The Reel Rejects - READY PLAYER ONE (2018) IS EASTER EGG GALORE! FullBreakdown & Review!

Episode Date: September 28, 2025

INTO THE OASIS!!! Going to therapy is a sign of strength, not weakness. My sponsor BetterHelp makes therapy simple, with 10% off your first month to help you get started: https://betterhelp.com/thereelrejects Ready Player One Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Hot on the heels of an Iron Giant rewatch, Greg & Aaron immerse themselves in the pop-culture-riddled world of The Oasis, giving their Ready Player One Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Breakdown, & Spoiler Review! Greg Alba & Aaron Alexander dive into Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One (2018), the visually explosive adaptation of Ernest Cline’s bestselling sci-fi novel. Set in the dystopian year 2045, the story follows Wade Watts / Parzival (Tye Sheridan, X-Men: Apocalypse, Mud), a teenager escaping his bleak reality by immersing himself in the OASIS — a sprawling virtual reality universe where people can be anyone and do anything. When OASIS creator James Halliday (Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies, Dunkirk) dies, he leaves behind a contest: whoever finds his hidden Easter Egg inherits his fortune and control of the OASIS. Joining Wade are Olivia Cooke (Thoroughbreds, House of the Dragon) as Art3mis/Samantha, Lena Waithe (Master of None, Westworld) as Aech/Helen, Win Morisaki as Daito, and Philip Zhao as Sho. Opposing them is corporate villain Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Dark Knight Rises), who will stop at nothing to seize control of the OASIS. The film also features Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Mission: Impossible series) as Halliday’s partner Ogden Morrow. Spielberg fills Ready Player One with jaw-dropping references and famous pop culture moments — from the epic The Shining hotel sequence, to the giant Mechagodzilla vs. Iron Giant battle, to iconic cameos like the DeLorean from Back to the Future and countless video game and movie Easter eggs. With dazzling visuals, a nostalgic soundtrack, and a thrilling commentary on escapism and corporate control, Ready Player One delivers a fan-favorite blend of action, adventure, and geek culture celebration. Join Greg & Aaron as they react, comment, and break down every thrilling twist, nostalgic Easter egg, and Spielberg-level spectacle in this Ready Player One Reaction & Review! Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I had some flaws for sure. Some stuff was a little lacking on the side of, you know, exploring what this reality was as far as how it affected people. It didn't really seem like the story had an interest in that, even though that's what it established itself as. some stuff was a little convenient underdeveloped overall you know the member berries the journey itself and uncovering the creator's

you know intentions was it was a good journey it was fun overall but yeah not a perfect film but enjoyable I'd say well what you man I mean it's pretty clear how I was feeling

during the I think I've made a very obvious story. It's a fun, yes. I mean, it's a fun movie. If you show up just for like the fun of like, you know, being like, hey, I know that. And, you know, there's like some great, there's some great visuals and some great action in there. And, you know, all things being said, the, the main characters are reasonably likable. And, you know, it's, if it sets out to just be.

Simply entertaining with a little bit of heart here and there, drizzled in. It just, I couldn't help but feel the potential of a deeper story that seemed like it was wanting to peek through most of it. And instead they were like, no, this is making fun. Let's just keep having fun. And then even with like characters, like those two Asian guys at the end, the way they come in, you're like, I feel like these were supposed to be bigger reveals and, you know, this hyper cliche corporate bad guys. I felt like the real world was really missing a personality.

