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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    You disliked Ready Player One for that weird twist.

    I disliked Ready Player One because it was a shit book that became a movie.

    We are not the same.

    • Delphia@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      It was an ok book, it was pulpy scifi (a genre I consume a lot of because I can pick it up and put it down easily). It could have been a GREAT movie but they dumbed down the story (which wasnt super deep to begin with) to cram it into a single movie and then couldnt be arsed/didnt want to pay for all the licencing they would need to do it right.

      It actually needed some writers to go over it, expand it and make it a Trilogy.

      Both the book and the movie left a lot on the table.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        4·
        3 days ago

        couldnt be arsed/didnt want to pay for all the licencing they would need to do it right.

        Their mistake was hiring Spielberg to direct it. I read that Spielberg didn’t want any of his films in it, because he felt it would seem self serving. That resulted in gutting out a large percentage of the original references from the book.

        • Delphia@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 days ago

          Hanna once slapped the shit out of Barbera for saying he was bigger than Yogi Bear. Someone should have gone upside his head. “Oh no, you had a significant cultural impact on popular culure in the latter quarter of the century. This isnt about you.”