I spotted a reference in this movie that nobody spotted, and I've looked online and found nothing on it. At the HQ of the "resistance" if you pause in your video at 21:56 and at 22:03, there's a wall made of loads of panes of glass. Look carefully, they're the same style and layout, with blacked out panes, that match the music-light-wall at the end of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. I think I might be the only person to ever notice it :D Bewm!
If you can find the audiobook as read by RC Bray, it's absolutely amazing. Wil Wheaton is fine an all, but RC Bray is by far the greatest narrator of all time.
BOOK RECOMENDATION: if you like "ready player one" you guys will love EPIC (Avatar Chronicles) where basicly and mmo has taken over all the normal income people get its really crazy good and like ready player one without the 80s stuff ^^ people basicly only farm level 1 pigs because dying in epic means you lose everything and taking risks isnt worth it for most ... its so good guys
Steven King hated The Shining Movie because Stanley Kubrick created an even better story out of it than he did. Throughout the entire movie there's easter eggs pointing towards the mother actually being completely insane and she's making all of this up in her head, she's schizophrenic. The dad is just a normal guy trying to deal with her the best he can. None of this is directly revealed in the movie itself, but for people paying close attention, it's one of THE most ingenious hidden truths in a movie I've ever seen.
This is such a weird movie to watch when you don't know most of the references. Still enjoyable for Simone and George obviously but so much more fun when you have a bigger library of movie and video game knowledge! Glad they enjoyed it though.
The interesting thing about Iron Giant is that it diverges from Iron Man in a way that doesn't drag either of them down. Where once was one great story, now there are two. Job's a goodun.
The story of them getting the Rights to all that IP is pretty interesting. Ernest Cline said he thought about it when he was writing it and never thought it would be filmable. Warner Brothers was the studio and they were a big reason it could happen because they owned or had rights to such a large amount of IP. When IP holders heard what they were doing and that Spielberg was involved, response ended up really positive in what would otherwise have been a whole lot of refusals. As I understand it, Ultraman was missing because of some legal mess involving Netflix causing the IP to be unavailable to license. Disney had acquired Star Wars and wouldn't give up the rights. They allowed some smaller things to be used as Easter Eggs, but nothing major was included. The popular assumption is that Lucas would have let Star Wars be used given his close relationship with Spielberg. Blade Runner was bad timing with the sequel not out yet and a worry that the portrayal might not help with Blade Runner 2049. The Shining scene was a replacement for missing IP. It was a good tribute from Spielberg.
For the Ultraman part, it's not Netflix. An old Thai geezer claimed he created Ultraman while working with Tsubaruya as a trainee. They had to fight over it for many years. It was a big deal that held Ultraman from being released globally (and yes, even Thai Ultraman fans hate his guts and the audacity to claim the IPs as his own). If you want more info, search: Ultraman legal battle
I never read the interview with Cline. But i wonder what if he meant he didnt think it could be filmable because of something other than liscensing rights . Because the movie and the book are like 2 completely different stories that start at the same place and end at the same place but everything in the middle is COMPLETELY different. I saw the movie first then read the book and loved them both but the book is Soo much better!! I also read Ready Player Two which was equally amazing (to me anyway)
The only major Disney property I saw referenced was TRON, which I assume was allowable since it's not a particularly valuable property and fits thematically. Since Disney was so protective of its IP, anything related to Star Wars or the MCU was pretty much off-limits, despite both those franchises being major touchstones of geek fandom culture.
@@moondog3056 Nonsense. Lucas would've let Spielberg use anything. He let Mel Brooks make Spaceballs for one thing. Kathleen Kennedy's betrayal of her former employer on this issue was utterly sickening.
so with the heavy use of the magic spell from 80s movie Excalibur, you guys should totally watch it if you haven't already seen it... star packed too! Helen Mirren, Patrick Stewart, Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne & the best damn Merlin EVER!!
Excalibur is one of my fave movies ,gabriel Byrne did a pet project documentary on the making of it ,it finally just was available to watch here in the u.s. afew years ago ,excaliber the movie will blow your mind
Excellent recommendation! Excalibur is one of my top favorite movies. I've loved it ever since I was just 6-years-old. To this day, no matter how many times I've seen it, I still get chills during most of the major scenes and always cry at the end. Multiple times, in fact. Every time a bittersweet scene ends and I'm able to finally catch my breath, the next one starts and the tears flow right along with it. From the post-grail "Prepare for Battle" scene, to Arthur's reunion and conversations with the 3 people closest to him after that particular scene occurs, I am just non-stop waterworks. That movie remains the best King Arthur movie ever made! Yes, Camelot fans, I'm a major Richard Harris fangirl and yet I will still die on that hill!
