Blade Runner 2049 - It was better than the original

[samuraicrack]

Just got out of the theater. Fucking great film, giving it to Denis Villeneuve was such a good choice. Very few other directors could have made it as enjoyable as he did.

Gosling’s performance was good but Ford’s was kinda ehhh. Maybe that’s due to his age. Everyone else was great. I honestly liked it better than the original. Visuals were especially fantastic.

 

[Chris did nothing wrong]

 

[samuraicrack]

lol

 

[millais]

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the whole subplot centered on Ryan Gosling's holographic augmented reality waifu was not overly cringey.

 

[Dane]

Just saw it, enjoyed it a lot,

I was never super big on the original but I L O V E cyberpunk.

 

[samuraicrack]

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the whole subplot centered on Ryan Gosling's holographic augmented reality waifu was not overly cringey.

I thought it was a bit creepy at first, but it was honestly pretty cute by the time she got offed.

 

[ICametoLurk]

 

[frozenrunner]

Saw it tonight. It was miraculously good, a great work of art that will be considered in the same breath as the original going forward. What a great script.

Gosling’s performance was good but Ford’s was kinda ehhh. Maybe that’s due to his age. Everyone else was great. I honestly liked it better than the original. Visuals were especially fantastic.

I thought Ford was great. Gosling's performance reminded me so much of his performance from Only God Forgives that I was distracted, but that's not his fault.

It's definitely at least as good as the original. I hoped but never thought it was possible.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

My biggest surprise of the year. Went in expecting a shitty nostalgia grab, where it pays lip service to the original while bombarding the audience with ball-numbing action and boring characters. Go the complete opposite. A genuine sequel with interesting arcs and the notable absence of producers reminding the director people will only enjoy it if it's loud and stupid.

 

[Raging Capybara]

My biggest surprise of the year. Went in expecting a shitty nostalgia grab, where it pays lip service to the original while bombarding the audience with ball-numbing action and boring characters. Go the complete opposite. A genuine sequel with interesting arcs and the notable absence of producers reminding the director people will only enjoy it if it's loud and stupid.

But the producers are right, the film is bombing hard.

Also, 75% of the audience in the OW was male. The chick who wrote the article is not far from the truth either.

 

[Ruin]

"Women get treated like slaves and objects in Blade Runner omg so sexist!"

Everyone does you stupid cunt, that's why it's called a dystopia.

 

[The Valeyard]

The chick who wrote the article is not far from the truth either.

Feminists are never satisfied. If she wasn't complaining about violence against women, it'd be something else like a lack of racial diversity.

 

[Guardian G.I.]

I watched Blade Runner 2049 the other day - it wasn't as great as the reviews on the Internet portrayed it. I'd rate it 7/10 at best.
But I think it wasn't Villeneuve's fault - Riddley Scott and the scriptwriters are to be blamed for that. It seemed like the film was very blatantly cut in half in order to make way for the sequel. All plot lines end very inconclusively and some of them look quite tacked on.

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The main villain Wallace appears for like 15 minutes in the film and does pretty much jack shit. The Replicant resistance movement suddenly appear in the end for a while and also do pretty much jack shit; no meaningful explanation is given to why they want to start a violent revolution against humans now. The Blackout is not really explained unless you watch the animated prequel. Even then it's strange that it had so much impact on the world: the EMP only affected North America, and Tyrell and other corporations should have had backup datacenters elsewhere in the world, especially for important stuff like Replicant manufacturing logs.

Also, some scenes are way too long and just don't make sense, like the beehives standing in the middle of abandoned Las Vegas.

Still, it's very pretty and atmospheric, I'd give it that. 1980s cyberpunk aesthetics and 2017 CGI are a match made in heaven.

 

[RoboticRichardSimmons]

Just a heads up to anyone who wants to be a contrarian for the sake of having the "against the grain" opinion.

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[Quijibo69]

Just a heads up to anyone who wants to be a contrarian for the sake of having the "against the grain" opinion.

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He should have seen the My Little Pony movie instead.

Just saw the movie, I liked the first one better. I found this more like a Star Wars Force Awakens/Blade Runner crossover. Sorry, people.

 

[D. Sweatshirt]

I loved it, but it seemed to lack a lot of the emotional depth of the first one. It'll probably grow on me over time though, just like the original.

 

[Cryin RN]

She somehow missed that these women are objectified because in the universe they are objects. Those titties are supposed to creep you out. Just like K is a disposable cop and Sapper was a disposable grunt, every woman in this movie except Joshi was designed to be sold. It's just harder to represent male objectification visually. And the movie's not presenting it as a good thing that goes unpunished.

 

[Absolutego]

The less the film had to do with Deckard, the more interesting and enjoyable it was. Amazing production design and the effects for the sex scene were phenomenally creepy.

Spoiler

Making Deckard & Rachel the Adam and Eve of some kind of Replicant revolution was incredibly stupid and belonged more on Star Wars than Blade Runner. THAT felt like something the studio wanted.

 

[Tranhuviya]

In Blade Runner: 2049, ex-Detective (Replicant? Human?) Han Solo doesn't die.

This is because he is not killed by his son, Detective (and Replicant Blade Runner) Kylo Ren.

 

[Ruin]

Just a heads up to anyone who wants to be a contrarian for the sake of having the "against the grain" opinion.

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I actually find Cole more obnoxious than Chris. Chris is actually retarded, Cole has no such excuse.