The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 107: Ready Player One (2018)
Added 2024-09-23 22:49:07 +0000 UTCIt's Ready Player One week on the Watchcast, and that's all Vinny Caravella's fault, so send any relevant complaints his way. Join us as we take our shift in the nostalgia mines of the Oasis, and wonder just how many empty licensed calories we can take in before overdosing.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 107: Ready Player One (2018)
(00:00:52) - Intro.
(00:01:40) - It's Ready Player One week, and that's Vinny's fault.
(00:09:57) - Vinny has read the book, and he knows the differences (I could not find clips of his Bombcast rant, sorry).
(00:16:34) - Who is responsible for this?
(00:26:39) - The licenses that got away.
(00:30:31) - Cast talk.
(00:42:09) - Some initial houghts about why this movie doesn't work for us.
(00:46:56) - Break!
(00:47:14) - We're back, and it's time to launch into whatever the hell is going on here.
(00:58:08) - Kicking off the first challenge with King Kong Kart.
(01:09:38) - What the hell is IOI's deal.
(01:17:09) - Onto challenge two and the Halliday archive.
(01:22:43) - The Shining level.
(01:29:15) - The IOI pitch.
(01:38:48) - Real world meet-up.}
(01:40:53) - Challenge three on Planet Doom (but not that DOOM, just a generic sort of Doom).
(01:48:02) - This is not a great final battle.
(01:56:28) - We found the damn egg.
(02:09:57) - We won the game! Life is OK for everybody now!
(02:13:09) - Final thoughts.
(02:24:28) - Talking about our final movie for the month: eXistenZ!
(02:26:30) - Outro.
Comments
Every one has to whine about something what makes me laugh is that my fav podcast whined about the cameos and the reason for them except they forget that the damn cameos are just people using skins they arent “the characters” lmao
Miguel De Leon
2024-10-15 15:47:56 +0000 UTCSaw this before Fortnite made IPs hanging out a common thing, so I came out of it fairly positive. Especially since there's a baseline of quality with Spielberg involved. Did I revisit it for this show? Nah, man.
csl316
2024-09-30 21:59:58 +0000 UTC1941 doesn't have many redeeming qualities.
Benji Black
2024-09-24 21:40:47 +0000 UTCI work with someone who named their child Anakin. 😞
jroc
2024-09-24 21:36:16 +0000 UTCVinny talked about the two creators of The Oasis maybe being a Wozniak/Jobs analog. People should check out the Blackberry movie that came out last year. That is very much a situation where the tech side and the business side have no idea what the other is doing and might actually be at odds with each other.
Benji Black
2024-09-24 19:56:27 +0000 UTCAI was a fine film, then it ran for another 45 minutes for some reason
neuroflare
2024-09-24 17:33:37 +0000 UTCI was a bit surprised by the hate everybody has for this movie. I read the book basically when it came out and saw the movie around the time it came out. I enjoyed both of them in their own way. The book, is not great, it's not well written, it's not fine literature... but I read it almost like fan fiction written from somebody who could have been a friend of mine, just having fun and telling a story. I didn't take it very seriously and I honestly enjoyed the nostalgia and the references. It was a book written for me basically... somebody who grew up in the 80's (born in the mid 70's) and was a nerd when it was less cool to be a nerd. If you don't overthink it and just read it like a comic book, it was fine and fun. The movie... I was fairly disappointed at first when I saw it... because they changed a lot of the references and challenges to be simpler and less hard-core nerdy (they made it more modern and simplified for today's youth... and to work as a movie). I didn't hate it, but I thought it was... again... dumb fun. The references are ridiculous, but they are kind of meant to be. Also, you have to remind yourself, these characters on the screen are just avatars of normal people playing the game (they are basically DLC hats).. they don't have to be faithful to the original source material... they are just Halloween costumes in a giant EverQuest which spans all fictional universes. Again.. the movie was dumb entertainment and I think I learned to enjoy it a bit more because I have two teenage sons who had a good time watching it. I think Alex took all of this WAY too seriously... this movie is like a highly produced Saturday morning cartoon stretched out over 90 minutes with every reference from the past 50 years of nerd culture thrown in for goofs. I find it trashy, but not offensive.
Ricktor_Black
2024-09-24 16:52:24 +0000 UTCI feel like I must not be a Real Nerd because I enjoyed this movie and wasn’t as offended by the references as literally everyone else in the universe.
Michael Polston
2024-09-24 13:02:26 +0000 UTCI landed about where Brad is with this movie. I cannot agree with him on The Martian though :) I have a buddy who despises this movie with a burning passion. I am 99% certain that the Iron Giant scene, which was an important movie to him, set him on it. I might have made it worse when I pointed out that it was good symbolism that your nostalgia is nothing but a disposable IP to someone else.
swiftdraw
2024-09-24 11:14:35 +0000 UTCTJ Miller is an awful human and was cancelled during me too for sexual assault he committed in college. He said she was bandwagoning and inferred that a majority of women were during me too.
Mike
2024-09-24 10:24:03 +0000 UTCAt an advanced screening of The Post, Spielberg copped to realizing he could either spend a whole year in an office, checking and requesting revisions to the hundreds of CG shots as they finished rendering, or he could do all that remotely while shooting an entire other film.
Chris Clark
2024-09-24 04:04:33 +0000 UTCOlivia Cooke is most famous now for House of the Dragon probably.
Adam Bilow
2024-09-24 01:30:13 +0000 UTCI appreciate the chaos Vinny brings to the Watchcast selection
Jason Wineinger
2024-09-24 01:07:17 +0000 UTCAlex 🙌🏾
Raymond Terry
2024-09-24 00:13:01 +0000 UTCThat slam poetry clip was absolutely horrendous
Thebagel1
2024-09-23 23:43:40 +0000 UTC
