– As Twitter user helpfully reminded us, Wade living in a trailer park is likely inspired by the main character of The Last Starfighter also living in a trailer park at the beginning of that 1984 classic. – The XI suit commercials haunting Wade Watts in the Stacks feels like a subtler echo of the oppressive commercialization of Coke and Eastern marketing in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982). Sulaco drop ship from James Cameron’s Aliens the Eagle 5 space RV from Spaceballs (1987) an ED-209 from RoboCop the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off(1986) the Extravehicular Activity Pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and the Valley Forge from Silent Running (1972).*
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And the movie stuff, alone, includes the Iron Giant (obviously) the U.S.S. – When we are introduced to Aech’s workshop, we are given a geeky overload of references. – As if you needed to be told, that is the queen Tyrannosaurus Rex from Spielberg’s very own Jurassic Park tearing up the track. – Also spotted during this section is a jack-knifing truck, which eagle eyed Twitter user recognized as the one Kurt Russell drove in Big Trouble in Little China(1986). For the rest, please scroll down to the Back to the Future subsection. This is also the sole BTTF reference in this section (just so you know we aren’t crazy!). In the book, it also has the Ghostbusters (1984) symbol spray-painted on the door, but alas Sony must not have wanted to contribute. – Parzival’s vehicle of choice is obviously Marty McFly’s DeLorean from Back to the Future, albeit it has been retrofitted to include the red-light grill scanner from Knight Rider (1982). It should be noted Bluth and Spielberg later partnered for An American Tail (1986) and The Land Before Time (1988). However, the way the film animates his flowing black robes in the film seems intentionally evocative of how Don Bluth drew such robes on Nicodemus in The Secret of NIMH (1982). – Halliday’s OASIS alter-ego Anorak looks vaguely wizard-y, like Merlin or Gandalf. – Also seen getting gutted on Planet Doom is a cameoing avatar as Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th movies. *(We shall henceforth refer to Aech in the OASIS as “he,” and in the real world as “she,” as the character seems to want to be approached in both realities.) To be specific the Freddy Krueger first played by Robert Englund in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), although fans’ favorite variation on the big bad came in Part III: Dream Warriors. – When we meet Aech on Planet Doom, he* is seen blasting Freedy Krueger into space buck coins.
– Also during this sequence, commenter David Thiel spotted the Cyclops from Ray Harryhausen’s The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). You know back before the franchise’s diminished returns. – During the opening montage, among the avatars filling up the OASIS portal terminals Z traverses is the original RoboCop from 1987. But not just any Batman… it’s Michael Keaton’s Batman from the Tim Burton classic of 1989! (For more superhero movie references after this point, please scroll down to the superhero movie reference’s subsection.
– In the opening montage of what you can do in the OASIS, the first actual homage appears to be Batman climbing Mount Everest. Granted it will be almost impossible to get them all in the first pass, so if you notice that we missed anything, let us know in the comments section below, or yell at me on Twitter, and we’ll course correct. In that vein, we here at Den of Geek will attempt the fool’s errand of compiling every single nod, shoutout, and joyful wink to nerd culture that has been stuffed into the very seams of this unapologetically geeky movie (*NOTE: Movie and not the book). The film might be set in 2045, but it’s good to know that the future is just as obsessed with Gen-X and Millennial culture as we are today! While Steven Spielberg was able to infuse a creative spark into the film that allowed it to stand on more than only pure nostalgia, there is no denying that the immediate hook of Ernest Cline’s novel and the subsequent Spielberg blockbuster is its cornucopia of movie references, video game easter eggs, and pop culture homages to all things ‘80s (and in the film’s case, ‘90s too). Ready Player One is now out on Blu-ray and HBO, and fans are basking in all of its easter egg glory. This article contains more Ready Player One spoilers than a Nintendo Player’s Guide walkthrough.
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