Bladerunner 2049

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Edward James Olmos

 

You sir, are absolutely correct.

 

Sony.
PanAm was in the sequel too.

 

I laughed out loud when he said, "she had green eyes" and then they blew her head off. I think people in the theater turned around.

Also, I'll probably watch every movie that has Joi in it from now on.

 

I liked it a lot. One concern I had is they obviously set the story up for sequels, but with the current box office numbers it's not looking good that we will ever see them.

 

Echo and Alexa ain't shit to me now

 

Well, it took 35 years for the first sequel to come out

 

Yeah, I suppose if they can knock it out in the next 25 or so that's an improvement.

 

And they can always use the holographic technique they used with Rachel, Leia, and Grand Moff Tarkin to beam in Harrison Ford.

 

Watched the original blade runner "final cut" the other night... Am I the only one terribly disappointing? It had such a good base plot but just didn't come through, at least for me. WTF was up with a random dove showing up in the replicant's hand towards the end of the movie out of nowhere?

 

“It was the secret fantasy of every bato in the Chicanada to put on the Santa Claus suit.."

 

The last moments of that movie are really heavy on symbolism. Roy driving the nail through his hand, releasing the dove as his internal clock runs out, his final words. I can't adequately describe it, but here is the gist:

The dove is a traditional image of the spirit or the soul—which is something that the replicants aren't supposed to have. They're just meant to be tools, mere objects and instruments, according to the company that made them. But Roy manages to contradict the Tyrell Corporation: he demonstrates that he has a soul by showing mercy towards Deckard at the end of the movie, refusing to kill him. Then, as he dies, he releases a white dove he's been holding. It soars into the sky like his soul rising into heaven.

Now, as to WHERE the dove came from?

 

I would even suggest that the dove was itself artificial. When you read the book, you find out that most animals have died because of some ecological disaster and the ones you see (the owl at Tyrell Corporation, the snake used by the dancer) are artificial.

 

Ana de armas and McKenzie Davis sandwhich.... Ohhh ggaawwdddd


Best movie I've seen in years.

 

I did the same, and thought the same. Waste of time. In fact it was so boring that it made me less interested in the current one.

 

Finally saw it last night, in IMAX, but not 3D, as recommended by the Director of Photography. I really enjoyed it. A large part of it was an homage to the first film, so of course it couldn't be as groundbreaking as the original. However, it's an interesting twist on the original story and it's visually stunning. Lots of subtilities and deep meaning hidden in symbolism everywhere. I will definitely watch again to understand some details I didn't get the first time. I certainly recommend it to sci-fi fans like me, even the die hard fans of the original. You will not be dissapointed.

Oh, and I wanted to say a huge f@ck off to the so called feminists who complained that the movie was objectifying women. Seriously, f@ck off.

 

Same, I was really stoked to watch the new one and watched this one to get some background... now I *might* rent it when it comes out on dvd...

 

Ditto.