BLADE RUNNER 2049
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- dopepope1
I just realized I’m friendly with the guy who made those posters that you guys ripped apart a few posts up.
- share the linkimbecile
- https://www.instagra…dopepope
- we've had conversations online about 3D and zBrush and stuff. Never met in person tho. Seems really friendly and cool.dopepope
- nothing wrong with criticism. Steve has chops.Hayoth
- slap him for us ;-)mugwart
- Got to give him credit for the Moonlight poster. https://scontent-lga…CyBrainX
- sofas12
slides taken during the construction of the miniatures in the 1982 film
https://imgur.com/a/mv8qf- superbfadein11
- nice
+1Bluejam - www.instagram.com/p...sofas
- ^ignor, i ment this
https://www.instagra…sofas - the famous Alfa Romeo in the original film!! https://i.imgur.com/…OBBTKN
- tnx:) Also around online: 'Blade Runner Sketchbook'
http://goonies1632.f…uan - try looking at those and not have the soundtrack in your head!mugwart
- two year old timeline ;)microkorg
- imagine the hard and detailed work that goes into justnome of the models, jesus. history in the making.helloeatbreathedrive
- Hipstersinstrmntl
- As much as I love 3D, model making is amazing. The original was just a phenomenal vision and superb talent everywhere.formed
- ^ its all about lens, lighting and techniques. To make a model work you need to understand all of cinema history. To make a 3d model you just need the internet.mugwart
- Shame with modern photography - the lens make the photo and subject immortal. I find digital looses all that as mainly the lens are mass produced.mugwart
- Ramanisky21
Got my tickets for an IMAX showing ... cant wait.
- Bluejam4
Blade Runner 2049 first social-media reviews posted, Denis Villeneuve’s movie heralded as 'masterpiece'
http://www.independent.co.uk/art…
(Spoiler free article)
10 days to go ...
- instrmntl3
Blade Runner Black Out 2022
http://www.crunchyroll.com/blade…
- Fax_Benson0
"It just has to be experienced on the biggest screen possible. Blade Runner 2049 is a narcotic spectacle of eerie and pitiless vastness, by turns satirical, tragic and romantic."
"Its mind-boggling, cortex-wobbling, craniofacial-splintering images are there to trigger awe or even a kind of ecstatic despair at the idea of a post-human future, and what it means to imagine the wreck of our current form of homo sapiens."
- Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian
* Bradshaw is well known for plot reveals. I haven't read the whole review for that reason.
- I'm generally a fan of his reviews.
Just read it.
Seeing it nxt Fri.
I am less worried now.fadein11 - i read it.
he drops a few plot details, nothing too major, but yeah, stay way.Bluejam - apparently it's better than the original first film according to one headline i saw
7 days to go ...Bluejam - I had v.low expectations for this but it seems from a visual point of view alone it's going to be worth it.fadein11
- The fact that he's reproduced a key scene from the original, like he did with the Alien reboot, makes me say no thanks.see_thru
- *prequel...see_thru
- *they not he...goddammit...see_thru
- he didn't direct the Alien prequelfadein11
- I'm generally a fan of his reviews.
- Bennn-1
Dont read any reviews dont watch any teasers or trailers.
If the reviews are super good, your expectations will be super high...
- ... he says on page 3 of the thread, after everyone's seen all the teasers and trailers.Continuity
- [Bennn stating the obvious again]imbecile
- Never forget the universally good reviews for the lame ass Force Awakens.fadein11
- That's not the reason not to watch trailers but avoiding spoilers is aways mandatory.CyBrainX
- I got offered $2000 to write good reviews on qbn. I refused.Beeswax
- detritus0
Some balance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sco…
- CygnusZero4-3
I have to watch the original before I go see this. I only saw it once like 10 years ago and all I remember about it was thinking that aside from the visuals, it was very boring. Ill give it another shot. Im going to see this new one regardless though.
- I thought you were a sci fi fan? what? QBN doubletake... yes watch it.
this explains your love for the SW prequels :)fadein11 - A lot of folk found it boring, never did well at the box office either. It is a work of art though.PhanLo
- Im a huge scifi fan but I legit didnt really like BR very much. I need to see it again though.CygnusZero4
- Best....movie.....ev... listen to the soundtrack, get in the mood, that's where the power is...you can 'feel' itformed
- I thought you were a sci fi fan? what? QBN doubletake... yes watch it.
