Before I start off my rant about Ready Player One, directed by Steven freakin Spielberg, I just want to inform you that there will be spoilers in this blog. But you should not care because of how awful the film is, if you sit down and watch it you will waste the next 2 hours and 19 minutes of your life and you will dread every second of that film. This blog is going to talk about a few key things that I strongly disliked about the movie, only because I don't want to write a book on every little thing that was awful about the movie, Now let's get started.
After reading Ready Player One, written by Ernest Cline, I was so excited to see the movie adaptation of this amazing novel. I'm not a book guy, I've probably only read about 10 books in my 18 years on this planet and the majority of them were the I Survived: series ,written by Lauren Tarshis, and this was because I found it so boring sitting there reading for days at a time. That was not how I felt about Ready Player One, I enjoyed everything about the book and was actually upset when I would have to stop reading it to go do something. This book made me so excited to see the film that I actually spent $15 of my own money to buy it off amazon, worst thing I've ever bought. This film is nothing like the book ,besides the names, and that is the worst thing Spielberg could've done. The plot with Parzival and Art3mas was so unbelievably rushed that they barley talked to three days and they were already seeing each other in person. There wasn't enough character development to make the audience feel attached to these characters and want to root for them to actually win.
The movie does a horrible job with developing Parzival into becoming the character he fought to be in the end of the book. In the book Parzival was overweight and not confident about himself and lost literally everything, the only thing keeping him going was finding the egg which allowed him to turn his life around. He was in shape and determined to stop the sixers from taking control of the Oasis. He was so determined that he even purposely got imprisoned by them to take them down from the inside. In the movie it he was already in good shape, and even though he didn't have a lot, he didn't lose anything. It took the kid like two days to figure out the first puzzle and it was nothing like the way it was supposed to be. Instead of some grand duel at Joust between Parzival and a giant undead king, it was a hectic impossible race. And in that race Parzival and Art3mas meeting for the first time felt so forced and unnatural, and after they met they were immediately like best friends. Art3mas was a completely different character in the film too, she was supposed to be an unconfident girl just looking for the egg on her own, but in the film she's working with this big group in order to stop the sixers. And that group is so big that they were able to save and hide Parzival from the sixers like they were undercover agents. Parzival and Art3mas meeting was supposed to be the perfect ending which showed how Parzival wouldn't feel the need to log back onto the Oasis, but instead it was rushed and did't feel that special in the film. And the ending just didn't flow with having Sorrento trying to kill Parzival by himself while he finished finding the egg. And they didn't get help from Og by having them fly to his home and finish finding the egg there, which would've added so much more to the film. Ultimately the movie was rushed, which was a shame for the 2 hours they had to use, and the audience din't feel as attached to characters the way they should have been. Steven Speilberg is an amazing director with tons of great films under his belt, but this one is not one of those and should be berried under a volcano and never shown again.
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