ready player one sucks but it also fascinates me as sort of this perfect, completely unintentional but not-even-a-little-bit-subtle icon of how under the last few dying gasps of capitalism, creation becomes impossible and the dominant form of escapism becomes endless nostalgia as everyone tries to ignore the rapidly decaying reality
it's actually a lot like the bond movies in the sense that it's like you took the cumulative psychoses of an entire culture and then froze them in amber for future generations to enjoy, or at least look at and go "oh jesus fuck"