The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

jared leto wants to achieve THIS
one-eyed replicant revolutionary lady wants to achieve THAT
blade runner K wants to discover who he IS

GUESS WHAT? JOEKS it's just about harrison ford meeting a nameless character who has two scenes including the one where harrison ford meets her

I hate this movie a lot

noted, thanks

tombot i luv u but i must challenge u to a duel

Just recently saw this and thought it was surprisingly great. Only skimmed this thread. Picked up that Tombot thinks an abomination. But I’m not a fkn Hard Sci Fi dude and I don’t give a shit about picking apart plot points, just totally succeeded as an aesthetic extension of the original and it was a sequel that seemed to justify itself. If you re-rolled the dice on a Big Budget Blade Runner sequel in this movie climate a few dozen times I don’t think you’d get something more thoughtful or well done than this.

Also outside of the fucking incredible production design, sfx, cinematography, music, look/feel, Hauer monologue, etc. I don’t think og Blade Runner is exactly a rock solid masterpiece of a film so... I’m not precious about it. Surely will invalidate my opinion above but hey.

All movies are just made up characters doing things fyi

It's kinda funny this film never got its own thread

it is after all the better of the blade runner movies

Ok Robin Wright was kind of bad, and the film spent way too much on Gosford’s face. But the atmosphere , the colors, the city at night sequences , are all at the center of my wheelhouse and the film was a delicious little gummy bear imho. And Mackenzie Davis is a babe and a half.

What would you even do with an extra half a babe I wonder

ed gein to thread

idk what movie tombot watched

i mean he’s right that robin wright has to deliver real clunkers whenever she’s in the film i guess

Maybe that's what she was programmed to do.

Rabbit hole: are actors really human?

if anything this movie overexplains its extremely overwrought plot but i think it’s still primarily about “blade runner k wants to discover who he IS” + harrison ford actually delivering a good performance + all of the emotional content of the film revolving around the question “what is real” (e.g. joi) which sounds real basic but was the most captivating part of the movie for me + overwhelming environments and mood that the plot can’t ruin. it’s good, it’s the first time i’ve liked a villeneuve movie

i liked gosling in this too which surprised me bc i watched it a few days after la la land where he’s just a menace

Maelstrom is worth seeing imo (though it's been a while)

and I kind of liked Incendies as an insanely OTT Greek-myth update

None of the dots connect in this movie. I get that if you just watch it as a visual tone poem or whatever it’s probably fine but after a certain point all the lingering just felt like I was being strung along. And then it turned out I was, because nothing that happened felt like it had any weight or significance, roll credits.

overwrought plot

I don’t think there was much that was wrought at all

come on they hold your hand through the whole thing, that’s what i mean

but i’m still confused bc literally all of the dots connect in this movie

La la land also great

tombot you’re killing me here

just felt like I was being strung along. And then it turned out I was, because nothing that happened felt like it had any weight or significance, roll credits

just like K

I can’t believe people thought Sylvia Hoeks was the best part of this

Ned, Morbs, Andrew Farrell otm

but i’m still confused bc literally all of the dots connect in this movie

this movie is about butts iirc

i lol'd at Mark E Smith's last interview remarks on PKD film adaptations

(tho he's wrong about A Scanner Darkly)

i’m not crying, you’re crying

i really hope Deakins doesn't get his Oscar for this cuz it's an ugly-ass film

I guess the whole point of Freysa and her underground android army is to tell K to kill Deckard so that when he doesn’t do that it’s, like, a choice? Because I didn’t see anybody (or anything) else change from the trajectory it was on 110 minutes or so earlier.

Discover bones, (ps this movie has got “Excitable Boy” stuck in my head, so that’s good I guess) follow clues, kill Luv, let Deckard live. Along the way, other stuff, some of which is nice to look at, when it’s not reminding me of a JRPG cutscene.

Tom’s going to be in for a shock when he finds out that most books of literary analysis are about writing that people actually like

are you saying you dislike jrpg cutscenes? so many mixed messages here

i like that post-apocalyptic Vegas shows that, even though its premises had been upgraded with the newest of technologies prior to its obliteration, they were all still fetishizing the same shit (Elvis, Sinatra)....

Not to reignite but this guy's reps hellboy 2

o shit

hellboy 2 had a few cool moments ie the angel of death thing and the golden army

Haven't seen it since it came out, and was just planning to re-watch the first one, but I recall Hellboy 2 being really visually striking, even beautiful at times.

eh, wrong thread but the neil marshall hellboy overwrite can't come fast enough

i uh wouldn’t be so sure about that

and i say that as someone who thinks del toro’s hellboys were mostly a missed opportunity

on the blade runner topic, I still think it was kind of cliched and dumb that out of all the places in the world, Deckard was in Las Vegas

does the whole world only include southern california and western nevada, idk

a nuked out Miami Beach woulda been better

and i say that as someone who thinks del toro’s hellboys were mostly a missed opportunity

― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 28 January 2018 18:08 (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Would rather watch del boy's horse hotel

Ned, Morbs, Andrew Farrell otm

Too kind.

feeling v attacked rn

:D

Now Drag Runner 2049, that could be a thing.

lol