Ready Player One – do you buy Spielberg’s vision of virtual reality? Discuss with spoilers

The director has received positive reviews for his first sci-fi movie in over a decade.

But do you find his digital wonderland convincing or overly corporate?This article contains spoilersThere are so many potential competing narratives to discuss when looking at Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, so many ghosts in the machine vying for our attention.

This is Spielberg’s first science fiction movie since 2005’s War of the Worlds, unless you count the CGI aliens in 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

It is a movie that has largely impressed the critics, yet has led to much navel-gazing, largely linked to the widespread reappraisal of its source novel in the wake of Gamergate.

It is a vision of the digital future that seems more corporate and branded than those we have seen on the big screen in the past, yet it also feels

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