Hey guys!
So here’s a review on a book/movie after a long time. I finally got the time to read again, and decided to read a book I got for christmas: Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline.
The book really caught my interest, and when I found out that Netflix just got the movie, I had to watch it. I decided to finish the book first, since books are known to be “better” than the movies. And if I know myself right, I wouldn’t have the motivation to read it after watching the movie.
The Book
- The beginning was a little bit hard to get through, since they had to set the whole scenario of the society and get the background knowlegde
- The story quickly got interesting and then it was difficult to actually put down the book
- All the detailed description made it possible for you to imagine the whole scenario in your head
- Probably one of the best books I’ve read
- Loved all the 80’s references – the author has done the most outstanding research for this novel.
- Without spoiling too much, the ending was so EPIC my heart started to race while reading it!
The Movie
- I was all in all quite dissapointed in the movie, because there were MAJOR changes in the storyline compared to the book.
- The fact that they changed the roles and names in the story, and the people who were supposed to die, didn’t die, really annoyed me.
- The heroine Art3mis wasn’t as badass in the movie as she was in the book.
- Aech’s avatar wasn’t portraied as described in the book, and wasn’t a Halliday geek 🙁
- They didn’t explain some essentials in the movie like, what a gunter was, or that the whole contest was based on the timeline 1980’s.
- I was impressed by the actor they casted for the main role as Wade – it matched (in my opinion) perfectly to the book-description, and met my expectations. Also played the role VERY well!
- Same goes for the actor who played Aech in real person – also met my expectation.
- It really annoyed me that they changed the whole game of finding the keys to the easter egg, because in the movie they made it seem very easy. When in reality (the book) it was lot more complicated and exciting.
All in all
All in all, I would definitely recommend you all to read the book BEFORE you watch the movie. I mean, yeah the movie was great, especially all the art and scenarios, but if you only watch the movie, you will miss out all the great details. I swear, the book makes the whole hunting way more exciting and the storyline is MINDBLOWING! 🙂
~Neevadha~