![]() ![]() “Ready Player One” tells a breathless and relatively coherent story - essentially, the future of civilization is riding on the outcome of a video game - but the movie, first and foremost, is a coruscating explosion of pop-culture eye candy. Every time a creature like that shows up (at one point, even the monster fetus from “Alien” makes a kind of palm-buzzer cameo), it’s entrancingly cool. Have no fear: In “Ready Player One,” there is plenty of vicarious fantasy combat, notably a war of the worlds that features the Iron Giant as well as the red-eyed, gleaming silver Mechagodzilla. All very trancy and romantic, though what good is virtual reality if you can’t wage an unholy battle in it? At a nightclub, Parzival and Art3mis boogie to “Staying Alive” on a floating disco floor and wind up literally dancing on air. He gets ready for the evening by morphing into assorted outfits - he tries on Prince, Michael Jackson, and a Duran Duran trench coat before settling on the shaggy suit and tie of Buckaroo Banzai. A bit later, Parzival goes on a date with Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), who is also an avatar, with punk-red hair and the oversize eyes of an anime kewpie doll. ![]()
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