10 Pros and Cons for seeing and not worth seeing, 'Ready, Player One'.

Rating: 8/10 (2 August 2018)

Pro:
1. The action scenes in the movie are a lot better than the book.
2. I like how the movie takes away the numerous trials to unlock multiple gates with keys: instead focusing on winning the key as the challenge. It made the plot move faster, while, keeping the mystery, complex, and worth trying to solve.
3. The acting in this film is pretty damn good. Most of the characters were interesting, enough to root for, or hate against.
4. It delete most of the cringe-worthy jokes from the book; such in the case of masturbating while stalking other characters.
5. That Stanley Kubrick 'the Shining' love letter, sequence toward the middle of the movie. It was the highlight of the film, even if it's not really that PG-13.

6. Lots and lots of cool Easter eggs. Plenty of rewatch value.
7. Great use of variety of movie soundtracks & 1980s pop hits. The movie was beautiful to listen to.
8. The movie is highly worth seeing in 3D. A rare moment, where 3D is honestly use correctly.
9. Steven Spielberg's magic- lots of movie characters from different movie studios, are able to be, in a movie, together. It hasn't been done, since the days of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'.
10. The movie does have great motion capture performances. It was well-done.
Con:
1. It has too much of information dump toward the beginning of the film. The film should had use 'show, don't tell' more.
2. Way too much CGI. Certain parts of the film, gave me, a headache; such in the case of the racing throughout New York sequence. Over sensory.
3. All the nostalgia driven pop culture references really got tiresome, as the film went on. Some of them, don't even, makes sense or seen dated, based on the timeline.
4. The film is so enamored with the world of Oasis that it doesn't spend as much time fleshing out the real-world of 2045. No mention of the environmental destruction, overpopulation, and economic meltdown from the book.
5. Protagonist has little to no personality; not only that, but he lack a character arch. Book character is a lot more interesting.
6. Lack of a worldwide feel. Everything centers in Columbus, OH or in the world of Oasis. Its sucks, that scenes place in Vancouver, BC, Atlanta, GA, Oklahoma City, OK and Tokyo, Japan are cut from the film version.
7. The overpraising of Holliday as a God-like being. When in truth, he wasn't that good of a guy. Plus, the villain's plans to take over and monetize the OASIS, is the same thing that Holliday did to create his business. Book made him, seem more like a real-life character.
8. The lack of emotional stalks. Powerful scenes from the book like Daito's death & Aech having to hide her race, due to racism, were left out in the film version. It was not a good idea.
9. Some of the jokes really fall flat or went over the heads with some viewers; as the film's relays too much on the audience, knowing full-ahead, the cultural references punchline.
10. Movie has way too much Deus Ex Machina moments that it was really hard to believe. It took me, out of the movie, at times.