[quote quote=983]The Movie “Ready Player One” looks like it’s making a decent attempt at showcasing a lot of the swirling thoughts of VR:

I expect it to be kind of a corny kid/tween movie, I hope it’s better than that
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Me too, but I’ve given up hoping that movie adaptations will live up to the promise of the original material. If the movie version of “Ready Player One” helps legitimise and spread awareness of the potential of VR to people who otherwise wouldn’t have taken VR seriously, it will have done justice to the original book.

I’ll believe it’s not just another film that exploits some poorly misunderstood but perfectly respectable concept when I see it. I well remember the pointless mysticism and wild public misconceptions around shit like “Doom”, and “Dungeons and Dragons” back in the day. I remember the premise of the 1980’s film film “Weird Science”, that one of those new witchcraft “computers” was a perfectly acceptable mechanism for a woman to be conjured out of nowhere, and for it to start snowing in someone’s bedroom.

I want “Ready Player One” to be responsible and realistic in its depiction of VR. If it’s actually a good film on top of that, that’s a bonus.