The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

Have yet to be convinced by Villeneuve.

yeah, me too - the work of his i've seen so far (sicario and arrival) has ultimately been less than the sum of its parts, and somehow i think helming the unasked-for sequel to blade runner is not gonna be the project that tips him over into greatness

I'm willing to enjoy parts of it

was hoping one of the parts would be a JJ score, though

all these moments... will be lost... in time... like... tears we shed for Mr. J, stumbling around wearing sight-limited contact lenses. time to die.

Even the bits of Johannsson we heard in the trailers sounds like watered down Vangelis (i.e. awful). I don't see what the big loss is.

My concern is that we're moving from watered down to homeopathic.

xp are you sure that's his work? trailers don't even necessarily use music from the actual film

remember the early 00s period where half a dozen movies (including one of the Lord of the Rings ones) used a riff on the score from Requiem for a Dream

I mean, it could be Johannsson but I figured it was whoever cut the trailers having someone in-house doing a riff on the original's music

Was Vangelis ever offered the job of scoring this one? crazy idea, I know.

almost posted that myself

They should have got M83 to do it.

the Oblivion soundtrack was... ok? not sure if they'd be better than Zimmer but picking them seems a little more appropriate

I'd have gone with Geoff Barrow.

and/or Sinoia Caves.

The Haxan Cloak would have been fun.

Oh man Geoff barrow could do a number yeah

There was no point in asking vangelis, there's a 0% chance he would do this.

dj koze

kuedo, since he had an album that was half-riffing on vangelis's blade runner score anyway

just stick "Yakety Sax" over the fucker, it couldn't be any worse

really should have been wall-to-wall thirty seconds to mars imo

xpost I'd watch that!

xp are you sure that's his work? trailers don't even necessarily use music from the actual film

remember the early 00s period where half a dozen movies (including one of the Lord of the Rings ones) used a riff on the score from Requiem for a Dream

I mean, it could be Johannsson but I figured it was whoever cut the trailers having someone in-house doing a riff on the original's music

― mh, Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:04 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It sounds like Johansson to me!

wait, has no one yet mentioned the "prequel" to this new film we're getting?

Blade Runner Black Out 2022
Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe
Music by Flying Lotus

and I hadn't seen this bit, but lol at my comment upthread now
The forthcoming short also features music by Miguel Atwood Ferguson and Kuedo.

I'm kind of hoping Jóhannsson releases a Definitely Not Music From Motion Pictures album with work that didn't show up in the film

or even better, works with several others and creates an imaginary soundtrack for it like Barrow/Salisbury did with their Dredd-inspired one

that'd be awesome, that dredd album rules

I have some serious misgivings about the 90s film but, barring that, I am pretty good saying all Dredd-related things are pretty good

the soundtrack to the Karl Urban Dredd flick is really, really outstanding. everything about that film is better than it needed to be.

I have refrained from watching any trailers, and y'all are making me sad.

xp they won't make another dredd film with that group because we're not allowed to have good things

http://screencrush.com/blade-runner-2049-first-reviews/

Early reviewers (whoever these people are) seem pretty pleased with it.

Did you guys know this bullshit is 3 hours long

lol at them including Jesse Hawken's Seagal joke

anyway, *never* trust the early reaction roundups

I'm waiting for Armond.

100% guarantee that his "better than" list will include

Valerian > Blade Runner 2049

which might actually be correct, i still haven't seen Valerian

yeah I kinda wish I could find a roundup of early reactions to the Phantom Menace as a control

The first one I remember reading, from the day before the midnight opening, was a complete pan.

OTOH Roger Ebert and Peter Travers gave it 3.5 and 4 stars, respectively ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

http://www.starwars.com/news/critical-opinion-the-phantom-menace-original-reviews

this one is particularly hilarious

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/star-wars-episode-i--the-phantom-menace/review/

Yet The Phantom Menace is probably one of the most deliriously inventive films to have appeared in years: it displays all of George Lucas's uncommon magic, a wide-eyed genius for adventure narrative that is beyond any ordinary capacity for wonder, and in many respects the latest episode proves itself to be a more finished movie than any of the others. It is daring and beautiful, terrifying and pompous – and that's just the title sequence.

He’s right. It’s a great film.

It only gets better with age. It’s like a fine wine.

I mean, say want you want but Jub-Jub Briggs is the best comic creation of the past three hundred moon cycles

anyway I still refuse to believe this will be any good at all

I love Star Trek part one: The Phantom Pain

Did you guys know this bullshit is 3 hours long

― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Tuesday, September 26, 2017 12:22 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus christ

I sincerely hope it’s good.

I hope it gets progressively worse, and whoever survives hour three gets their own replicant

there's an hour of Ford and Gosling travelling across the desert between LV and LA