The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

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

y'all almost as bad as nerds who pile on critics who give a bad review to the nerd movie they haven't even seen yet

og Blade Runner is a brilliant and visionary aesthetic achievement that also happens to be a zzzzzzz movie imo so maybe i don't hold the same protective reverence

y'all almost as bad as nerds who pile on critics who give a bad review to the nerd movie they haven't even seen yet

― circa1916, Saturday, September 30, 2017 4:08 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes one of these things is definitely almost as bad as the other

it's too bad they didn't make an all-female blade runner

y'all almost as bad as nerds who pile on critics who give a bad review to the nerd movie they haven't even seen yet

― circa1916, Saturday, September 30, 2017 4:08 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes one of these things is definitely almost as bad as the other

Well I CONTEND... that it almost is?

those nerds routinely send death and rape threats so uh maybe not

yeah, we're used to disappointment and we only blame ourselves

Well who really knows what kinda shit Ned’s been e-mailing these ppl.

xp

jk Ned <3

Tsk.

The Strange Case of Dr Raggett and Mr Ned

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Of course.

http://lwlies.com/reviews/blade-runner-2049/

well we have one dissenting voice at least

that's weirdly reassuring

up to 4 dissents on RT, including the AP

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/review-gorgeous-2049-breaks-blade-runner-spell-50176968

Do RT scores tend to peak early and decrease over time? I heard something like that for one movie recently, where the explanation was that critics who are interested enough (or invited) to attend advance screenings are also more likely to give positive reviews.

yes that almost always happens

this is one of the many, many reasons RT is terrible and should never be used by anyone

it is completely unreliable and there are often gaping holes in many of its filmographies. I can't think why I use it more than imdb, but for some reason I do.

This still of Harrison Ford accidentally punching Ryan Gosling for real during a Blade Runner 2049 scene is amazing. pic.twitter.com/3uKIxHo1AT

— Toucan Dan (@GolazoDan) September 30, 2017

friend saw it last night and said it was pretty but a bore and descends into the usual scifi action punchy punchy shooty shooty cliches