The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

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

I watched sequins glitter in the dark ...

Dong Runner

"This was not called execution. It was called sashaying away."

"Time...to tuck."

roy booty

is it too late to keep prodding tom so i can troll him into writing a few thousand words about a movie he disliked

Wait, Neil Marshall is doing Hellboy? Eh. I liked Dog Soldiers, I loved The Descent, I thought Doomsday was just a dumb John Carpenter riff, didn't see Centurion and he's been stuck doing TV (I don't want to see) ever since. Which makes this his first feature in almost a decade? Whole effort seems pretty b-list.

What I was alluding to re: JRPG cutscenes - these are almost universally goofy; anime people against incredible looking matte painting backgrounds, in service of a plot that seems complex but is really just a lot of misdirection and meanders, because every JRPG is about Overcoming the Monster - and that’s how this movie worked too. The Big Bad literally crushed the romantic interest under her boot, and then K tanks Luv despite his shitty DPS.

Anyway the point of this, I guess, is why would anyone spend 2.5 hours and 6 dollars for this experience when you can spend 50 dollars and 70 hours and get to watch lots of numbers increase in the process? Um

Also as Andrew pointed out the tits in this movie are actually obtrusive. Villeneuve has a hentai collection.

your 'big anime titties' argument has convinced me, blade runner 2049 is garbage

uh-oh

your 'big anime titties' argument has convinced me

if i had a nickel

...then u could finally retire and gtfo this board

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