When it was published in 2011, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One got a fairly warm reception as a diverting mashup of pop culture, gaming, and accessible quest narrative, wrapped up in a warm, comforting blanket of nostalgia for the ephemera of the 1970s and 80s. Over the past seven years, its reputation has proven much more divisive, in part because of Cline's subsequent work, but mostly because the kind of geek culture he celebrated has become much darker and more complicated. Matt and Ed talk about all that in regards to the film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, as well as Amazon's big-budget TV gambles and the dystopian potential of Birmingham.
00:00:00 - 00:25:48 - Intro & News
00:25:49 - 01:09:15 - Matt & Ed discuss Ready Player One
01:09:16 - 01:17:06 - SRS Recommends & Outro
301. School
300. Ed's Birthday 2020
299. When Will Movies Come Back?
298. Best of the Year So Far
297. Olivia de Havilland
296. Movies and Video Games
295. Don't Go to Movie Theatres. Wear A Mask. This Isn't Hard.
294. The "Value" of the Canon
293. The Brands Are At It Again
292. Books About Films
291. Coming of Age Stories
290. Pick n Mix
289. Favourite Actors
288. Rewriting History
287. Underrated Performances
286. Writers' Rights
285. Art We Left Behind
284. CoronArt
283. Films as Time Capsules
282. COVIDeodrome
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