6 years ago

@d2dyno I have to completely agree with you on this. That was an awesome movie, I hope to see something like this again. :D

6 years ago

The Oasis wasn't for a hobbyist gaming community, everyone was in there. They diluted the big ideas down to it being almost unrecognisable in the film. The Oasis was for everything. There was a school planet that was free to everyone and kids still had to go to school. That's where kids go to school, there are no physical schools. We'd pretty much run out of room which is why the Oasis expanded exponentially and encompassed all aspects of life . People worked in the Oasis. Some people lived in the Oasis pretty much coming out only to eat and drink because there was nowhere else to go. The reason the corporation wanted to find the egg was to get the Oasis (not even so much the money) and have absolute power over every aspect of peoples lives and monetise it. The corporation was legitimately evil in the book, they murdered the young kid.<br /> <br /> They dumbed it down and basically just made it a game when it was so much more.

4 years ago

@smatthew You should check out the book then. Completely different and more tailored to your era

6 years ago

@majormercyflush my thoughts exactly, was super dissapointed with what they did with the oasis and how easy it was to get that first key.

9 months ago

Films of this genre are better enjoyed when not over thought over nor over scrutinised. To be fair I think enjoyment was the goal in making this film and I for one had a bunch of fun watching it a couple of years ago, gonna watch it again tonight.

6 years ago

@madcitywedge you're totally right. Its a push to give it 6/10. Really disappointed. I re-read the book beforehand doing a mental trimming of material as I went that would bog a movies pacing down. Never in my dreams would I have thought that was what we were going to get.

6 years ago

@majormercyflush I think I liked it more than you, but I just thought it had untapped potential left in the book. I had read the book a few months ago, curiously just before I learned it was going to be a movie, so although not perfectly fresh in mind (I read lots of books, listen to lots of short fiction podcasts), it was fresh enough to know I liked the book's story better. I've subsequently read some articles on the screenplay's development and was disappointed to find out how involved Cline was in this rewrite of his own work, taking a lot of the little details that made the book so good out of the movie, like [spoiler] how he got the "extra life" or time honored "next game" from the quarter he found on the Donkey Kong(?) machine in the book that he beat. Placing a quarter on the game while someone was playing was the way to claim that you had next when I was growing up.[/spoiler] <br /> Good movie with the potential to be great. And I grade movies pretty hard (you'll find lots in the 5 to 7 range, a fair number of 8's, a handful of 9's and very few 10's in my reviews).

6 years ago

This is a perfect description of exactly what I thought. I was going to write pretty much this but you beat me to it. A shame though. If the movie would’ve stayed closer to the book, even a bit, it would’ve been much better.