Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Movie • Page 37

I still think the 2049 is a huge accomplishment and probably one of the best sequels to hit the movies ever. Not only that but being over 30 years apart too.

I’d love another one but I get the feeling the chances are slim unfortunately. At least any time soon.

 

I dunno, I feel like I’d rather there not be a direct sequel to 2049. More stories set in this world w/ unrelated characters could be cool, but I don’t wanna see what comes next plot-wise. All that stuff in this film is more compelling to me as context for this particular standalone story than as plot threads to follow in some straightforward sci-fi film.

Speaking of stories in this world, I really gotta get those comics that’ve been coming out this past year or so. What I’ve seen of it looks super cool.

(I also wish we had a live action Ghost in the Shell film that weren’t shit, not as a straight adaptation of the original film/manga, but as a new compelling story in that world. Might be even more to explore there than in the Blade Runner world. Instead, we got... *sigh*)

 

(Guess you could also just tell new original stories w/ similar themes & concepts, not attached to established intellectual properties... but, who does that!?)

 

We still have Blade Runner: Black Lotus to look forward to.

 

what is this idiocy

 

Ridley DOES get the credit because he’s an all timer

no one cares that his new stuff sucks, look at the current landscape of the blockbuster

 

Didn't remember that was a thing. Looked it up. Saw that the directors behind it, appropriately enough, are also behind the most recent iteration of Ghost in the Shell. Looked that up. It's... apparently not the best version of that franchise that's existed thus far. lol. Hopefully Black Lotus is better.

 

In the beginning section of this film, when Gosling first gets back to LAPD headquarters, he's grilled with those statements, usually ending with him saying "Interlinked". What's the purpose of this questioning/debrief for him? What are the humans there trying to prove?

 

Also, can't remember if it was ever discussed in this thread, but the 1998 film "Soldier" is loosely related to the Blade Runner universe

 

They’re testing to see if he’s developing conflicting emotions over his job since he’s a replicant taxed with killing other replicants. He fails the second test because at that point he’s starting to believe he’s human.

 

The wording of the testing itself though, how does it work? Is it testing if he can simply repeat words back? Or if he chooses to or not to repeat back certain words?

 

I think he’s supposed to repeat back the lines while also processing the questions he’s hearing. So the guy says something like “what’s it like to hold the hand of someone you love?” followed by the line Gosling has to repeat. So in the first test those questions don’t phase him and he easily repeats the lines but the second test those questions clearly get him thinking and they throw off his response time.

 

Ahhh, yeah that makes sense now

 

isn’t it just supposed to be the more streamlined/advanced version of the test deckard administers in the first film?

 

Also I thought it analyzed various factors of his response: decibel level, timing, any quivers of his voice, etc. That early in the film it’s a device to 1) set up the emotional baseline test plot moment later in the film and 2) really set the tone thematically

 

I always took it as a computer answering in zeroes and ones. Question answer, question answer. No thinking, no pondering, no debating. But then he fails when he does start to question.

 

Yeah, but like, when are we getting a JJ Abrams sequel where we find out K is actually some other character's grandchild?

 

don't put that in the world

 

Cursed post.

 

Good stuff

 

SO DOPE

 

Visually striking, sucks that it's because the earth is literally on fire

 

Also, I rewatched this again like two weeks ago, and I'm already pining to watch it again soon, for like the 6th time

 

Is this streaming anywhere?