I’ve been watching a lot of movies recently, thanks primarily to a certain subscription service that lets you go to the movies however often you’d like for less than you’re paying for Netflix. I’m not a film critic, I’m really just some guy– so don’t take anything I say too seriously:
- I wasn’t entirely sold on the characters or the world itself at first. There was a point during the first half of the film where I turned to my wife and said “Okay, I care now.”
- It kinda felt like Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, in a way. It had clear structure based on video game levels, and it helped… push things along? Like the run time is 139 minutes, but I don’t feel like I was sitting on my ass that long.
- I think I liked Jumanji better. It’s tough to say?
- At the very least, if you took the Rock, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, and Chris Rock and stuck them into Ready Player One, it’d probably be a better movie.
- The music choices were fun. The “We’re Not Gonna Take It” moment made me laugh.
- You guys heard of this Spielberg fella? He makes good movies.
- I haven’t really seen E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Schindler’s List…etc.
- My preschool had like a… “sleepover movie night” sorta thing when I was a kid where they showed E.T., but I remember practically none of it.
- I have seen The Terminal. Spielberg made me like a movie about a guy living in an airport.
- Ready Player One is fun. I definitely thought it was gonna be dumb, action nonsense with lots of references, but it had more substance than I was expecting.
Meaningless Score: 7/10
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