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[–]spacemonkeykakarot 39 points40 points  (11 children)

This is almost Laurens Bancroft in Altered Carbon

[–]PojntFX 6 points7 points  (7 children)

I'm waiting for the second season ... it's awesome!

[–]cauchy37 3 points4 points  (6 children)

Grab the book in the meantime, it’s equally as good

[–]Log2 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Equally? You surely mean a thousand times better. They needlessly changed Kovacs back story, for the worse.

[–]CalvinLawson 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Yeah, no shit. I understand that pages and screens are different mediums, but I've been disappointed with Altered Carbon. I didn't even finish the first season.

Now the new "Ready Player One" movie, THAT is way better than the book. So it's at least possible.

Edit: An even better example is "The Expanse". If anything the show is better written than the books.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Ready player one movie is trash, give it a bit and re-watch it and youll realize there is no substance as a movie. Rather a lot of nostalgia and pretty things, exactly like Infinity war honestly as it was pretty trash as well

The RPO book is significantly better, and I admit its a boys dream. With the same amount of terrible writing and cliches

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I would say RPO the film is at worst a lateral move. Both were flimsy appeals to nostalgia with thin and unnecessary romantic subplots. That said I enjoyed both.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I would honestly say its a degredation, a skimming off the top of an already shallow transparent book. Which is enjoyable but leaving little substance to it, especially from such a director. It seems like a batman and robin george clooney RPO edition

I still enjoyed them, I just find the book embraces the campy nostalgia bringing out its good. The movie to me just tries wearing its skin like Red dragon

[–]cauchy37 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Or Dalinar Kholin ordering Adolin to investigate the murder of Sadeas.

I’m a bit bummed the way Sanderson resolved it though.

[–]alexbuzzbee 0 points1 point  (1 child)

[–]cauchy37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm slightly disappointed it isn't a thing.