Originally Posted by nico-t

didn't like it. I heard the story in the book was impressive and that it makes you think. I havent read the book but i thought, lets watch the movie.

However this movie was the opposite of that. Very shallow, obviously made for kids and teenagers, a 'profound' idea of a VR world and the inevitable 'profound' message... which isn't a profound message at all and we heard it a 1000 times already. With a couple of nice references to other (good) movies.

A bad movie, where the only good things are references to good movies, doesn't turn it into a good movie.

Now that i think of it, it has minor things in common with the Matrix. But where the Matrix was about the extinction and eslavement of the human race, a completely destroyed earth, humans living like rats and the VR goggles were cocoons where you're in a coma being grown like a vegetable... Ready player one is about lazy people who could live a normal life but choose to put on their VR goggles to play a videogame instead.

The stakes are so extremely low to take it seriously. I really didn't care about any of it at all. Maybe that's why the Matrix is one of the top movies ever made and this one is shit.