Wow, that was a terrible trailer.
The trailer gave me no idea whatsoever what it was I should be going to see; there’s a kid in a dystopian future, okay, and then - it’s Tron meets Speed Racer. CGI explosions! CGI explosions are in every movie now.
You’d never know from the trailer that there’s a reasonably interesting story in there.
Was the trailer aimed at people who have read the book (or at least have a general idea what it’s about), or at people who have not?
I’d hardly call Daito and Shoto main characters, given that they only show up every so often throughout the book. The only main character for certain is Wade, since the entire story is from his point of view. Everyone else is supporting cast at best.
As far as the trailer is concerned, it’s pretty clear it was meant to hype up the adaptation for fans of the book, who are already familiar with the story. Recent articles have mentioned that the movie is going to make a fair number of changes from the book for various reasons, so they’re probably keeping the story itself close to their chest for now.
Compare to the first trailer for The Force Awakens, which revealed literally nothing about the movie except that it was going to be a Star Wars movie, while later trailers went into more detail.
If the former, that’s an absolutely stupid trailer. People who liked the book don’t need it to be sold to them.
It’s the Comic Con teaser trailer–for an audience likely familiar with the book already (and of course to generate some buzz with a larger audience). I’m sure there will be a more expository trailer later to give those unfamiliar with the story a better idea of what it’s about.
Cut them some slack - they probably haven’t even finished shooting yet, let alone do much work on the special effects. The trailer was probably the best they could do with what little footage they had ready.
There was a LOT of criticism about Daisho when the book came out. Two Japanese
characters whose avatars are samurai and talk about honor in every scene? They’re pretty stereotypical and one-note, and I’m betting the studio thought there’d be some backlash.
We’re over six months from release. Typically, the earliest trailers just show scenes from the film to build intrigue/excitement, and about three months out from release they add a narrative and introduce characters.
A good example is the Thor:Ragnarok trailer we got three months ago (pretty much random fighting and shouting), compared to the one released last weekend.
You understand it, but you’re not thinking it through. You’re a newbie and create a planet-size avatar - and then? You’re a “low level wimpazoid” as Art3mis would say. To make the climb to 99 you need to go on quests and collect artifacts, maybe fight in the gladiator arenas - except you can’t because you’re an easily killed version of Galactus that won’t fit in a teleportation booth, on a ship, or in any of the environments designed for quest.
Bear in mind that that most of the people in Oasis stay on the initial world, a non-PvP zone where they can live glamorous lives as idealized versions of themselves without being harmed.
There will be a whole stack of trailers.
Huh, I only finished the book last week and they’re making a movie already? Cool, although I’m not sure what that race is all about.
Some of which may be explosive even.
OK thanks! So can you morph your avatar like when they were dancing? Or was that just a special feature of the party space?
I want to be able to watch this movie in full VR.
Here’s the SD Comic Con panel for the movie, including Spielberg, Cline, and a few of the lead actors:
Nothing very spoilery, so not much concerning the plot. Spielberg has said that he left out most references to his own movies (though of course he was producer on BTTF).How so?
Hmmm, there’s at least one other Matthew Broderick film that is far more critical.
Also just noticed that Ready Player One in my kindle library is no longer the familiar red cover with yellow block lettering; the cover is now the picture of the stacks from this trailer with white block lettering.
Yeah they need to get War Games before Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, at least if they care about being true to the source material (which they do not in any way appear to care about as you can see in the handy graphic below).
Here is the source material:X <---------------------------------far distance----------------------------------- keep going -----------------------more -----------bit more-----------------------------> Trailer
Yes, they were a bit one-note in the book. But what’s wrong with samurai avatars? That is exactly what a lot of Japanese boys would do. They could lose a lot of the lame dialogue though, I agree.
Also does anyone else think that guy talking to Lara Croft near the cars is Master Chief from Halo!?! Hope so.
In the linked trailer there is a QR code on the hood of a car at the 1:53 mark. I understand it goes to a IOI page but I can’t get the link to scan.