The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

Hell, Joe Turkel was amazing in the original, and he was just this understated dude.

Genuinely think the Leto stuff has made me decide to not see this, despite/because of the original being one of my favourite films

He seems to be doing some kind of bad Shatner impression?

The fact that Hans Zimmer is now doing the music is...not inspiring.

hugely disappointed they ditched Johann Johannsson, that more than anything I've seen in trailers signals this went off the rails and is going to suck.

Yup
The score could still be good depending on which Zimmer we get (the Beyond Rangoon/Interstellar zimmer I could see doing a cool blade runner score) but the disappointment of not hearing what JJ would have done is massive.

While promoting Suicide Squad, all the cast could talk about was how crazy Jared Leto had been on set, sending people anal beads, used condoms, dead rats, bullets, and an entire pig, as well as making everyone refer to him as 'Mr. J'.

Preparing for Blade Runner 2049, Leto went full method actor again, apparently partially blinding himself by wearing sight-limiting contact lenses.

“He entered the room, and he could not see at all,” director Denis Villeneuve told the SWJ magazine in a profile piece about Leto.

“He was walking with an assistant, very slowly. It was like seeing Jesus walking into a temple. Everybody became super silent, and there was a kind of sacred moment. Everyone was in awe. It was so beautiful and powerful — I was moved to tears. And that was just a camera test!”

i think i've said it here before, but it's hilarious and slightly endearing that leto goes full-on method in support of delivering terrible performances

also, denis villeneuve sounds like a total idiot

He really does

between this and mother! Johannsson is having a tough time getting his scores into movies these days

Have yet to be convinced by Villeneuve.

yeah, me too - the work of his i've seen so far (sicario and arrival) has ultimately been less than the sum of its parts, and somehow i think helming the unasked-for sequel to blade runner is not gonna be the project that tips him over into greatness

I'm willing to enjoy parts of it

was hoping one of the parts would be a JJ score, though

all these moments... will be lost... in time... like... tears we shed for Mr. J, stumbling around wearing sight-limited contact lenses. time to die.

Even the bits of Johannsson we heard in the trailers sounds like watered down Vangelis (i.e. awful). I don't see what the big loss is.

My concern is that we're moving from watered down to homeopathic.

xp are you sure that's his work? trailers don't even necessarily use music from the actual film

remember the early 00s period where half a dozen movies (including one of the Lord of the Rings ones) used a riff on the score from Requiem for a Dream

I mean, it could be Johannsson but I figured it was whoever cut the trailers having someone in-house doing a riff on the original's music

Was Vangelis ever offered the job of scoring this one? crazy idea, I know.

almost posted that myself

They should have got M83 to do it.

the Oblivion soundtrack was... ok? not sure if they'd be better than Zimmer but picking them seems a little more appropriate

I'd have gone with Geoff Barrow.

and/or Sinoia Caves.

The Haxan Cloak would have been fun.

Oh man Geoff barrow could do a number yeah

There was no point in asking vangelis, there's a 0% chance he would do this.

dj koze

kuedo, since he had an album that was half-riffing on vangelis's blade runner score anyway

just stick "Yakety Sax" over the fucker, it couldn't be any worse

really should have been wall-to-wall thirty seconds to mars imo

xpost I'd watch that!

xp are you sure that's his work? trailers don't even necessarily use music from the actual film

remember the early 00s period where half a dozen movies (including one of the Lord of the Rings ones) used a riff on the score from Requiem for a Dream

I mean, it could be Johannsson but I figured it was whoever cut the trailers having someone in-house doing a riff on the original's music

― mh, Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:04 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It sounds like Johansson to me!

wait, has no one yet mentioned the "prequel" to this new film we're getting?

Blade Runner Black Out 2022
Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe
Music by Flying Lotus

and I hadn't seen this bit, but lol at my comment upthread now
The forthcoming short also features music by Miguel Atwood Ferguson and Kuedo.

I'm kind of hoping Jóhannsson releases a Definitely Not Music From Motion Pictures album with work that didn't show up in the film

or even better, works with several others and creates an imaginary soundtrack for it like Barrow/Salisbury did with their Dredd-inspired one

that'd be awesome, that dredd album rules

I have some serious misgivings about the 90s film but, barring that, I am pretty good saying all Dredd-related things are pretty good

the soundtrack to the Karl Urban Dredd flick is really, really outstanding. everything about that film is better than it needed to be.

I have refrained from watching any trailers, and y'all are making me sad.

xp they won't make another dredd film with that group because we're not allowed to have good things

http://screencrush.com/blade-runner-2049-first-reviews/

Early reviewers (whoever these people are) seem pretty pleased with it.

Did you guys know this bullshit is 3 hours long

lol at them including Jesse Hawken's Seagal joke

anyway, *never* trust the early reaction roundups

I'm waiting for Armond.

100% guarantee that his "better than" list will include

Valerian > Blade Runner 2049

which might actually be correct, i still haven't seen Valerian

yeah I kinda wish I could find a roundup of early reactions to the Phantom Menace as a control

The first one I remember reading, from the day before the midnight opening, was a complete pan.

OTOH Roger Ebert and Peter Travers gave it 3.5 and 4 stars, respectively ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

http://www.starwars.com/news/critical-opinion-the-phantom-menace-original-reviews

this one is particularly hilarious

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/star-wars-episode-i--the-phantom-menace/review/