The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

Dong Runner

"This was not called execution. It was called sashaying away."

"Time...to tuck."

roy booty

is it too late to keep prodding tom so i can troll him into writing a few thousand words about a movie he disliked

Wait, Neil Marshall is doing Hellboy? Eh. I liked Dog Soldiers, I loved The Descent, I thought Doomsday was just a dumb John Carpenter riff, didn't see Centurion and he's been stuck doing TV (I don't want to see) ever since. Which makes this his first feature in almost a decade? Whole effort seems pretty b-list.

What I was alluding to re: JRPG cutscenes - these are almost universally goofy; anime people against incredible looking matte painting backgrounds, in service of a plot that seems complex but is really just a lot of misdirection and meanders, because every JRPG is about Overcoming the Monster - and that’s how this movie worked too. The Big Bad literally crushed the romantic interest under her boot, and then K tanks Luv despite his shitty DPS.

Anyway the point of this, I guess, is why would anyone spend 2.5 hours and 6 dollars for this experience when you can spend 50 dollars and 70 hours and get to watch lots of numbers increase in the process? Um

Also as Andrew pointed out the tits in this movie are actually obtrusive. Villeneuve has a hentai collection.

your 'big anime titties' argument has convinced me, blade runner 2049 is garbage

uh-oh

your 'big anime titties' argument has convinced me

if i had a nickel

...then u could finally retire and gtfo this board

the movie IS garbage. so is the last jedi, for pretty much the same reason... they know the fanbase will do the work of making a terrible movie into a great movie, so what is the point of making a real effort? it's money in the bank no matter how badly you fuck it up.

Yea the issue is clearly "effort"

wasting all your effort on CGI instead of the screenplay, yeah

Doesnt describe TLJ at all

Hell that was the chief complaint among many nerds

Can we leave defences of that tired slow worthy effort to its own thread this was a good movie

Which way is up

Morbs views on Up are in the pixar thread iirc

*points at hologram boobies* that way

tombot otm

this movie sucked as anything but eye and ear candy

you are doing candy wrong fyi

fair enough

yeah, dirty water more than candy

I think we expect movies in a series to do way too much. Some standalone film, we’re lucky if we get anything more than stock characters

imo the best franchises are the ones with minimal character progression and you can watch one without having seen a few and just kind of drop back in

the fast/furious franchise is the pinnacle of modern genre cinema

really because of Tokyo Drift though

it put Better Luck Tomorrow in the F&F universe, pretty ballsy

Lucas Black as K and Gugu Mbatha as Luv could have almost made this movie fun. score by Alec Empire.

K puts his hand in the beehive to FEEL STUFF

Just give us twenty more minutes we’ll get to something haha not really

i stung myself today

Disappointed they never connected the honey to the amniotic(?) fluid covering the newly built replicant

loved 2049, but I have this awful feeling that some generation will live through millions of "today is blade runner horse day" social media posts with the horse's etching changed to that day's date.

This is a great movie, but nobody's going to give a shit about it in 2049.

Or, you know, whatever the date on the horse was

it's much worse than even elderly Frank Sinatra

Ol blue horse

i did it my neigh

you make me, a horse, feel so young

Songs foals young lovers

new yoke, new yoke

what is this horse stuff? isn't it a unicorn?

This is about the wooden toy horse in the implanted memory from blade runner 2049 (which has a date carved into it), not the implanted unicorn dream from the original

ok, ive forgotten the sequel already.

this is a good movie

TSA agent at the airport recognizes my old Blade Runner shirt as I go through security, and starts jokingly administering a Voight-Kampff test

I have NO IDEA what he’s doing & completely go along with it

Living in a hyper pop-culture-savvy police state is really weird yall

— Jesse Holden (@scumbly) February 18, 2018

I get nervous any time a TSA agent says anything besides "move along, sir"

last time i visited the states my passport was about to expire and the guy looked at the picture (hair, clean-shaven, slim-ish) and then at me now (shaved head, beard, 10 years' worth of depression etched under my eyes) and gave me shit about having aged horribly

i'd have preferred a voight-kampff test tbh

last time I flew, my flight was pushed from later afternoon to the following morning, and I only had a few hours of sleep. I turned around after putting my backpack on not realizing the top wasn't latched, and some stuff flew out and hit the TSA guy. I was incredibly apologetic.

now, however, it's going to be a struggle not to make jokes referencing Get Out when I go through TSA