Wouldn't be surprised if this Blade Runner is the last unconventional big expensive sci-fi film America makes for a long time.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 8 October 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
86% was over 25 showing that young adults were not excited enough for this old property to show up in large numbers.
there's your problem
― jmm, Sunday, 8 October 2017 22:38 (six years ago) link
I say "unconventional" in a very low bar kind of way.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 8 October 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
I had some errands to run so I took a Friday off work and went to the movie at 11am after dropping my car off to have new tires installedLiterally every other person in the theater (which, to be fair, was sparse at 11am on a friday) was a white man in his 30s/40s
― mh, Sunday, 8 October 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
I saw a fair amount of couples.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 8 October 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
didn't the same guy literally just make Arrival, which was a hit?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 October 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
Kind of don't even want to see the new one, I don't want my dope OG BR perspective expanded upon.
― calstars, Sunday, 8 October 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
I was at the third showing of the day yesterday and there were seven people in the theater's biggest room.
― WilliamC, Sunday, 8 October 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah, Annihilation is coming out too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 8 October 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
A replicant would pirate this shit
― calstars, Sunday, 8 October 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
Villeneuve's also doing Dune. Hopefully that will be unconventional.
― jmm, Sunday, 8 October 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
What's his long game anyway? BR2049 I can understand, but why a Dune reboot? Why not let Lynch' great flawed version and Jodorowsky's rest in peace?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 8 October 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
(*Jodorowski's failed attempt)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 8 October 2017 23:45 (six years ago) link
and the syfy channel's series, and...
dune is going to keep being remade because -- and full disclosure, I never read past the first book -- it's a science fiction epic with the same scope as Tolkien's works, but hasn't had a popular adaptation that's definitive
we could have dealt with a world where the bakshi animation was the only hobbit we needed tbh
― mh, Monday, 9 October 2017 00:08 (six years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, October 8, 2017
failing to follow the logic here. but fwiw this was much more enjoyable than Arrival.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 9 October 2017 02:34 (six years ago) link
It was in response to RAG suggesting this might be the last unconventional American sci Fi film in some time. I meant that call seemed premature, given Arrival, by the same guy, was just a hit, so don't write off sci Fi yet (whether or not one liked either).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 October 2017 02:41 (six years ago) link
It would be nice for someone to make a better movie of Dune, but I can't figure out why Neuromancer hasn't been made yet. That would be something that could be a bigger deal done right than a sequel to Blade Runner or doing Dune for the third time.
― earlnash, Monday, 9 October 2017 03:37 (six years ago) link
1 N TRON, Too! WB $131,525,000 - 4,058 - $29,769 $131,525,000 $150 1
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 October 2017 03:47 (six years ago) link
I have bad news
Deadpool director Tim Miller's busy schedule is getting a little busier.
Miller will direct an adaptation of the 1984 sci-fi novel Neuromancer for Fox, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Longtime X-Men producer Simon Kinberg will produce the film. A writer has not yet been set.
Miller made his directorial debut last year with Fox's Deadpool, which became an unexpected smash. He exited the sequel in October over creative differences, but has a number of other projects in the works, including an adaptation of the Daniel Suarez sci-fi novel Influx for Fox and an animated/live-action adaptation of the classic videogame character Sonic the Hedgehog for Sony.
― Number None, Monday, 9 October 2017 03:50 (six years ago) link
although he's now directing the new Terminator movie so maybe this is no longer happening
― Number None, Monday, 9 October 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
it would be cool if one thing from my childhood wasn't ruined by the time i died
― the late great, Monday, 9 October 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link
re: neuromancer
Neuromancer seems pretty simple, screen Johnny Mnemonic for the director and say "don't do this, any of this".
