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Diablo III - Dunard #1884
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Reged: 07/22/05
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Posts: 6125
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Loc: Fort Worth, Tx
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Re: Ready Player 1: another great book title that inspired an unrelated movie by the same name.
03/31/18 07:24 AM
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> OK movie story, but not the same story as the book... at all. Basically, an entirely > other story with three keys, and a group of kids battling a corporation for the big > prize. > > No need to worry about movie spoilers in this discussion, because none of this from > the book is in the movie: > > 1. Any and all scenes or even reference to his being in school online in the OASIS. > 2. The original challenges to earn a first key: the D&D Tomb of Horrors and War > Games, Acererak and Joust. > 3. Wade assuming the pseudonym Bryce Lynch and all the plot twists that evolve out of > this decision. > 4. Repeatedly revisiting Halliday's childhood home for clues. > 5. Earning the extra-life coin in Pacman. > 6. The Planet Froboz and ZORK and Captain Crunch all hiding the second key. > 6. Daito being killed in real life. > 8. Entering the second key through the Voight-Kampff machine from Blade Runner, > playing Black Tiger, and Rush. > 9. Bryce Lynch getting himself arrested into indentured servitude to the IOI on > purpose, and obtaining the intel that will lead to the downfall of the IOI from > within, while also setting up the robot that will later be revealed to take down the > Orb of Osuvox. > 10. Playing Tempest and King Arthur from The Holy Grail for the third key. > 11. The symbolic plot point of needing three keys turned by three players working > together simultaneously, while reciting the key phrase to open the final gate. > 12. The big reveal of Art3mis being reserved until the resolution at the end. > > Soooo.. yeah, an entirely other story with three keys, and a group of kids battling a > corporation for the big prize. > > My take on that is this: the bigger the ego of the director/producer, the less they > follow the book they are supposed to be making into a movie, so their ego can say > "THAT is my story, not the author's." Spielberg? You don't get bigger than that. > > I went in expecting to see the magic of the book onscreen. > > Same fate befell Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children under big-headed Tim > Burton's thumb. > > An action packed movie inspired by the book at best.
Just like the Resident Evil movies and Silent Hill movies. None of these follow the games play story.
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