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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
As for ReadyPlayer One, I think a lot of the problems stemmed from taking a story that occurred over the course of a year year in the book, down to about three days elapsed time in the movie. There wasn't really any sense that the real world was absolute crap and the stakes were really high. Made it too cartoonish, and the 'tests' pretty meh, when they should have been monstrously hard to complete.
Add in a year of real world cat and mouse, and it would have been a pretty epic film.
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Agreed. Both of these were not well established in the movie. Sometimes they acted like we were in some sort of dystopian future and other times it just seemed like a regular happy world with more technology. The movie didn't seem to want to commit as to whether the world was crap or not.
Same with the quests. It was like they just solved them without any real effort. They went 5 years without so much as a hint of progress and then all three were solved within a week. We never got that sense of how impossible they were to solve or how important it was to solve them and how that relates to the horrible world they actually lived in and the consequences of letting that evil company win.