Ready Player One is a difficult book to make into a movie, so I was curious to see how they did it. Well... it so happens they didn't.
They based the movie in the book's backcover. You know, where you can read the synopsis in a couple of sentences. That and the character names, is all they took from the book.
That shouldn't be a problem per se, the book wasn't even that great to begin with (brilliant idea but poorly executed). No, the problem with the movie is that they removed 95% of the book, and replaced it with... nothing. There is no story. It's just a lot of CGI stuff poorly mixed together. Don't get me wrong, the CGI is as good as it gets... but they added so much of it that they forgot to include a little bit of story in between.
The major plot is there, it's roughly the same as in the book. But nothing else. There is no history progression at all, it just moves abruptly from an event to the next one. The characters don't struggle to advance in the game, or in life. Sure, bad things happen to them but they don't even react (oh, they killed my family and all my neighbors? Oh well, what can one do... I'll just flirt with Artemis). The bad guys are more moronic than evil. The good guys all happen to live in the same city? Come on. And the quests... seriously, a death race???
Review by AJVIP 6BlockedParent2019-08-12T21:09:02Z— updated 2020-10-10T15:54:49Z
Ready Player One is a difficult book to make into a movie, so I was curious to see how they did it. Well... it so happens they didn't.
They based the movie in the book's backcover. You know, where you can read the synopsis in a couple of sentences. That and the character names, is all they took from the book.
That shouldn't be a problem per se, the book wasn't even that great to begin with (brilliant idea but poorly executed). No, the problem with the movie is that they removed 95% of the book, and replaced it with... nothing. There is no story. It's just a lot of CGI stuff poorly mixed together. Don't get me wrong, the CGI is as good as it gets... but they added so much of it that they forgot to include a little bit of story in between.
The major plot is there, it's roughly the same as in the book. But nothing else. There is no history progression at all, it just moves abruptly from an event to the next one. The characters don't struggle to advance in the game, or in life. Sure, bad things happen to them but they don't even react (oh, they killed my family and all my neighbors? Oh well, what can one do... I'll just flirt with Artemis). The bad guys are more moronic than evil. The good guys all happen to live in the same city? Come on. And the quests... seriously, a death race???