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Ready Player One
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:33 am
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:33 am
Just saw this is on Netflix. Love this movie. Great watch if you have a couple hours to burn.
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Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:38 am to GeauxTigahs92
It is a very good movie. Even if you don’t like video games there’s enough going on to keep you entertained.
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:45 am to BAMBAM
I wonder why it didn't do better in theaters. Definately a good movie
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:51 am to GeauxTigahs92
Formulaic, predictable, but entertaining. It’s a solid popcorn flick
Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:05 am to GeauxTigahs92
It’s a good movie, not one I’m dying to watch again though
Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:38 am to GeauxTigahs92
With all the Apple Vision Pro stuff over the past week, I keep thinking of this quote from RP1:
“we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures”
“we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures”
Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:42 am to GeauxTigahs92
I really, truly hate being "that guy" but I will begrudgingly do it here...but the book is SO much better IMO. I'm nto even a video game guy exactly but I'd heard great things about the title so I read the book and loved the hell out of it. As soon as I was done I couldn't wait to watch the movie but man it wa sa let down comparatively. Not bad at all mind you, just not near the level of the book.
If you enjoy reading at all, I would highly recommend checking out the book too and see all the differences form the movie.
If you enjoy reading at all, I would highly recommend checking out the book too and see all the differences form the movie.
Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:46 am to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
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With all the Apple Vision Pro stuff over the past week, I keep thinking of this quote from RP1:
Dystopia on the horizon.
This post was edited on 2/9/24 at 10:25 am
Posted on 2/9/24 at 10:50 am to Sasquatch Smash
Is RP1 basically what Zuckerberg wanted Meta to become?
Posted on 2/9/24 at 11:04 am to WG_Dawg
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I really, truly hate being "that guy" but I will begrudgingly do it here...but the book is SO much better IMO
It is, it is also very different.
I love the movie, but I didn't expect it to be close to the book. I kind of just went into it expecting it to be a similar story but let it be its own thing in the same world. Movie was very well done and is a fun watch. Watching it in the hope that it will be a true to the book's story would have been disappointing.
Posted on 2/9/24 at 11:08 am to WG_Dawg
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I really, truly hate being "that guy" but I will begrudgingly do it here...but the book is SO much better IMO.
Well, i am glad that your were that guy first, because you are correct and its not even close. The book is great and I was very hyped for the movie until the first trailer and I could tell it was going to be nothing like the book. I don't think i even ended up going to see it in the theater. Such a disappointment
Posted on 2/9/24 at 11:31 am to WG_Dawg
the Book was light years better, but the movie was entertaining and I watch it every few months. I grew up as a kid during most of the pop culture references, so it reminds me of childhood.
the movie could have been better, and some things changed angered fans of the book, but I did not mind the changes honestly.
*edited to add - I pray they do not adapt Ready Player 2 - that book was a MASSIVE letdown fromt he 1st**
the movie could have been better, and some things changed angered fans of the book, but I did not mind the changes honestly.
*edited to add - I pray they do not adapt Ready Player 2 - that book was a MASSIVE letdown fromt he 1st**
This post was edited on 2/9/24 at 11:33 am
Posted on 2/9/24 at 11:35 am to GeauxTigahs92
The book was way better and had a ton of easter eggs that couldn't be incorporated into the movie.
Posted on 2/9/24 at 11:39 am to Thracken13
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the movie could have been better, and some things changed angered fans of the book, but I did not mind the changes honestly.
*edited to add - I pray they do not adapt Ready Player 2 - that book was a MASSIVE letdown fromt he 1st**
i loved both (book and movie. reviews were so bad on the 2nd book that i didn't bother and it's not a universe that needed expanding on in my opinion.)
a faithful adaptation of the book would have been miserable. the joust over and over at the beginning would have sucked and honestly not made much sense outside of OG gamers.
From Wiki on the book:
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Wade escapes and moves to Columbus, Ohio (hometown of both GSS and IOI), where he assumes the pseudonym Bryce Lynch and lives in an anonymous apartment designed for hardcore OASIS users. He begins a wary friendship with Art3mis, but when he asks her out, she declines.
After five months pass, Art3mis finally finds the Jade Key,
that was multiple chapters of the book.
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Wade manipulates his assumed identity in order to be arrested and placed in indentured servitude in IOI's tech support department. He then uses black market passwords and security exploits to hack into IOI's intranet and acquires a wealth of incriminating information:
chapters of the book.
some things here and there i can nitpick with, but Speilberg did a good adaptation.
This post was edited on 2/9/24 at 11:44 am
Posted on 2/9/24 at 11:40 am to CocomoLSU
The changes in the challenges make for a more exciting movie, but it wouldn't have taken people that long to figure out to drive in reverse. That was a dumb change and clearly made for the action and not by someone who plays video games.
It's more like VRChat.
quote:
Is RP1 basically what Zuckerberg wanted Meta to become?
It's more like VRChat.
Posted on 2/9/24 at 12:09 pm to 3nOut
The second book was still good. I read the first book 3 times. Watched the movie twice, and read the second book once. It’s been a few years now but I remember the second book get a little woke.
If you are dying for another round of RP1, you’ll enjoy the second book just fine. If you are looking for something more from the series, you won’t get it from RP2.
If you are dying for another round of RP1, you’ll enjoy the second book just fine. If you are looking for something more from the series, you won’t get it from RP2.
Posted on 2/9/24 at 1:39 pm to GeauxTigahs92
I gave my kid a copy of the book before the movie came out and he enjoyed it. I saw the movie in a theater and was entertained.
One thing in the movie that was silly was how the players would enter the game environment in a lobby and then walk to an individual game. I realize it was a device to show the characters having conversations but no gamer is going to take the time to walk around, even if it is an avatar.
One thing in the movie that was silly was how the players would enter the game environment in a lobby and then walk to an individual game. I realize it was a device to show the characters having conversations but no gamer is going to take the time to walk around, even if it is an avatar.
Posted on 2/9/24 at 1:44 pm to WG_Dawg
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If you enjoy reading at all, I would highly recommend checking out the book too and see all the differences form the movie.
Will Wheaton does the audiobook, he does a pretty good job
Posted on 2/9/24 at 1:59 pm to GeauxTigahs92
I prefer the movie over the book because of the visuals
Posted on 2/9/24 at 2:40 pm to GeauxTigahs92
I watch this all the time. Love the 80’s references and it almost completely avoids the annoying Spielberg cliches; precocious kids, excessive backlighting, gloppy sentimentality. Highly underrated IMO.
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