The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

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.

in both tone and style, the new film owes more to slow-cinema maestro Andrei Tarkovsky than it does to Scott’s revolutionary cyberpunk sensibility

waht

so is everyone smoking up before reviewing this or what

Trendacosta's review at io9 seems a little more sane than the rest (I fear to imagine what I would have read if it had gone to Lussier):

https://io9.gizmodo.com/blade-runner-2049-is-gorgeous-long-brilliant-pretent-1818967999

Two representative bits:

The plot is straight-up a Blade Runner fanfic. That’s not a criticism; I love fanfic. But the savvy fan is going to pick up on plot cues faster than the average person. And while the first movie’s actual plot is easy to describe, the sequel’s so sprawling, so world-changing, that it defies a two-sentence description. I am not going to spoil the plot, but down to sly references and cameos, the whole movie feels like a fan getting to play in their favorite sandbox.

...

There’s no way to excise to the not-great parts of this movie from the great parts. Blade Runner 2049 is a gestalt, and while some will be enchanted by it, others will not. There are a number of reveals and twists that worked and fed into the themes of consciousness, identity, and connection that the first film explored. And there’s at least one major moment that felt a bit like a cop out. Everyone is going to react differently to this movie—everyone’s going to have some things they love, and some things they can’t stand. I’m still not sure if it was worth all of the time it demanded, but the fact that I can’t stop turning it over in my head is a point in its favor.

Which, fine, I'll go with flawed though watchable as opposed to "OMG NEXT LEVEL GENIUS." She also credits the actresses with the best roles/performances.

I somehow missed the second "short story" clip by Luke Scott, possibly because I was turned off by Jared Leto in the first. It's good? Dave Bautista is a real gem in recent movies, a hulk of a man who has this emotional vulnerability. Looking forward to seeing him in 2049, at least.

The plot is straight-up a Blade Runner fanfic. That’s not a criticism; I love fanfic.

yeah this is definitely going to suck

so it's robot porn?

things ridley scott never had (except possibly briefly and entirely inadvertently)

1: a "revolutionary cyberpunk sensibility"

exhibit A:

https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/alienanthology/images/a/ab/Engineer.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120630195433

so it's robot porn?

we can but hope

Never have I been so suspicious of so many positive reviews.

idk maybe this is actually pretty decent you guys, yeesh