Ready Player One - (Spielberg, March 18 2018)

**Kaslo** · 2018-03-12 15:20

Originally Posted by Zetanio

tl;dw?

He gave it a 9/10; major complaint is that the movie was a little rushed, especially love interest. Guy on it who read the book indicated a lot was changed from the book, and that took him out of it at first.

**TummieGaruda** · 2018-03-12 15:37

Originally Posted by Kaslo

He gave it a 9/10; major complaint is that the movie was a little rushed, especially love interest. Guy on it who read the book indicated a lot was changed from the book, and that took him out of it at first.

I haven't read the book but from what I heard there was a lot of negative reaction partly due to the fact that

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**Zetanio** · 2018-03-12 16:28

so just as gay as the book.

welp.

**TummieGaruda** · 2018-03-12 16:44

Originally Posted by Zetanio

so just as gay as the book.

welp.

The spoiler I posted was from the book. What remains to be seen is if that same plot thread is present in the film but I am hearing the "love story" has been changed.

**6souls** · 2018-03-12 17:02

Before the sxsw reviews came out, the film was projected to make $35m on it's opening weekend. Haven't seen any reworked numbers.

**Byrd** · 2018-03-15 18:34

New trailer, and the best one yet IMHO. Maybe I'm just a sucker for A-HA. Between this and the mostly positive (if not stellar) reviews, I'm beginning to think this will be a lot of fun, if not high art.

**Salodin** · 2018-03-16 03:30

Can't wait to play the game of "how many references can you find!"

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**Anoat** · 2018-03-16 21:10

Steven Spielberg says he worked his voodoo on Disney and got them to allow the use of Star Wars IP in this. So there's that.

**Outlaw** · 2018-03-18 22:12

Originally Posted by Byrd

New trailer, and the best one yet IMHO. Maybe I'm just a sucker for A-HA. Between this and the mostly positive (if not stellar) reviews, I'm beginning to think this will be a lot of fun, if not high art.

"See this on the biggest screen possible."

I just might.

**Burningthought** · 2018-03-28 21:37

Saw the sneak tonight. If you can get over the first third of the movie being a little cheesy/cringeworthy it's worth seeing.

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Love Interest Spoiler:

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**Malithar** · 2018-03-28 22:00

Originally Posted by Salodin

Can't wait to play the game of "how many references can you find!"

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What I spotted, in no particular order.

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There were a ton of others that were mentioned or you caught posters/songs/memorable stances and such from that I couldn't begin to list. I'd say it was worth a re-watch to catch more, but a major issue is many of them get less than a couple of seconds of screen time. Oftentimes, it's literally a pan or mid-action shot where you catch a mess of characters. I'm sure there are other properties and characters represented that I missed. There were many characters that seemed to be important or relevant, but I just didn't know them at a glance.

Originally Posted by Anoat

Steven Spielberg says he worked his voodoo on Disney and got them to allow the use of Star Wars IP in this. So there's that.

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As someone who didn't read the book, I enjoyed it well enough. It was a fun movie with a lot of throwbacks and a decent enough story. I would have liked to see more inclusions, but in today's world, I'd imagine they'd quickly blow past any budget by including much else. There's one line that I laughed far more at than I should have.

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**Byrd** · 2018-03-30 11:41

Saw this last night. Enjoyed the hell out of it.

It certainly wasn't high art, and they took out a few things that I wish they hadn't, but added some things I'm glad they did. They did remove a little bit of the super-heroism that Wade had in the book which annoyed me, which was good.

If it looks like your kind of movie, and you think it's likely to be fun, it probably will be.

**Brill Weave** · 2018-03-30 13:04

I'm genuinely surprised that this movie isn't shit.

**Zetanio** · 2018-03-30 15:05

Every review I've seen has said, "Book readers will fucking hate this".

The book wasn't very impressive but the trailer look like hot garbage compared to it.

**Silenka** · 2018-03-30 15:10

Maybe because the book (as far as I've read) is more about the hunt while the movie seems to be more about jerking off to pop culture? I do like the treasure hunt aspect of the book, but I hardly saw any mention of it in the trailers, only as a loose premise and definitely not as the entire central point of the movie. Is it or is it not? (either way I will see this cause moviepass)

**Zetanio** · 2018-03-30 15:13

Originally Posted by Silenka

Maybe because the book (as far as I've read) is more about the hunt while the movie seems to be more about jerking off to pop culture? I do like the treasure hunt aspect of the book, but I hardly saw any mention of it in the trailers, only as a loose premise and definitely not as the entire central point of the movie. Is it or is it not? (either way I will see this cause moviepass)

The treasure hunt is in there but it's turned into a bunch of retarded shit with a car race somewhere for some reason and people running on the streets with haptic gear on because that's what it's used for...

**Silenka** · 2018-03-30 15:26

Originally Posted by Zetanio

The treasure hunt is in there but it's turned into a bunch of retarded shit with a car race somewhere for some reason and people running on the streets with haptic gear on because that's what it's used for...

Oh boy.

**Byrd** · 2018-03-30 16:15

Originally Posted by Zetanio

Every review I've seen has said, "Book readers will fucking hate this".

I've read the book, and I think a better statement would be "Book readers who prefer movies to be as faithful as possible to the source material will fucking hate this." The movie still gets from the same Point A to Point Z that the book did. It hits a number of familiar points in between, but many things are substantially different. The overall feel is basically the same, though, even if the specifics aren't.

Originally Posted by Zetanio

The treasure hunt is in there but it's turned into a bunch of retarded shit with a car race somewhere for some reason and people running on the streets with haptic gear on because that's what it's used for...

The first two gates are changed almost entirely from the book, although the third gate is very, very similar. I enjoyed what they did with the second gate, but the first gate was

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I think they were trying to tailor the story to not be quite so '80s centric, and have a variety of more recent pop culture references. Which is disappointing a little bit, but not everyone is going to appreciate major plot points revolving around the Tomb of Horrors, War Games, Zork, and Joust the way I do.

Yeah, the people running around streets wearing VR gear was not the best choice, in my opinion. General ending spoilers:

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**Cantih** · 2018-03-30 17:14

Saw it. It's worth seeing.

I'm not enthused about the changes from the book, but I understand. If you had started out with Ludus and the Tomb of Horrors, the pace of the film would have been criticized.
I think, in a few decades, you could do a trilogy film or limited series that's closer to the book version.

Rylance fucking nailed his performance.

**Robertfb** · 2018-03-30 17:23

Watched it, loved it, never read the book.

Favorite part:

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