Similarly, the movie is full of exposition-chock-full, which in moderation would not be all that bad given that Steven Spielberg is the master of making dull, informational speeches interesting. Not much of significance has changed between novel and script, which was a major error because the novel, albeit an engaging page-turner, contains pages and pages and pages and pages of unnecessary exposition. The cause of the movie’s problems might be due to the novel it’s based on. (Read no more if you wish to avoid knowing why this movie is stupid. It operates on one or more levels of stupidity at various times, up until its last shot, when it brings all of those levels together. Ready Player One somehow checks off all stupid-movie possibilities for me. Sometimes, stupid movies are just “meh” (as the expression goes), and these are the worst because they eat up my life without giving anything back. Sometimes, a stupid movie is so offensive that I rage inwardly and struggle with whether I ought to throw my shoes at the screen. Sometimes, a stupid movie is wildly entertaining, the artistic equivalent of a Dairy Queen blizzard-that is, fake ice cream that nevertheless manipulates my taste buds for a few minutes. Movies can render me stupid in many ways. If at the end of a movie I feel stupider than when it started, I figure that this is not a good thing. Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg
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