Blade Runner 2049

[doublename]

I’ve been saying kway dough as well

[Echolalia]

Guido! Guido! Needs more hair gel, pearl earrings and tan though.

[Rubin Farr]

 

Those are great, thx!

[Joyrex]

Holy LOL: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/10/blade-runner-2049/

 

Some choice quotes:

 

 

 

It is so chock-full of fan service and references to other things that they mute what few new things it did bring to the party. "Here are some things that were in the first movie! Remember those?? Hey, remember how the first movie had neon signs for Pan Am and Cuisinart, before they went out of business? Look, here they are again! It's a thing that you recognize! Do you recognize the thing??"

 

There is a scene in the second or third act where some people are listening to a recording of Decard's Voight-Kampff session with Rachel from the first movie, and two of the characters start discussing what it means. Wait, excuse me, did the screenwriter just turn toward the camera and tell me his interpretation of the dialog in an older, better movie? Yes. Yes he did. What the hell? This script is not your blog, pal. I am not sitting on the couch TV Yelling with you!

 

First off, Ryan Gosling is just a really boring actor. This role could have been literally anyone, since he sleepwalks through the movie. Much of that is on the writing, but his flat affect made it difficult for me to care about any of the problems he was trying to solve, since he barely seemed engaged in it at all. And when he went "off book", it was hard to understand why, since he didn't seem to genuinely care about anything.

 

Next, Jared Leto. Jared Leto ruins everything! What a complete tool. This scenery-chewing buffoon is what we get to replace Joe Turkel's masterful Eldon Tyrell? Please. I read somewhere that originally they had wanted David Bowie to play this part. My question is, how far down that list did they have to go?? How many people said no? How many hundreds of names do you have to cross off below David Fucking Bowie before you get to Leto? Did Will Ferrell and Carrot-Top turn them down?

 

As for things that pulled me right out of the story, why is Leto's character blind? Dude you literally own an eyeball factory. I assume that it's just a stupid affectation that his character adopts, because he is a tool.

 

The relationship between the replicant and his chatbot was interesting, though they certainly didn't explore any of the implications. He's someone's property, she's his property, shit rolls down hill. It's almost like there's a story there about autonomy, inter-species romance, or a love story between two people who are somewhere between "poorly socialized" and "not quite real". Oh wait, that movie was called Her and it was excellent!

 

Every time someone in the movie (like the hooker dressed as Pris for some reason) used the phrase "Real Girl" or "Real Boy" it was immediately about Pinocchio, and I get it, I get it, you're a writer, a hack writer, and if your script is about the nature of humanity you can't resist throwing in a Pinocchio reference. But A.i. really, really has that covered. I didn't even like A.i., but it should have closed the book on this Pinocchio trope.

Still liked the movie (me).

[zaphod]

That guy is really mad

[Joyrex]

That guy is really mad

But... is he wrong?

[Rubin Farr]

if The Big Sick doesn't win Best Picture this year, I can at least see Blade Runner being nominated. Of course, the Oscars are going to try to do a big mea culpa over Harvey Weinstein, so that may throw all bets into chaos.

[dr lopez]

cuisinart went out of business?

[xox]

 

That guy is really mad

But... is he wrong?

 

 

heh no

 

 

 

Edited October 30, 2017 by xox

[usagi]

cuisinart went out of business?

 

its_still_real_to_me_dammit.avi

[peace 7]

 

cuisinart went out of business?

 

its_still_real_to_me_dammit.avi

 

 

And also- wait a minute...  I'M ON A PAN AM FLIGHT RIGHT NOW, WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS PLANE GOING?!?!?!?!?!

[Lada Laika]

 

 

cuisinart went out of business?

its_still_real_to_me_dammit.avi

And also- wait a minute... I'M ON A PAN AM FLIGHT RIGHT NOW, WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS PLANE GOING?!?!?!?!?!.avi

[WeAreOceans]

 

 

cuisinart went out of business?

 

its_still_real_to_me_dammit.avi

 

 

And also- wait a minute...  I'M ON A PAN AM FLIGHT RIGHT NOW, WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS PLANE GOING?!?!?!?!?!

 

 

spoopy

[patternoverlap]

Cuisinart is still going strong

[Amen Warrior]

Isn't atari the big one that is long out of business? Or do they still somehow exist also?

[hello spiral]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/07/17/atari-reveals-first-pictures-new-games-console/

[Amen Warrior]

Hmm. Blatantly some kind of investment scam.

[oscillik]

Yeah the Atari brand has been bought more times than I've had hot dinners.

[BCM]

i actually now own atari

[zaphod]

wait did the Soviet Union collapse??!

