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16th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: When Wade is talking about how when you die in the game, you lose everything you ever worked for, there is one shot of a little girl throwing her OASIS goggles off and screaming in a fit of rage. Behind her on the wall is a poster for the 1982 game, Donkey Kong Junior. Also behind her you can see a blue Care Bear plush toy on her bed, as well as some small Care Bear figurines on the shelf against the wall to the right. (00:06:10)

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15th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: After Aech picks up the EM-1 Rail Gun, she zooms in on a fight in the distance where their friends Daito and Sho are fighting. The yellow ninja that Daito kicks in the face holding an ax is Scorpion from the Mortal Kombat game franchise. (00:05:50)

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15th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

Trivia: As Parzival tells Aech that the race is starting in 10 minutes, you can see two of the Ninja Turtles (Raphael and Leonardo) in the 2014 reboot style walking behind him. The 2014 Ninja Turtles also appear in the final battle for the last key. (00:07:05)

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15th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

Question: When the guy playing as Jason Voorhees gets killed in the OASIS, he throws off his goggles in a fit of rage and attempts to jump out the window to commit suicide. He's at work with other workers and surrounded by Dell computers. Am I mistaken... or are those modern day Dell computers? This movie takes place in 2045 and to me it seems unrealistic for a Japanese/Chinese company to be using almost 30 year old computers. (00:06:50)

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Answer: It is not uncommon for movies set in the future to include technology or brands from the era that they were made. For example, futuristic movies like Back to the Future Part II, Blade Runner or Alien include technology and brands that were popular when they were made, as well as appear just as they appeared at the time their respective movies were made, but become outdated as the years go by. This is done mainly because the filmmakers do not know what the real technologies or brands will be in 2045 so they have to use modern technologies and brands of our time to include in the movie. Though sometimes the technologies and brands can be incorporated with the technology the future setting in the movie has established to make it feel as real as possible.

Casual Person

Answer: I didn't notice the computers, but yes, you're right. They could have put Plexiglass boxes with glowing lights inside on everyone's desks where an electronic device might go, no wires, with maybe a place to put the headset onto for charging. I think that would have looked futuristic and been acceptable to the movie viewers. (Or maybe a pyramid design instead of a box design.) But someone else might suggest that the owner of the business where all the people work (if it is a business) might have opted for the "retro look" even though the computers/electronics inside are far beyond what they look like.;-).

chuckie001

Answer: 25 years from now a computer will still need an input device, a display device, and a box to hold the processor. Why would computers change all that radically? As the old saying goes: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Arokthis

Computers have changed appearance radically over the past 10, 20, 30 years. Yes a computer from 1999 would have had an "input, display and box" but there's a stark difference in technology and design between that era and the modern day.

Jon Sandys

Since most people play on their own in their own homes and only on the Oasis, what a computer looks like seems much less important.

LorgSkyegon

15th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

Trivia: After Wade and Aech identify the artifact on Planet DOOM, the camera pans over a hill as a rocket hits, sending people flying. It keeps panning over and on a ledge you can see the Japanese sumo wrestler from Street Fighter known as E-Honda bashing people off the ledge and striking his famous pose. (00:06:10)

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Other mistake: When Dagg hits the soldier on the left while the fembot is distracting them, he falls over and the one on the left turns to see what happened. It then cuts to a different view and suddenly the second soldier just falls over without even getting hit.

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13th Aug 2018

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Trivia: While Wade is explaining what Artifacts are after he and Aech see the Gregarious 120 glove, the shot pans over a flight of stairs where there's a huge battle of characters. You can see Chun-Li, from Street Fighter game series, sprinting across and leap into the air before grabbing a hold of someone hanging from a cliff. This shortly before they are both engulfed in a large fireball. (00:06:15)

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13th Aug 2018

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Trivia: As Wade is explaining how people lose all their stuff if they die in the OASIS, you see a shot of Sho and Daito on Planet DOOM in a sword fight with Jason Voorhees, the iconic horror/slasher film mascot of the Friday the 13th movie franchise, wielding his trademark machete and wearing the hockey mask. (00:06:50)

