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Well this was simply terrrific.


I haven't had this much fun watching a movie in ages. Felt like a kid again. Simply wonderful movie. Spielberg still got the magic. Really wish I saw this in the theater.

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Neither here or there, but the original poster slogan for Citizen Kane was "It's Terrific!"

That said, Ready Player One delivered some enjoyable Spielberg conventions. If you like a bunch of pop culture references, there's a special reward waiting for you at the end of the movie. Good luck!

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Agreed! Really made me feel like a kid again, I think I had a big smile on my face during most of the running time. Like a fun rollercoaster ride, I too wish I had seen it in the theater.

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Definitly a theatre type movie

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What exactly did you find so fun watching this movie?
It was the typical, seen a trillion times, story of a regular kid that rises to save the world.
The fx were just there, nothing mindblowing, if anything everything looked fake, as in videogame fake.
I know that's what the images were representing, an alternate reality in a videogame, but I'm saying, as far as virtual reality were you can move your life to, it looked fake.
Anyway, I'm curious to know what was so wonderful for you.
I thought it was a derivative, mediocre movie at best, to be forgotten in a week.

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You don´t seem to feel the Spielberg Magic.

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There's an oxymoron right there.
If you mean Spielberg Schmaltz, that I felt.
That's his favorite ingredient, present in the majority of his movies (absent in the few good ones).

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You felt like a kid again?

As in you felt like you had child-like intellect instead of full adult intelligence?

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