Posted on 10/08/2017 12:23:44 PM PDT by beebuster2000
Just saw BR 2049. Awesome, highest recommendation, but with these caveats:
-I am a stone SciFi fan, old enough to have seen and loved the original 1982. Which was also totally awesome, but it should be noted, bombed at the box office, before going on to be a cult fave.
-also a total Ridley Scott Fan, anything he does is good. Ok maybe Kingdom of Heaven wasn't, but everything else was. For this BR re-boot he was involved but not a director
With that in mind:
BR 20149 is a film for all time in cinematography and music. They captured the look, feel and engagement of the original, and the score is reminiscent of Vangelis without being Vangelis, in some ways it is more powerful than the original score. The cast is phenomenal. Ryan Gosling and Robin Wright are amazing. Two other female leads Mackenzie Davis and Sylvia Hoeks are also great. Mackenzie had a bit part in the Martian, you will recognize her. Sylvia is a new face. Harrison Ford is Harrison Ford, with a lot of creases on his face.
The plot is really good, i won't say anything since the spoilers are huge, but suffice to say it winds back on itself and if you guess the ending you are a better guesser than i am.
all in all, must see if you are a sci fi fan. One of the better movies of the year. going to lose a lot on the small screen so see it in theater.
Like the original Bladé Runner, I predict it will bomb at the box office. Too cerebral, not enough gunfights and stuff blowing up for these days.
From all the beer and pill bottles more like yours.
It indeed is a great film. Needs some narration though to do better at the box office. :-)
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe; attack ships on fire off the arm of Orion......”
Oh my.
Do you know the answer to the trivia question (post 20)?
Like you, i saw the original in the theater, on it’s release date.
It was one of the old style big screen theaters.
Santa Barbara Ca.
Was there for the earliest showing and stayed all day watching over and over.
Had to fetch my girlfriend from work at about 6 pm.
We returned to the theater and i made her sit through 2 more showings.
I loved it, was what i saw coming in our wonderful country’s future. She hated it, called me crazy. We broke up shortly thereafter.
Tomorrow i will be going to the theater for the first time since that day more than 25 years ago.
And... the first cam copy is up on a link site.
I don’t know how Hollywood makes a dime (not that cam copies are worth watching- a good pirate copy will be up soon though).
“All these moments. Lost in time. Like tears in rain... “
One the best lines. Unscripted, I believe.
Apparently, Rutger Hauer wrote that parting speech himself the night before shooting .
I generally hate about 85% of movies and I thought it was pretty good. Totally amazing landscaping, sets, visuals. Yet the impressive visuals didn’t take over.
The story was very good, also, a pet-peeve of mine.
I had heard it was going to suck and it totally didn’t —I was amazed.
A definate plus:
No homo stuff or ‘white people SUCK!” stuff, or at least not enough that I can remember it now.
Without giving anything away, I also recommend it highly. It builds on the original and creates a great mystery. The cinematography is great, too. There is another thread on FR with more info for those who search for it. If possible, spring for the expensive tickets and see it in 3D, large format screen and with a theater with the amped up Dolby Atmos sound system. I haven’t experienced anything like that since sensurround or maybe not even then; full 360 sound with a lot of physical impact, vibrations, etc.
close encounters of the third kind.
Aha! You haven’t seen it yet, have you.
It’s a movie that has to be seen in the theater to be fully appreciated.
I’ve seen it not sure what scene you are talking about.
The Joi “app” plays a brief tune when it opens. Somewhat in the manner of the old “windows sound”
I know what you are talking about. what’s the sound. It sounded familiar.
Make that 35 years.
The first six notes in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmi5zHg4QSM
As a director, RS is an excellent cinematographer. Like the first try in 1982, I suspect I'll like the overall look and feel of what wiill otherwise be a useless exercise. The Deckard character was HF's best role, because it played to his strengths as a wooden actor. Since RS is on record as knowing better than PK Dick how the story will unfold, the original merely used some character names, and the eventual "unfolding" of this sequel is pretty easy to guess.
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