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Continuity mistake: Star Wars Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base: After Tim says to the camera that "Dude, Matt straight up sucks!", it cuts to Tim and Zack sitting at a table against the wall where there was a Kylo Ren poster previously in the episode. The poster is now gone and there is blue substance splattered on the wall. This is the result of a scene that was deleted where Kylo got angry at the poster and ripped it off, throwing a drink at the wall. (00:00:50 - 00:03:55)

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Revealing mistake: Star Wars Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base: After Tim insults Kylo Ren as being fat, 'Matt' gets angry and Force chokes him before throwing him across the room into the vending machine. In the wide shot, you can see the rip line tied to Tim's back that pulls him into the vending machine. (00:03:50)

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Visible crew/equipment: Star Wars Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base: As Kylo is giving Zack an apology card, the camera cuts to a different angle and a large boom mic and hand is visible above them as well as a camera guy on the left. It specifically states in the beginning that all the cameras are hidden, and that the crew have no idea who Matt really is. There's not supposed to be any visible evidence that the rest of the people, like Zack and Tim, are being filmed. (00:03:05)

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Continuity mistake: Star Wars Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base: It shows one of the troopers putting his helmet in the cubby hole on the wall as a technician with long hair is walking up behind him. It cuts to a wide angle with the trooper bending down, and suddenly the long haired guy is now all the way across the room walking up. (00:00:50)

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Continuity mistake: Star Wars Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base: After Kylo says he looks forward to having some real talk with real folks, it cuts to the Storm Troopers getting lunch. As one is getting his tray, there is a sign on the wall stating "Keep your helmet on for safety." This sign is hanging loose by just one corner. But in the next shot, it's straight and held up correctly on the wall. (00:00:40)

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Trivia: Despite being a DC movie, Stan Lee not only makes one, but three cameos in this film. Each as a joke about his Marvel movie cameos.

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13th Aug 2018

Incredibles 2 (2018)

Question: Evelyn in this movie immediately struck me as looking exactly like Roxanne from Megamind. Seriously, look at each character. Is there some sort of hidden connection between them? Or is this purely coincidence that Evelyn and Roxanne look like twin sisters? Or... possibly Roxanne being a descendant of Megamind considering Incredibles 2 is set in the past.

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Answer: I think the fact that Evelyn from Incredibles 2 and Roxanne from Megamind bear some similarities is purely coincidental. The idea that there may be a hidden connection between the two is unlikely and the idea of them being related is even more unlikely. It should be noted that Incredibles 2 is a Pixar production, and Megamind is a Dreamworks production, so the two aren't even made by the same company. Perhaps, her design was inspired by some features of Roxanne, but the idea of the two being connected or related is pretty doubtful.

Casual Person

Answer: It seems to just be a coincidence, or more likely the limitations of the 3D animation style used. Of course, in real life there are unrelated people who look-alike. However, it's unlikely the characters are suppose to be related since "Megamind" was created by DreamWorks, which is a subsidiary of Universal, which is a division of NBCUniversal (formed by the merger of GE's NBC and Vivendi Universal). Since 2011, NBCUniversal has been controlled by Comcast until they owned it outright in 2013. "The Incredibles" films were created by Pixar, which is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company. Plus, I don't think there's been any significant individual who worked with both animation studios who would have influence on the character development and hundreds of people are involved in the animation processes.

Bishop73

13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: On Planet DOOM, Aech kills a guy with an emoji as a head. This guy drops a weapon that Aech then picks up and it's displayed as the EM1-Rail Gun. The EM-1 Rail Gun is the weapon used by U.S. Marshal John Kruger (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) in the movie Eraser. (00:05:45)

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13th Aug 2018

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Trivia: As Aech is going through a trench on Planet Doom with the Halo MA5D Assault Rifle, someone walks up behind her on a ledge with a rocket launcher. This is Duke Nukem in his iconic red shirt and blond flat top hair. (00:05:40)

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