thing, the punk ass, Freddie Krueger. He was in here too. And I call him a punk ass because he scared the crap out of me when I was a little kid. But we know we have all that in here too. But this race that I was just talking about again, it's crazy just jumping and swinging all around. I mean, any obstacle that you can possibly imagine is thrown into this race. And it's just impossible. But I was eating it all up. I was just like, man, this is freaking amazing. I'm loving this. This is so detailed. I can't believe Steven Spielberg was able to do this. And when I said I can't believe he's able to do this because he and him said to himself that this is the third hardest film that he's ever directed in his whole filmography, his whole film career right behind Jaws, which came out, I think in 78, correct me if I'm wrong in the comments. And also Seven Private Ryan that came out in 1998. And so, you know, I could kind of see when you look into all these details and stuff. But the next thing that I really did like about all that on top of that is the avatars themselves because that's where we get to know Wade Watts a lot more. Todd Sheridan's character a lot more is his avatar. We get to know him more as an avatar in Oasis than his actually real self in the real world. And that could be really tricky in a big risk because with a movie feel with so much CGI, if you're going to have blatant CGI characters, it just has to work. And you know, you're risking us the audience possibly clocking out because it's like, what's this a computer animated character kind of next door to a real world, you know, I'm just not being able to relate, you know, I'm being sucked out of the illusion. But that's just not the case. You got a lot of humanity from Wade's character there. And you got to see, I mean, everybody, you know, kind of imagine themselves and something else. I mean, for the most part, people love themselves, but at the same time, you know, we imagine us to, you know, be something else. And so it was really cool just to kind of see how the characters were in the Oasis and kind of how the real selves were in the real world, you know, but I was just watching like, man, we are getting a lot of these avatars and I'm not missing the real life people. So that just kind of goes to show that the writing was great that the dialogue same thing that the acting and all that was great. Now, let me get over to the dislikes and this may disappoint a lot of you because a lot of people were raving about this film. I haven't watched any other reviews. The only thing I've watched was to see what the rating was on Rotten Tomatoes. And I saw that after I viewed the film, but I haven't looked at anything else. But people were just saying, Hey, Bren, I can't wait for you to see this. You're going to love it. You're going to love it. Well, the first thing that I did not like about this movie was Wade Watts himself. Not in the oasis. I liked his avatar, but in the real world. The reason why it's not, well, you know, I know I did not like him one because there was just nothing to his character other than him narrating to us the whole time. I necessarily did not attach myself to his character or possibly relate to him at all. But I don't like his character either because he is a hopeless romantic, not necessarily anything wrong with that. But just to a degree, in my opinion, that's just completely unrealistic. This character Wade in this movie is falling in love with people after five minutes. You don't know them. You don't know anything about them. It just makes no sense to me. I don't understand how somebody can fall in love with somebody that you never even met that you don't know them, but you know of them. And that just seemed kind of really elementary to me. And because of his idiotic love, love affair, well, not love affair, but his somewhat infatuation, it kind of threw a dent in the plot to me for me and just kind of muddied up the water just a little bit. Because of him and him and his puppy love, his objective to win the Oasis was kind of tainted a little bit. And when the high stakes and things like that are on the line, we got to take things seriously. Key word, I just said high stakes and I will get back to that. Another thing that I did not like about this movie was the villain himself in this movie was extremely weak to me. He is a corporate giant and what is his name again? I, you know, I well, I don't think I was going to talk about him too much. But the villain in this movie, you know, it was just kind of like a cardboard villain to me other than just him being a corporate giant and him just wanting to take over the world and be in control of everything. There was just nothing else to him that really got me on board. Not that I'm always just trying to sympathize with villains and antagonists, but he was just kind of born to me. He was born in the real world. He was born in the Oasis too. His avatar was just kind of the same character as the real world, but just kind of had muscles with sparkly eyes and that's just something that I just wasn't really feeling. Now something real quick that I did like Simon Pegg was in this movie. I did like him a lot and I think the person that I'm talking about that I didn't like the villain, his name is Ben Mendelsohn S-O-H-N I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly, but I like the actor because he was in the Dark Knot Rises and a few other stuff. His name in the film is Sorento, but in this film he just wasn't, you know, he just wasn't doing it to me Also in this movie, like all the action was great, but there was not enough of it. I wanted more you know. I'm just saying you have all these characters with all these abilities. I mean you have every freaking single made up character, fictional science fiction fantasy whatever in this movie. So you have, there's just tons of abilities and powers and these things that you know Easter is can do and things like that. And I just wanted a little bit more of that. When we did get it on screen, I was eating it all up. I was loving it, but like I said, I just wanted a little bit more and like while I was not able to attach myself to Wade, I was Avatar towards the end of the film I wasn't able to attach myself to the Avatar that Wade was using either because you know he tried to rally the troops and just like hey everybody out there fighting for you know, we're gonna do this and we're gonna come together and we're gonna fight down and stop the bad guys. Woo yeah! You know, I just wasn't like, you know, he's giving this whole speech and I usually at times like this move, I'm like, yeah, you know, I want to jump in the movie with you and join you and like who are yeah, but not in this movie here. I mean, you know, he did that to try to rally the troops at the end. And then when everything came down to it, the final battle, it was just really anti-climatic for me. You know, I wanted it more. I wanted more of a pop. I wanted more of a bang and I just didn't get that. Instead of a bang, I got like a little poof. I don't want a poof. I want a bang. But you know, with me splitting things like that down the middle with things that I liked and dislike, you know, you possibly all think, oh, Brandon, you're going to give this like a five out of ten or something like that. No, I wouldn't say that. And just a few other fun facts that you will know were interesting to me. You know, Christopher Nolan, Robbers and Makis, Matthew Vaughan, Peter Jackson, Edgar Wright are directors in this film. Not excuse me, they're not directors in this film. They were considered to be directors in this film, but they ended up going with Steven Spielberg. Something else that just really didn't, you know, grind my, well, it did grind my gears was Steven Spielberg has directed like over 30 films. Like I said, everybody knows he's one of the most popular best filmmakers of all time. There's a lot of science fiction references and things like that that I heard were brought up in the book, but I did not see that in this movie. Where was he at? You know, they could have had a flying shark jaws. They could have had the aliens from world to world. They could have had Indiana Jones in this. If he was in this, and I missed it, my bad, let me know in the comics, but there wasn't, I don't know why Steven Spielberg decided to remove all of his film references out of the movie, but that just could have been something a little icing on the cake, a little cherry on top. They could have made this much better, but while I ended this video with things that I did not like guys, I really did enjoy this movie a lot. I mean, I will be buying this on Blu-ray. I don't know if I'll be buying it on 4K money, and that just goes to show how much I did like the film. If it was shot with IMAX cameras, which I didn't find in my research, I will buy them on 4K, but this is something that I definitely will be watching on, you know, home video. I am very interested in looking at all the behind the scenes, the commentary, feature effects, you know, gag reels, B-Rolls all that good stuff. It was a great film. It did not reach my expectations, but you know, I didn't walk away from this film either, or disappointed either. If I had to rate Ready Player 1 out of a 1 out of 10, I would give it a 7.5 out of 10. Yes, a 7.5 out of 10. But guys, that is just my opinion for Ready Player 1. Have you seen it yet? I'm sure you have. And what did you think? Did you like it? Did you hate it? Did I tell you one? Did I tell you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. Please go ahead and subscribe to my channel so you can get all the content involved. You can also look me up on social media because it's right there at the bottom of the screen and also down in the description box below. But guys, I just want to thank you again for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Ready Player 1 and before you go, don't forget that my name is Brandon Keith Avery and that's just my opinion. Peace.