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Picture “Ready Player One” It was based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Klein and was released in 2018.
In it, the viewer is transported to the year 2045, where the world has become gray and monotonous, and technology has taken a huge step forward. People escape from boring everyday life in computer games with full immersion. The creator of the most popular of them – OASIS – hides his testament in it, an easter egg that only the best of the players can find.
The main character, an ordinary guy out of hundreds of the same, decides to join the fight for the prize.
The film is a kind of tribute to the popular culture of the 90s, 00s and 2010s with appropriate Easter eggs and musical accompaniment. Fans of fantasy will like it, and fans of the gaming industry will be especially pleased.
We picked 10 films that are similar in spirit to Ready Player One.
10 Avatar (2009)
“Avatar” James Cameron has long been the highest grossing film in film history. Recently, the Avengers will move him, and even then purely technically, so the picture about the “blue men” is definitely worth familiarizing yourself with.
The action takes place on the planet Pandora, where people from Earth have established a mining base. These resources should help earthlings to bring their countries out of the crisis.
But the planet is not deserted: beautiful people live on it. Aborigines have blue skin, tails, and they are very close to nature.
Jack Sully is a former military man who found himself in a wheelchair. He will have to try on the image of a resident of Pandora and ingratiate himself with the natives.
9. 13th floor (1999)
Picture “13th floor” became a joint project of Germany and the USA. The director was Josef Rusnak, who was very unlucky: his work was released at the same time as The Matrix by Wachowski and went almost unnoticed.
The viewer is shown a huge computer corporation that has managed to create a perfect model of virtual reality. But this discovery was the cause of several mysterious murders.
To investigate a crime, the hero will have to immerse himself in a virtual world where answers to all questions or a sad end await him.
8. Nerve (2016)
In the center of the picture, Henry Joost and Ariel Shulman play “Nerve”. Participants have to perform all sorts of tasks that other people come up with for them. In addition to excitement, players can get big money if they manage.
The main character, Vi, is a timid and quiet girl, but she tries herself in Nerva in company with her friends. Suddenly it turns out that she is a talented player, brave and liberated.
In virtual reality, V meets a guy, Ian, and the audience likes the couple so much that they decide that from now on they will complete the tasks together.
As time goes by, the stakes rise, and with them the risk. Soon it all ceases to resemble harmless entertainment, and then V realizes that he cannot leave the game of his own free will.
7. Tron: Legacy (2010)
The film was a continuation of the popular picture of the 80s “Throne”, in which the main character Kevin Flynn explored the world of virtual reality.
This time we are talking about his son Sam, who became interested in the mystery of his father’s disappearance. Sam becomes involved in the vicissitudes of the virtual world, which was explored by his father.
He will have to learn the secrets of the amazing universe, which, thanks to technological progress, has become much more perfect and dangerous.
6. Call (2016)
What is the dream of any player? Director Charles Barker is sure: the first to try a new super-cool project. Such an honor fell to a professional group of online gamers. Im enrolled Exhortation from the corporation to test new equipment with full immersion in virtual reality.
Players just need to move from floor to floor and clear them of enemies. The task is simple and clear to any gamer. But when the first group of opponents attacked the team, it became clear that everything was for real. It is worth making a mistake, and you have to say goodbye to life.
5. Gamer (2009)
Directors Neveldine and Taylor show the audience a utopian future in which people flee from the gray everyday life into virtual reality. Brilliant developer Ken Castle has created a game that has become a haven for killers and all sorts of other criminals.
The main character, John Tillman, played by the inimitable Gerald Butler, is incarcerated for a crime he did not commit. He gets the opportunity to participate in the game and get freedom. He tries on the role of Cable, a playable character, and shows such amazing results that he becomes a hero and a favorite of the audience, gamer admire.
But the participants consider the development of the Castle – advanced slavery and rebel against the technological genius.
4. Star Trek: Retribution (2013)
“Star Trek” has long become a classic of science fiction and a kind of quality mark. J.J. Abrams tried to keep everything for which the fans love the universe so much, and at the same time rethink it, breathe new life into it.
The Enterprise crew returns home to find that the place is unsettled. The entire crew seems to be shackled by horror, idle, hands down, and the world around is plunged into darkness.
Captain Kirk takes on the responsibility of saving his crew and the world. He is going to find the villain and prevent him from completing what he started.
The role of the main antagonist went to Benedict Cumberbatch, who almost overshadows the positive characters of his player. His hero is cold, reserved and at the same time incredibly charismatic.
And in the center of the conflict is the classic confrontation between Spock and Kirk, the confrontation between emotions and reason. And in order to win, they will need to resolve their differences.
3. Existence (1999)
“Existence” is an online game, and the star of its presentation was the amazing Allegra Gella, the creator of the virtual world. But during the event, she is assassinated by a crazy criminal, and Allegra is forced to seek the help of a junior employee. He must connect to the system and find a bug, and their journey through the virtual universe is tightly intertwined with a reality full of danger.
The creator of the picture, David Cronenberg, allows the viewer not only to observe the fate of the characters, but to guess where reality ends and the game begins.
2. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
Many watched “Jumanji” 1995, which is associated with childhood memories. So the new film has only an approximate relation to that masterpiece.
In the center of the plot is still the same game of Jumanji, but now the heroes will not have to fight the jungle that has broken into our world, but go to the magical world themselves.
But it will be incredibly difficult for four teenagers to resist the wild nature, so they will have to reincarnate as the characters of the game. And this transformation is one of the features of the film.
The shy Spencer is in the body of a strong researcher, the huge Fidge is in the body of a short man, the beautiful Bettany becomes a funny professor, and the clumsy Martha becomes a fearless conqueror of the jungle.
Director Jake Kasdan promises a light picture filled with humor and bright action.
1. Chronicles of Predatory Cities (2018)
Christian Rivers took the risk of adapting Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines for the screen.
Before the viewer is a devastated world that survived the apocalypse in the past. People now live in huge cities that move through deserts and wastelands and absorb small settlements for resources.
Tom Natsworthy lives on one of the lower levels of London, not the most prosperous area. His life is in danger when he meets Esther Shaw. The girl belongs to the rebels and is hiding from the authorities. Together they will change the future.