Yea the issue is clearly "effort"
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
wasting all your effort on CGI instead of the screenplay, yeah
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
Doesnt describe TLJ at all
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
Hell that was the chief complaint among many nerds
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
Can we leave defences of that tired slow worthy effort to its own thread this was a good movie
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
Which way is up
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
Morbs views on Up are in the pixar thread iirc
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
*points at hologram boobies* that way
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
tombot otm
― the late great, Sunday, 28 January 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
this movie sucked as anything but eye and ear candy
― the late great, Sunday, 28 January 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
you are doing candy wrong fyi
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 January 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
fair enough
― the late great, Sunday, 28 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
yeah, dirty water more than candy
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 January 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link
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 charactersimo 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 inthe fast/furious franchise is the pinnacle of modern genre cinema
― mh, Monday, 29 January 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
really because of Tokyo Drift though
― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 January 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
it put Better Luck Tomorrow in the F&F universe, pretty ballsy
― mh, Monday, 29 January 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
Lucas Black as K and Gugu Mbatha as Luv could have almost made this movie fun. score by Alec Empire.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 January 2018 01:41 (six years ago) link
K puts his hand in the beehive to FEEL STUFF Just give us twenty more minutes we’ll get to something haha not really
― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 January 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
i stung myself today
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 January 2018 09:37 (six years ago) link
Disappointed they never connected the honey to the amniotic(?) fluid covering the newly built replicant
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
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.
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
This is a great movie, but nobody's going to give a shit about it in 2049.
― Dan I., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
Or, you know, whatever the date on the horse was
― Dan I., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
it's much worse than even elderly Frank Sinatra
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
Ol blue horse
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
i did it my neigh
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
you make me, a horse, feel so young
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
Songs foals young lovers
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 09:39 (six years ago) link
new yoke, new yoke
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 February 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
what is this horse stuff? isn't it a unicorn?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
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
― silverfish, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
ok, ive forgotten the sequel already.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
this is a good movie
― akm, Friday, 9 February 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
TSA agent at the airport recognizes my old Blade Runner shirt as I go through security, and starts jokingly administering a Voight-Kampff testI have NO IDEA what he’s doing & completely go along with itLiving in a hyper pop-culture-savvy police state is really weird yall— Jesse Holden (@scumbly) February 18, 2018
― j., Tuesday, 20 February 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
I get nervous any time a TSA agent says anything besides "move along, sir"
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 03:15 (six years ago) link
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
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Monday, 9 July 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Monday, 9 July 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
way too much time wasted on him
literally 10-15 minutes
he wasn't awful
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 9 July 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
or rather his obnoxious method ott-ness fit the character for once
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 9 July 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
well he certainly was hateable i'll give him that
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 July 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
Nah, he was hateable and awful.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Monday, 9 July 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
feel like when he's supposed to be playing a character that's pretentious, he comes off as try-hard instead
― mh, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
I found him tedious and embarrassing but maybe I was primed to because he is famously those things, would have to watch againThe 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
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Monday, 9 July 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrZ9D56g_dW/
― calstars, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
At least in the 2019 of Blade Runner the president of the US isn't Trump.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 24 February 2019 15:03 (five years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 February 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
My husband and I went to Blade Runner 2049 this past weekend at Seattle’s wonderful Majestic Bay Theater. I am a big fan of the original Blade Runner thus the bar was very, very high for 2049. IMHO, Blade Runner 2049 was too frenetic, too convoluted and the only characters I really cared much about was Rick Deckard (the still handsome and wiley Harrison Ford) and his big ass shaggy mongrel doggie. I shed a tear when the doggie is shown peering out of a shattered building, wagging his tail just a bit, wondering where his human went. I’m tearing up now just remembering that scene.
One thing I found interesting throughout the movie was the relatively smallish breasts of all of the female characters. Hardly any cleavage at all – a real change for Hollywood. K’s (played by a deliciously disheveled Ryan Gosling) made-to-order AI concubine Joi (Anade Armas) and her human side kick, Mariette (Mackenzie Davis) with whom she mind and body melds, were both small chested. The LAPD’s Madame played by the ever wonderful Robin Wright was lean and mean and small chested. The still-under-construction and just “born” female replicants would all measure into an A or B cup bra. Even the gigantic virtual reality pleasure girl with the pastel hair was small breasted. The only bouncing breasts seen in the movie was in the cocktail lounge hologram dancing girls of the distant past. They contrasted nicely with Deckard and K beating the bejesus out of each other.
So maybe this return to a natural sized breast will be the next not-so-big thing for the ever scrutinized female figure?
Thanks for reading and if you haven’t seen the original Bland Runner, you are missing out on a great movie
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 July 2019 09:06 (four years ago) link