Good post just wanted to add one thing

Everyone here shits on Ready Player One for all of the obvious reasons but another thing that sucked about the movie was how obvious it was that the old dead game dev guy with a god complex was meant to be an author avatar for Spielberg no different from how the incel nerd main character was an author avatar for the author of the book, the whole movie was basically the two of them jerking each other off with background bazinga