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thedeadparrot) wrote2017-10-09 04:28 pm
thedeadparrot) wrote2017-10-09 04:28 pm
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Blade Runner 2049
So I saw it. I didn't even realize that I had that many Blade Runner feelings until I saw the first trailer for this movie, because while I appreciate it, I don't think there's a lot of there there. As I have mentioned to other people, I think the first Blade Runner is about 90% mood and 10% content. The mood is amazing stuff, and the content isn't terrible, but I feel like it gets more credit than it deserves. I saw a comment to the effect that the first Blade Runner movie is both the most overrated and underrated film of all time.
My expectations were set pretty low, and they were met. It's another movie that's 90% mood and 10% content, and that mood is amazing and the content isn't entirely terrible. The sound design was kind of a mess at times, intrusive when it shouldn't be. The punches sounded faker than usual. It's a movie that does silence well, though. The pacing is slow and deliberate in a way that I appreciated.
If you do go watch it, I hope you enjoy staring at Ryan Gosling's face, because there's a lot of that. It's pushing 3 hours.
- I enjoyed the semi fake out with the idea that K/Joe is actually Deckard and Rachel's kid. That trope inversion of 'a person realizes they're an AI/robot all along' is handled extremely cleverly, and I enjoyed it.
- The way women are handled in this movie feels very confused. I appreciated that there were more of them in more varied roles in this one, but still. Half the time they're cold and sexless, and the other half they're male gaze-y hookers/AI wife-girlfriends/advertisements to the max.
- Still basically two Asian people in this Japan/China-influenced future of ours.
- Jared Leto's character only sort of makes any sense. Thankfully, he only gets a few scenes, but every time he shows up, it's not good. Plus, his philosophizing speeches turn into white noise quick.
- All of the locations are very beautiful in a good and awful sort of way. Orange future-Vegas might be my favorite.
- This movie made me feel things, and it let me sit there with my feelings. I liked that about it. It's like a song you love that falls apart if you listen to the lyrics too closely. I'm okay with that. The first movie is kind of like that, too.
My expectations were set pretty low, and they were met. It's another movie that's 90% mood and 10% content, and that mood is amazing and the content isn't entirely terrible. The sound design was kind of a mess at times, intrusive when it shouldn't be. The punches sounded faker than usual. It's a movie that does silence well, though. The pacing is slow and deliberate in a way that I appreciated.
If you do go watch it, I hope you enjoy staring at Ryan Gosling's face, because there's a lot of that. It's pushing 3 hours.
- I enjoyed the semi fake out with the idea that K/Joe is actually Deckard and Rachel's kid. That trope inversion of 'a person realizes they're an AI/robot all along' is handled extremely cleverly, and I enjoyed it.
- The way women are handled in this movie feels very confused. I appreciated that there were more of them in more varied roles in this one, but still. Half the time they're cold and sexless, and the other half they're male gaze-y hookers/AI wife-girlfriends/advertisements to the max.
- Still basically two Asian people in this Japan/China-influenced future of ours.
- Jared Leto's character only sort of makes any sense. Thankfully, he only gets a few scenes, but every time he shows up, it's not good. Plus, his philosophizing speeches turn into white noise quick.
- All of the locations are very beautiful in a good and awful sort of way. Orange future-Vegas might be my favorite.
- This movie made me feel things, and it let me sit there with my feelings. I liked that about it. It's like a song you love that falls apart if you listen to the lyrics too closely. I'm okay with that. The first movie is kind of like that, too.
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