Now I need you both to react to “bill and teds excellent adventure” because I was shocked and horrified you didn’t know the reference 😂😂😂 (As a time travel story junkie I REALLY want you to react to “ frequently asked questions about time travel” (it’s a great uk comedy) more then anything but I’ll admit bill and ted is more famous. A classic.)
I love the little detail of the "Extra Life" being a quarter, which is what was used to play older arcade games. Ps: How have you guy not see the Iron Giant?!
In the book he wins the extra life token by playing a perfect game of pac-man. It was a quarter, sitting on the marque of the arcade cabinet like people used to do to reserve their spot to play next.
a while ago Freddie Wong made an action short with Andy Whitfield (RIP). half way through it, Freddie gets shot, he turns to Andy: "I need a quarter!", the action cuts away from the fantasy, and they're at an arcade. Andy flips him a quarter, Freddie revives, and the shooting continues as before ... it's all a videogame. they shot it in an afternoon at an abandoned warehouse, when Andy was visiting in between shootings of Spartacus.
@schadenfreude5349 I get exactly what you are saying, especially being deep in nerd culture in the 1970s and 1980s. When the nostalgia is as strong as it is in the book, you are able to create pretty exact mentally images of what is being described. It's already known to you. So, your mind can literally turn it into your own movie.
Oh yes the fun thing was when I was reading the book I know what the book was describing before it told me what is was, like the Atari game Joust. The book was a massive nostalgi trip for me. I lost track of how many times I seen the movie WarGames.
So, as fellow Canadians you may find this interesting. The actress who played F'Nale (Hannah John-Kamen... she was also Ghost in Ant Man and the Wasp) was in an amazing Canadian science fiction show called Killjoys. Well worth checking out if you haven't seen it. Not expecting anyone to react too it, just love the show and want people too enjoy it. :) (By the way, for anyone who hasn't watched them, Canada has some amazing science fiction shows. Orphan Black, Lost Girl, Continuum, Killjoys, Sanctuary... all well worth a watch to any fan of the genre!)
Yay I am so glad you referenced Killjoys. That is one of my all time favorite SCI-FI TV shows. My favorite characters in that show are Johnny, Pre and Lucy or also Terin.
Zemeckis cube is a time travel reference to Back to the Future which he wrote/directed. If you listen closely, right when Wade activates it, you hear the little piano jingle from the Back to the Future films.
Yeah, the only disappointment was all the cool references they changed for the movie as I liked the book culture references better. But the movie is good too and obviously getting all the rights from the book would’ve cost major money, but I’ll always imagine what could’ve been if the book had been filmed as is.
@@gregsteele806 Totally agree. They're both good for different reasons but the Key Tests would have bored most audiences but they work so well in a book.
I have to say my favorite part of this is how Haliday is portrayed. Its about as perfect a representation of geeks and nerds growing up in the 80s to 90s where. We didnt have many friends and most of our time was spent exploring these amazing worlds created by developers, even as crude and simple as they where back then.
I love watching reactors who are 80's memorabila buffs watching this for their first time, but the reactors who are gamers REALLY get emotionally invested! This reaction reminded me of all of the reasons why you two are among my favorite reactors. I thoroughly enjoyed watching you watching it!
Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick (who directed The Shining) met at the Overlook hotel set in 1979 when Kubrick was making Shining and Spielberg was making Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the two became such close friends. In fact, Spielberg’s 2001 film, A.I. was originally meant to be made my Kubrick but he died before the technology could be advanced and so Spielberg made the film in his honor of an unfulfilled project (which funnily enough, Kubrick wanted Spielberg to make it). The Shining sequence was more of just Spielberg wanting to commemorate his friend’s iconic film for newer generations while being nostalgic for when their 19 years of friendship first began.
Kubrick also spent years working on a Holocaust film called Aryan Papers, but Spielberg released Schindler's List first and Kubrick bowed away from the project after seeing it.
Another fun fact about the movie A.I. is that Kubrick had spent years storyboarding the movie and Spielberg made it a point to use those story boards as his guide in order to make it as close to Kubrick’s vision as he possibly could.
If you like audiobooks, Wil Wheaton did the reading for this book, and the sequel “Ready Player Two”, and did a fantastic job! I will also add to cacophony of voices: Simone has to watch The Iron Giant!!!!
"Ahnal nathrakh uthvas bethuud dochiel dienveh" is the sacred charm of making in Excalibur (1975). Also, Parzival and Daito's eyes glow red when they are confronting Sorrento, just like the replicants' in Blade Runner.
