A movie about VR and at least some nerdp0rn

Rating: 9/10 (14 December 2018)

I loved the book and even the first few chapters contain so much nerdstuff, that my brain began to hurt. Ernie Cline thows out quotes from Ghostbusters, mentions Breakfast Club, talks about Monty Pythons coconut-knights and mentions Gremlins while we do not even know what the OASIS really is. So do not expect a "movie-based-on-a-book" but expect a "movie-based-on-an-idea"
I was so anxious to see "Anoraks Video" because just in that scene in the book we see OASIS-Boss Halliday hanging around with Winona Ryder and the others from 80ies movies. In the book we are Matthew Broderick playing wargames and we search for the holy grail, together with Eric Idle and the others from Monty Python.
The first riddle in the book is to play the old Atari-Game "Joust" against Hallidays avatar (which is dressed as a half-dead-king). The first riddle in the movie is to win an extremely complicated race.
The movie is different from the book, because it's boring to view two guys playing Joust against each other. It is not possible to insert the whole movie "Wargames" in another movie (but Ernest Cline did it in his book) and while you can read about the history of pacman it is boring to place this information in a movie.
So the movie is another approach. Cinemagoers need Action. So, we see old DeLoreans, Bigfoots, Akira-Bikes, Tie-Fighters and StreetHawks racing against each other. We see people ignoring physics and Director Steven Spielberg makes a nod to his Buddy Stanley Kubrick by picking up "Shining" for his movie-in-a-movie-take.
Is this movie close to the book? No. Never ever. What I really disliked was the fact, that those nerds look too good in real-life. Wade and Art3mis should have been some obese. They aren't. That's that 1 point making that movie a 9/10.
Is it a good movie? Hell yeah! Spielberg takes us on a ride and directed this movie like he did in his best years (Indy 1,2. E.T., Jaws) and he gave ILM so much freedom that they could put in almost every CGI-Avatar from the years between 1978 to 1990.
Great movie.