re: finally saw ready player one last night SPOILERS

Didn't the opening narration explain the state of the world?

Wasn't showing the physical center of the Oasis is still a craphole city with debris, trash, slums, slave pens a decent way of showing if this is Columbus wtf happened to the rest of America?

I guess it just seems nitpicky.


I read the book it was fun but sloppily written in parts.

The movie was fun but sloppily paced in parts.

Both got the point across to me that the real world sucked in those settings. And I feel like I'm about as average Joe as can be.

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It didn't go anywhere near the level of the book, but it did not need to go that far for the movie. Parts about needing guards to cross between cities and how much of the world only exists in the Oasis now was left out. All the explaining he did when he was moving out to Columbus and the control of the ISPs and such. He went into a lot of detail about the state of the world in the book.

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None of that detail is needed in this movie.

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RPO seems like an extremely weak movie to start this type of thread over. It's no TLJ.

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it was a decent discussion about a generic, entertaining movie until you started bitching about details that would add nothing to the quality of the movie.

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I'm not very average when it comes to this tech, I'm a tech nerd that messes around with a lot of VR stuff that has potential to be similar to the Oasis.

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oh yeah? well i still have every single colecovision game cartridge so I WIN.

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Joe averages shouldn't need their hand held to this degree you're trying to hold a two hour movie to.

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You get enough in this movie to see that the Oasis is people's jobs, their shopping service, their education, it's the entire internet.

Could you imagine someone taking control of the internet right now and turning it off for 2 random days of the week?

It's a bad message. It's not learn self control over addiction. It's do gooders should be able to force you off things for your own good because reality is real.

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They get weekends again and push a hoop down the street with a stick. It seems like your hang up is really this one line. Yes there's issues with this solution in the movie but it's not this insurmountable they nuked the world scenario. It's more an ethical conundrum attached to a happy ending. And easily something that another story can be made on.

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See I like the happy ending message at the end of the book better. Wade realizes the importance of being in the real world and how much better it is to be outside the Oasis with Artemis. He isn't forcing that message on the world.

His original plan in the book for the money, even if it may be a joke, is to build a space ship and leave the trash heap of Earth behind. Arty just wants to feed everyone.

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The race part wasn't done by someone who plays racing games. The first race some troll would of tried to gone backwards to wreck everyone.

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But still you’d think that at least one person in the very first race would think to themselves “Hey, since everyone’s going forward, why don’t I try going backwards just to see what happens?” A 5 year old could figure that out, nevertheless a corporation that has hundreds to do their bidding. Spielberg should not have directed this.

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Then obviously you haven’t played Mariokart before.

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first thing my brother and i did after buying a new game was to try & find ways to 'break' out of the normal play format.

i'd say more than 50% of my time in any game is devoted to fricking around trying to find a way to break it.

i was thrilled to figure out i could rocket-jump onto the skull backboard in quake3.