And, yeah, I was like, I need something to care for here. I don't even really, I was here going like, yeah, the oasis, go save it. Because of reasons. Never felt like swept up in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I never felt like I was wanting to. you know i was like hardcore rooting or cheering and the saving grace of the movie is a lot of the visuals and of course like the references to the different video games and the action scenes like

that's the real star of this movie or the action scenes i think the best performances are michael rylins and olivia cook um tie sheridan i think so reasonably all right lead um you know yeah i give it like a 70 percent 75 percent around there i'd say 70 percent yeah solid thumbs up yeah i would be it would be a fresh rotten tomato theme not glowing for me but reasonable reasonably good it's an entertaining time it's at the end of the day as long as you're not boring that's all i really give a shit about and there's nothing like egregiously bad or really offensive about it in any way so i like nothing that it just didn't provoke any strong feelings for a film

that is so trying to be like hyperstimuli, you know. I wonder if fans of the book were satisfied with this. I highly doubt. We wouldn't know. What did they just read? Like, then the Ninja Turtles were there and Freddie Kruger was there and Harley Kuhn was there. And then it went into the show. Come on.

You know the book. I'd have much more meaning. Oh, for sure. Like, hey, who knows? Maybe one day they'll adapt it into a series or something, like a mini series. That would be much cooler, yeah. Yeah, because like it does have the opportunity to be a commentary on like corporate manipulation of the real world of how they're using these artificial forms of connection. But then also finding like with the mute merit in that and having a debate about the good and the bad of having this type of connection.

Like there are pros and cons to it. But it does just become about find the egg. You know, get the Easter egg. Yeah. We're just on a good thing. We're just on a video game. We're just on a video game adventure. That's what it's really about.

And then they try to, like, hammer it home with a message about altruism and spending more time in the real world. I'm like, you gave me nothing to care about in the real world. They never fought for the argument of why anyone would want to spend more time outside of the video game. Yeah. The ending feels like a little bit of a, I guess, over-simple solution. Like, yeah, we'll just shut it down for a couple days, you know, get people activated to the real world. But you guys, the other seven, five days, you guys can play. You guys get weekends off, your equivalent of a weekend off the game.

On a random Tuesday and Thursday. Yep. The days you guys dread the most in this world is because you're forced to take them off. It just seems like you want to do those days like back to back instead. It's like an inconvenient time. Yeah, I just kind of wish, I wish that a little bit more meat. But I don't feel like most people showed up for that. Anyway, normally we don't do questions for these commentary videos.

but a post went out to our patrons and I'd feel like it's messed up if we didn't answer these questions. So let's go into it. Andrew Nickerson. All right. I love the book and realized that when they made a movie

that they would change things due to copyright. The biggest change for me was instead of the shining, the book had the characters reenactment the movie War Games, Black Mirror style. What classic movie would each of you

choose to visit virtually? Oh man, I would love to go into the Harry Potter. movies. Yeah, that would be really cool. I wouldn't want to do a horror movie. That sounds like a terrible time. But yeah, the Harry Potter world? Why not? I don't know. I said, Warner Brothers owns Harry Potter. I'm surprised. There's like none of that in here. Yeah, maybe there were. It was just in the background somewhere. I think we would have seen it, man. He should have Harry zipping around and his like nimbus, whatever. And that'd be so cool. You know, Voldemort shows up if I can fight some mega Godzilla.

Or why wouldn't they include it in Harry Potter? They don't know. Maybe Spielberg hates Harry broader you know yeah but um i'd probably pick some like avatar this seems like it'd be really cool very naturey get to swing from trees and stuff be a navi just a fun just a different virtual world yeah more less yeah different digital world yeah man i can connect braids with somebody that'd be fun that's a weird experience yeah that's fun that's fun those are another one oh my god la pico i haven't seen your name in forever if this world was our reality not too far off, do you think you would find yourself in Oasis a lot

and what would your avatars be if you were to take part in it? It would just be me with a big bulge. Yeah. And some days I'm curly hair and some days I'm bald. It would be you in the Marriott for breakfast. I would just create a hotel of breakfast food.

