Picture "The first player to get ready" was shot based on the eponymous novel by Ernest Klein and was released in 2018.
In it, the viewer is transferred to 2045, where the world became gray and monotonous, and technology took 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 in it his will, the Easter egg, which only the best of the players can find.
The main character, an ordinary guy of hundreds of the same, decides to enter the fight for the prize.
The film is a kind of tribute to the popular culture of the 90s, 00s and 2010s with the corresponding Easter eggs and musical accompaniment. Fans of science fiction will like it, and fans of the gaming industry will especially enjoy it.
We picked up 10 films that are similar in spirit to "First Player Get Ready."
10. Avatar (2009)
Avatar James Cameron for a long time remained the highest grossing film in the history of cinema. Recently, his avengers have been abandoned, and even then purely technically, so the picture about the “blue men” is definitely worth a look.
The action takes place on the planet "Pandora", where people from Earth have established a base for mining. These resources should help earthlings get their countries out of the crisis.
But the planet is not deserted: a wonderful people live on it. Aborigines have blue skin, tails, and they are very close to nature.
Jack Sally is a former military man who ended up in a wheelchair. He will have to try on the image of a resident of Pandora and rub himself into confidence in the natives.
9.13 floor (1999)
Picture "13th floor" became a joint project of Germany and the USA. The director was Joseph Rusnak, who was very unlucky: his work was released simultaneously with the Wachowski Matrix and remained almost unnoticed.
The viewer is shown a huge computer corporation, which managed to create the perfect virtual reality model. That's just the discovery, it caused several mysterious killings.
To investigate the crime, the hero will have to plunge into the virtual world, where he is waiting for answers to all questions or a sad end.
8. Nerve (2016)
In the center of the picture of Henry Just and Eriel Schulman is a game "Nerve". Participants have to perform all sorts of tasks that other people come up with for them. In addition to excitement, players can get a lot of money if they manage.
The main character, Vee, is a timid and quiet girl, but for company with her friends she tries herself in Nerve. Suddenly it turns out that she is a talented player, brave and liberated.
In virtual reality, V meets a guy, Ian, and the couple likes the audience so much that they decide that from now on they will complete the tasks together.
As time goes on, rates are rising, and with them risk. Soon, this all ceases to resemble harmless entertainment, and here Vi realizes that he can not leave the game of his own free will.
7. Throne: Legacy (2010)
The film was a continuation of the popular picture of the 80s "Throne"in which the protagonist Kevin Flynn explored the world of virtual reality.
This time we are talking about his son Sam, who became interested in the secret disappearance of his father. Sam becomes involved in the ups and downs of the virtual world that his father explored.
He will learn the secrets of the astounding 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. They did a call from the corporation to experience the new equipment with a complete immersion in virtual reality.
Players just need to move from floor to floor and clean them from enemies. The task is simple and understandable to any gamer. But when the first group of opponents attacked the team, it became clear that everything was real. If you make a mistake, you will have to say goodbye to life.
5. Gamer (2009)
The directors Neveldine and Taylor show the audience a utopian future in which people escape from gray everyday life into virtual reality. The ingenious developer Ken Castle created the game, which became a haven for killers and all kinds of other criminals.
The main character, John Tillman, played by the inimitable Gerald Butler, is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. He has the opportunity to participate in the game and gain freedom. He tries on the role of Cable, a game character, and shows such amazing results that he becomes the hero and favorite of the audience, gamer admired.
But the participants consider Castle's development to be advanced slavery and rebel against technological genius.
4. Star Trek: Retribution (2013)
StarTrek It has long become a classic of fiction and a kind of quality mark. JJ Abrams tried to preserve everything that fans love the universe so much for, and at the same time rethink it, breathe new life.
The Enterprise team returns home and discovers that it is restless. The whole crew seemed constrained by horror, inactive, dropping their hands, and the world around is plunged into darkness.
Captain Kirk takes responsibility for saving his team and the whole world. He is going to find the villain and stop him from completing what he started.
The role of the main antagonist went to Benedict Kemberbatch, who almost overshadows the positive characters of his player. His hero is cold, restrained and at the same time incredibly charismatic.
And at the center of the conflict is the classic confrontation between Spock and Kirk, the confrontation of emotions and reason. And to win, they will need to resolve their differences.
3. Existence (1999)
"Existence" - This is an online game, and the star of her presentation was the stunning Allegra Gella, the creator of the virtual world. But in the process of the event an insane criminal makes an attempt on her, and Allegra is forced to seek the help of a junior employee. He must connect to the system and find a mistake, and their journey through the virtual universe is tightly interwoven with a reality full of danger.
The creator of the picture, David Cronenberg, allows the viewer not only to observe the fate of the heroes, but also to guess where reality ends and the game begins.
2. Jumanji: Call of the Jungle (2017)
Many watched Jumanji 1995, with which childhood memories are associated. So the new film has only an approximate relationship to that masterpiece.
The plot of the plot is still the same game of Jumanji, but now the heroes have not to fight the jungle that broke into our world, but to go to the magical world themselves.
But it will be incredibly difficult for four teenagers to resist the wild, so they have to reincarnate as characters in the game. And turning it is one of the movie's chips.
The shy Spencer finds himself in the body of a strong researcher, the huge Fiji - in the body of a shorty, the beautiful Bettany becomes a funny professor, and the awkward Martha becomes a fearless conqueror of the jungle.
Director Jake Casdan promises an easy picture filled with humor and vivid action.
1. Chronicles of predatory cities (2018)
Christian Rivers ventured to adapt the screen of the book of Philip Reeve "Mortal Machines."
Before the viewer is a devastated world that has survived the apocalypse in the past. People now live in huge cities that move through deserts and wastelands and swallow small settlements for resources.
Tom Netsworthy 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 have to change the future.