Steven Spielberg to Direct ‘Ready Player One’

[Brad Piff]

sounds like i should sneak into this after seeing another movie and dip after the first race

 

[KalKal]

so... watching this at the theaters isnt a must?

Seeing it in the theater IS the way to see it.

 

[The_Sheff]

I just saw this and thought it was pretty enjoyable. The cgi was great and the action was on point. Seems the biggest negative reactions to the movie are coming from gamers. Guess it's a hard crowd to please.

 

[Stelio Kontos]

I just saw this and thought it was pretty enjoyable. The cgi was great and the action was on point. Seems the biggest negative reactions to the movie are coming from gamers. Guess it's a hard crowd to please.

Nah it's the ones that read the book that keep shytting on this.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

Nah it's the ones that read the book that keep shytting on this.

Ya'll both right. It's mainly "hardcore" gamers and readers of the book that I saw have the most complaints about the movie. I enjoyed it tho. 8.5/10 for me. It ain't topping Black Panther for sure, but I've seen it twice now and it was thrilling, fulfilling ride for the most part.

 

[I AM WARHOL]

I’m going to see it next week. I was a fan of the book.

In my opinion something like this needed to be fully fleshed out and it’s too much for one movie. To tell the story truthfully you can’t cram it into one movie.


I was also disappointed with Enders Game. One of the best sci-fi books I have read but they had to really rush thru the movie when they could have told the story better and made it flow better with two movies

I left enders game heated. My favorite book of all time and they didn't do it justice at all

 

[EA]

Just came back from seeing this and I thought it was really good. Visually, it was amazing. You can tell they put a lot of time and effort into the CGI because it rivalled Pixar films. For a film that was 2.5 hours, the pacing was brilliant - it didn’t really have any dry spots and I found myself engaged the entire time. The overall message of the story was little bit cheesy but it was to be expected for a film that going to be rooted in nostalgia.

Spoiler: My only real concern was

So IOI could just go around sending drones and bodying people and the police didn’t intervene at all? They didn’t do enough to explain how much power IOI had because the fact they were essentially a criminal organisation with full autonomy seemed ridiculous.

They could have thrown in some back story to show how they have the authorities in their pocket or something like that.

 

[The_Sheff]

I had the book for about a year and just didn't get around to reading it and I'm so glad I saw the movie first. It seems like reading a book first sends you into the theater with a number of set expectations and scenes you MUST see and if those expectations aren't met you turn bitter and just complain about shyt that doesn't really NEED to be in the movie but because it was in the book you can't let it go. It's as if you spend the entire time watching the movie thinking about how it's deviating from the book.

If you see the movie first you are able to take it for what is presented on the screen, you don't have anything else to compare it to at the time. I'll most likely go see this again with the Movie Pass then read the book next week.

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

I took my kids to see it yesterday and both they and I really liked it. Didn’t read the book, so the backstory or lack of y’all bytching about didn’t faze me. Lots of cool nostalgia and nice escapism too. Like the movie pointed out some of y’all need to log off from time to time and enjoy life a little more.

 

[FlyRy]

I had the book for about a year and just didn't get around to reading it and I'm so glad I saw the movie first. It seems like reading a book first sends you into the theater with a number of set expectations and scenes you MUST see and if those expectations aren't met you turn bitter and just complain about shyt that doesn't really NEED to be in the movie but because it was in the book you can't let it go. It's as if you spend the entire time watching the movie thinking about how it's deviating from the book.

If you see the movie first you are able to take it for what is presented on the screen, you don't have anything else to compare it to at the time. I'll most likely go see this again with the Movie Pass then read the book next week.

It's not so much the scenes as much as the overall fleshing out of the characters and the world building that was much better than the book.

Even down to little shyt like people actually went to school in the Oasis.

All of the challenges are much more fun and memorable in the movie than in the book.

Like I had never seen wargames until after I read the book. Nor have I played Joust.

But like everyone else I've seen The Shining and the race was really dope

 

[KalKal]

I left enders game heated. My favorite book of all time and they didn't do it justice at all

I liked Enders Game, but the movie version really skipped over the fact that Ender

Spoiler

Has been "accidentally" killing other kids his whole life

 

[I AM WARHOL]

I liked Enders Game, but the movie version really skipped over the fact that Ender

Spoiler

Has been "accidentally" killing other kids his whole life

Which is a huge reveal thats pivotal to ender's character

 

[Jax]

Which is a huge reveal thats pivotal to ender's character

I loved the movie mainly because of Ender. Made me want to read the books.

 

[MewTwo]

Folks are making their minds up about this movie without even seeing it. Guess 'professional movie critics' really do influence some of these idiots.

 

[HHR]

I enjoyed it..I guess...though it's almost certainly the worst script Spielberg has ever shot. Just miserably bad storytelling.