Yikes. This movie was a trainwreck. Tyler didn't even like it and it was basically tailor made for him.In the future of 2045, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) is one of millions of people obsessed with discovering the legendary three keys of James Halliday (Mark Rylance), the designer of a virtual reality world called the Oasis. Halliday has promised that the first person to discover the locations of all three keys will gain control of the entire world. Wade, in his online persona Parzifal, has been searching for the keys for years without success until a chance meeting with Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), another online persona, gives him the clue he needs. But evil corporation IOI is also looking and its CEO (Ben Mendelsohn) will stop at nothing to have control of Oasis.
The only reason this movie exists is to absolutely pack as many pop culture references it possibly can into each and every frame. You could spend ages trying to catalogue every character or property that shows up and probably have a better time doing that than actually watching the film. I can only hope that the book is miles better because the movie is a total garbage fire. It manages to shoehorn in every single shitty trope from the 80s but not with any intention of subverting them or even providing justification other than "this is how movies and games were when we were kids." Okay, sure, but then we realized that they sucked and made them better.
On top of all that, the effects aren't even that good! We have reached a stage where CGI is almost completely integrated with live-action in movies (like Black Panther) and games and this still looks like a rip-off from ten years ago. Just so, so bad.
The book was better, so much better!
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