The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

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some stuff about the music here: http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1701-Winter-2017/Collaborators-Villeneuve-Johannsson.aspx

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 10:06 (seven years ago) link

i regret playing this youtube

r|t|c, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 10:25 (seven years ago) link

redemial offtone voiceover, fury road desert, prometheus head ruins, staircase from untouchables (it is isn't it?), bane outfit

r|t|c, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 10:33 (seven years ago) link

Villenueve making hay

“Blade Runner: 2049” director Denis Villeneuve looks ready to jump into another classic fixture from the sci-fi world.

Sources tell Variety that Villeneuve is in early talks to direct Legendary’s “Dune” reboot for the company. Legendary has not commented on the news.

Prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, Legendary closed a deal with the Frank Herbert estate for the rights his iconic novel, granting the production entity not only rights to film but also TV-based projects on the sci-fi property.

Number None, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link

dune is the only bit of all this old tat that is TOTALLY worth remaking but not if they're going to fuck it up which they will

geopolitics, fascism, jihadism, environmentalism , silicon valley techno libertarianism, immigrant & ethnic food cultures, white ppl & appropriation, foodies, it's got the lot

r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link

Villeneuve has no sense of humor which should disqualify him from the Dune job, but nobody understands anything so

a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link

wonder if they'll use at least some of the Vangelis tunes/cues, 'the love theme', 'Blues' at least.

piscesx, Thursday, 22 December 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link

Disappointed that Vangelis won't be scoring this, I wonder if they even asked him?

Tuomas, Thursday, 22 December 2016 08:30 (seven years ago) link

Anyway, since Ford has now come back as as old Indiana Jones, old Han Solo, and old Rick Deckard, is there any other iconic role he could reprise? Jack Ryan comes back from retirement? Dr. Richard Kimble gets framed for another murder? Dr. Richard Walker gets lost in Paris again?

Tuomas, Thursday, 22 December 2016 08:38 (seven years ago) link

'Another Conversation'

めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Thursday, 22 December 2016 09:48 (seven years ago) link

Re:Regarding Henry

Tuomas, Thursday, 22 December 2016 10:00 (seven years ago) link

Old Bob Falfa hunkered down in his broken down house in Modesto. The kids haven't spoken to him in years. A rusty Malibu SS in the driveway with a Trump sticker on it.

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 December 2016 12:40 (seven years ago) link

Villeneuve has no sense of humor

Have you seen Enemy? Some of it's pretty funny.

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 December 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link

I should check it out, I guess. I suspect any humorous stuff is because Jake is incorrigible.

a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link

wonder what happened to this guy

http://m.kitv.com/image/view/-/89408/highRes/3/-/maxh/630/maxw/1200/-/12cpcilz/-/Harrison-Ford-in--Apocalypse-Now--jpg.jpg

piscesx, Thursday, 22 December 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

Villeneuve confirmed for Dune. deserves its own thread?

El Tomboto, Thursday, 2 February 2017 01:37 (seven years ago) link

Yup.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 February 2017 01:40 (seven years ago) link

isn't there more than one scifi person available?

PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:27 (seven years ago) link

It used to be law that every Hollywood SF movie starred either Keanu Reeves or Tom Cruise, so expect one of them to be cast in it

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 2 February 2017 05:00 (seven years ago) link

three months pass...

Hmmmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcx85zbxz4

...hmmmm.

As a commenter said elsewhere, "hoping the action beats they’re emphasizing are more for the trailer than indicative of the movie." But this feels far too stagy and forced regardless, the self-consciousness really is evident -- probably inevitable in comparison to the almost accidental formulation of the original film, but even so.

Also there's something too...crisp, I suppose the word is, about what's here. Visually, the literal grain of the images.

Johannsson's music does the self-evident Vangelis riff/'cover' at the start and then his own thing and again hm.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 May 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link

Doubling down on the Atari logos.

pplains, Monday, 8 May 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link

i'm hyped for this, primarily based on Sicario and just the overall look of what i'm seeing here.

i think the original BR was a bit stagy in places too, but that was a plus for me. For that particular film.

