Children of the 80s rejoice, book fans quit whining

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2018)

I am not going to go into the film, other than the fact that if you are a child of the 80s like me (I would be 72 in the year this film takes place), the pop culture references alone made this an awesome movie with a LOT of enjoyable moments. The sound tracks, the images and sounds (IRON GIANT, Doc's DeLorean, video game cabinets and sound effects, Tom Sawyer, Jump, a-ha) were a trip into my childhood and the nights in video arcades. That was worth the price of admission alone.
For the book whiners GET OVER YOURSELVES! EVERY BOOK is hard to bring to the screen. Get it through your heads that NO book survives first contact with filming. Don't believe me, look at Star Wars (The original) Jaws, 2001:A Space Odyssey, Harry Potter, Ender's Game, LOTR, The Hobbit, or any of a thousand other books brought to screen. YOU CAN'T TRANSLATE A BOOK ALL THE WAY TO THE SCREEN. There is internal dialogue that you cant see or hear in a movie that is written in a book. There is a simple TIME FACTOR of a movie. In this day of 5 sec sound byte attention spans, frankly, I thought the movie as it was, did a GREAT JOB of keeping audience attention. I have never read the book, and I am going to so that I can learn about what they book purists are whining about, but I would be willing to bet that short of making this a 4 to 5 hour movie, you cant do it, and even then, it would be difficult, and probably boring to a lot of people who did not write the book. SO be a hater. Make the camper move and give a poor rating to this movie. That just shows that you have not got a clue about reality, and are only interested in your little fantasy view of the movie. Or better, do us all a favor, and zero out and stop playing.