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iCruysberghs
The tribute to one of the best horror movies ever halfway through the movie was magnificent. Spielberg did it again.Paravail
Not especially faithful to the source material, but a pretty good film in its own right. The plot and characters are streamlined and simplified, but it all works in service of cramming a rather large narrative into just two and a half hours. The film is distinctly Spielbergian, right down to the 80's style score. For a movie about finding easter eggs, there are easter eggs galore, and I'm sure the internet will have tons of fun scouring every frame of it for obscure references. It's not quite as dark or deep as the book, and the overall message is a bit different than Cline's, but as far as adaptations of difficult source materials go, this one is very good.Coolmovieguy
Visuals were good. Story was boilerplate: "teens fight corporate baddie who wants to steal grandpa's farm virtual reality world." An audience member who thinks during this movie is sure to come away with a dozen questions that reveal the plot and characters are as 2D as an atari 2600 game, so try not to think too much.chunkylefunga
It's an alright movie but not mind blowing. Doubt in 10 years anyone will still be watching it.If you've read the book however, they change 95% of the story, and I'm seriously not even exaggerating. So if you're looking for authenticity you will not find it here.
popfactor
Spielberg is just really good at making fun movies. They're always enjoyable, even though sometimes they're not objectively very good.chaybee1
Did the director of "Ender's Game" direct this? Awful, awful, awful. Spielberg hasn't done a good film since his Michael Mann-esque - "Munich".MonsieurBlutbad
As of now this terriblle movie marks the new low point of Hollywoods sad nostalgia escapism. The book this mess is based on wasn't very good to begin with, but this movie is even worse. A story that makes no sense, boring charakters, cringe inducing dialogues, nonstop exposition, CGI hell with obvious product placement and a hypocritical schmaltzy message.Jinzo
Amazing. Most geeky movie ever. Absolute must watch for all fans of movies/video games, especially of oldschool ones. And just be in hurry to manage to catch everything with your eyes.Siskoid
From the pages I've seen of Ready Player One, the book is a nigh unreadable series of pop culture lists, so I was expecting Steven Spielberg's adaptation to make it watchable, but not much more. As predicted, he knows how to make a glossy picture with rousing music and stand-out effects, but when the text showed through, I tended to roll my eyes. And I mean, do you like video game cut scenes? I can't stand it when they go on too long, and this is basically Video Game Cut Scenes: The Movie. The references are slapdash anyway - often meaningless - which is a bug from the book he couldn't fix, and indeed, leaned into just as hard with his own choices. Two come to mind. It's Spielberg's idea to have the kids walk into The Shining so he can reproduce his favorite shots, but making it a killer video game really has nothing to do with the film. And on a more personal note, that isn't any design of MechaGodzilla that's ever been put to film, and you really shouldn't score MechaGodzilla with the Big G's theme music. It just isn't done. Most of the background referencing is so quick as to be unnoticeable. Not sure it was worth paying for all those licenses (if they did). But this is a story where the kids are all obsessed with pop culture from the 80s, even though they haven't even been born yet. When they decided to pay tribute to Saturday Night Fever, one of them says it's old school and I actually shouted at the TV set that it was ALL old school. Add a cartoon villain and characters standing around looking dumb when time is of the essence and well... I won't deny it's a watchable little ode to Free Internet, and less stupid than what I know of the book, it's still just dumb old entertainment in a slick and pricey package.Realenur
Damn I would have loved this movie as a child!MetalMagnum
Surprisingly good adaptation of the original story. The alterations from the novel allow it to be more accessible to a general audience without sacrificing the depth of 80s pop culture. From the trailer I was concerned that the use of characters such as the Iron Giant, Tracer, etc. would be poorly incorporated. I loved this geeky movie with enough easter eggs to satisfy any type of viewer, and felt that it was adapted as gracefully as it could have been under the circumstances. Incredibly fun, fast paced movie. The geeky moments with Halliday are the best!HilF
Amazing movie!! Loved the references to all those classicsDisneyStitch
One of the few instances where I read the book prior to watching the film. The novel is a kind of love letter to nerd culture but I didn't get that same strong feeling from the movie. If I hadn't known that Spielberg directed it going in then I don't think it would have ever occured to me. His signature filming technique and keen eye for character development were unnoticeable to me, and that's despite the fact that he references his own directed movies to boot. It struggled enormously with cramming even a portion of the book's ideas into a film: the first 11 minutes being a straight info dump is as good an indicator as any. Plus a lot of the emotional chemistry and impact between Parzival and Art3mis was abandoned due to time constraints. It's a common issue throughout the film, unfortunately. A major theme of the novel is the whole idea of escapism through video games and it probed the deeper, darker truths of it, but that didn't exactly make it to the screen.I don't think I need to add anything to the discussion of how accurate it is to the novel. One thing I will say though is that reading the novel then watching it soon after makes it super confusing as they start to interchangeably blend together.
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That was way more than expected. Very entertaining movie with lots of 80s cyber ideas.Pauljt1980
As far as Spielberg films go, this is nowhere near up there with the best. Visually stunning but not a great story-shame reallyShowing items 1 – 15 of 35