Yeah, it'd probably be in the Oasis a lot. The Oasis seems really cool. Yeah. Maybe. If our world's as bad as their world, probably. Because, like, yeah, this world sucks. But I don't know. It's super, it's super, what's it called? Immersive. So I feel like there will be a lot of stuff to explore there. But I don't know. I feel like there's a lot of downside. I would have to, like, find a way to pace myself out being in a world like that. But, yeah, I would want to spend time there. And what would my avatar be if I'd have to. take part in it I don't know I'll probably be a superhero or something

I want to feel what it's like to be Spider-Man be Superman yeah like like David cornswet or

or black Superman David black sweat yeah yeah she'd David cornswit and black face

yeah I'm sure what I would do just shave my head David cornswet with cornrows you see like asking this question of like would you be in it a lot

I'm like man that's such a part of the movie that I wish they dealt with of like are there psychological repercussions to this you know like are there people who are anti oasis out there because of the escapism of the of it you know like I get it they wanted it's about video games so they made like it's about video games it seems like it's more about honoring movies than about doing video games and the it so they made a video game adventure like I understand that but it seemed like there was so much more room to explore something way more interesting than plot movie, you know.

It had a lot of effect on people's lives. And yeah, people were literally going to take themselves out because they couldn't win in the game. Or like, that seems like a very deadly thing for society. Yeah. Tying your success to a video game to your profits and success in real life. Like, it's a very slippery slope. Yeah, it's like I felt like the movie just had zero conversation about anything. And I think it just really missed an opportunity.

there. And I feel like the book, I don't know if the book has that conversation. I just feel like if it's a book, they must go a little bit deeper. Nike Penaunt, you've just won the Easter egg confidence that of inheriting Halliday's fortune in the Oasis. You're given the power to change one single rule of the Oasis.

What rule do you change and why? As a big gamer, I'm lowering the price of some of those in-app purchases and remove some ads. The one rule to change. I probably rather than taking individual days off the map entirely. I'd probably

limit the amount of hours you can be on per day. That way you can still get your escape at some time but also engage with the real world. I'd like that'd be a fair compromise. I wouldn't want some age restrictions. That's probably smart. Like I wouldn't want like a five year old

like what if I'm like beating the shit out of like 11 year old boy and I'm like oh damn I didn't know you're 11 year old boy cussing you out this whole time you know? Right. Like an age group pooling and like restricted access for those type of things that's probably smart like I don't want an 11 year old boy

I walk it into making out with the freaking old lady from the shot stowed by her I want some I want some parameter I'm the opposite of whatever this freedom choice is I'm like I look out for the youth I'd be very concerned about the youth

right now that's very valid yeah I wouldn't I'd probably agree with that but yeah also go outside please we need some balance as well Age restricting and balance. The movie seemed way more pro-stain Oasis as long as possible.

And then at the end they're like, you should be in the real world more often. I don't know if this movie at all was telling me to do that. Why would I? You know, great this place? Yeah. And it seemed like there was all these worlds

in the oasis that you could go to, but they stayed in this like one city, this one section and sometimes went to like ice place in volcano land. But, you know, like at the big, getting like Minecraft world and Batman and Gotham and so maybe you go to all these different you could go to like an avatar world but they were kind of limited on where they went they went to like a club I feel like if it was a longer form series you'd be able to explore the different world within this world but yeah because we have confined to two and a half hours we have to stay within whatever the racing area and the little areas we have yeah yeah all right mark leech hi guys I hope you're both doing well Spielberg came out and said they tried to limit having much of his own work in the film. Even cutting out the Holy Grail diary from The Last Crusade, which is something Wade carries

around in the books. No way, really. So instead he decided to shit all over the shining. My question is, is there something from a Spielberg film that you feel could have fit perfectly into the film? That's exactly what I was going to say. I was thinking the tripods or more of the worlds could have been interesting. Oh, that would have been dope.

Tripods are more of the world. No E.T. There's no E.T. would have been great. I think E.T. would have been a weird thing to throw in as a fighter. With jaws in the air, he was to fight a shark. Yeah, just flopping around. I'm like, you're just there in the ice. He's just there in the eyes and I come out.

