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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1677720/
http://www.readyplayeronemovie.com/

In a dystopic future akin to Brave New World - (1932 book), by Aldous Huxley, everyone is lost in a virtual reality, playing a game to take control of the world's largest corporation.

This movie is parasitic to the childhoods of old men and permanent-children. It's worth a watch if you're over 40, otherwise it'll be a fairly confusing mess of references.

• Inspired by Ready Player One - (2011 book), by Ernest Cline

• 1:45 -- Pizza Hut

• 2:30 -- 2027

  • Corn syrup
  • Drought
  • Bandwidth (computing)
  • Riot
  • Columbus, Ohio - United States
• 2:45 -- 2045

• 3:30 -- Virtual reality

  • .. and where in the fuck are they getting that bandwidth from? Did they recover from the "bandwidth riots"?
• 4:15 -- Batman
• 6:15 -- So.. this is for gamers, and what about all the casuals?
• 6:30 -- That soldier is a reference to the guy in the opening cutscene of StarCraft - (1998/2017 game).
• 7:00 -- This is entirely impossible. Casuals can't deal with combat, letalone grinding, letalone death, letalone death mechanics like that.
• 8:00 -- Those are Star Trek references, made in flowers.
• 11:45 -- He's driving a Monster truck
• 12:15 -- That's a DeLorean DMC-12, a reference to Back to the Future - (1985 movie)
• 13:00 -- That's a light cycle, from Tron - (1982 movie)
• 13:45 -- Twitch
• 13:00 -- That dinosaur is likely a reference to Jurassic Park - (1993 movie)
• 15:00 -- That ape is likely a reference to King Kong
• 15:15 -- That's the Batmobile from the original Batman (TV series)[doesn't exist]
• 17:00 -- The Iron Giant - (1999 movie)

• 17:30 --

  • Battlestar Galactica
  • Aliens - (1986 movie)
  • Silent Running - (1972 movie)
  • Dune - (1984 film)

• 18:15 --

  • Percival
  • Holy Grail
  • Artemis
  • GoldenEye 007 - (1997 game)
  • Oddjob
  • Hot Pockets
  • Chuck E. Cheese's
  • Video Killed the Radio Star
  • The Buggles
  • Take On Me
  • A-ha
  • Superman - (1978 movie)
    -- Though I'm not sure which in the series that quote is from.
  • Lex Luthor
• 20:00 -- McFly is the main character in Back to the Future - (1985 movie)
• 21:30 -- Yeah, all men are bad and all women are good.
• 29:00 -- That's the lead from Killjoys - (2015 show)
• 30:00 -- The holy hand grenade is from Rabbit of Caerbannog / Monty Python and the Holy Grail - (1975 movie)

• 30:00 -- Is that in-game currency not worth real-world money?

  • .. it buys real-world objects.. so.. yes.
• 31:00 -- That tentacle with the knob on the end is a bad guy from The War of the Worlds - (1953 movie)

• 31:45 --

  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Tabbouleh(?)

• 33:15 -- Tootsie Pop

  • God this has so many throwback references.. it was definitely made for people over 30.
• 34:30 -- Steve Jobs
• 35:15 -- Wired (magazine)
• 35:45 -- That's a bad guy from Mortal Kombat
• 36:00 -- That's an alien from Alien - (1979 movie)
• 38:00 -- The Dark Crystal - (1982 movie)
• 40:15 -- He's rich and famous and powerful, and a good catch.

• 41:00 --

  • Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video)
  • Duran Duran
  • Buckaroo Banzai - (1984 movie)

• 45:30 -- Well I know the one on the right is Tracer (Overwatch)

  • I wonder how many other dumbass references are throughout this movie.. fuck man, there are a lot of old man references.

• 53:45 --

  • Defender (1981 video game)
  • Millennium Falcon, from Star Wars - (1977 movie)
• 54:30 -- John Hughes(?)

• 54:45 --

  • The Breakfast Club - (1985 movie)
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off - (1986 movie)
  • Animal House - (1978 movie)
  • Tab (drink)
  • Robotron: 2084
  • Duran Duran
• 1:00:30 -- Of course she's pretty. And yes, I thought that before and during the great reveal of that spot.

• 1:03:30 --

  • A remake of The Fly - (1986 movie) - which I haven't seen or otherwise don't know of.
  • Say Anything... - (1980 movie)
  • The Shining (film) - (1980 movie)
  • Stephen King
• 1:18:00 -- So I already figured out the magic wall and magic spell thing, related to the offer of unlimited weapons and spells if he works for them. Now we've got the unreasonable love and damsel in distress setup prepared.

• 1:19:45 -- Atari 2600

  • Centipede (video game)
  • Joust (video game)
  • Pitfall!
  • Pitfall II: Lost Caverns
  • Swordquest
• 1:23:45 -- So is the Iron Giant important for punching through the shield?

• 1:28:30 --

  • Nancy Drew
  • Kegel exercise

• 1:31:00 --

  • Gary Gygax
  • The Iron Giant - (1999 movie)

• 1:33:45 -- various games:

  • Bridge
  • Dice Puzzle
  • Dragon Treasure
  • Motocross
  • Swordquest
  • Raquetall
  • Winter Games
  • (?)c Voyage
    -- Off to the left

• 1:33:45 --

  • Breakout (video game)
  • Dark Cavern = Night Stalker (video game)
  • Adventure (Atari 2600)(?)

• 1:35:45 -- Various teams of video game and comic book characters.

  • I also saw a mech from the BattleTech / MechWarrior universe.

• 1:37:30 --

  • Warren Robinett
  • Easter egg (media)
• 1:37:30 -- USPS
• 1:38:45 -- That's Chucky (Child's Play)
• 1:43:00 -- I can't remember what that grenade is a reference to, but it seems familiar.
• 1:45:00 -- That death is an homage to Terminator 2 - Judgment Day - (1991 movie)
• 1:47:30 -- There's a wide shot of the game board, which I'm not going to photograph and decipher.

• 1:49:00 -- "Hadouken" and that ability is a reference to Street Fighter.

  • He's pulling martial arts, and a superpower, out of his ass.

• 1:49:15 -- Casual misandry.

  • I'm disappointed..
• 1:52:00 -- Doritos

• 1:55:30 -- Mario Kart