Chank, Pop, and IMan love Ryan Gosling/ Weeeeee Blade Runner

[Andrew]

Jesus, was everything that I wanted it to be. So goddamn great.

EDIT: semi spoilerish about K's Girlfriend

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I love the fact that her name is essentially an acronym for Jerk Off Instructions

[UglyCasanova]

I've steered clear of this thread, petrified of spoilers. Just finished watching it, and I'll just copy-paste what I told the ILFEU guys with a few tweaks:

So...Blade Runner....hmmmm. Was it a necessary sequel? Not at all. Was it philosophically interesting? It didn't add much to the original. Was it well made, and did the capture the aesthetics/world/neo noir feel? Yes. Was the soundtrack good? Quite! Did it have interesting dystopian ideas? A little bit. Could it have benefited from not being directly linked to the original, but rather be a separate story in the same universe. Absolutely. A weak 7/10 for me.

Disclaimer: the 1992 cut is perhaps my most viewed VHS ever. Childhood in a box.

[MrNovember]

I absolutely loved it! I personally thought it fit perfectly as an extension of the first one; similar themes, the world and atmosphere were amazing, music was phenomenal. I really enjoyed that it answered some questions from the first while still staying pretty vague. I do get how some would feel that it borrowed too much from the first.

Disclaimer: I'm much younger than the original movie and have only ever watched the theatrical and final cut, but I've seen the final cut a few dozen times. Also, haven't read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but it's next up in my list of books to read

[popvulture]

Saw it today. Astoundingly good, by far the best sci fi I've seen in a very long time. I'm also shocked to hear myself say it, but I would call it on par with the original, or at least VERY close to it.

Apparently it was also a dud at the box office, further evidence that the world sucks.

[MrNovember]

I agree; I found it very close to par with the first. I'm not really surprised it was a flop at the box office, though. Not really a movie that resonates with the mass majority of the population.

I need to go buy the soundtrack

[Andrew]

Bladerunner has been in my brain all day, even woke up thinking about it and have been listening to the OST all day at work.



I knew that I would like it, but didn't guess that I was this into it. Definitely going to need a 2nd viewing. I never actually watched the 3 shorts and I would like to see the movie with them in mind.

[MrNovember]

The first and the last short are really just more background and world building, but the second short does kind of change how you'd see the first scene for the first time

[raj007]

I loved it. LOOOOOOOOVED it. The cinematographer better win an Academy.

It's been about 5 years since I've seen the original so I will definitely be revisiting that soon.

[fever606]

Semi-relevant... new Amazon "anthology series" based on a handful of short stories...

[UglyCasanova]

There's also this official anime that was made to bridge the gap between the original and the new movie. Set to 2022:

http://www3.gogoanime.tv/blade-runner-b ... -episode-1

[MrNovember]

There's also this official anime that was made to bridge the gap between the original and the new movie. Set to 2022:

http://www3.gogoanime.tv/blade-runner-b ... -episode-1

That's one of the three shorts intended to bridge the gap:


Personally, I found the last one, chronologically, was kind of spoilery. The other two were more so world building and don't really have any spoilers.

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[MrNovember]

Semi-relevant... new Amazon "anthology series" based on a handful of short stories...

I'm interested in this even if the video "wasn't made available in my country"....

[jrfox92]

Semi-relevant... new Amazon "anthology series" based on a handful of short stories...

Definitely reminds me of Black Mirror. But it looks cool, and really expensive based on the actors that were shown.

[tremolo3]

Better than I was expecting, I love when this happens!

lol Jared Leto, maybe we will see him more in a Director's Cut edition in 25 years (I hope not tho).

[JereFuzz]

Saw it today. Astoundingly good, by far the best sci fi I've seen in a very long time. I'm also shocked to hear myself say it, but I would call it on par with the original, or at least VERY close to it.

Apparently it was also a dud at the box office, further evidence that the world sucks.

The theater was pretty empty when I went to see it. I wish there were more Sci-fi movies like this. It seems that sci-fi went for explosions years ago whereas the genre's roots are big ideas/thoughts. I hope this movie will inspire directors to push towards thinking sci-fi. I hear Ex Machina was good. I need to check it out.