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Rating: 5/10 (20 June 2018)

I had alot of trouble just getting 3-4 minutes In to the movie.
I gave It one more chance recently and finally watched It through just because I,m such a sucker for the 80s, and for Steven Spielbergs classics.
What We have here at first glimpse Is an overload of bad CGI. It's sad to watch really.. Once upon a time One of the greatest Directors of our time. spellbinding us with down to earth wonderful storytelling with supernatural scifi elements that everyone today concider among the greatest movies of all time.. and back In the 80s, It was all practical effects! That's why His movies Still looks awesome today!, Not this tragedy that Is on display for two hours In Ready player one.. The concept of this movie thinks it comes away with.. Is the actual concern.
A movie that disguises Itself as a videogame, Therefore It doesn't matters How much CGI they put in there, But It does!.. It really does.. To the point that old fans will be very disappointed at Spielbergs approach to the genre that He once created. Can't the man himself figure out why the new Indy flopped? A reviewer here wrote "Relies heavily on empty nostalgia and pop-culture references but lacks engagement and a solid story of its own", That's exactly what This Is. And It's sad when todays movies feel so empty and cheap and then our fav directors following the same pattern that makes us hate movies.. Like Black Panther, all marvel crap, Disney tearing Star Wars apart til there Is nothing left etc.. All this destruction of Film as an artform Is actually pretty scary. When was the last time Ive watched a really really good blockbuster?? That would be Nolan's Batman.
I could watch Ready Player through tough.. I,m getting numb with this kind of lazy filmmaking that You allready knows what youre in for. It comes as no suprise all movies will look like Avengers. That's the goal of every big movie. SO that makes every movie today voiceless.. without identity really..
crisp and clean Is what sells abviously.. and That's pretty scary too.
Many Cgi artists concider themselves real artists.. colouring everything on their computer..ofcourse everything will look pitch perfect, and sure, it fits well with scifi, just not all scifis. But that's the problem.. no matter how many cgi artists I look at It comes down to one thing. they share a identity. and that's identity Is the same programs they draw on . the same colour palette. Poster, lightning, symmetry perfect. and that's the problem with all of todays movies. they start to look like siblings. Siblings In a computer world where there really Is no original. The original image Is inside a computer. Ofcourse I can appriciate digital artists to, Ofcourse it looks clean and badass.
But when everything and every movie does the same.. well. then you know it gets stale and tiresome pretty fast. It's like putting a lense over your favorite artists. make it more shiny.
I'm glad that Spielberg felt nostalgic and made the movie.. It would just be so so much better If he created It like in the old days.. then the 80s flirtation actually had worked too. who cares If It doesn't sell well just because the kids want to see more more more CGI without any plot??
Ready player one would have come to be appriciated as a cult movie, loved by his old fans and find alot of new fans when they grow up from their Hulk smash Thor In unrealistic CGI.
A movie with this concept, done right would have had a helluva long shell life. If Spielberg had kicked out every single cgi effect maker and just made It real. every single effect. Just like In the good ol 80s days.
They could have dumped King Kong, Iron Giant, Trex and all that nonsense And just went all In creating the Gundamn And mechagodzilla fight real.
Keeping the race without the eccess of throwing every silly thing there Is.
The less the more impact when It actually are action scenes of this ridiculous magnitute. Everyone knows that.