Doesn't follow book AT ALL

Rating: 4/10 (14 April 2018)

It would have been better not to have read the book because I was SO EXCITED to see this amazing book in movie form. But aside from the genera plot line - OASIS inventor dies, search for 3 keys, Theo wins - absolutely nothing is like the book. I was disappointed, but my friends who hadn't read the book loved it. There are a handful of 80s references but they're not the same nor nearly integral as they are in the book. The book has some brilliant insights and ideas about how VR can benefit the world (ie using it for schools to enhance teaching and provide better education to kids everywhere without regard to income or other factors, and eliminate bullying and other obstacles in school) balanced with how VR can be exploited and hurt society, but this movie shows only high octane use of VR and negative influence. I can't believe Ernest Cline wrote and approved this screenplay. SHAME!