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This post contains spoilers forReady Player One.
My first thought, bleary from a day of Too Many Movies, was: Wow, aLast Jedireference?
Was that always going to be there?
(Nothing is more nostalgic than the silence of the womb.)
But is the movie actually good?
Well, its certainly not bad.
It was always going towork,and there are parts that are genuinely dazzling.
Spielberg knows how to conduct a larger-than-life car race, even if its entirely composed of pixels.
Here are three spoiler-free takeaways from the premiere, and one spoiler-y and sure to be divisive one.
Actors of Hollywood, be prepared to beS1m0ned.
Though Wade, the Mary Sue to end all Mary Sues, of course sees through the corporate fakery.
Its an homage that keeps going and going, both impressive in its veracity and jaw-dropping in its emptiness.
Its the peak and nadir of Remember this?
