I love Ready Player One, both the book and the movie, don’t get me wrong.  I’ve read the book many times, and watched the movie even more.  They’re two totally different animals and I love them both.  But there’s one thing that bothers me about the movie that I can’t get past: There are several scenes in which a weapon or explosive in The OASIS (the VR world) kills multiple IOI players’ avatars at once, and pretty much every time that happens, they switch to a view from inside IOI’s headquarters and we see a closely-grouped bunch of Oasis rigs all “go red” and die at once. Think about it–you can go anywhere in the vast world (or worlds) of The OASIS or be anywhere at all on a single planet in The OASIS at any given time… What are the odds of that one explosion taking out multiple avatars who just happen to be adjacent to one-another in IOI headquarters?? It’s ridiculous. I could forgive them if they only showed it this way once in the movie. But over and over again it is repeated. This movie includes hundreds of geeky video game and pop culture references spanning decades, which will attract a pretty intelligent, geeky audience… Did they think we wouldn’t notice this?? I don’t know who to blame… Spielberg or Zak Penn and Ernest Cline? Surely Ernest Cline wouldn’t write it this way, would he?? He wrote the book, which went into detail much much deeper with almost everything than the movie did, and there was no hint of anything as goofy as this in the book at all, that I can recall.  I know there’s some pretty cheesy parts with Wade fantasizing over Art3mis, details about Anorak’s masturbation habits, and Wade’s online brothel phase, etc., in the book, which critics have bitched about, but I still found those parts very entertaining and necessary to the story.  This, on the other hand, irks me a bit, yet, in all of the reviews I read, I haven’t heard anyone mention it or complain about it.  Am I missing something here?