Thread:Sharol46/@comment-27914031-20180402151551

Ah...your wall is working again. If you suddenly have three or four messages pop up, that would be the system finally responding to my attempts to post here in the last few days!

Anyway, I went with my family and saw the Ready Player One movie last Friday. What you had heard about the movie being not much like the book was unfortunately correct. At first it seemed like it was going to follow the book, and then starting with the first key challenge (not to mention the virtual-school subplot that was entirely omitted leading up to that), it was almost all different from then on. Overall the changes seemed to homogenize the story into something more typical (and stereotypical) of action film major releases, basically playing it safe for a lowest-common-denominator audience (i.e. an audience that has no nostalgia for 1980s-era pop culture). They did however do a decent job with the CGI work in visualizing the Oasis. But even in that area they were hampered thru no fault of their own because of licensing issues (couldn't show fighter planes from Star Wars, or certain mech bots like Ultraman, etc.). Oh well, back to my book. I'm currently reading "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. 