Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Movie • Page 21

One of my favorites was the ending to No Country for Old Men. People were muttering in anger and disbelief at what they saw. The same went for Spring Breakers; I saw it on a weekend full of teenagers expecting a completely different type of movie.

Calling them plebs is a little mean; a lot of these movies intentionally use advertising to hide what the movie is really about. It is understandable because they want to make money, but the average moviegoer is usually going off of maybe a poster and a trailer. The hope is that some people who were never exposed to something offbeat find something worth sticking around for and continue to explore movies outside of superheroes and Adam Sandler comedies.

 

It feels so pretentious talking about audiences and how they don’t “get it” and yet every time I see a movie even remotely outside of mainstream appeal the consensus is that it was stupid and it sucked. Tbh I feel like there’s some projection going on there.

 

Anyone else desperately want Denis to direct a James Bond movie after this? Just me?

 

No but that’s only because I personally do not really care for the franchise.

 

It is complicated. Sometimes people truly do not get certain movies because they do not have the background required to understand some of the techniques and themes being used. With something like Blade Runner, though, it is more a matter of pacing and style than anything else, and modern audiences are used to a certain type of film.

 

I don't think I would have liked/understood 2049 much if I hadn't watched the original very recently.

 

I'll never forget my theater's response to the NCFOM ending, had the same experience.

 

I recommended Birdman to a friend when it was in theaters, he said he was disappointed because he "thought it was going to be a superhero movie."

 

I saw a lot of people walking out of mother! when we had it, and I fucking agree with them

 

I’ve had people say the same about he original, some people just don’t get themes and metaphors deeper than a popcorn movie.

 

I have to say despite being interested in Box Office numbers (because I'm a stat loving weirdo) I agree wholly, I'm glad this film exists even if it doesn't make all that much money.

 

Finally saw this last night. Can't really put the words together to explain how much I loved it.

 

Did Mondo or Hero Complex or anyone do a poster for this? Feels like it’s ripe for some amazing artwork.

 

Saw this again last night, loved it even more the 2nd time. Every frame of this movie is gorgeous, I know it's a dystopia but I wanna live in this world so bad.

 

Bottleneck Gallery gave out these lithographs at NYCC.

 

Anyone think it's weird that Joi is able to recreate the horse from K's memory with 100% accuracy even though she's never seen the real thing, only heard K tell the story?

 

this is the last night for me to see this in IMAX, $20 though. If it's a true IMAX and not a LieMAX I should go

Update: it's not a real IMAX :(

 

Yeah, it’s not. It wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t great. I’m planning to go see it in AVX with Dolby Digital at my local cinema. My hope is that it’s better. The sound was too loud in IMAX.

 

I think overall I liked it but the story had major flaws for me and I really couldn't stand the couple of scenes set aside to have Harrison Ford punch things like an idiot.

 

I mean, it's playing in real IMAX, but the closest to me is like forty minutes to an hour away and that's a tough trek to make when there is a standard theater five minutes from me

 

Not sure how anyone could hate that Elvis scene.

 

Scenes like that allow Harrison Ford to be his stereotypical shitty punching macho character and it doesn't work for me. Credit to the filmmakers that even in most scenes he was in the film worked well otherwise.

 

I mean, him punching K does almost nothing but tire himself out until K points out his efforts are pointless. Didn't really see that as "macho" for Harrison Ford. If anything, it subverts the typical machismo thing. In that moment, Deckard is old, weak, in hiding, and easily overpowered by the thing he used to hunt.

I haven't had time to read this yet, but it should be an interesting article.

Designing the technology of ‘Blade Runner 2049’

 

This was even better in round two, as I hoped and expected. If I have one issue it's that there's a shortage of nonwhite characters in the film (this was touched on at length about Dunkirk in the thread for that film.) Other than that, everything amazed me and I have a hard thing believing that even The Last Jedi could be better than this