The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

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

I say "unconventional" in a very low bar kind of way.

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 installed

Literally 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

I saw a fair amount of couples.

didn't the same guy literally just make Arrival, which was a hit?

Kind of don't even want to see the new one, I don't want my dope OG BR perspective expanded upon.

I was at the third showing of the day yesterday and there were seven people in the theater's biggest room.

Oh yeah, Annihilation is coming out too.

A replicant would pirate this shit

Villeneuve's also doing Dune. Hopefully that will be unconventional.

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?

(*Jodorowski's failed attempt)

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

didn't the same guy literally just make Arrival, which was a hit?

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, October 8, 2017

failing to follow the logic here. but fwiw this was much more enjoyable than Arrival.

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).

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.

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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.

although he's now directing the new Terminator movie so maybe this is no longer happening

it would be cool if one thing from my childhood wasn't ruined by the time i died

re: neuromancer

Neuromancer seems pretty simple, screen Johnny Mnemonic for the director and say "don't do this, any of this".

how dare u

It's like the Showgirls of sci-fi movies

if only that were true!!

Lol Showgirls is an actual masterpiece compared to Blade Runner

compared to anything

it is the only true film ever made and yet it bores me

as perfect things will

The reality:

Showgirls - 8/10
Blade runner 2049 - 6/10

Is what's boring!

i thought we were talking about johnny mnemonic being the showgirls of sci-fi movies

if that really is true then i guess i finally need to see johnny mnemonic

like immediately

speaking of long overdue

they're equally bad, but Showgirls is more eventful

30yo Keanu in a suit, tho

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

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.

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?)

Quite a lot of AI/Spielberg naffness in this. Hilarious enough to keep me from offing myself.

A critic I saw on Sunday had the DCP die 40 minutes from the end, and he was so, so grateful.

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.

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

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.

agree there are a lot of good lines/dialogue in it. Johnson's "my character is about to die speech" is good.

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!

haha yeah narratively the film is not *that* clever

saw this tonight in a relatively packed theater

loved 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 leto

but 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_O

and hey, turns out gosling makes a great robot :D

thank u dave bautista for putting gosling through a wall <3

^^ 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

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

i thought it looked great but entirely lacked charm. struggling to think of any memorable dialogue or characters, unlike the original. well leto was memorable but not for the right reasons. why exactly did he shiv that new replicant? it can't have been to demonstrate to luv that he's a crazy and dangerous guy since presumably she knew that already. maybe it was to demonstrate to us, in which case the motivation was the director's or the script's, not his own. oh well if this had been prometheus he'd just have said "i'm a crazy & dangerous guy!" so that's some improvement.