[o00o]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

more concept art: 

 

https://imgur.com/gallery/Q25OC

[ncrtx]

Saw it yesterday, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Touched much more on the ''philosophical'' aspects than the original, but lacked the Neo Tokyo aesthetics a bit. That is not to say that is wasn't beautiful, because it was - I was just praying for a full-blown live action of Akira ft. Harrison Ford.

[dr lopez]

hmm ok well a lot of the Las Vegas stuff was a *direct* steal from akira pre-explosion in the third volume. The highways especially.

Edited November 3, 2017 by dr lopez

[o00o]

35 more concept art pictures:

 

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/P0emy

 

small selection:

 

 

 

[xox]

i've just found out that baseline response test was written by ryan gosling himself. imo that test is the most original thing i've seen lately AND IT CAME FROM GOSLING...amazed!

 

 

"A blood black nothingness began to spin.
Began to spin.
Let's move on to system. System.
Feel that in your body. The system.
What does it feel like to be part of the system. System.
Is there anything in your body that wants to resist the system? System.
Do you get pleasure out of being a part of the system? System.
Have they created you to be a part of the system? System.
Is there security in being a part of the system? System.
Is there a sound that comes with the system? System.
We're going to go on. Cells.
They were all put together at a time. Cells.
Millions and billions of them. Cells.
Were you ever arrested? Cells.
Did you spend much time in the cell? Cells.
Have you ever been in an instituion? Cells.
Do they keep you in a cell? Cells.
When you're not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box? Cells.
Interlinked.
What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked.
Do they teach you how to feel finger to finger? Interlinked.
Do you long for having your heart interlinked? Interlinked.
Do you dream about being interlinked?
Have they left a place for you where you can dream? Interlinked.
What's it like to hold your child in your arms? Interlinked.
What's it like to play with your dog? Interlinked.
Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing? Interlinked.
Do you like to connect to things? Interlinked.
What happens when that linkage is broken? Interlinked.
Have they let you feel heartbreak? Interlinked.
Did you buy a present for the person you love? Within cells interlinked.
Why don't you say that three times? Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked.
Where do you go when you go within? Within.
Has anyone ever locked you out of a room? Within.
Within.
Where do you go to when you go within? Within.
Where is the place in the world you feel the safest? Within.
Do you have a heart? Within.
Stem.
Did you pick asparagus stems?
What comes from something else? Stem.
Have you been to the source of a river? Stem.
When's the first time you gave a flower to a girl? Stem.
What did she look like? Stem.
Is it a slang word for people's legs? Stem.
Have you planeted things in the ground? Stem.
Have you ever been in a legal battle? Stem.
Within one stem.
Dreadfully.
Is that an old fashioned word? Dreadfully.
Did you ever want to live in the nineteenth century? Dreadfully.
What's it like to be filled with dread? Dreadfully.
Do you think you could find out all the answers to all the questions? Dreadfully.
Distinct.
How good are your eyes? Distinct.
Do you have a particular personality? Distinct.
What separates somebody from somebody else? Distinct.
Who do you admire most in the world? Distinct.
What was your most shameful moment? Distinct.
Dreadfully distinct.
Dark.
Were you afraid of the dark whan you were little? Dark.
What's it like to hide under a bed? Dark.
Did they keep you in a drawer when they were building you? Dark?
Was it dark in there? Dark.
Do you have dark thoughts? Dark?
Did they program you to have dark thoughts? Dark?
Do you think it's some kind of corruption these dark thoughts? Dark.
Maybe it's a spot of rust or something? Dark.
Who's the darkest person you know? Dark.
What is it like when someone gives you the silent treatment. Dark.
Who did you get your darkness from? Dark.
Against the dark.
What kind of power do you have against the dark. Against the dark.
Do you think there is such a thing as evil? Against the dark.
Do you think you can protect people against the dark. Against the dark.
Why are these things happening? Against the dark.
Do you prefer the day or the night? Against the dark.
When is the last time you saw a starry sky? Against the dark.
What's your favorite part of the moon? Against the dark.
Fountain.
Have you seen the Trevi fountain in Rome? Fountain.
Have you ever seen the fountain in Lincoln center? Fountain.
Have you seen fountains out in the wild? Fountain.
What's it like when you have an orgasm. Fountain.
Have you read the Fountainhead? Fountain.
White Fountain.
Is it pure white? White Fountain.
Is that a metaphor? White Fountain.
How did the white Fountain make you feel? White Fountain.
A tall white fountain played.
When you were little did you ever fall into a Fountain? A Tall White Fountain.
Do you like fire, earth, air or water. A Tall White Fountain.
Do you like skipping around in the water? A Tall White Fountain.
A blood black nothingness.
A system of cells.
Within cells interlinked.
Within one stem.
And dreadfully distinct.
Against the dark.
A tall white fountain played."