Thanks for making fun movies again, Mr. Spielberg

Rating: 8/10 (31 March 2018)

It's nice to see Spielberg making movies that are fun again. Call me callous, but if you binge-watch his last directorial sub-oeuvres, you will have to spend a day of your life watching The Post, Bridge of Spies, Lincoln, and Munich. You can decide for yourself whether you want to throw in War Horse or Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, but the point is made: I miss the fun adventures of Raiders of the Lost Ark or E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Ready Player One is as others have suggested, it is The Goonies meets Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It is an adolescent adventure, kids winning the day because adults have become too caught up in their menial, meaningless lives, both virtually in silico and actually in vivo. Mark Rylance offers his regular touch of class as the inept dreamer, the kid who never grew up because he did not want to, feeling pain in all the typical places, never being able to relate to other people so he created his own universe.
What is the message buried within the 1980s? Were things better? How can you teach people that physical interactions are more important now than ever by paying homage to video game culture? If nothing is as it seems online, how can we trust our senses in The Real World?
I remember finding an invisible dot once, a few pixels able to move another through electronic attraction. It's nice to see Simon Pegg getting work again.