I didn’t read the book, so I don’t know if the following rant applies to it too, but I’d venture a guess that it does:
I hated the entire philosophy of this movie that in order to be a true fan of something you need to have memorized a bunch of random, bullshit trivia. Just because someone knows what the official yellow hue value for Pac-Man is doesn’t mean their fandom is any more valid than someone who doesn’t.
And I remember reading somewhere that it was being called the “holy grail of pop culture” because of all the “references” it makes; as if just throwing an inordinate amount of IP at the screen counts as making a reference.
The book is wildly different from the movie.
The movie is shit. The book is actually good.
I would bet a lot of the praise about it being good with the referencial shit is from the book, not the movie.
Wow, I completely disagree with this guy/gal. I thought the book was complete garage nerd porn, and exactly what the first commenter hated about the movie but turned up to 11.
The book is just lists of nostalgia bait with no real threats or setbacks for the main character.
The book is not good. It’s a shitty self-insert fantasy about a world where all the 80s trivia the author is nostalgic for is actually something valuable.
The book is mediocre, the movie is shit
The book has so many lists of random early 80s nerd trivia that doesn’t have anything to do with anything other than fake nostalgia. It’s stranger things the book.
It’s worse than that. Mark Rylance has everybody on the Metaverse obsessing over the stuff he liked as a kid instead of being into their own stuff, or even using their imagination. And the stuff he’s obsessed with is pretty useless old crap like Colossal Cave and Joust. It’s like he’s intentionally destroying culture with member berries - so basically like any current entertainment CEO.
I liked the Ready Player 1 book, movie sucked. I couldn’t even finish the Ready Player 2 book, this movie is going to be terrible
For real. The first movie was complete trash. I don’t see how another will do any better.
The first book was entertaining, the movie for it was less so. The second book was not good. I doubt the movie will be an improvement unless they make some fundamental changes.
The first movie was pretty bad with how tone deaf it was. It has blatantly been made by the real life equivalent to the main bad guy of the movie while trying to preach against his ways.
It’s supposed to be about the characters fighting for their right to freely express themselves, unhindered by evil greedy corporate interests. But almost everyone in that world uses existing corporate owned intellectual properties for their characters. You can almost hear the pitch someone made in a meeting that shoehorning as many popular characters in the movie as possible would make it make more money.
I saw the first movie in theaters because my neighborhood had a power outage and it seemed like a good way to kill a few hours while the power company fixed it.
Absolute regret. Sitting alone in my dark, quiet apartment would’ve been better than seeing that movie.
I will be last in line to purchase a ticket. Seriously. No, I insist — after you.
I hope they put Roblox and Skibidi Toilet in this one.
