Ready Player One

It's very poor. It looks like World of Warcraft the Movie. And it looks like YA schlock, instead of a story ABOUT children.

Never read the book, movie looks neat

Yeah, this SHOULD be below Spielberg but he does produce the Transformers movies so I'm not too surprised.

Yeah, that's to be expected with a story that takes place in VR.  It's kinda hard to bring an interactive video game to life without lots of CGI.

The matrix sequels though are CGI heavy.

Anyway, I've been meaning to read the book I hear good things

Oh this looks like its gonna be pure fan fiction nerdiness. I'm surprised Spielberg is involved. Seems like he should be above this kind of nonsense.

Despite the thick layer of pop culture references, the book received very positive reviews.  There's more to it than just nostalgia pandering.

Not a bad book but not very memorable in my opinion.

Fucking loathed the shoehorned love story. Wish I liked this more than not, and the secret for one of the final things was so obvious I hope they change it. If the culture was so 80s obsessed everyone would be able to figure it out.

Cool short story, not that good of a book. But it was a quick and easy read and is at every library ever because there is def a neck beard ordering books in the back that has a similar fantasy.

Have anyone read any of Cline's other books? I didn't mind the style or writing, just thought the ideas were a little rushed.

Not every work is meant to be appreciated throughout the ages.  There are no doubt aspects to the works of Shakespear that are missed by modern audiences.  I seriously doubt that Ernest Cline wrote Ready Player One with the slightest concern about how it would be received by millenials or anyone else unfamiliar with 80's pop culture.  It's a book aimed at Gen Xers, and we bought the book.  As for the movie, it's got car chases, giant scorpions fighting knights on ostriches, battles between orcs, Freddie Kruger and Duke Nukem, and who knows what else.  You don't need to be from the 80's to have a good time with that going on.

Besides, a lack of knowledge about pop culture by the audience hasn't hindered Family Guy.  I watched that show with my oldest nephew once.  He laughed at an obscure reference to Gilligan's Island.  When I asked him when he had ever watched the show, he admitted that he hadn't.  The boy had no idea what was supposed to be so funny.  He was engaged anyway.  Maybe that's very lame on his part, but as long as he's having a good time, so be it.  He's hardly alone.

Alan Silvestri took over composing duties from John Williams, if I remember correctly.

Alan Silvestri is doing the music for Ready Player One while John Williams composes for The Post. The Post was made at breakneck speed (it was shot in June-July) which put its post-schedule right in the middle of RPO's.