You'll get another sequel.... in another 35 years.
i hope not. You really should let go of some of your reservations and go see this just to see how incredibly ambitious this film is.
You'll get another sequel.... in another 35 years.
I wonder how this effects Villeneuve's DUNE?
That seismic drop in only it's second week, has got to hurt.
On a positive note, it will sure be very easy to cosplay as Deckard for Halloween this year!
The device in the Blackout 2022 short was a nuclear bomb. A strong electromagnetic pulse happens when you detonate a nuclear bomb at a high altitude.The blackout was an EMP (see Blackout anime short). Las Vegas was a dirty bomb, K mentions it in the discussion with the guy who tests the horse.
The device in the Blackout 2022 short was a nuclear bomb. A strong electromagnetic pulse happens when you detonate a nuclear bomb at a high altitude.
If you want to know more, you could search the web for "Starfish Prime".
Yep, that was a wee joke since Deckard look like he was rocking the 90's Gap Dad look with just jeans and a Teeshirt this go around. :cheersBut given its box office performance who could tell who you are dressed up to be?
There were a few plot coincidences that bugged me--
like K randomly having lunch in front of the brothel that was the front for the Replicant rebel army...
or the fact that K just happened to have been given the false memory from Rachel's child (remember Joi told him to go there completely independent of his investigation)...
or that the memory expert didn't find it odd that this random Replicant cop came in with one of her personal memories..
or how K knew she was the daughter...
Here's how I read it. While the baby daughter went to the orphanage, at some point, Deckard hacked records to show both a boy and a girl. He had her memories implanted into a random replicant (which happened to have been K) so that, should anyone go looking for the child, they'd be looking for a boy instead of a girl. It's a coincidence yes, that it happened to have been the same replicant who ended up searching for her... but maybe there aren't many Blade Runners?... or the fact that K just happened to have been given the false memory from Rachel's child (remember Joi told him to go there completely independent of his investigation)...
... or this.It was suggested that she gave those memories to a great many replicants. Remember how missing-eye-lady said they all had thought they were the one?
oh but she did know that it was an implant. She told him it was real because it was an implant of a real memory. She didn't want to tell him the whole truth since implanting of real memories, as she said, was illegal..or that the memory expert didn't find it odd that this random Replicant cop came in with one of her personal memories..
Yeah, that one bothered me, too. My best explanation is ... because he's a detective?or how K knew she was the daughter...
I finally got off my butt to watch this film last night.
It was magnificent.
I'm eating nothing but crow because, going into this movie, I had a lot of concerns even after the trailers and shorts.
There's no way this should have worked for me. Blade Runner 2049 was a "no win" proposition in my heart and mind with endless potential pitfalls:
- if it expanded on the film's world-building it would easily violate the claustrophobic tonality of the original
- if it tried to preserve the feel of BR it might just become derivative and unnecessary
- if it continued the story it could have become laden with needless exposition where BR was refreshingly sparse
- I was worried it might have been too rapidly paced and edited as so many modern films are
- I was concerned this would be another chase film dressed as hard sci-fi which simply applies a known property for a backdrop - c.f. Total Recall
- I was afraid it might become too ambitious in scaling up the film that it loses the characteristic intimate scale of BR
- I was afraid because I was one of the few people who thought Arrival was overrated
I hold Blade Runner in such reverence there was no way this could have been good enough for me.
.... but it was. It was better than I dared to hope and even enhances my appreciation of BR.
Dennis gets it. He gets it hard. He made a film that Ridley himself is incapable of making. He made a film that straddles the line between being an entirely original (and credible) extension of the first film and wallowing in its shadow. I love this movie.
First of all, I love how Blade Runner 2049 creates a wonderfully detailed and cacophonous tapestry of ambient (and often inexplicable) city noises blended with the soundtrack just as Blade Runner did.
The characteristic BR pathos is infused in this film as well.
For me Carla Juri as Dr. Stelline was the standout among the entire cast of outstanding performances. It's her performance that still haunts me most.
Ryan Gosling as "K" was wonderful. Before the film I was afraid of "Gosling fatigue" but he was legitimately engaging and tragic. What an engrossing personal arc.
I haven't changed my mind about Leto but he was, thankfully, not at the core but resigned to a small corner of the film to chew. (and he didn't "chew" as badly as I thought he would) I am very, very grateful for that.
Though it touched upon a replicant uprising I'm grateful it didn't go all Matrix Revolutions. I also like how it didn't go Off-World.
Prior to this movie the idea of Deckard as a replicant made no sense to me - but that revelation didn't derail the film for me. But I'll have to digest it a bit more before I know how I ultimately feel about that.
I thought the Blackout was a great way to explain any subtle incongruences in setting and design between the films.
And then there are the countless bits that only a solid BR fan could appreciate. But they weren't just fan service - they were enhancements. I haven't read any other post here yet but I'm sure most of them have been mentioned. e.g. the sex-worker attire ("fur" bolero) that called back to Pris - which also confirms that Pris was likely a sex-worker on Earth in BR as she was Off-World. Or the almost faceless folks of the shanty towns who spoke German like the little vandals who jumped on Deckard's car in BR. etc.
Blade Runner 2049 didn't explode in the box office but I have absolutely no doubt it will stand by Blade Runner as an enduring classic. It's a much better film than I deserved to expect.
You're right. I forgot Wallace's speech was entirely speculation. I don't want Deckard to be a replicant.I think they intimated Deckard COUKD have been a Replicant but that was only part of Wallace's speech to him towards the end, hinting perhaps Tyrell made him and Rachel with procreation in mind. But it's more profound to have a human/Replicant pairing. It is curious there is no Nexus 7 mentioned in the film, perhaps that was the Deckard model with extended life but that contradicts the first film, Tyrell hadn't solved that. And Deckard is human in regards to his physical strength.