The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

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/

Yet The Phantom Menace is probably one of the most deliriously inventive films to have appeared in years: it displays all of George Lucas's uncommon magic, a wide-eyed genius for adventure narrative that is beyond any ordinary capacity for wonder, and in many respects the latest episode proves itself to be a more finished movie than any of the others. It is daring and beautiful, terrifying and pompous – and that's just the title sequence.

He’s right. It’s a great film.

It only gets better with age. It’s like a fine wine.

I mean, say want you want but Jub-Jub Briggs is the best comic creation of the past three hundred moon cycles

anyway I still refuse to believe this will be any good at all

I love Star Trek part one: The Phantom Pain

Did you guys know this bullshit is 3 hours long

― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Tuesday, September 26, 2017 12:22 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus christ

I sincerely hope it’s good.

I hope it gets progressively worse, and whoever survives hour three gets their own replicant

there's an hour of Ford and Gosling travelling across the desert between LV and LA

Halfway through they stop and take some peyote, it’s pretty dope

that's when the secret Sean Young scene comes in

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2017/09/27/blade-runner-2049-first-reactions-critics-call-film-sci-fi-masterpiece/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_fb

mostly the same article as above, but with more reviews and IDs on the reviewers (lots of newspaper critics)

long movies rule

just watched 2022, very watanabe

xps still no one trustworthy, and a peter bradshaw rave is as often a bad sign as a good one

I WANT TO BELIEVE

rly struggling tho

the trailers are very :| but my favorite critic proclaims it's better than the OG. my brain went offline

164 minutes

Good lord.

First reviews (Guardian, Variety) are full of praise.

full of something

sorry i don't know why i said that. i hope this movie is good.

Bradshaw also gave 5 stars to Dunkirk #never forget. But I've got to admit this sounds pretty good.

i’m listening to the new hannah peel record and it should be a soundtrack for a blade runner sequel

rip van wanko which critic was that

Edelstein: "I thought it was okay."

god I hate rotten tomatoes so much

Soundtrack release announced, 2CD edition limited to 2049 copies (lol), no one seems to know a thing about the track list yet (all zimmer? Any johannsen bits? Wallfisch bits? Etc)

I’m more stoked about the score than before; if we get a fully-engaged zimmer it could be v suitable stuff. But... he didn’t have long to write this. The last standout thing he did, he had something crazy like a year and a half.

I'm deeply skeptical of all the rampant praise. I'm not saying it can't be even just a good film, but this is all very curious.

To me it just says everyone thought it’d suck and it doesn’t suck. I’ll take a new blade runner movie that doesn’t suck. But more than that yeah we shall see.

this movie still has jared leto in it right

Thus in large part my skepticism.

I'm deeply skeptical of all the rampant praise. I'm not saying it can't be even just a good film, but this is all very curious.

this is the correct stance

Critically important typo in the prerelease PR, it’s actually Jared from Subway. To say more would be spoilers.

keep that sick fuck away from replicant children

http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/blade-runner-2049-review-1202576220/

Wow, not holding back in his praise: Make no mistake: Whereas the original “Blade Runner” was (eventually) embraced for its unrealized potential, its sequel ranks as one of the great science-fiction films of all time.