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Andy K (10823 KP) rated Ready Player One (2018) in Movies

Sep 30, 2018  
Ready Player One (2018)
Ready Player One (2018)
2018 | Sci-Fi
9
8.0 (254 Ratings)
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Visual magic and Van Halen. What could be better?
I very much dislike when people compare movies to books since most of the time they will say "the book was better". Books and movies are completely different mediums and therefore should be judged individually, not compared to one another.

I remember reading one time John Grisham was interviewed after The Firm was released and said if they had stuck to the book, 45 minutes of the movie would have been the characters making photo copies of important papers.

Books can delve into details better. An author can spend six chapters describing a tree or get into character's heads and know what they are thinking. There can even be 38 main characters.

Movies are completely different and should be judged that way. Some may say filmmakers changed certain elements which worked just fine in print. Truthfully I do not understand why things are changed either; however, just because something is different does not make it worse.

Whew ok.

Ready Player One was old school Spielberg magic, plain and simple. The story was nothing special. The villains were sort of cardboard and one-dimensional, but maybe they were supposed to be like that. I mean, weren't the villains in Real Genius or Biff Tannen just as hokey?

The visual splendor and eye candy I usually rip on were vast this time around and thoroughly kept me engaged the whole way through.

I will hopefully watch again soon so I can pick on some of the Easter eggs I missed the first time around.

This film is for anyone who lived through the 80's as I did and loves movies as I do.
  
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Michael Gallagher (0 KP) Mar 10, 2020

Solid 7 out of 10.Wouldn't watch again but it was a good film.
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James Farren-Ross (19 KP) Mar 18, 2020

Watch time after time to just find another pop culture reference