Eat somewhere where we could do the jaws poster. That would be cool. Yeah, that would have been sweet. He's done like a billion movies. He could have Tom Hanks from Saving Private Ryan show up. You know Tom Hanks and Termin. all show up he could have austere schindler black and white

Abraham Lincoln show up I should have bought more coins um he could have had uh what else this city he's done no forest show up who forest gum oh forest gum forest gum running through would have been hilarious that would have been so funny

oh the holy grail diary would have been pretty cool um Indiana Jones would have been awesome actually yeah anything Indiana Jones would have been done But, yeah, someone with an Enyetta Joneskin would work. That would have been sweet. Yeah, I guess those are our choices. All right, here we go.

Kev B, what did Ready Player 1 make you think about when it comes to escaping into virtual worlds? Did Wade's journey make you reconsider how we balance living in fantasy versus facing the real world? Wade's journey made me think that this movie should have done this question. is what makes you think about what it comes to escaping in a virtual world i mean i have like a lot of thoughts about that but i mean we've kind of been talking about that a little bit here you know a lot of the conversation yeah yeah um didn't pre-re i mean do you have any more to elaborate on to that

we should have reserved any of our thoughts for these questions um yeah i don't know i feel i feel like there definitely should be some balance and yeah maybe some people should be allowed to to stay in the world longer than others for the safety of other people in the world. Yeah. And, yeah, I don't know. That's probably we covered a lot of it. So I feel pretty satisfied. Yeah, yeah.

Captain Fernandez. Okay, let's do another one here. If the Oasis were real, what would your avatar look like? Okay, if I were to do a second avatar pick. Ooh, I would want to be the predator. I'd be the spider from Wild Wild West, the big mechanical spider. Yeah, that'd be fun. I just want to be.

i don't know i want to be a cliche when you said spider man i'm like that'd be probably the coolest thing to be right just fucking be spider man dude i wouldn't you want to be spider man or when i went to new yorka back in 2021 i just imagine like oh my god this is what i played as

yeah i would love to swing through these buildings so i would love yeah when you're actually like in new york like in buildings at the highs you're like this would be terrified of spider me oh my god right my god crash and burn so easily this is really terrifying actually But, yeah, I think me and Spider-Man would be cool.

Superman, so I could just zip around the oasis would be cool. I mean, those are like the perfect picks. I'm surprised Superman wasn't in her. Pierre the Reject. What is your all-favorite film? I think you reacted to my favorite one, Minority Report. Yeah. That movie was dope.

Minority Report was awesome. That's a great science fiction world, Steven Spielberg movie. Yeah. Gotta put those in there, yeah. That's an actual, like, fully sci-fi. inhabited Spilber movie that has a lot to say, and it's an adaptation of a book. Yeah,

you could have had Tom Cruise and Forge Grump running, racing each other. That would have been excellent. Yeah, but I really love saving private Ryan. The movie was great. Oh, wow, great. Wow, really? I know, so original. Really? Really? Wow. Wow. Whoa, next to second would be Jurassic Park.

Oh, my second's actually terminal. I really, I really like... Oh, you actually genuinely really like the terminal? Yeah, I watched it on a plane. I'm like, this movie's great. It's a perfect plane movie It's like me plane movie You know what? Yeah

I was thoroughly surprised And I was very invested It's such an airport promotion movie Like you don't want to watch a plane movie on the plane Did terrible things happen to planes and plane movies But a terminal makes you feel safe It does I feel very safe

And I cared about him a lot in that movie You walk out of the terminal And I go to baggage claim You're like I'm like that guy in that movie I watch It's pretty cool i made it i can go into the city i don't have to be stuck in the airport but yeah i'm living his life yeah yeah man good pick good tick all right reject nation time to put the real in real rejects um

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But it's a lot darker than the movie version See What does that that mean? Steven Spielberg trying to lighten it up We gotta bring it back down Make a sadder Like one of the kids actually gets killed I would have loved that

Oh come on Kill these kids Killed them all Not having seen the movie Now haven't seen the movie Do you think a different director Would have been better Do you like the direction

The Spilberg one It didn't feel Like Spielberg has a lot of versatility Like, we listed, like, saving private Ryan and Terminal and Minority Report, none of those feel like the same movie. Very different styles. But there's something that feels like Steven Spielberg about them still.

