Ready Player One (2018)

I am going to sound harsh...

Since A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Steven Spielberg has not made a good family base movie.

Don't get me wrong, he made good movies after that (sans Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)), but not in the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Jurassic Park (1993) kinda way.

Watched this yesterday, and it is mind-boggling how he managed to make this movie!

It is a movie about Easter egg (which is launch during Easter weekend, some marketing genius is getting a big fat bones).

And the movie is filled with NOTHING but Easter eggs and I am NOT complaining.

No need to mention the obvious (Iron Giant), I see Marvin the Martian, Freddie Kruger, Ninja Turtles, doing Gandalf, without using the name Gandalf and The DeLorean with a Kitt, kit....

Lots more that you blink and you miss....

Movie take place in a dystopia where life is so bad that everyone escapes into a virtual world and greedy corporation cashes in on this. And the rest is eye candy.

I usually complain about the lack of script, and have to say, as thin as the storyline is, the master storyteller, tells it well.

And The Shining Scene!!! OMG!!!!

BFG was a big let down. Steven had said that he sees a future with not big budget movies and everyone if their own film maker. Is this is last hurray before that happens? I hope not...

I really needed this movie and enjoyed it immensely.

Chances are, you would too

My Two Sen

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Mar 31 2018, 09:28 AM