Dead on about Spielberg being able to call in favors to get all of the IP, but also, think about how many things he's directed or produced himself, or have fallen under his banner with Amblin and DreamWorks. If anyone in Hollywood has pretty much carte blanche, it's him.
well kinda sorta. Most of the IP falls under Warner Brothers. There's a few that don't but for the most part it's WB, the makers of the film. That's why the Iron Giant is used. It's not in the book but they changed it to a WB property.
@@Jumpman67 Oh I know. I'm saying, in addition to the stuff he has ownership over, if anyone can call in favors to get the rest, it's Spielberg. What production company is going to say no to Steven Spielberg?
The reason you weren't bothered by the book spoiling "The Shining" for you is because it was "War Games" in the book. Which is kinda a talkie teen adventure movie, and the reciting of scenes really doesn't break the movie from working (as well as it can) in full.
The Shining was released in February 1980, it really isn't an 80s movie at all. Spielberg just likes Kubrick. The quest gets solved by someone who hasn't even seen the movie. Hardly in the spirit of the perfection Halliday was looking for. Flicksyncs is such a great idea.
@@andrewgrant6516 Spielberg likes Kubrick but like most changes in this movie, The Shining is a WB property. War Games is not. It's a lot easier to use WB properties without paying large licensing fees and going through a ton of legal loopholes.
In regards to driving backwards in the race, to be fair, youd have to go ALL IN, "pedal to the metal" as he said, meaning risk zeroing out and losing everything in a car crash. Its not airtight, but makes a lil more sense why it might notve opened yet Overall, for how much nostalgia bait this movie is, noone does it better or deserves it more than Spielberg
I saw this in the theater... I forgot how good it actually was!! As a 30-year resident of Columbus, OH, I am disappointed that none of it was shot here. Just a couple of composite skyline shots.
Oh yes it's well known that Stephen King didn't like Stanley kubrick's movie adaptation of the shinning mostly because he felt that the book is warm were the movie felt cold to him and he disliked a supernatural choice he made in the film also
Dude, this movie is awesome but as usual the book is better. What does that say when the movie is this good? I recommend the enhanced audiobook version. It is *amazing.* Will Wheaton is a surprisingly good narrator and whenever anything is referenced, a soundbite of that thing plays. They also play some amazing music during important scenes sometimes.
I love when audiobooks go the extra mile and take advantage of the different medium. There's a pretty good fan made one on RU-vid for The Martian with sound effects and different voice actors. Pretty impressive... My favorite audiobook is World War Z. Different actors playing the interviewer and interviewee is such a small thing, but makes all the difference.
@@lashier13 I'm gonna have to check those out. Loved RP1 and RP2. Also Will Wheaton read Armada from same author and you can feel this guys love for the 80s even in armada.
The music was composed by Alan Silvestri who also composed the music for the Back to the Future trilogy and the Avengers movies. In case you needed another reason to love it!
I would love yall to see Tomorrowland. It's directed by Brad Bird.....who also did The Iron Giant! And The Incredibles. It's flawed....I'm convinced his vision was marred by studio meddling. But it's still one of my favorites.
I know this movie is supposed to be a celebration of all things nerdy, geeky and cool but to me it just feels so cynical and pandering. "Let's just shotgun every reference ever into it, maybe then the viewer will find at least one thing to like" seems to have been the design ethos. Spielberg putting out a lukewarm YA novel movie was a big misstep IMO. It's also shocking that Spielberg, known for a pretty clean and focused visual style made a movie that in some parts equals the Michael Bay Transformers movies in horrible messy visual noise.. edit. For me it all just boils down to this: I don't really enjoy watching a film filled with references to way better movies. It just makes me regret not choosing to watch those better flicks..
@@lucidiously Totally agree I think the reason people like it so much is they think VR is cool and they like the references. Other than that though its very generic.
@@NecessaryTruths The references are the shining tinsel the movie wants the viewer to focus on because nothing inherently interesting or new is happening in the actual narrative.
This movie is fun, but as George mentioned a lot of the puzzles are things people would've figured out in a day. For example 1982's Swordquest was all about that cryptic stuff and people figured it out with good ol fashion get your pencil and paper out. The Swordquest competition was fun in that it allowed people to get real treasure in gold and jewels, there were multiple releases and trials, but the 4th game never released meaning the final reward of the sword was never rewarded to anyone. When you actually pay attention though Haliday is a creep and not really a good person, in the book too he fires people just for not knowing the pop culture stuff he likes. 2nd Book is also terrible in developing Wade and makes him into an asshole that gets rewarded for being one. Oh yeah, you guys should def check out Iron Giant. It's a classic.
