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I haven't read the book, but I saw the movie ages ago. We're definitely getting eerily close to a true tech-centered sci-fi version of a dystopia. Did you like the book?
The film was pretty awful. It did not do the book justice at all. They changed a lot of things, for instance that ridiculous car race with king kong never happened in the book. The whole thing about Samantha being in an underground resistance movement and getting wade into it never happened in the book. The book was very different. The film just took the basic idea and made a different story out of it. I don't think they could really make a film out of the book the way it actually happened as a lot of the book was Wade doing things by himself, or his thoughts, that wouldn't translate well to screen. The characters in the film were totally different people than in the book - for instance Sho was a little kid in the film for some reason, he was an adult in the book, while Aech's character in the Oasis was some big monster in the film while in the book it was just a normal human male. Basically the film dumbed the story down and made it ridiculous and juvenile. The book also goes much more into the oppression of their hyper-capitalist society and how a few trillionaires own everything while everyone else is penniless. I highly recommend reading the book.
The book sounds good, I didn't like the movie and I can't even remember most of it. It sounds like something I'd add to my ever-growing reading list!
Yeah I'd give the film a 3/10 maybe. The book was a definite 10/10. They are two totally separate things in my eyes.