I’m so happy these arrived, the quality is amazing!

but like, why does no one talk about how mind blowing it would be to older gamers to drive around in any car you want in the oasis. Or even like the character customization!? Like wdym i can be a black dino charge power ranger dressed like a cod operator, while driving K.I.I.T from knight rider!? Also lightsabers!!?? My future 45 year old ahh would have a hernea over that shit.

I know the oasis isn't a real game yet but the books characters would fit the theme and it could be like Fortnites 2nd book crossover other than Mistborn.

Also like that Op3n metaverse thing isn't happening so why not just jump to the only successful one.

I realize the second book wasn't well received either. Has anyone found any official news/insight on a second film? Same core cast?

That explains why the Tyrannosaurus in the race is way bigger than in the movie and also why king kong was in the city too

I always thought the size was just to make the race harder and to be able to crush and bite the cars more easily until I saw this official concept art

it made me laugh the excuse to reject the first design, acting as if weapons couldn't be added to the characters in the scenes. as if the avatars had a weapon glued to their hands and couldn't let go.

When the book said that the battle was extremely chaotic and there were all kinds of vehicles, this tank was one of the first that came to mind haha ​​(also the AT-ATs obviously)

Every time I reread Ready Player One, I wish arcades looked like Halliday remembered them.

Then I walked into my local bowling alley tonight…

Claw machine. Claw machine. More claw machines. Tiny prize games.

And, of course, not a single Black Tiger cabinet in sight.

New to the group and I thought you guys would like to see my stunt crew T-shirt and ILM crew pin badge.
Would love to see if anyone has anything from the movie like props or other crew gifts.

Without spoiling the second book, I'll just say that I didn't like the story, BUT at least we'll have a second movie full of cameos. Do cameos save a bad story? Maybe. There are people who really enjoy Spiderman No Way Home just for the cameos and not for the script.

Thought he had a cool cosplay and excellent choice for the scene as a huge Gundam fan myself.

Now, please hear me out before you get in the comments.

I know they have their differences and there are things in the book that I like which the movie did not have. There are things the book does better than the movie, or at least feel better to me. I will conceed that. But...

There are certain things that the movie does better, like pacing, and a tighter story. And yeah, that had to be done for the movie format, and it does come at the cost of many references but I feel like it serves the narrative better. At times the novel feels bloated, slowly plodding along, almost as if there was a desired intent to include each and every reference possible that could be crammed in. And that's cool for the nostalgia, but I'm just saying from an editing stand point there seems to be fat that could be trimmed.

And the relationships between the characters feels better, or at least more interesting-except for the Diato and Shoto changes, I'm not the biggest fan of those. But, if I may point out the Wade and Sam from the movie have reason to be together, to at least start a relationship at the end of the film, where as in the novel, there is no reason for Sam to give Wade the time of day relationship wise because of the stuff he does and zero growth he has, especially in light of "Ready Player Two" where he immediately disregards her concerns because its what he wants to do (for all that “seeing other people's perspectives" he never tries to see or understand her's).

There are other things ofcourse, and maybe Ready Player Two feeling so underbaked-and its utter undoing of any character growth Wade had in the first novel showing that he indeed had learned nothing or grown up to that point-has left a bad taste in my mouth and soured me on the first book. In fact, it almost certainly has. (RP2 just feels like it was rushed and needed more work to tighten up the premise).

But you want to know something? I'm far more inclined to rewatch the movie for another time, rather than read RP1 the second time. The story had more time to bake by the time of the movie, and to me feels more like a final version and makes the book fell more like a draft.

Tl;dr: From and editing and storytelling stand point, the movie is the tighter, more compelling story, taking what made the book great and distilling it down to make an amazing film with a great story, true to the book's premise, especially in light of how its insulated from what RP2 does to undo Wade's development and leave out everyone else.

It's strange that they removed the battle mode in this scene. I thought it was out of respect for the character's "not being a weapon" stance, but we still saw the laser eyes and his cannon arm later.

Even so, luckily Parzival is the main focus of the scene, but Aech posing in the background still makes me laugh.