Bladerunner 2049

Last I heard of him, he did the very "B" movie Hobo with a Shotgun.

 

Sooooo?...

(It's out now, innit?)

 

Saw it last night, it's good.

Best if you watched the first one ahead of time or remember it very well.

And not a typical Hollywood action flick for the short-of-attention span masses.

 

It was entertaining. Very slow paced, but I never checked my watch. That said, if I had been watching it on HBO I doubt I would have made it through the whole thing. But yeah, I havent seen the first one in a long time, but got just enough of the reference.

 

grandson liked it. I thought it was OK but not up to the first one. if not for the cheap matinee tickets I would have waited for blue ray.

 

Man, studio better hope word of mouth saves this thing, because it did not have a very good opening weekend for such a high-concept sci-fi flick with that much star power. Only $31M.

 

I was reading that the Friday numbers were dismal. I got caught up in a bunch of things and missed it this weekend. Definitely making up for that this Friday though. Some friends told me it was great. I do think the number of people who were in to the original is pretty small. So taken in that light, they simply didn't market the movie at all it seems like. Just in speaking with other people who didn't know anything about the original, they had no idea why I was excited about it.

 

There were only two people from the original that I could tell. Harrison Ford and Edgar James Olmos.

I thought it was well done. A bit slow in the beginning, but overall, actually a better story and delivery over the first one.

 

we were at a friday afternoon matinee on fall break and there were 15 of us in there watching the movie. I too thought it was slow but there were a few twist that made the plot interesting but not nearly as good as the first imho .

 

another thing. maybe it was just our theater but some of the score was so loud I had to wear earplugs and my hearing isn't that sensitve . grandson thought it loud too.

 

Saw it in IMAX form yesterday, it was loud (which I liked, what's the point otherwise?). Movie was good, but why did he have to be bloody in almost every scene? Replicant hygiene in the LAPD is apparently lacking.

 

James Edward Olmos.

 

Given, even the first film didn't do that well in the box office, but it gained traction as a cult flick and certainly influenced a TON of movies that succeeded it, not to mention the amount of money it made in subsequent releases to home-video in multiple versions/cuts.

The studio has to be dissappointed, though. Rumor has it budget was in the neighborhood of $185M.

 

Olmos got it right.... Edward James Olmos

 

Sean Young, though if you blinked you might have missed her

 

Which part?
The older lady with one eye?

 

I see what you did there.

 

Same character as the first.

 

Saw it Saturday night. Over 2.5 hours but pretty good. If you liked the first movie, it's great! I would say it's worth watching the original first if you haven't seen it in a while.

 

Just watched the original again this weekend. Interesting to see all advertising in 2019 LA. I think Budweiser is the only one I saw that is still around in 2017. Care to book a flight on Pan Am?