Get Ready For Ready Payer One

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2018)

I have recently seen the latest Spielberg movie, and it measures up to greats like E.T., Jaws, and Jurassic Park. Ready Player One is a movie about a virtual world called the OASIS whose creator, James Halliday (played by Mark Rylance) has died. In his will he creates a quest for control of the OASIS, which Parzival (played by Tye Sheridan) had devoted his life to winning. The quest is entirely 80s themed, and is absolutely great.
All of the actors did a great job playing their roles. One of the best was Mark Rylance. He did an exceptional job as James Halliday, and the somewhat crazy man he was. Simon Pegg, who played Ogden Morrow, did a great job being annoyed at the weird kid always wasting his time.
I loved all the 80s references in the movie. The music was amazing, as well as all of the cameos. Although I was upset at how much it changed from the book, it was still just as good, if not better. The best scene was the final battle, by far.
I think that the moral is overused, yet important. It teaches that reality is more important than a game. Although it is necessary, it doesn't need to be in every movie and book a child ever reads. But, unlike most movies and books, it is subtle with this moral, and it does a good job of saying it's message without full out calling video games evil, like most movies incorrectly say.
You will like this book if you were a teenager in the 80s, or even a teenager nowadays. It has a lot of 80s references, but almost every major reference can still be understood today because their about such well known things. All of the music is some of the most well-known 80s music ever, and all of the videogames are immortalized legends. It takes very little 80s or video game knowledge to understand this movie, but the more you have, the better. This movie is also rated PG-13, and I agree with that rating.