Even Jurassic Park that, like, wonder behind it, you know? And this did feel like, I don't know if he actually directed this film, you know? It feels like the ADHD version of that wonder. Because there's just a lot. Kind of, yeah. And rather than letting you live and soak into the characters and like the stuff that you're watching, it's just all happening really fast until the next time it's on screen.

And because it's so overstimulating with all the stuff that's happening, it makes the real world feel dull in comparison with a combination of it not really exploring these more interesting themes about how our relationship to technology and how we spend our time. Yeah, well, the oasis action scenes feel straight up like, um, video game art director did it and i'm like i don't know if spilberg actually directed these scenes probably his most cg i heavy movie yeah it's like the completely digital world was like i get the sense cameron actually directs those those avatar movies right whereas no i'm like this feels like some other guy to that's just the impression i get like it doesn't actually feel the real

world's scenes have the cinematography of a lot of spillberg movies but there is kind of like a missing personality like it it felt a little bit very surface level even its heart didn't feel like it was like kind of felt like i felt like i felt the heart i felt it especially in the last like 10 minutes but there's something about the heart that didn't feel like weirdly it felt like an artificial heart that i was enjoying you know um so yeah there was something like off about it to me i don't know maybe i'm just older we're cynical now what's too many movies If there were awesome Joe If there was a place

Created for us like the Oasis What Avatar would you like to create for yourselves to be? I'd love to be Tom Cruise Just Up as Batman welding a lightsaber Wow That's very fun I was how most of these questions are not about the actual movie Yeah

It's how press jokes work for movies people don't like Yeah Like we got so many questions And 90% of them are like Nothing to do in the actual movie They're just like Hey if the Oasis existed what avatar would you like to give yourselves to be i mean yeah this we've had a lot of these

avatar questions yeah okay okay all right option three let's go baby um i would love to be um uh who would be a good one who would be a unique one to be here oh bad man i would love to be just bad man i just want to be a competent character yeah oh i'd be plastic man Poussinian seems like it'd be fun. I'd be an invisible woman, so I could, you know, just see what everyone else is doing all the time. Yeah, I'm just trying to spy on them. You have to keep your breath down, though. I just can't.

Because people can't hear you breathe if you're invisible. Just got to, like, not breathe. The rules were confusing, too, because it's like, you know when the bad guy, he has like, wait a minute, this is in my world. He can't, he can't, like, feel the glasses? What do you mean? The glasses on his head. Yeah. That's how he like lifts them up.

So couldn't he like detect like, oh, this is not. Oh, the sensation. You'd be able to feel the sensation. He was locked in. He was immersive. They make it feel immersive. But Homeboy at the end was like going, hold on, Mark Rylens.

I need to go roundhouse kick this person. Boop. You know. Steve's football doesn't want you to think about. He's hearing all the guys died, you know. Rules were inconsistent. They were. Allie.

Was there. reference you didn't recognize that now you're curious to know more about. Yeah, the Buccaroo Bonsai. I didn't understand that at all. That was one. I guess a few. I didn't know what that video game was at the end that he was

playing. That he won. Adventure. Yeah, adventure. Never heard of that game before. Looks like the most stimulating experience. Yeah. There's just a lot of visually dense stuff. I don't know. Dude, there was like so many things I was looking at them.

I'm like, I don't even know if that's a reference. It's like, I don't even know if this is a character for something, you know? Yeah. Are you supposed to, yeah, delineate between what, like, member bears and what's just visuals on the screen? What's in the Matrix and what's in the real world? Allie, as a pop culture nerd who loves Spielberg, I was very excited when he made a movie from one of my favorite books. I squealed at every nostalgic reference from my childhood. Which reference was your favorite?