Ford looks properly older and more paranoid, rather than merely exhausted.

nomar, Monday, 8 May 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link

even if the plot flops I'm hoping for some atmosphere

a landlocked exclave (mh), Monday, 8 May 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link

All I'll say is that it's 100% perfect that Bautista is in this and I hope he makes all the money in the world off of being in genre franchises.

her squamous hamhocks (DJP), Monday, 8 May 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link

yeah, I'm just hoping for something that captures the same kind of atmosphere as the the original. Basically just good set and sound design and interesting characters. Plot is secondary.

This trailer hasn't really convinced me, but I'm still hopeful.

silverfish, Monday, 8 May 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link

That's basically what villenueve does, so those are my expectations too (thin to meaningless plot and thick, crispy ambient tension like this pork belly I had in Taiwan)

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 8 May 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link

a bunch of stupid callbacks + shiny but generic action sequences = about what you would expect ie, crap

Οὖτις, Monday, 8 May 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link

If it's the director/composer duo who did Arrival, and it is, I think it will deliver good atmosphere.

erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 8 May 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link

but other than raking in gobs of cash, this movie is 100% unnecessary.

erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 8 May 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link

Also there's something too...crisp, I suppose the word is, about what's here. Visually, the literal grain of the images.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, May 8, 2017 12:50 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark

this feels like it's set in the AI universe than the blade runner universe

, Monday, 8 May 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link

If Deckard dies in this, then Indiana will have to die in 2020 in order to complete the trifecta.

jmm, Monday, 8 May 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link

All I'll say is that it's 100% perfect that Bautista is in this and I hope he makes all the money in the world off of being in genre franchises.

And this I fully agree with.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 May 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link

doesn't look ~moody~ or atmospheric enough to be even halfway decent. vangelis soundtrack was also a big part of why the first one worked and this seems like it will be... not that. (did we learn nothing from the cosmos revival??)

trailer doesn't reveal anything even resembling a plot but can't say i'm too excited based on what's shown

dyl, Monday, 8 May 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link

jared leto looking like animated slime and making replicants out of animated slime afaict

ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link

kinda wish there were new replicants instead of pris leon and, uh, the acrobatic one knockoffs

, Monday, 8 May 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link

wait, isn't Pris the acrobatic one?

her squamous hamhocks (DJP), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:40 (seven years ago) link

sorry rachael

, Monday, 8 May 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/08igC2L.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pCNlVrY.jpg

, Monday, 8 May 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link

basic pleasure model, which used to be a sci-fi euphemism for sex robot but is now an anagram of gwyneth paltrow's instagram

erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link

so the blade runner replicants don't have a built-in shut-off date like the normal ones huh

a landlocked exclave (mh), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link

on one hand, I kind of miss the old trailer style of the day when you didn't have to give the SHIT IS GOING DOWN sound effects and portentous looks & dialogue

on the other, there are some really pretty set pieces here

a landlocked exclave (mh), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/Gyacliw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/VXFWofV.jpg

, Monday, 8 May 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link

hey I didn't say they were _all_ good

a landlocked exclave (mh), Monday, 8 May 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link

IMO the scene from the trading outpost in rogue one got the 'blade runner aesthetic in a 2017 movie' right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LORtuZ0ISF4

, Monday, 8 May 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link

otm

a landlocked exclave (mh), Monday, 8 May 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link

basic pleasure model, which used to be a sci-fi euphemism for sex robot but is now an anagram of gwyneth paltrow's instagram

A+

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 8 May 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link

mh and I agree, again

the storyline is pretty obvious from the trailer but as above, not why I watch movies starring this star, or directed by this director; if they do the respectful thing and give away the "twist" in the first act, I'll award some extra credit

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 8 May 2017 20:30 (seven years ago) link

if they save it for the climax I will hit this button which shuts down all the gosling and villenueve series between here and half the distance to the sun

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 8 May 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link

irretrievably

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 8 May 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link

SPOILIDAD:

{I hear Gosling is *actually a replicant*)

Οὖτις, Monday, 8 May 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link


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