People of a certain age, nostalgia and Ready Player One

[Anonymous]

I had low expectations when I agreed to take my kids, and I LOVED it. Total nostalgia fest for those of us who grew up in the '80s.

[Anonymous]

I read the book so Yeah, it's crazy nostalgia.

[Anonymous]

My kids had read the book, which is why they really wanted to see it. I only had a vague idea of what the book was about, so I could just be surprised and feel the waves of nostalgia wash over me.

[Anonymous]

i read the book and LOVED it, so i'm hesitant to see the movie. will i be disappointed?

[Anonymous]

My husband and son were not. My daughter was. DH pointed out to her that they had to edit a lot of stuff, but that he was actually surprised by how much they were able to keep in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i read the book and LOVED it, so i'm hesitant to see the movie. will i be disappointed?

My daughter said the movie didn't really match the book. She liked it for the special effects, but she immediately noted the differences.

I sort of liked it. We saw it in 3D, which was fun. I don't think the movie shared the same message as the book, however.

[Anonymous]

The movie is good.

The book is great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i read the book and LOVED it, so i'm hesitant to see the movie. will i be disappointed?

My daughter said the movie didn't really match the book. She liked it for the special effects, but she immediately noted the differences.

I sort of liked it. We saw it in 3D, which was fun. I don't think the movie shared the same message as the book, however.

This is true, but some elements of the book didn't translate well to the screen or would have taken much longer to explain. I think they did a good job of adapting it.

Ernest Cline,the author of the book, also was one of the co authors of the screenplay

[Anonymous]

Mark Rylance played an excellent role as Halliday.

[Anonymous]

If you have ready the book and thought it was fantastic, then you need to go into the movie understanding that it is based on the book, but not a direct translation.

Just pretend you are going into the movie cold with no expectations.

If they really wanted to be true to the book, then each key would be a movie, but there is no way they could have gone into the detail of nostalgia and clues in 2 hours.

[Anonymous]

I loved the book and expected to be disappointed with the movie. I ended up liking the movie but wouldn't say it was great. It helped that it became clear early on that they were completely discarding most of the book's plot, keeping just the basic structure. So, I wasn't constantly evaluating how X was not quite right. Much of the book would be pretty impossible to translate to the screen and would also require getting the rights to other 80s media.

[Anonymous]

Saw it this weekend with both kids and DH. One kid had read the book. We all LOVED the movie. Loved it. Even kid who read and loved the book.

And, yes, DH and I had a great time discussing all the 80s references. Clearly the inventor of the Oasis was born around 1968 (like me).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved the book and expected to be disappointed with the movie. I ended up liking the movie but wouldn't say it was great. It helped that it became clear early on that they were completely discarding most of the book's plot, keeping just the basic structure. So, I wasn't constantly evaluating how X was not quite right. Much of the book would be pretty impossible to translate to the screen and would also require getting the rights to other 80s media.

With Speilberg producing Ready Player One, one would think getting the rights to much of the references in the book would have been rather easy.

[Anonymous]

Loved the book. Really disappointed in the movie. Wanted so many more scenes from the book, like the whole Wargames arcade (that was it, right?).