Blade Runner 2049

I’ve been saying kway dough as well

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

  On 10/26/2017 at 9:35 PM, o00o said:

 

Those are great, thx!

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

Some choice quotes:

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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!

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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.

That guy is really mad

  On 10/30/2017 at 6:53 PM, zaphod said:

That guy is really mad

But... is he wrong?

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.

cuisinart went out of business?

  On 10/30/2017 at 7:00 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 10/30/2017 at 6:53 PM, zaphod said:

That guy is really mad

But... is he wrong?

 

heh no

  On 10/30/2017 at 8:28 PM, dr lopez said:

cuisinart went out of business?

its_still_real_to_me_dammit.avi

  On 10/31/2017 at 1:13 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 10/30/2017 at 8:28 PM, dr lopez said:

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?!?!?!?!?!

  On 10/31/2017 at 6:24 AM, peace 7 said:

 

  On 10/31/2017 at 1:13 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 10/30/2017 at 8:28 PM, dr lopez said:

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

  On 10/31/2017 at 6:24 AM, peace 7 said:

 

  On 10/31/2017 at 1:13 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 10/30/2017 at 8:28 PM, dr lopez said:

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

Cuisinart is still going strong

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

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

Hmm. Blatantly some kind of investment scam.

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

i actually now own atari

wait did the Soviet Union collapse??!

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.

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.

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!