Ready Player One race scene

I finally got around to watching the movie recently. Fun movie and the race scene was indeed pretty fun.

Five minute break that was worthwhile

Anyone who didn't get to see this on the big screen is SERIOUSLY missing out.

That is also an awesome scene for showing off Dolby Atmos

This was a movie that I originally held off on watching because I saw bad reviews that deterred me from watching.

I finally got around to just deciding to give it a shot last year, and let me say I was pissed I listened to the reviews. This was probably my favorite movie I watched during quarantine last year. Alot of action and a fun ride all around. I hope they make a sequel.

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Did you know that there are Easter eggs in 40 year old games still being found? They found one in one old arcade game from the late 70s or early 80s the last couple years.

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Not ones as simple as “going in reverse”. People are saying I don’t understand it, but the point is Spielberg does not understand video games and the internet. Any Gen Xer or below should have been able to explain to Spielberg why simply going in reverse in a racing game doesn’t make any sense and people do that in racing games all the time just for the hell of it.

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The very first race is a big stretch, but I do agree 5 years is a long time for someone to not come up with a different strategy that already failed 1000 times.

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I think the company would have thought of that very quickly. “OK, Rick in cubicle #17 stay behind and go in reverse just to see what happens.” With all those resources at their hands, they didn’t think of that? I would say this business is out of Idiocracy, but even those morons probably would have thought of that.

This was one of the MANY changes from the book that I had a problem with. And I still can't see any reason why they changed it.

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In the book, the first key is hidden on the one world where everyone has access, the School World. Since all schools are virtual there is one world with exact copies of grid after grid of schools. The world has some space that hasn't been used yet, and it's generic forests. Halliday wanted everyone, no matter how rich or poor, to have the opportunity to find it. So he put it on the one place everyone could get to for free.

What was so cool about it was that in that nondescript forest was a hill that exactly looked like the hill from the Dungeons and Dragons module Tomb of Horrors, one of the hardest, most deadly adventures in the game. Parzival had to elude all traps and get to the bottom of the dungeon, where the Boss Monster, a Lich, challenged him to a the old arcade game Joust.

All of that is SO much cooler than a car race. But I guess today's viewers need a Fast and Furious action packed adrenaline rush to stay focused for more than 30 fricking seconds.

I love the book.

I hate the movie. It actually pisses me off that they mangled the story so badly.

Hollywood suits that warp stories from popular books need to be shot in the balls with a bean bag rifle.

I was looking forward to how they were going to pull off the Jade key level, that was entirely based on the Rush album Temples of Syrinx.

Not a Rush fan, but it sounded awesome in the book. Granted, the Stanley Hotel scenes were great, but still...

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Hollywood suits that warp stories from popular books need to be shot in the balls with a bean bag rifle.

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What you described here would have had very little visual appeal. I'd say it had very little literary appeal. Spielberg's race is stupid, but using this sequence as written would have been a disaster for a movie trying to be an exciting blockbuster. Same with the Rush stuff.