- fadein110
For some balance... (zero spoilers)
- "At its centre is Ryan Gosling, an actor who has built a cottage industry out of playing characters who sport an entirely blank expression." lolyuekit
- For the most part it does seem to be getting good reviews though.
https://www.rottento…yuekit - just checked his other sci fi movie ratings, not convinced. he's all over place.
https://letterboxd.c…Bluejam - i'm a star wars fan but to give Force Awakens 4.5 stars ...
https://media.giphy.…Bluejam - Yep - agreed. But also worries me, the general reaction to Blade Runner reminds me of the hysteria for Force Awakens which lets face it deserved little of thefadein11
- praise it got. It's easier re-watching the last 2 prequels than that haha.fadein11
- actually looking at his other reviews though - I think we may have similar tastes.fadein11
- Ramanisky21
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- massive crush on sean young back in those glorious dayshelloeatbreathedrive
- dorfsman-4
Just watched. It triggered me. Extremely disappointing.
- expand plsfadein11
- ^inteliboy
- ^^DRIFTMONKEY
- A post and duck from dorfsmam.Ramanisky2
- See belowdorfsman
- autoflavour3
Believe the hype.. watched it last night.. fucking amazing
- Got tix for IMAX next week. Super stoked.DRIFTMONKEY
- IMAX experience was phenomenal!!!utopian
- Indeed it was ... 10/10Ramanisky2
- dorfsman-1
I was cautious about disclosing too much above, as I'm aware many of you haven't seen it, but anyway, here goes.
Firstly I'd say the majority of the exterior shots are extraordinary, as the LWL review above mentions, I would have happily sat through two hours of just a narrative free roam of the landscape, taking it all in, it really is does look that good (apart from the interior shots which completely break the illusion with their stark lighting and sometimes cardboard set feel) however...
Shit, where to start? I guess at the most significant flaw, the plot. Avoiding spoilers as best I can, it is myopic, predictable, poorly paced and some of the core premises are just absurdly inept, very very daft. There's forced clunky parallels with the first movie and whereas, by accident or design, the original BR unfolded with liberal doses of ambiguity which, one could argue, really allowed some depth and interpretation to be added by the viewer, 2049 seems to suffer from the same problems as Prometheus where it just tries to explain and frame too much, and some pf this is to the detriment of the original BR which is just lamentable. Again, as some of the reviews coming out explain better than me, those main themes of humankind's relationship with technology, evolution, memory, what it is to be a sentinel being floating on a rock, existential angst tropes if you like, have been explored so effectively in other movies since BR such as Ex Machina, GITS 2: Innocence, Westworld etc; these works kind of took those ideas from the original BR and expanded and surpassed it, 2049 adds nothing to the mix.
Other frustrations...
The score. Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch's soundtrack lacks the nuance, subtlety and sheer beauty of the Vangelis original, the main motif being the belting, almost farting drone that sounds like listening to a Ducati superbike blasting past you in an underpass (the reality of hearing that in real life is probably pretty cool but here it just doesn't work).
The costumes just pale in comparison to the original BR designs with a total lack of imagination, weird juxtaposition and flair. Times now are very different to the early 80's of course (profoundly), but remember that the original BR had a huge, albeit gradual, influence of popular culture: film, literature, fashion, music, advertising; the original seemed to be crammed with visual ideas and inventiveness (not surprising when you look at the breath of talent involved) and I feel 2049 will be forgotten in months and its impact will be minimal.
I could go on and on (I love Gosling but his Batty/Deckard tortured character portrayal is really lacking, and Leto's Wallace is a poor substitute for Turkel's Tyrell etc) but I won't. I'm down, hugely disappointed. IMHO 2049 just didn't need to be made, it adds nothing to the original, adds no new ideas, adds nothing to the wider discourse around the moral quandary we're currently in in terms of our relationship with technology and where it is going. And lastly, it tells us nothing about ourselves, who we are, what it means to be alive, conscious, what it means to reminisce, to love, to live, the original BR seem to press all these buttons, to provoke, explore these themes, 2049 just doesn't come close.
Son i am disappoint: 3.5 out of 10
- looks spoiler heavy... !inteliboy
- Hmm, we could do with an edit button here, lol, I see this is full of typos. Soz.dorfsman
- Edit: BR had a huge, albeit gradual, influence ON popular culture (not OF)dorfsman
- I agree with you, but oddly think it was amazing. Need to digest though.inteliboy
- Interesting read and some good points in spite of the typos, I give this review 8.25/10yuekit
- yuekit I will give your side note a 10/10Ramanisky2
- While I agree on these points, I simply do not agree that each of these points is as impactful and detrimental to the degree you've presented them.monospaced
- In my opinion this is kind of a remake, and it hits all the same points as the original, but does them much better. I miss the ambiguity but also don't. Weird.monospaced