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Post by kingeomer on Dec 19, 2016 16:08:25 GMT
Welp, I know what I will be doing for my anniversary in 2017.
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Post by day dreamer on Dec 20, 2016 1:46:34 GMT
Yass that teaser! (I'm not even a fan of the original Blade Runner but I'm psyched for this  ) |
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Post by MarcusAntonius on Dec 20, 2016 17:49:12 GMT
Yeah I thought the original was decent but I'm much more pumped for this than I thought. Villenueve and Deakins are love
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Post by boojam on Dec 23, 2016 2:07:27 GMT
I thought they only started principal production last September?
I guess this is an 'out front' trailer, tho guess they could be through soon.
I notice a slice of Vangelis,tho Jóhann Jóhannsson is doing the score.
Vangelis's score for Blade Runner is in my top five favorite film scores, a collection of extraordinary themes.
Blade is my 2nd favorite SF film (after 2001). All the Phil Dick adaptations are action-ified, but this is the most successful. Oddly it 'looks' and 'feels' more like early Dick , like from Dick's works in the 1950's, added on to that are influences of the 'social science fiction' work in Galaxy magazine in the 1950's. Scott used art design by Jean Giraud but Giraud must have been influenced by the brilliant science fiction artist and illustrator Ed Emshwiller, the echos are there.
Ridley Scott's production design for Blade Runner was a perfect 'future on a chipped plate', no one has done better, alas later Paul Verhoeven showed in Total Recall (1990) how trying to do a similar thing can come out klunky.
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Post by Admin on Dec 24, 2016 14:02:01 GMT
The only thing I dislike about the original is a total lack of charisma from Ford, he was really not very good there and literally every single person in the movie gave better performance and had more interesting character to play
Gosling can be still worse though, if he repeats his 'skills' from Only God Forgives
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Post by boojam on Mar 16, 2017 2:04:25 GMT
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Post by boojam on Mar 19, 2017 15:53:10 GMT
An odd thing, Olmos says he signed a non-disclosure agreement, so we are actually not supposed to know that Gaff is back as a character in the film? I guess? (I would guess Olmo does not expect to appear in a third sequel to Blade Runner, if there is one.) Could be Sean Young has also signed and only given out negative info about even a cameo in the film? What I wonder , in the Hampton Fancher and Michael Green story/screenplay how do they handle Rachel ? If the character does not appear is anything explained about her? Not very satisfying if the character is totally ignored. |
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Post by TheMadQueen on Sept 26, 2017 19:52:26 GMT
Overwhelmingly positive reviews!
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Post by boojam on Sept 26, 2017 20:44:42 GMT
The buzz right now is that Sean Young as Rachael will be back.
That could be a deal as brief as Edward James Olmos as Gaff, which apparently is really brief.
I was guessing from what Sean Young had to say , long time back, that she would not be in the film, tho must be explained in the dialog.
If she signed a non-disclosure agreement she must be sticking to it.
The Olmos thing is still kind of strange, apparently he was gonna stick to non-disclosure but somehow it leaked, so he just confirmed it.
I wondered how they were going to explain Rachael.
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Post by boojam on Sept 29, 2017 10:44:02 GMT
Lots of stuff on YouTube about the movie. A few non spoiler reviews have raved about it.
I am not to taken by the idea of an arch-villain, Jared Leto , got a comic book ring to it.
Have to see.
No, not because Leto played the Joker.
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Post by boojam on Oct 8, 2017 0:17:35 GMT
The buzz right now is that Sean Young as Rachael will be back. That could be a deal as brief as Edward James Olmos as Gaff, which apparently is really brief. I was guessing from what Sean Young had to say , long time back, that she would not be in the film, tho must be explained in the dialog. If she signed a non-disclosure agreement she must be sticking to it. The Olmos thing is still kind of strange, apparently he was gonna stick to non-disclosure but somehow it leaked, so he just confirmed it. I wondered how they were going to explain Rachael. I got this post out of order! So I did see it. Sean Young did show up for her sequence 'her'. She only advised the 'stand in'? No sure exactly what that means? Better CGI here than GoT did for Lena. |
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Post by boojam on Oct 8, 2017 12:07:29 GMT
Ok, saw it, thought it was great!
More later.
Note: Saw it in 3D , I did not think 3D for this film added much, it's getting to be that way for even good films.
Only saw were I thought 3D worked, Avatar and Gravity.
Save you money on the 3D.
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Post by boojam on Oct 9, 2017 22:51:23 GMT
I have a generalized observation after seeing Blade Runner 2049 today.
