mm’s reviews of Ready Player One 2018

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    ★★★½ Rewatched by mm 09 Aug 2018 2

    *sigh*

    Alright, this is the last time I'm watching this for a while.

    I'm getting ready to move, so I needed something to put on while I sorted everything out. There aren't too many other Spielberg movies that I can feel good about having them on as background noise. But I think he knew that coming into the movie.

    I also think he knew that the only way to make the movie was by condemning it at the same time.…

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    ★★★½ Rewatched by mm 03 Apr 2018

    I saw this in IMAX last Wednesday with my best male friend. He's a pretty big gamer and wayyy more into "nerd culture" than I am.

    He thought the movie was sloppy, but enjoyable.

    Tonight, I saw it with my best female friend who's more into Friends and stuff like that than gaming. She came to the same conclusion as my other friend did, and without knowing my grade, gave it a 6/10.

    I don't know what that says about the movie, but 3 people (counting me) with different backgrounds in "nerd culture" came to the same basic conclusion.

    Maybe that's the magic of Spielberg.

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    ★★★½ Watched by mm 28 Mar 2018 2

    Lol at the scene where the heroes basically use letterboxd to find the next clue.

    I read this book a little while ago when I found it on sale at Target. I burned through it in a day and enjoyed it well enough. But the further I got from it, the more I began to dislike it. The over-the-top nerd references for the sake of nerd references and downright cringey character interactions bugged me. Worst of all, so did the…

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