The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

the movie IS garbage. so is the last jedi, for pretty much the same reason... they know the fanbase will do the work of making a terrible movie into a great movie, so what is the point of making a real effort? it's money in the bank no matter how badly you fuck it up.

Yea the issue is clearly "effort"

wasting all your effort on CGI instead of the screenplay, yeah

Doesnt describe TLJ at all

Hell that was the chief complaint among many nerds

Can we leave defences of that tired slow worthy effort to its own thread this was a good movie

Which way is up

Morbs views on Up are in the pixar thread iirc

*points at hologram boobies* that way

tombot otm

this movie sucked as anything but eye and ear candy

you are doing candy wrong fyi

fair enough

yeah, dirty water more than candy

I think we expect movies in a series to do way too much. Some standalone film, we’re lucky if we get anything more than stock characters

imo the best franchises are the ones with minimal character progression and you can watch one without having seen a few and just kind of drop back in

the fast/furious franchise is the pinnacle of modern genre cinema

really because of Tokyo Drift though

it put Better Luck Tomorrow in the F&F universe, pretty ballsy

Lucas Black as K and Gugu Mbatha as Luv could have almost made this movie fun. score by Alec Empire.

K puts his hand in the beehive to FEEL STUFF

Just give us twenty more minutes we’ll get to something haha not really

i stung myself today

Disappointed they never connected the honey to the amniotic(?) fluid covering the newly built replicant

loved 2049, but I have this awful feeling that some generation will live through millions of "today is blade runner horse day" social media posts with the horse's etching changed to that day's date.

This is a great movie, but nobody's going to give a shit about it in 2049.

Or, you know, whatever the date on the horse was

it's much worse than even elderly Frank Sinatra

Ol blue horse

i did it my neigh

you make me, a horse, feel so young

Songs foals young lovers

new yoke, new yoke

what is this horse stuff? isn't it a unicorn?

This is about the wooden toy horse in the implanted memory from blade runner 2049 (which has a date carved into it), not the implanted unicorn dream from the original

ok, ive forgotten the sequel already.

this is a good movie

TSA agent at the airport recognizes my old Blade Runner shirt as I go through security, and starts jokingly administering a Voight-Kampff test

I have NO IDEA what he’s doing & completely go along with it

Living in a hyper pop-culture-savvy police state is really weird yall

— Jesse Holden (@scumbly) February 18, 2018

I get nervous any time a TSA agent says anything besides "move along, sir"

last time i visited the states my passport was about to expire and the guy looked at the picture (hair, clean-shaven, slim-ish) and then at me now (shaved head, beard, 10 years' worth of depression etched under my eyes) and gave me shit about having aged horribly

i'd have preferred a voight-kampff test tbh

last time I flew, my flight was pushed from later afternoon to the following morning, and I only had a few hours of sleep. I turned around after putting my backpack on not realizing the top wasn't latched, and some stuff flew out and hit the TSA guy. I was incredibly apologetic.

now, however, it's going to be a struggle not to make jokes referencing Get Out when I go through TSA

finally saw this and came away very impressed. it's total eye candy throughout and the very good music by Hans Zimmer(!) was unobtrusive(!!) though i did notice a foghorn blare over the end credits. beyond that, i thought the story was pretty straightforward but effective; the character arc for K was quite good and unexpectedly moving in places. and Gosling's tendency for flat affect was put to very good use here.

I was a little concerned there'd be more reliance on easy familiarity put to no actual use when Edward James Olmos popped up, but it was the only slightly sore thumb bit. It lasted less than a minute, so not really a big deal. I guess it did have some use as a way to introduce Deckard into the plot without revealing him yet. It must have been almost two hours into the film before he arrives.

There was shockingly little Leto content and what was there was effective. But everyone else in the film is better, mostly. Thought Hoeks was great; her moments of fury were outstanding, and I think her role as an assassin for Wallace is a bit of a red herring; she's kind of the Batty here, going independent and seeking out answers for herself. That was my read, at least. I did like how, uh, good she was at walking into LAPD HQ and stealing evidence and murdering cops. Or maybe LAPD is still corrupt and full of holes in 2049.

Fancher and Villeneuve were willing to make this very long and slow, which I was happy with. I guess I was most impressed that Fancher--who has hardly done anything since the original beyond writing a couple mostly forgotten films and directing one of them--was able to return to the fold with a sequel that actually works at this level.

I disagree re: Leto - way too much time wasted on him to ultimately no end, he has almost no purpose at all other than to be a creepy guy who tries to creep you out and fails, just like his role in Suicide Squad, actually

way too much time wasted on him

literally 10-15 minutes

he wasn't awful

or rather his obnoxious method ott-ness fit the character for once

well he certainly was hateable i'll give him that

Nah, he was hateable and awful.

feel like when he's supposed to be playing a character that's pretentious, he comes off as try-hard instead

I found him tedious and embarrassing but maybe I was primed to because he is famously those things, would have to watch again

The pacing was my favourite thing about this film but I found it hard to get caught up in for some reason - again I’m up for a rewatch

I thought Leto worked bc his role was mostly to give a bit of background and motivation. Fortunately the focus of his scenes were the reactions of other characters, either Deckard or Luv. Obviously it’s hard not to imagine the role being played much better, not merely resulting in something “effective.” I wanted to say a middle aged actor would have been better but then again the guy is 46 years old. So maybe a guy who looks middle-aged.

All that aside I thought he was okay.

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At least in the 2019 of Blade Runner the president of the US isn't Trump.

The lack of any sense of formal political structure we know of is part of the strange appeal of the film, I'd say. The sole authority appears to be the police, making it more Judge Dredd than anything else.