229. Ready Player One.

Rating: 8/10 (29 April 2018)

So while all the Marvel nerds were waiting to see who's contract at Disney was too expire, I mean, which characters will die off in Avengers, me, being my own nerd, went to the 1:30am showing of this one. Yes, I was alone in the theatre, therefore I could shout with glee at every 80's reference I spotted out. Just so you know I owned and played Atari's Adventure, and too this day thinking it was not as cool as ColecoVision's Venture!! But anyways, the movie was pretty bad ass, some of the best CGI interacting with humans yet!! This movie revolves a young boy named Anakin Skwalker, oh wait, Wade, who lives in a bleak future, no its not a Netflix sci fi, the poor are poorer and, well you know. But too escape it all there's the OASIS, a virtual reality world, where you can virtually be anything or anyone. The creator of this world was a super genius and now also a corpse, but before he went off to chill with Hawking, and Chris Farley, he hid some easter eggs in his world and created a contest, in which the winner, gets to rule OASIS. But of course the virtual world is also a cash cow for greedy corporations and they have created a virtual army, but made of real people, virtually, that train virtually night and day to win it all for themselves. Luckily for Wade he has a pretty rad group of pod racing virtual friends to help him on his quest... Along the way meeting Art3mis, spoiler alert, sparks fly between the two avatars, does Wade ever meet the girl hiding behind the avatar, well ya know she doesn't really look like the avatar, and Wade is all about love man, so looks don't matter. Unfortunately when they do meet, our worst fears are true, shes a monster. She has a huge birthmark across her face, children run in terror. But Wade true to his word, sticks it out. Who will win the little guy or corporate greed? It's a movie, that's easy. Filmbufftim on FB.