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Ready Player One
Directed by
Steven Spielberg
Produced by Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Donald De Line, and Dan Farah
Screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline Based on the novel by Ernest Cline
Produced by Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Donald De Line, and Dan Farah
Screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline Based on the novel by Ernest Cline
With:
Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, and Win Morisaki
Cinematography:
Janusz Kaminski
Editing: Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar
Music: Alan Silvestri
Editing: Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar
Music: Alan Silvestri
Runtime:
140 min
Release Date: 29 March 2018
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 29 March 2018
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Color: Color
If Steven Spielberg is trying to one-up George Lucas by making a film worse than The Phantom Menace he's almost succeeded with this loud, bland, expository, reference-laden, pseudo-nostalgic, already-dated dystopian dreck.
NOTE: Since this movie instantly scored a spot on my list of all-time least favorite films, someday I’ll have to spend actual time writing about it. I do not look forward to that. The two hours and twenty minutes I spent watching it was already more time than anyone should have to devote to such an abysmal work of “entertainment.” But someday I’ll get around to writing my All-Time Least Favorite Films essay, and then I’ll have to dig back into this and nine other movies that I’d just as soon never think about again. Until then, I’ll link to this spot-on review from the New Yorker’s Richard Brody. An infinitely more articulate writer than I, and someone paid to sit through terrible films, Brody perfectly describes a few of the myriad reasons why I find Ready Player One a disgraceful piece of filmmaking; a shallow, inaccurate reading of what was important and special about the 1980s; and the darkest of dark stains on the prolific career of Steven Spielberg.https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/steven-spielbergs-oblivious-chilling-pop-culture-nostalgia-in-ready-player-one?mbid=nl_Daily%20040318&CNDID=42309174&spMailingID=13246144&spUserID=MTM2MDIyMzA2NTA0S0&spJobID=1380233989&spReportId=MTM4MDIzMzk4OQS2 Twitter Capsule:
NOTE: Since this movie instantly scored a spot on my list of all-time least favorite films, someday I’ll have to spend actual time writing about it. I do not look forward to that. The two hours and twenty minutes I spent watching it was already more time than anyone should have to devote to such an abysmal work of “entertainment.” But someday I’ll get around to writing my All-Time Least Favorite Films essay, and then I’ll have to dig back into this and nine other movies that I’d just as soon never think about again. Until then, I’ll link to this spot-on review from the New Yorker’s Richard Brody. An infinitely more articulate writer than I, and someone paid to sit through terrible films, Brody perfectly describes a few of the myriad reasons why I find Ready Player One a disgraceful piece of filmmaking; a shallow, inaccurate reading of what was important and special about the 1980s; and the darkest of dark stains on the prolific career of Steven Spielberg.https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/steven-spielbergs-oblivious-chilling-pop-culture-nostalgia-in-ready-player-one?mbid=nl_Daily%20040318&CNDID=42309174&spMailingID=13246144&spUserID=MTM2MDIyMzA2NTA0S0&spJobID=1380233989&spReportId=MTM4MDIzMzk4OQS2 Twitter Capsule:
If Steven Spielberg is trying to one-up George Lucas by making a film worse than The Phantom Menace he's almost succeeded with this loud, bland, expository, reference-laden, pseudo-nostalgic, already-dated dystopian dreck.