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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