I was worried that there would be an outbreak of comic book heavy artillery. No so! As an avid reader of SF prose for the last 50 years this film warms the cockles of my heart! I praise Warner for going through with this dense sophisticated story. This is a better narrative and more difficult and deeper narrative drama than Blade Runner 1. Loved it. Will have more to say later. I worried about the box office on a film this intelligent.
(One observation, the musical score for Blade Runner 1 is light years ahead of what we got here, of a mind that they just should have flat paid Vangelis for re-use of the original. I wonder if Vangelis was approached about scoring this movie ? He is still around.)
Interesting times several serious SF films in the last few years, Ex Machina , Predestination, and Arrival , one could even add The Martian , and even the very uneven Interstellar
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Post by DaveyJoe on Oct 10, 2017 0:20:07 GMT
They originally had Villeneuve's regular composer on the score but they recently replaced him with Hans Zimmer who scrapped everything Jóhann Jóhannsson had all ready done. I imagine the original score might have been more unique like Vangelis' original vision.
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Post by day dreamer on Oct 10, 2017 2:40:59 GMT
Saw this today and enjoyed it. Yes it was long, but I was interested the entire time.
This movie belongs to Roger Deakins though. It was gorgeous.
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Post by lordcarson on Oct 10, 2017 4:16:41 GMT
this wasn’t fucking great it’s a real shame it made like twelve dollars
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Post by boojam on Oct 10, 2017 4:50:13 GMT
They originally had Villeneuve's regular composer on the score but they recently replaced him with Hans Zimmer who scrapped everything Jóhann Jóhannsson had all ready done. I imagine the original score might have been more unique like Vangelis' original vision. I wonder if they will release that? It's odd some of the previews had 'modified' Vangelis , I mean real short, but I did not notice much of it in the film , except for the closing scene which was Vangelis. I was expecting 'Shadow Vangelis' , so to say, this score was more stark, and that kind of fit, but there is just not much inventiveness, that is definitely a subtraction for the film. This new film makes few concessions to popular taste , alas. I hope this does not hurt other high budget 'serious minded' gene movies. |
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Post by boojam on Oct 10, 2017 14:11:55 GMT
I found this comment on Wired, I totally agree with this:
Brian Raftery: Villeneuve certainly takes his time lingering in the world of Blade Runner 2049, but I didn't mind the extended stay, as the movie takes place in the kind of glittery, pricey big-screen fantasia that few moviemakers (and even fewer studio execs) have the patience or resources to create anymore. Like the first film, 2049 just feels so different than anything I've seen before, and that alone justified the occasionally laggy third act. But there's more to 2049 than just sensual visuals: I loved the characters' complicated pact with technology—the way their machines both liberated and limited them—and found the movie's scattered but intense moments of violence to be brutally effective. Also great? Ford's weary performance; the spare, chilly score; and pretty much all of the clothes, from Gosling's Hoth-cool jacket to Luv's (Sylvia Hoeks) numerous Kubrick-on-the-runway get-ups.
Still, even if Blade Runner 2049 represents luxe filmmaking at its finest, maybe that's not enough for moviegoers in 2017—or, then again, maybe it's too much. The new Blade Runner is an immersive experience, the kind that requires you to put down your phone and get lost in a big, bewildering world for hours on end. That doesn't seem like a huge sacrifice in the binge-era, when people are capable of shotgunning an entire season of a TV show in a weekend, and certainly, smashes like Titanic and Avatar were just as lengthy. But those movies promised the spectacle of romance, and vice versa. Blade Runner 2049 offers something a little stranger and chillier, and in a year already ruled by fear, maybe that's too much to ask of audiences. That said, I hope more people catch up with 2049 before 2017 is over. We don't get big-studio movies this smart and audacious too often, and we should enjoy them now, lest they be relegated to the off-worlds forever.
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Post by boojam on Oct 11, 2017 22:00:09 GMT
They originally had Villeneuve's regular composer on the score but they recently replaced him with Hans Zimmer who scrapped everything Jóhann Jóhannsson had all ready done. I imagine the original score might have been more unique like Vangelis' original vision. Had not listened to my copy of Vangelis' score in a while, so I did, man, that is just other worldly , beats the score for BR2 by lights years. As far as I can tell they only used one piece of Vangelis, some of the others would have been fine to use. |
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Post by Father of Dragons on Oct 11, 2017 22:30:33 GMT
My favourite part of this movie was watching Dave Bautista struggle to fit those tiny little glasses on his massive head
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