WHY THE HATE???

Rating: 9/10 (28 September 2019)

Firstly, I'll say I didn't read the book but I do plan on it, so I'm coming from a non-biased perspective..That being said, from what I've read of peoples negative reviews is.."ItS NoT LikE THe BoOk At aLL". Honestly that is the most biased thing ive ever heard. I mean, what do you expect, not all adaptations are going to be spot on. Characters are going to change to match the flow of the movie because things will change especially since we are dealing with pop culture and copyright permissions.
From people who haven't read the books, they generally say it was a fun movie, I thought it was a blast. Id give it a full 10 but the story in itself could have been cleaned up a bit. For example it would have been better if the VR was full immersion rather than a slightly better version of the oculus. (again, haven't read the book), another one is the plot itself, it seemed like they were going in the direction to destroy the oasis, because of Artemsis' speech about her dad dying because of getting in debt and how the real world is basically a dump because everybody pays too much attention to the game. It seemed like their quick fix is to just shut it down for 2 days of the week, which is probably for the better but will most likely still feed the addiction... even though they shut down the loyalty centers, that wouldn't stop the debt through the game and you still end up with a hell hole of the real world. Also, parzivals one liner saying something along the lines of missing the real world. That part of the plot bugged me a bit, but overall I'd watch it again and show other people the movie.