by Trevor Sheffield In the language of film, no concept has been more esoteric or hard to translate than that of computers and the Internet. Whether it’s translating the binary into something ethereal and dreamlike à la 1982’s TRON, or using the language of code as a thinly veiled power fantasy under the guise of social commentary à la 1999s The Matrix, Hollywood has had a hard time adapting the concept of being online. Every few years, you see another attempt at taking something that has become as ubiquitous as breathing, and using it to help escape from the horrors of the real world…which more often than not arise directly because of technology. Regardless, this hasn’t stopped producers and writers from trying to crack the .com conundrum, leading to such works as 2017s The Emoji Movie and this year’s Ready Player One (which technically is a video game movie, but still), both agreed to be either just “okay” or “a god-awful trainwreck of product placement and tired references to immediately outdated content.” Whatever your stance, a new film trying to capitalize on the internet craze has come out, and not only does it dare to buck the trend of bad internet movies, it intends to smash it wide open. One could even say that it’s gonna wreck it.
“Ready Player One”, for people who hated “Ready Player One”
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