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‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tickets Go On Sale Friday; Opening In The $43M-$47M Range
Deadline Hollywood ^ | September 21, 2017 | Anthony D'Alessandro

Posted on 09/22/2017 6:15:44 AM PDT by C19fan

Tickets for Alcon Entertainment/Warner Bros./Sony’s Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s cult 1982 movie, go on sale tomorrow, 14 days before its Oct. 6 opening date.

(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: scifi
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To: howlinhound

Hollywood is creatively bankrupt. Every other movie they make now is a remake, a sequel, or a prequel. The rest are based on comic books or video games.


41 posted on 09/22/2017 7:41:43 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: precisionshootist
The Godfather Part II is an example of a sequel that measures up to the original. It isn't so much a sequel as a continuation - taking the two together feels like you're watching a single long film rather than a tacked-on afterthought.

GII is basically the exception that proves the rule that sequels are typically just a way to sell tickets when you're running out of original creative ideas.

42 posted on 09/22/2017 7:45:09 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: rbg81

“There are hints about that in the movie (very subtle). But the other replicants seem a lot stronger than Decker.”

We see Deckard having a vision of a unicorn, and Gaff seems to know about this, (some sort of replicant memory implant?) taunting Deckard with an origami unicorn at the end of the film.

I like the notion that Deckard’s humanity is ambiguous, the whole film is about such ambiguity. It would be fine with me if this question is never fully resolved.


43 posted on 09/22/2017 7:47:46 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

Neither are Hollywood divorce lawyers.


44 posted on 09/22/2017 8:23:14 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: rbg81
"But the other replicants seem a lot stronger than Decker."

But the other replicants were the new series. Decker could have been one of the previous replicant versions that didn't have the limited life span built in.

45 posted on 09/22/2017 8:29:58 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: HLPhat

LOL


46 posted on 09/22/2017 8:35:42 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: Red Badger

Harrison Ford’s character was a Replicant?


47 posted on 09/22/2017 8:39:04 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: DungeonMaster

Speculation.................


48 posted on 09/22/2017 8:40:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: rbg81

I feel like George Costanza in the Seinfeld episode with the book club. He didn’t know the Breakfast at Tiffany’s character was queer.

I didn’t have a clue Harrison Ford’s character was a replicant. I didn’t see that in the movie, was it made apparent in the book?


49 posted on 09/22/2017 8:40:50 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

From reading here, it looks as if Harrison was upset he had to do a bunch of voiceover narration that he thought was not in the original contract. Whatever. It worked. You can bet the farm that these clowns will fail. let me guess, Decker turns out to be a climate change denier. All the replicants are ordered to kill em.


50 posted on 09/22/2017 8:40:59 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: rjsimmon

post # 49.................me too.


51 posted on 09/22/2017 8:44:22 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: justa-hairyape

I own the director’s cut DVD without the voice-over narration. I agree with Ford that the voice-over often diminishes the film by spoon-feeding the audience things that they are already implicit. The worst example of such narration was something like “So then he died...” in reference to Batty’s death on the roof, completely breaking the mood of the scene.


52 posted on 09/22/2017 8:47:49 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: PTBAA

The voice-over was part of what the suits did. I agree that it made the movie much better for theater attendees.

Also, it’s almost required to watch that version before the director’s cut. It makes things much more understandable.

So actually I agree with you. I’m a fan of both versions. The director and actors hated some of the things that were done for the theatrical release (the voice-over, the happy driving-into-the-sunset ending), but overall it made it a much more palatable film with regards to the time and audience that went to see it.


53 posted on 09/22/2017 8:48:08 AM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: C19fan

If Rutger Hauer is in it I’m going.


54 posted on 09/22/2017 8:49:27 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: DungeonMaster

http://bladerunner.wikia.com/wiki/Deckard_as_Replicant


55 posted on 09/22/2017 8:52:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I wonder if the writer intended on the speculation. I’ve watched that movie a dozen times but now I have to watch it again with this in mind. It never occurred to me.


56 posted on 09/22/2017 8:56:39 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: DungeonMaster

The film is a loose adaptation of the 1968 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick.

In the original book, they were androids not flesh and blood.

The ‘blade runners’ were bounty hunters, not police officers.

Neither term, ‘replicant’ or ‘blade runner’ was in the book................


57 posted on 09/22/2017 9:01:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: PhiloBedo
"I didn’t have a clue Harrison Ford’s character was a replicant."

There were certainly clues. As noted above, even in the theater release and "The Final Cut" there is the origami unicorn left at his house by police officer which indicates he knows what Decker has been dreaming of. In the Director's cut is was made even more obvious - In the scene where Decker looks in the mirror there is an electric glow which flashes in his eyes and in the scene where Roy Batty grabs Decker to keep him from falling to his death he mutters "kinship" as he lifts him to the roof. These last two items were deleted from the Final Cut to leave it more ambiguous.

58 posted on 09/22/2017 9:02:32 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Junk Silver

We see Deckard having a vision of a unicorn, and Gaff seems to know about this, (some sort of replicant memory implant?) taunting Deckard with an origami unicorn at the end of the film.


Yeah, that’s one of those details that you’ll miss if you blink. A little too subtle for my taste. I saw the movie when it came out and just assumed that Deckard was human. Did not start hearing speculation that he might be a replicant until nearly two decades later.


59 posted on 09/22/2017 9:06:54 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: bar sin·is·ter

You don’t know what his burnt rate is, viagra and crashing airplanes can get expensive.


LOL. I agree with the crashing airplanes part. But think about how much Viagra you’d have to consume to even put a dent in $200M.


60 posted on 09/22/2017 9:10:26 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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