Hollywood NEEDS book slappers.

Rating: 1/10 (13 October 2019)

The book was really good. Not the best I'd ever read, but definitely enjoyable even for a non-gamer such as myself. The movie, however, not so much. Have you seen that meme about jobs Hollywood never knew it needed and it's talking about book slappers? People whose sole job it is to slap the director upside the head with the book that is being made into a movie? Yeah, Steven Spielberg needed two of those. Now I'm not hating on Steven Spielberg himself, just his adaptation of Ready Player One.
In theory, and from watching the preview, I was all excited to watch the movie thinking it would be about as loyal as most book to movie adaptations tend to be. Basic storyline would match but with a few details tweaked to look better on film. No biggie. I put on the movie and was almost instantly disappointed, but I thought to myself, "the movie's only just begun, we need to give it a fair shot." And boy did I try but I just couldn't get more than halfway through.
If I had stumbled across this movie without ever knowing it was based on a book, I likely would have enjoyed it so much more. However, the fact that Ready Player One takes so many artistic liberties drove me nuts. My biggest beef with what I did watch of the movie was that Parzival and Art3mis did not meet in person till the very end of the book and yet in the movie they met right after clearing the first gate. My problems with this movie only continue to add up and I'm not going to list them all here. No I did not expect the movie to be a minute by minute reenactment of the book but honestly to me it seems we got a movie made from the basic gist of the summary on the inside flap and a few pages randomly selected and read before writing a script.
If you enjoyed this movie, I'm truly glad you did, but for me it was a train wreck from the very start.