Ready Player One the Movie!

Okay, okay. Let’s all settle down, now! It’s time to talk about the RPO movie.

If you’ve been following my blog for more than a few hours, you probably already know that I’m a pretty obsessive massive RPO fan. I’ve read it multiple times, and listened to the audiobook a few times. Easily one of my faves, if not THE fav (who can choose, though?)

First, I have to say that they changed a lot. Too much, in my opinion. I’m not one to get stuck on small details, either. Small changes, here and there, to adhere to the shortened timeline are okay. Big changes don’t sit nearly as well with me, and there were some pretty big ones in the movie.

That being said, there were still a lot of things about this movie that I liked, and even some things that I absolutely LOVED! 

The visuals are absolutely stunning. The world(s) inside the Oasis were great. Some were even better looking on screen than they were in my head. And the Stacks! Holy crap. Did they build a perfect replica of the Stacks? I say no. I say they cast some kind of magic spell on a copy of RPO (probably a hardcover) and the set rose directly out of the pages. They looked SO great!

Pop Culture references were still EVERYWHERE! Music, movies, games, characters. There were so many that there’s no way I caught them all. My wife and I were listing ones that we saw and kept saying, “Really? I didn’t see that! Cool!”

So. Should you go see Ready Player One if you love the book? Yes. If you love the world created in this book, you need to see this movie. Because even though the plot has had some pretty big alterations, this movie still takes place in the Ready Player One world.

It’ll help if you go into it thinking it’s more of a retelling than a direct adaptation. But seriously. Go see it.

Fun fact about this post: You don’t need a fun fact for this post. It’s all about RPO and movies. How can it get any more fun than that?