Ready Player One, the last blockbuster by Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, Indian Jones), was released in cinemas in 2018. You can watch his fantastic sci-fi vision on TV tonight. We’ll explain to you why Ready Player One is so worth it.
3 reasons to watch Ready Player One on TV:
Reason 1: The dynamic action of Ready Player pushes you into the sofa
Above all, the race at the beginning of the film, which leads through the virtual online platform called OASIS, will take your breath away. Spielberg uses in the sequence every millimeter of the screen and gives us an authentic feeling for them speed race participants.
The film’s VR theme invites visual gimmicks, which the director is only too happy to accept: weightless dances, chaotic battles, dystopian cities: everything looks great in Ready Player One.
Reason 2: Steven Spielberg’s passion for science fiction worlds
Spielberg has mastered almost every genre, but he is particularly fond of science fiction. ET, War of the Worlds, Close Encounters of the Third Kind tell of contacts with extraterrestrials, Minority Report and AI create future scenarios. Ready Player One is his answer to the question of how virtual reality changes sensory experiences and how people live together.
Reason 3: The many Easter eggs in the sci-fi world
The science fiction film builds its plot on an adventurous search for three Easter eggs in the virtual world Oasis. Main character Wade (Tye Sheridan) races across the digital streets in the DeLorean from Back to the Future. This is one of the more obvious references to well-known films probably well over 100 references. The highlight in the maelstrom of references is definitely a sequence that takes place entirely in one of the most frightening horror films of all time.
Watch Ready Player One on TV and in the stream
The literary adaptation by Steven Spielberg will be this Friday, December 13, 2024 from 8:15 p.m. on ProSieben broadcast. The repeat runs Saturday night from 2:00 a.m. If you already have plans, you can currently stream the science fiction film with a Netflix subscription.
This article was first published in a similar form on Moviepilot in April 2022.