This reaction managed to do something for me the movie did not. It made me appreciate the movie. I'm 50, and I grew up in the 70s and 80s, so most of the references in the book hit home with me and it's a huge nostalgia fest, coupled with a lovely story. It's one of my favorite books - even after having read the horrendously awful sequel, Ready Player Two. The film version removed so much of what made the book work that I actively hated the film. What your reaction gave me was the gift of seeing it through the eyes of a younger generation of gamers. While you may not get all the references that were left (or replaced) you get the gamer aspect of it, and Simone's response to Halliday and Og was everything it should be. Which reminds me... Please do not ever read Ready Player Two. It's proof positive that Ernest Cline is a one-hit wonder who doesn't even understand what made his own book so special. But please do read Ready Player One. It's way more involved and goes so much deeper into every aspect. Plus, the Audible is wonderfully performed by Wil Wheaton, which is an added geek bonus.
Tbh I read Ready Player Two and... actually rather enjoyed it. Sure it doesn't have the freshness of Player One but overall is similar stuff (and the same critical mauling). Beauty is the eye of the beholder...
@@ratspike8017 My biggest gripe with it, besides its utter lack of charm - (spoiler alert) was what he did to Halliday. It was such a lazy cliché and did the character dirty. I've read all of Cline's books. RP1 is the ONLY good one. The rest are lazy, derivative trash, or in the case of Armada, a complete rip-off of The Last Starfighter.
Will we get more female led films? Death Becomes Her, The Witches of Eastwick, She-Devil, First Wives Club, Anaconda, Out of Sight, The Cell, Enough, What Lies Beneath, As Good As it Gets.
Hearing you talk about Simon Pegg made me realise that you would both *love* Spaced. I know this channel is mainly for movie reactions these days but even if it's in your own time I'd recommend you give it a watch! So many movie references in that, and lots of familiar faces for you both I'm sure.
I'm really glad you two enjoyed this. If you enjoyed the book, I'd also recommend Ready Player Two. It's a rather fascinating continuation in a way that makes sense. Much like Ready Player one, some humour, some heart-hitting moments, all in all, worth the read.
Yes, Stephen King famously HATED the Kubrick adaptation. The book is /essentially/ the same story but the film leaves out or glosses-over major plot points (like Jack's deep struggle with alcoholism) and changed the ending.
This is the worst Spielberg movie ever. I read the book, which was O.K, and thought : Spielberg will make a medium good book into a fantastic movie. Oh Boy, did I fail. The movie is just crap.
Definitely 100% agree you should read the book. But whatever you do... *DO NOT* read the sequel, Ready Player Two. Not only is it horrible, it sours the first book/movie.
There was A LOT changed from the book for the movie, but all in all, I very much enjoyed both. One thing you might like to know tho, in the book, I'm pretty sure Artemis/Samantha was Canadian. Also, recently the sequel book came out - Ready Player Two. I'm seriously hoping they make it into a sequel movie to this.
Ideally, people should always see a movie before reading the book it's based on. Books are always better. So see the movie first, then go read the book, that way you can fully enjoy both. Every single time I read first, i get pissed off at movies for changing things.
Now that I've both seen the movie and read the novel I can say that both are pretty awesome in their own right. But they overlap only on the premises, some names, and a handful (at best) of the geek factoids. Everything else was completely redesigned for the movie. Mind you, I'm not saying that either is terrible but one doesn't have a lot in common with the other. The book is mental stimulation all over the 80's trivia. The movie is action based, mostly around computer and video games; nearly all the other trivia is ignored in the movie because it just wouldn't be understood by a lot of the audiences, sadly enough.
"I don't remember this" because 75% of this doesn't happen in the book xD also nerd card revoked for not understanding the zemmekis cube! the musical cue made me tear up in the cinema lol
WAIT WHAT!?!?! I could of sworn I saw y'all guys react to The Iron Giant before. I could be mistaken seeing I do watch a handful of movie reaction channels and I know a few have watched it already. Y'all should definitely watch it. It's based on a 100ish paged children's book of the same name. It is a bit different from the book though. It's still good. Just make sure y'all have a box of tissues.
Hey CineBinge crew since you watch Ready Player One it would be a good idea to The Iron Giant 1999 its an underrated movie and its great to watch during the fall season 🍁
I love that they included Halliday's construct saying "Thank you for playing my game." A nearly direct quote of the late Satoru Iwata of Nintendo, thanking gamers for finding joy in his works. IMO this movie is about the mutual love that exists between people who create art and the people who admire it, derived of their mutual love of the art itself, hence the answer to the final challenge being the hidden name credit of Warren Robinett, hidden for the benefit of players who loved playing Adventure enough to discover the name of the man who had made the thing from which they got so much joy.
