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Yes, I was upset watching Ready Player One, how'd you know?
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.
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.
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.
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."