![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here are three reasons to avoid the book (even though reading is good and all that). There’s only so much time and there’s a lot of good pop culture out there. ![]() In creating a collage of other peoples’ better ideas, Ready Player One creates a strong case against itself. See the movie if you must, but Ready Player One is YA fiction at its worst. Still, a lot of dads are going to buy Cline’s book for a lot of kids who, unfortunately, might read it. The plot is a video game pastiche and therefore extremely predictable, the dialogue is so undifferentiated that everyone sounds like a basement-dwelling 13-year-old, and the central premise – that one man’s nostalgia for 1980s pop culture could define world culture – feels kinda fascist. But one thing is clear, the blockbuster will drive massive sales for the original Ernest Cline novel, an attempt at boy-centric young adult fiction that coughs up a really great concept covered in the slime of the author’s own limitations.Ī lot of the problems with the Ready Player One movie actually come from its source material. Audiences, too, are split, with the movie driving solid, but unimpressive ticket sales. While the majority of critics seemed to love it (it’s got an 80% on Rotten Tomatoes), a handful of prominent critics came out against the movie as a nostalgia-driven marketing ploy. Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One quickly divided the moviegoing and movie-talking public. ![]()
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