To avoid a boredom induced "uk on covid-19 lockdown" coma- I downloaded the 2018 movie "Ready Player One".
The movie is a cross between videogame culture references old and new (from ATARI to Doom-Eternal), classic movies, Avatar (2009 cgi aliens), The Matrix, 80s synth-wave along with a prediction of realistic but fantisical VR taking over people's lives.
I'd say it's Director Steven Spielberg's best movie in ages and a return to form as a Director since 2002's Minority Report. I agree and ironically there was a scene from that movie that foreshadowed VR as an escape from reality.
Well now Spielberg has made an entire movie about it. Ready Player One.
I cannot describe how on point and ahead of his time Spielberg is. I bet in the year 2050-2100 where the world is an over-populated shithole, high unemployment, no-one fucking, let alone reproducing, physical + virtual VR will be an escape as well as a home workout. They'll see this film as a prophecy and laugh at our primative tech or movie special effects trying to foretell the zeitgeist.
The film is not dystopian or condeming VR, with the exception of a "data mining virtual prison" sub-plot- something very real in China where prisoner's play World of Warcraft to collect and sell rare in-game items for their corrupt government to profit.
instead the film focuses on insecure people who can pick any "avatar" they want and live a better life in VR as a strong male, a pretty boy ladies man or a stacy. It also shows women benefitting socially from the VR tech too. My favourite, inferred, scene was an overweight but clothed woman wearing a headset dancing around a poll obviously imitating stripper moves and enjoying some unseen attention- very subtle and blackpill. It would be cool if the scene switched to an "in-game view" of her avatar as a beautiful blonde stripper looking at herself in a mirror in a club, but don't want to upset incel-tears now or prove looks-law.
I passed on this movie on release as games based on videogame cameo culture are often forced memes and unfunny.Also Spielberg's "rumoured reputation" was in tatters due to allegations and revisiting "Me Too" only this time involving boys and movie producers on-set incidents.
I won't go into too much or spoil it, but I'd say it was basically what we've all been discussing here and despite the 12a, PG-13 certificate there are some pretty sexy scenes that stop short of full frontal nudity or intercourse. 49 seconds into the trailer if you have a.d.h.d as well as incel.
Also some pretty decent action violence too.
The movie is a cross between videogame culture references old and new (from ATARI to Doom-Eternal), classic movies, Avatar (2009 cgi aliens), The Matrix, 80s synth-wave along with a prediction of realistic but fantisical VR taking over people's lives.
I'd say it's Director Steven Spielberg's best movie in ages and a return to form as a Director since 2002's Minority Report. I agree and ironically there was a scene from that movie that foreshadowed VR as an escape from reality.
Well now Spielberg has made an entire movie about it. Ready Player One.
I cannot describe how on point and ahead of his time Spielberg is. I bet in the year 2050-2100 where the world is an over-populated shithole, high unemployment, no-one fucking, let alone reproducing, physical + virtual VR will be an escape as well as a home workout. They'll see this film as a prophecy and laugh at our primative tech or movie special effects trying to foretell the zeitgeist.
The film is not dystopian or condeming VR, with the exception of a "data mining virtual prison" sub-plot- something very real in China where prisoner's play World of Warcraft to collect and sell rare in-game items for their corrupt government to profit.
instead the film focuses on insecure people who can pick any "avatar" they want and live a better life in VR as a strong male, a pretty boy ladies man or a stacy. It also shows women benefitting socially from the VR tech too. My favourite, inferred, scene was an overweight but clothed woman wearing a headset dancing around a poll obviously imitating stripper moves and enjoying some unseen attention- very subtle and blackpill. It would be cool if the scene switched to an "in-game view" of her avatar as a beautiful blonde stripper looking at herself in a mirror in a club, but don't want to upset incel-tears now or prove looks-law.
I passed on this movie on release as games based on videogame cameo culture are often forced memes and unfunny.Also Spielberg's "rumoured reputation" was in tatters due to allegations and revisiting "Me Too" only this time involving boys and movie producers on-set incidents.
I won't go into too much or spoil it, but I'd say it was basically what we've all been discussing here and despite the 12a, PG-13 certificate there are some pretty sexy scenes that stop short of full frontal nudity or intercourse. 49 seconds into the trailer if you have a.d.h.d as well as incel.
Also some pretty decent action violence too.
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