I have a feeling people are going to hate me in this video. um this everyone seems very enthusiastic about it a favorite reference uh i mean the mecca godzilla i don't know if it's a reference but the meca godzilla and god's uh and uh gundom fight was pretty awesome although the car the delorean and kong was actually my favorite that that was that was so thrilling i'd watch that scene over and over again that whole that whole chase that was a brilliant chase the michael bay ninja turtles hell yeah we watched those together We did.

Those are the turtles you want in there. Yep. The exact version. Yeah. A better version. There was someone in the Oasis who was like, those are my turtles. Yep. Those.

Like those big turtle lips. Like that. Yeah. They have as cool. Yeah. But I don't know. I think it was cool to see the, it was cool to see the back girl in there. Obviously, Iron Giant was great.

Yeah. I think they have, those are speed racer in there? I don't know. There's a lot of stuff. Hello Kitty and her friend I don't remember seeing that the first time Girl loves Hello Kitty and stuff So yeah I would say those are all

All the things that I liked I like oh Adam West Batmobile That was pretty cool to see And the way to reveal that was pretty awesome too Yeah I really did like how they made the T-Rex And Mecca Godzilla and Kong feel big and scale And massive

Especially how they handled Kong was really awesome to me Yeah Because like with those they feel like the character like Kong especially feels like the character Kong is there whereas everyone else is kind of just wearing the skin but they're not the actual characters yeah you know it's literally just

the avatar but yeah if they had the personality it would be like oh this is tough it's more impactful yeah if it's the character actually in there that that that was that's I think it's maybe how they can get away with all these things even with licensing is like oh they're just they're not the actual character they're just look like them um whereas like Kong

it seems like it was a character built in to be exactly Kong and that's why I think that's why I think that one works like really cool to me. I wish Iron Giant felt like Iron Giant but it was still cool to see him. Yeah, yeah, he's a big. Jaden Rhodes, being a big gamer

in my teen years, this movie felt like it was made for me. Happy to hear that. But the one thing that disappointments that I've rewatched this movie three or four times since it came out and every time I come out, this movie, it feels like a slog. Oh my God. So it finally doesn't make me feel alone here. I think I landed on the reason. We need it's about 15

to 20 minutes too long and drive. in the same act do you all have the same issue with this movie yes it felt a little too long for me yeah yeah i mean i really didn't feel like it felt like two hours and 20 minutes and it didn't feel like it was that long but it certainly does feel like there's stuff that they're the movie's not interested in exploring but they feel like they have to have these beats in there and so they're they do it with the most i feel like the filmmakers behind it were uninterested in doing a lot of scenes but they had to do them. I felt like maybe it wasn't too long.

I think it was some of the beats that they wanted to hit felt a little rushed and other stuff they wanted to touch on felt a little too long. So it felt disproportient. Yeah. So if we had more time to develop some of these relationships, I feel like what had made it feel like a more balanced experience because it doesn't feel balance, it feels longer. Because like, yeah, when he said, I love you, I'm like, damn, we just like just met this chick like 10 minutes ago.

So it didn't feel earned. and then obviously the stuff with the family happened really quickly you saw us commenting we didn't really feel emotionally yeah we had a shit about it yeah yeah we had one scene of her and one scene she was awful she's awful they're both awful so yeah I feel like there was more to let this breathe

it would feel more balance and I think it's feeling more balanced in turn makes it not feel as long yeah this movie had to seem like it sacrificed a lot for runtime but the movie that was already like reasonably long so yeah I'm there with you man Michael withina Katheria. Hey, guys, I was a gamer. This movie makes me so happy with all that game references and cameos in the background.

