So as a reader of Ready Player One by Ernest Kline that is among my favourite books I was itching to see the Spielberg adaptation....oh man.... it's visually spectacular but avid readers of the book might notice that this adaptation - it differs from the book so much in places it ought to be called an homage - has upped the girl power vibe against the book considerably. Spielberg has smoothed out and dumbed down the show to its simplest components and stretched things out with more fighting and race scenes. The book was plenty blue pilled but the film goes much further.

Maybe it wouldn't seem such a disappointment if I hadn't read the book....