Re: Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Posted: Wed October 25, 2017 6:59 pm

Also, I don't know why, but this guy really cracked me up.

Director's cut I thinkStrat wrote:Goddammit. I still need to watch the original.
I shall download it for my trip. Which cut, folks?
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Arguably one of the most overrated movies ever. An amazing aesthetic and some great ideas, but kind of a failure of a movie overall, IMO.tragabigzanda wrote:I feel like 2049 was the final argument I needed to accept what I've always knowed: That the original Blade Runner is fairly over rated.
I tend to agree with this.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Arguably one of the most overrated movies ever. An amazing aesthetic and some great ideas, but kind of a failure of a movie overall, IMO.tragabigzanda wrote:I feel like 2049 was the final argument I needed to accept what I've always knowed: That the original Blade Runner is fairly over rated.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Team Burt!BurtReynolds wrote:I don't know how people find the first one slow or inert. It's a really great movie.
DO IT!Monkey_Driven wrote:I might see this on Sunday.
see it in imaxOrpheus wrote:This movie was spectacular and I'm really glad I saw it in the theater. The few things I didn't like were massively overshadowed by the successes. Some scenes were outright awe-inducing. I'm gonna have to see it again as well.
Cells. Interlinked.
I don't know why but I loved those "checkup" scenesOrpheus wrote:This movie was spectacular and I'm really glad I saw it in the theater. The few things I didn't like were massively overshadowed by the successes. Some scenes were outright awe-inducing. I'm gonna have to see it again as well.
Cells. Interlinked.