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 9 October 2017 04:18 (six years ago) link
how dare u
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 October 2017 04:31 (six years ago) link
It's like the Showgirls of sci-fi movies
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 9 October 2017 04:39 (six years ago) link
if only that were true!!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 October 2017 07:49 (six years ago) link
Lol Showgirls is an actual masterpiece compared to Blade Runner
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 9 October 2017 09:38 (six years ago) link
compared to anything
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 October 2017 10:24 (six years ago) link
it is the only true film ever made and yet it bores me
― mark s, Monday, 9 October 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link
as perfect things will
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 October 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link
The reality:
Showgirls - 8/10Blade runner 2049 - 6/10
Is what's boring!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 9 October 2017 10:46 (six years ago) link
i thought we were talking about johnny mnemonic being the showgirls of sci-fi movies
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 9 October 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link
if that really is true then i guess i finally need to see johnny mnemonic
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 October 2017 12:17 (six years ago) link
like immediately speaking of long overdue
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 October 2017 12:19 (six years ago) link
they're equally bad, but Showgirls is more eventful
30yo Keanu in a suit, tho
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 October 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
we were shocked to see this in a totally empty theater last night, which sucks for the production company, but ramified the ambiance of the film itself
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 9 October 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
Must be bittersweet for Sean Young to have been in her first big movie for a while but only being wanted involved as her younger self.
― Chris L, Monday, 9 October 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
I liked this! I liked how it reversed the standard “am I a robot?” trope of science fiction and made it, “am I human?” (i.e., do I have a soul?)
― ryan, Monday, 9 October 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
Quite a lot of AI/Spielberg naffness in this. Hilarious enough to keep me from offing myself.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 08:56 (six years ago) link
A critic I saw on Sunday had the DCP die 40 minutes from the end, and he was so, so grateful.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 11:45 (six years ago) link
so I watched Cherry 2000 and chaki is right it's not *that* great, although it is def an interesting curio. The production design and mish-mash of ideas/styles are it's biggest strengths. The integratron looks great, the robot warehouse is total Ballard, the urban scenes all have clever/funny details. But the acting of the leads is godawful and Griffith is really terribly miscast, and the gender politics inherent in the premise are all glossed over in a p stupid way. Johnson and Carey's scenes are, predictably, the most appealing. Feels like it could have been really great in the hands of a better director and better leads but whatever.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
I think my favorite is when he's driving out of town and there's a mileage sign with two destinations: GLORY HOLE 10 - RULE OF LAW ENDS 15
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
yeah that got a lol from me. a lot of funny details like that littered throughout. But Griffith is just not the actress to convey a hardboiled, tough-as-nails woman whose been kicking ass in the desert her whole life, her body language alone totally puts the lie to that. Charlize Theron or Jennifer Jason Leigh she is not. The lead guy is generally forgettable too. And that combo leaves a big vacuum at the center of the film.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
agree there are a lot of good lines/dialogue in it. Johnson's "my character is about to die speech" is good.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
I think the most generous description of Griffith's take on her character would be "unflappable". I would have had her making out with the main guy in the last scene and... twist! He short circuits because he is a sex robot too!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
haha yeah narratively the film is not *that* clever
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
saw this tonight in a relatively packed theaterloved it. which surprised me! i had reservations going in, like in the back of mind though i love villeneuve i worried that with ridley not directing would ford muscle villeneuve into making the “guys deckard is totes a human” rebooted sequel...and of course i was concerned about letobut it was really good. the storytelling was clean & simple & the pacing was impressive. the only time i noticed the run time was the end during the endless water fight scenes like GUYS CAN WE GO villeneuve brought so much open space & weather & elements to the bladerunner world, those early sweeping landscapes of california 2049 were stunning. and some of the sets & locations were O_Oand hey, turns out gosling makes a great robot :D
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 05:40 (six years ago) link
thank u dave bautista for putting gosling through a wall <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 05:41 (six years ago) link
^^ this is the movie i saw, right down to the only moment that felt long... well okay that and the part where jared leto bondvillains harrison ford for like 45 minutes
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 06:19 (six years ago) link
i really liked it too. super slow, but so was the original. a beautiful movie, lots to absorb. could've been cut a bit for sure, but i was into it
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 06:55 (six years ago) link