Well, I thought the first Blade Runner was pretty boring. Is this one any better? In the first one, Harrison Ford was so subdued that he almost put me to sleep and the story plodded along without much life. Is Ford and the screenplay/story any livelier in this one?
“Well, I thought the first Blade Runner was pretty boring. Is this one any better? In the first one, Harrison Ford was so subdued that he almost put me to sleep and the story plodded along without much life”
My recollection was also that it moved slow. Was disappointed in another Harrison Ford movie I saw recently, What Lies Beneath, slow moving with just a few plot changes from Presumed Innocent ten years earlier.
Perhaps he needs a blaster and aliens to make more exciting movies.
It was a bit of a flop on its first release. I liked it and considered it under-rated at the time. Years later, after it was released on home video in widescreen, more people came to appreciate it. Now I think of it as a tad over-rated.
If you concentrate on the plot, then yes, it is pretty basic. And I think most people focused on that when it was in the theaters. But the beauty of the movie is more the mood, the atmosphere, and the questions it asks, without trying to force an answer on the audience.