The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

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

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