ready player one
REVIEW
There is no denying that Steven Spielberg is an icon in Hollywood. He has created some of the most beloved stories to enter our lives over the last 40 plus years and created so many memories in my own life that I attribute to my love of movies. I still remember the exact day I saw Jurassic Park, June 3, 1993. It was the first day of my summer vacation after just graduating the third grade. To a kid nothing is more exciting than the first day of summer and on that day I also got to go see dinosaurs brought back to life right in front of my eyes. It as a moment I will never forget. I bought every thing Jurassic Park that summer: coloring books, toys, stickers and even had a Jurassic Park birthday party. Spielberg had created an new icon in pop culture and a piece of the building block of my character. Now watching “Ready Player One” it was a bit like Inception, I was watching a movie by a director that used some of the icons he had created as piece of the story to a film that is in-itself is becoming iconic. That is just the surface of it. The levels of how much deeper we get into this Inception is hard to even put into words.
To put it mildly I loved this movie. There were moments when I actually said out loud “Oh my God.” I was blown away. I had a smile on my face through out the entire movie. Spielberg has quit literally created the most fantastic movie I have ever seen. I left the film feeling like I was in a dream. I saw it in IMAX 3-D and felt immersed in the world I was watching. I am still in awe.We leave in age where if you can dream it, you can watch it and it looks so real you could touch it. I want to see this movie again before I even write this review. Once I am able to fully grasp what I feel about the movie and after people I have seen it and I am able to write about things that will spoil it, I am sure there will be another review coming. There is just so much going on with this film that it is nearly impossible to digest in one sitting. The scope of this movie is insane. The references, the visuals, the comparisons, it is hard to fully wrap my head around.
Now this movie isn't perfect. A lot of the acting is terrible, the character development is pretty bad, The story does feel rushed and doesn't stick to the rules created in the uinverse but all of this is hardly the point of what I just watched. This film is a spectacle, a visual wonder, a culmination of moviemaking from our biggest most powerful director making a blockbuster that is so self aware that it uses all the elements from previous blockbusters to make it an even bigger blockbuster. What more could an audience possibly want from a Blockbuster movie. If people have problems with this movie they are not my audience cause I just saw the Delorian from Back to the Future out run the T-Rex from Jurassic Park while at the exact same moment saw King Kong jump down from the Empire State building and smash the Batmobile that was being driven by Freddy Kruger..... yeah.... and that was about 15 seconds of a 2 and a half hour movie. There are so many treats and surprises in this movie that awe inspiring hardly does it justice. For any film lover or even kid you grew up in the 80’s this movie is a slice of nostalgia that will bring the biggest smile to your face! Forget your adult life for a second and your analytical brain and remember the kid who loved going to movies with his friends, who's excitement and anticipation is damn near Christmas, waiting to see what our generations greatest blockbuster storyteller was about to show us.
