Ready Player One: w/ Geek Freaks on Nostalgia Overwhelming

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Frank from the Geek Freaks Podcast Network joins Melvin to discuss a nostalgic hit from 2018, Ready Player One! From it’s barrage of “Do-You-Remember-That?” to it’s mix of live-action and CG storytelling, Spielberg takes us on a futuristic, rebellious journey through the Oasis!

Topics:

• (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 1-hour discussing all 34 MCU films ranked least-to-greatest as per the Rotten Tomatoes score rankings, sharing momentary thoughts and reflections on each entry since the beginning! (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
• Frank shares about his passion for podcasting, whether his own show or supporting others with theirs, and two “bucketlist” shows he’d love to make if time and money allowed.
• Regarding the book… both Frank & Melvin couldn’t finish it. In fact, they had barely started it before putting it down.
• The start of the film is an utterly bombastic, visually cluttered, overwhelming action set-piece that did not start Melvin off on the right foot. After about 20 minutes, things got better.
• Frank on the film’s heavy-handed commentary, “It’s like if Michael Bay were to make a Black Mirror.”
• Melvin wonders how a film predicated on nostalgia becomes its own marketable brand.
• Talking favorite Easter Egg challenges.
• Frank & Melvin agree: the Halliday B-Plot is the best.
• Frank & Melvin also agree: The Curator is super cool.
• Frank on the ending, “I would have appreciated if they just, like, had a stance and went for it.”.

Recommendations:

• Revisit Steven Spielberg’s filmography (Jaws, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, any Amblin film).
• The Crippled Masters (1979) (Movie)

Ready Player One is Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action violence, bloody images, some suggestive material, partial nudity and language. It features Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Ready Player One is available here.

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