Glad it works. There's enough to overwhelm. This movie takes on themes of escapism that I use your videos for. Thank you. What is your favorite form in escapism? What would you like to go to in the online universe of Ready Player 1? We have explored that letter part question kind of a bit. Favorite form of escapism in real life?

um as weird as it sounds television honestly like i i've been watching i was talking about erin earlier i've been watching last man on earth and uh escaping into that has been just like a great way to change my state around especially when i can sometimes come home very stressed and uh that that has been like a great like i've been loving that uh yeah that'll probably be my favorite way uh to do it yeah i would honestly say the same by the things i've been watching at home. Well, one, obviously, social media, but that's a whole other can of

worms. That's a slippery slope to where this movie heads. But I think that, again, I know that my favorite things I've been watching as of recently have been Dexter on my own time. I'm finally getting that for the first time. And being Andrew watched an episode

of the show, Barry, every night. Oh, yeah. It's our nightly ritual until we finish the season. So that's what's been happening in my life lately. Have you seen Eddington? I think 10? Yeah, I did Did you like it? I did I loved it

I think it's my favorite movie the year Really? Yeah Oh yeah I think about it Every day Since I randomly put it on two weeks I randomly bought it Because I was like

I'm just gonna put something on to pass the time That I wasn't even planning on finishing it That's why I bought it Because I was like I'll just like cut it in half And I was like I thought about it every single day since Wow It's the only movie this year

There's other movies I watched And I was like I'm gonna think about this all the time And I didn't Sinners weapons You know But he said for some reason, I just can't stop thinking about. Wow, that's like, obviously I won't get into it here. But that's like two different movies.

Like, there's a definitive point. We're like, okay, this is another movie. Yeah, and I love that, though. I'm so for it. Yeah. That's why I love it. It was like, this is such a strange film. Yeah, man, it's awesome.

I don't know if people saw it. People would want to react to that or not. But I think it's a fun. It's a, not, yeah. Yeah, it's an interesting experience. Very unique for sure. I mean, yeah, because, like, what we do here? You know, you're kind of in and out of awareness

that there's a camera with you, you know? So, but at home, that's when it is like the truly immersive time for us, right? Yeah. That are movies, theaters. Residence Z. I remember being hyped for this movie because I'm a gamer, and I neither are going to be a bunch of references to different games. My question isn't really related to the movie,

but what are your favorite games of all time? Hope you enjoy the movie. I know I did. Yeah, well, I think I'm the worst candidate for the, Being part of this reaction experience. Games of all time. Last of Us 1 and 2. Spider-Man Web of Shadows,

the Spider-Man PS4 games, Dragon Bowsey, Budakai Tenkaiichi, all of the Uncharted games. Nice. And Rocket League. Those are my favorite games. Hell, yeah. Last of Us 2 is my all-time favorite game.

And I say Metal Gear Solid. I haven't played Metal Gear Solid 3. in probably like 15 years or something so I don't really know if it'd still be my favorite but for the longest time I did cite that as my favorite game until Last of Us 2 took a spot but I'd be curious that go back and see if Metal Gear Solid 3 would still be it

Metal Gear Solid was undoubtedly the game that got me into games so that franchise is particularly special to me you should see if they remastered it so you can play on your PS5 yeah I want to go I want to buy that but I want to like start from the beginning not the way beginning the way beginning is like

fucking you know systems I don't care to like because there's like a bunch of metal gear games then there was metal gear solid oh yeah that's when like the game really took off and it was like PlayStation so I would just start from there I wouldn't want to do those like 16 bit games

I'm like clearly just playing this so I could finally get to the good game yeah but yeah anyway Royal Rejects thanks for the cues much appreciated um yeah I was honest about how I felt

and I'm trying not to apologize for everything in my life so hey that's how I felt and if given this a 70% is not high enough for you deal with the honesty Aaron

Aaron gave it a 99% so give him all the love in the comments I love everything. Yeah he loves everything doesn't this any only dislikes the things that other people dislike. See you guys you guys Thank you.