Not sure I liked it... is that weird?

Rating: 6/10 (9 April 2018)

Saw this in the theatre so the visual and audio experiences were great, which is why I give it a 6. I haven't read the book yet so I am just going off of what I was thinking this movie would be.
It didn't feel like a Speilberg... if that makes any sense. It seemed shallow, like an attempt at his earlier work. The story was nothing you haven't seen before (the base story that is). Good vs bad follow the same formula of 100's of other movies and you get the end result.
The setting was kind of cool. I say kind of because after awhile I don't know why but I didn't want to see the CGI anymore, it felt less threatening and real than the scenes in "the real world".
I had a problem with the 3D in this movie, not sure if I got a bum pair of glasses, the movie wasn't really shot in 3D but there was a number of scenes that were a little jittery and with 3D made it so blurry and hard to see that I had to look away.
The pop culture references were too numerous to even get all in one viewing and it seems thats what this movie was heavily relying on, it got a little stale by the end of the movie.
I think this was a good movie, I may have liked it but it will take another viewing for me to know for sure.