Amph Blade Runner (Original, Black Lotus, 2049, 2099)

Life was returning to Las Vegas.

 

But what was they feeding on? We did not seen any flowers or other flora

 

I took it as a metaphor because you also have the dog, and they're all centred around Deckard.

In the context of the plot, it makes sense.

 

From here

How did you decide that he would come across bees?
There are a lot of problems with bees in the world right now. They are disappearing, so the fact that here you can see those creatures still alive and still present, was for me like a little spark of hope in this dystopian universe.

 

I see. I also take it that he don't know much about beekeeping since they need flowers to live and we don't see any flora in LA.

 

The score was one of the only things I loved about this film. I thought it was very powerful.

 

Yes but you think being a Kit Fisto fan is remarkable, so...

 

Being his biggest fan is the greatest achievement in my life.

 

Saw this tonight and some genius brought their ****ing toddlers. To Blade Runner! Princess Bride was playing across the hall, ***ing My Little Pony is out, wtf!

Anyway spent the first 2/3 eye-rolling that it was a "main character finds out they're the kid of the original movie's protag" story, pleasantly surprised by the end. Wrapped up pretty dope-ly.

 

The only remarkable moment in Blade Runner 2049's soundtrack was...

Spoiler

When they used "Tears in Rain" at the end. It was a powerful way of echoing Roy Batty's monologue without giving K a derivative speech of his own.

It also threw into stark relief just how **** the rest of the soundtrack was. It's hard to believe that the composer of the glorified noise that 2049 has for a soundtrack was one of the people that worked on the soundtrack for Gladiator 17 years ago.

 

The thing about the Blade Runner soundtrack was that the music was the mood of Los Angeles, and of Deckard. Pretty only Wong Kar Wai uses music the same way Vangelis and Ridley Scott did here; the use of Yumeji's Theme in In The Mood For Love, with the slow motion shots of both Chow Mo Wan and Su Li Zhen walking to the noodle stall in humid, monsoonal Hong Kong made the whole story come alive then. The same goes for the intro titles, the Blade Runner Blues, the Love Theme (aka "Music to rape robots by"), the end titles and of course Tears in Rain.

Listen here to the BR2049 OST, with Tears in Rain followed by the end credits, and you'll see this warm, tonal ambient followed by bombastic Teutonic nonsense:

 

Up to 156 million.

 

Yah I don't think "bomb" is the best term for BR2049 but for the amount of cash they threw into it, these 150 mil blockbusters need to make, like, 400 million worldwide to turn a profit, I think.

 

Yes, because Blade Runner set the box office alight first time so this should do the same and not find a life via home media.

 

Between a few more weeks in the theatre, Blue Ray, occasional cable showing, some small profit will eventually come of it. That won't mean a 3rd film which is unfortunate. I'm betting the off world colonies would have been the next step.

 

well I'm doing my part, gathering up 2 family members to go see it again tomorrow (I done already seen it but I really want to see it again on big big screen)

 

Edited out personal attack

I'm not going to see it in cinemas again. I'll wait for blu-ray, where it belongs.

 

Have you played the Westwood game, Quest?

 

So I finally got to see this last night. Just amazing. It does the impossible in that it actually expands on the world and themes of the original without really taking anything away from it. The pacing was such a breath of fresh air, and I got a kick out of the farmhouse opening finally being realised after all these years.

The most depressing aspect was the realisation that Geostorm will probably trounce Blade Runner 2049 at the box office, and we'll get even more movies like the former and fewer like the latter.

 

Geostorm looked like it was made for people who say things like "the problem is that there's not enough explosions in modern movies" and own X-Boxes or Playstations.

 

I own three Playstations and thought that Geostorm looked like poop right from the first time I saw the trailer.

 

You think that Kit Fisto is a great character, and like General Grievous. That's basically proof you can't be trusted.