Ready Player One

Wasted my life not watching this in the cinemas.

I read the book, and listened to the book, way before the movie was announced. When the movie was announced, I was very excited to see the possibilities. There was some weird tie-in with my favorite band, Rush, who only had a minor role in the released movie.

Growing up in the 80s and being a huge video game nerd, this movie hit me on so many levels. My first watch of the movie was in the theater shortly after theatrical release (in some crazy, new fangled 3D technology) and it was great! However, I left the theater thinking that the book was much better than the movie. As others have pointed out, there are significant differences between the two.

[INTERLUDE] - My first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer and was ecstatic to read about is inclusion in the book. Sad to say, it didn't make it to the big screen.

However, after watching the movie several times at home, I can grow to appreciate WHY the changes were made between the book and the movie. This movie has climbed into my #3 all time movie slot - which #1 and #2 will likely explain why.....

1) The Shining
2) Raiders of the Lost Ark
3) Ready Player One
4) Ronin **not applicable to this review**

Anyone who lived through the 80s should watch this flick - you'll likely see something you recognize.

I would drop 0.5 points for the differences between the book and the movie, but I cannot justify giving it a 9.

10/10

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Best movie of 2018! Love the whole concept of online real feel graphics, with out of the box thinking like this there is no limit. Awesome techy look, it's what a sci-fi future could look like too. Top 5 movie of all time for me and my love of SCI-FI. Time to watch it again. ENJOY!

Kickass Ready Player One.. Any 80’s kid loves a Fanboy Classic made Great.. 9.9 STARZ

Awesome, a ton of references to games, animations and anime that fans will love. Nice story, good acting and soundtrack, totally worth it. Can't wait for the home version to enjoy it again and again.

Ready Player One - Based on the Novel by Ernest Cline

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Ready Player One has everything that is needed for an amazing movie - Romance, Drama, Loss, Comedy and Action - I really enjoyed this some things where like Woah like Aech (The big "dude" who makes cars and stuff) is actually a girl in the real world I mean she did say anyone in the oasis could be a middle aged girl who acts like a man - Watching them complete everything and how ioi trys to destroy everyone was just thrilling I did like Ogden (The Librarian dude) I thought it was just an AI But it was a real person - I do wonder how he was on their 24/7 - The ending was quite weird Halliday's Oasis character apparently isn't a robot but isn't a human... Halliday irl is dead but that person looked like an AI - it was like a cliff hanger kinda,
I will be personally pissed if Ready Player Two doesn't get made!
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Absolutely love the book. Cannot wait.

This movie was soo good, I always saw it in my feed in netflix and on hbo max I watched it and it was great. what made it even better is how there was sooooo many references to other games/movies like halo, DC, back to the future, ect.

Only wished this was in 3D