Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-34018739-20180416154934/@comment-34018739-20180424185417

Yeah it was by no means perfect, but it was a fun ride and a highly enjoyable film.

The biggest difference between the book and the movie is that the book had more introspective dialouge and more detail about what the time was like, and it honestly helped us to believe people would want to escape to someplace like the OASIS. The movie tries but aside from IOI's deeds and the imagery of the Stacks it doesn't do much in this regard, which is fine, the Easter Egg hunt was the crux of the story, and for telling primarily that story the movie did it's job and did it well.

I noticed watching it the pacing felt much faster than the book, and writing this helped me figure out just why. It doesn't have as much of the little details, and I know that can be harder to show in a movie and the limited time provided, but it brings down the experience just a tad.

I honestly wouldn't have minded this film being 3 hours long just to get a little bit more from this universe. If I'm honest, in retrospect it feels like they took a summary of the book and filmed it. Again, I see why summarizing was needed, but as you said, it doesn't allow the film to be quite as good as it could have been.