Remember when Spielberg used to make movies about people actually doing things in the real world? With RPO, you're literally watching a kid play a damn video game. Tron, Tron:Legacy, Wreck it Ralph, and Pixels did this better. RPO is appallingly bad.
shareTron was actually all right as a film. So was 'the last starfighter' - another film about a videogame universe.
This film is way inferior to those films. Great SFX do not make a great film, BUT.... given how peeps these days eat this crap up all day and every day, I won't be surprised if this ends up being a huge hit.
I don't think Spielberg has the pulse of the movie going public anymore. Sure, the academy strokes his knob because he is Steven Spielberg, but I don't think he will ever make another 'Jaws', or 'Saving Private Ryan'
How much of a movie is Spielberg really directing when 90% of it is a CGI cartoon?
shareWell, most of the CGI these days requires the use of an actor. They put sensors on the actors' faces/bodies and their actions/facial expressions drive the cgi characters.
The problem is, many games these days have demonstrated better cgi than what we see in this game - so it's kind of surprising that the character cgi is so poorly made in a game which was supposedly made in 2035.
This, for example, is a demo of game graphics created using an engine made in 2018.
What we see there is a game in 2040.
"The problem is, many games these days have demonstrated better cgi than what we see in this game"
Not near-photoreal high-resolution (probably far above 8K for Oasis) dual-rendered stereoscopic 3D with full head-tracking and no lag, countless high-res characters being matched in real-time to full facial and body movement of the players, endless amounts of items all over the place, vast landscapes with no visible limit to the draw distance, and full physics encompassing all of it, slapped into one huge live MMORPG world.
Also, the Oasis was at least 10 years old in the movie's present time, as the guy played by Ryan Reynolds complained that he had 10 years worth of loot in his user before he got blown up. So even the tech shown here was a decade old.
Right, the game was designed in 2035. Consider this, I fully expect future VR units to work in a way where they'll have minimal computer processing power, since most of that will be done in a cloud. Essentially, they'll serve as sensors for your head/body movements and receptors of imagery streamed from the cloud. If you have decent enough cloud servers and internet connection, most of the high tech games of today can be steamed at the highest settings - and I've already mentioned that some games which exist today are vastly superior to what we are seeing in this game. Keep in mind, making this world with such subpar sfx is intentional - this fim cost way more than most games cost to make, which means they could have gone for ultra-realistic game sfx - and I presume that they've opted not to because they didn't think our technology would get there that quickly. It's this premise that I largely disagree with. The bigger problem is, they do have the means to show the ultra-realistic sfx of tomorrow - yet they went with lame sfx of yesterday - it's mind baffling.
shareI wonder if there's a point where there's no real need to go further with graphical realism. Like, at what point does it become so realistic that its like stepping into another world that looks exactly like this one? And when we reach that point, what do you think the probability is that we dial it back a little bit to make it a little LESS realistic? To make it more like a game, more fantastical?
If you could do anything you wanted to do with graphics, create seemingly carbon copies of people and places...would you really want to?
That's what I was wondering when watching this...thinking that a future game world could end up looking like the one represented here.
It was TJ Miller not Ryan Reynolds
shareHow much of a movie is Spielberg really directing when 90% of it is a CGI cartoon?
Shut up, moron. RPO is a shit movie and anyone who likes it is as vapid and shallow as a mud puddle.
shareYou are an asshole but right.
shareI don't have the time to unpack all the stupid from this comment, but did you even read his post?
Your knee-jerk response says you didn't...and you shouldn't be able to ever call anyone else "shallow" ever again never. Dipshit lol
Guitar King is just a member of the troll squad that rolls on these boards. He also spreads misogyny.
shareGuitar King, I already knew you were one of the stupidest sock trolls on this site, by thanks for proving I again.
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Never thought about that...this makes a lot of sense.
shareTrue, he sees these Marvel films doing so well and thinks he can still be relevant by copying their success. But he misses the point completely. The guy is a relic.
shareSpielberg has been out to lunch since Saving Private Ryan. Literally everything he's done since has been a disappointment.
shareMunich, Catch Me If You Can, Minority Report. All very good films.
shareDecent, but not great films that never had broad enough appeal to become pop culture touchstones like Jaws, Radiers, Jurassic Park, or Saving Private Ryan. I would say Munich and Catch Me if You Can are downright forgettable. Minority Report was better in that it foreshadowed the police/surveillance state we all knew was coming.
He is arguably the best director of all time, but like Oliver Stone, he seems to have lost his mojo.
Agree to disagree, I suppose, but I’d easily place Munich in his top ten greatest films.
1) Schindler’s List
2) Jaws
3) Raiders of the Lost Ark
4) Jurassic Park
5) Saving Private Ryan
6) Munich
7) The Last Crusade
8) AI: Artificial Intelligence
9) Minority Report
10) Catch Me If You Can
It's easy to agree with the first 5 films on your list, but for second half I'd only keep Last Crusade and instead add E.T., Duel, Empire Of The Sun, and CE3K. (Full disclosure--I haven't seen Catch Me because around that time [the early '00s] I was beginning to hate Hanks and DiCaprio just out of sheer over-exposure so I avoided it like the plague...and still have).
shareIt's good...you should check it out.
shareYou really should see it...it happened back in the 60's or whenever, so it really is timeless...check it out. Its a great flick and all, but it being a true story is what really makes it incredible.
sharepure crap
shareI knew it! I've never heard of this story (graphic novel), until I saw the over-wrought preview at the movie theater. My first thought was "Why all this melodramatic music and overkill on CGI?" And that was just the preview. I made my roommate mad by saying it would likely be a giant trash heap of a movie. Thank you for confirming my suspicions and saving me $11 dollars, plus 2.5 hours of my life that I could use to drink and make shadow puppets on the wall.
shareWatched Ready Player One... underwhelming... Another CGI cartoon... A Spielberg one, but still just another CGI cartoon...
Nice first race, but the novelty wears off fast and the CGi action gets routine, even though it's far better than the usual comicbook movie action (low bar)... Parts of the final CGI battle were inspired...
[spoiler]the Gundam vs. MechaGodzilla fight was solid[/spoiler]
The movie lacked real world stakes... pop-up ads and the fate of a video game being the ultimate end game... seriously?!
Don't expect Empire of The Sun level of context, themes or even sentimentality... Don't expect Gamer (2009) levels of satire nor it's level of cultural, socio-economic and political awareness either..
Valerian was better as spectacle, mostly because the mains characters weren't cartoons, so they resonated more emotionally... But also because it addressed the spiritual and human aspects of it's futuristic world, rather than just inserting a platitude about "reality", while in fact glorifying virtual living and gamer/pop-culture-nerdiness as an escape from reality...
Having said all of that it's clear that Spielberg is still operating at a much higher level than most mainstream blockbuster filmmakers... Better than all comicbook movies, better than starwars, better than Jumanji... In fact, Ready Player One towers above these, despite all the CGI cartoon aspects, because it's actually a movie, rather than a series, or a sketch... It just doesn't reach the level of Spielberg's usual films and is dwarfed by the better movies in the video game/fantasy/action-adventure genres...
Nah, it's a shit flick
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