Ready Player One

I wanted to love it, I really did. The book is amazing with a deep plot and great character development, but the movie...well, it took the books characters names and the fact that you need 3 keys to win and that's it. Nothing else is the same. Only saw the movie once so I was left extremely confused throughout the whole thing waiting for different events to happen that never did. I suppose I will need to watch it again with the knowledge that it won't follow the book at all to give it a fair review

This movie encapsulates everything wrong with nerd culture post "big bang theory". The entire message is selfishness with all parties, you don't deserve to have the oasis because you don't know batmans middle name! How childish, there's no actually lessons learned, the characters are unlikable and have zero growth. And by got ty, please close your mouth for 5 seconds! But, it's fun to see all these characters in one place. The lego movie did the same thing with a 1000% better film.

I wanted to like it (especially at the expensive rental rate) but it was not to be. If I had not read the book I might of just thought it was ok. A story with a sort of rushed plot line, limited character development, light acting and over the top special effects. But since I had read the book it really wasn't very good. It went from a clever set of puzzles steeped in pop culture (in the book) to a rushed mess for the 3 keys with the first found by winning a race because (spoiler) he figured out to drive backwards. It jumped forward at a breakneck pace and spending (I assume) most of the budget on special effects and basically rewriting the book. So from "ready player one" we got "ready set go". 2 stars if you haven't read the book and 1 if you have. Just don't expect much of the dystopian world story or much pop culture that was so prominent in the book.