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Blade Runner 2049 (fail)
Jan. 29th, 2018 06:30 pm I finally achieved a viewing of the recent Blade Runner sequel. I say achieved because while it was in theaters, I think L and I tried about three times to co-ordinate our schedules to see it. I had a day where I almost went to the movies, but then changed my mind for reasons I no longer recall. I may have just forgotten that it was my plan, and then overslept.
L had to hunt it down, too, because the first Red Box was out. A lot of effort really, for a movie that... was a non-event.
The scene from the preview, the one that gave me hope that it might be the Blade Runner movie I wanted, didn't come up until something like an hour in. It still looked good to me, all that red haze... and I feel that the movie should have more or less started there, with maybe 20 minutes or so of lead up. The pace that, I suppose, was intended to create a mood didn't work for me. Main character was not someone I cared to know about. The bad guy was pointless.
In the end I have to wonder why this movie was even made, beyond the obvious sounds of falling coin. It doesn't add anything we needed, to the world or canon. It doesn't tweak what we thought we knew. It doesn't tell us that Decker is... on an island covered in puffins, waiting to die, or whatever. It isn't even a bleak statement that history repeats, with no progress, as if to say that we are looking at the decline of humanity, that the city looks the same two decades later because everything is simply winding down.
In some ways, I suppose the tone was closer to the short story source material... I guess? Because BR2049 doesn't have the same brand of conflict as the original movie (or any of its recuts). But I can't state that concretely because it just wasn't terribly interesting to me as I was watching.
If you saw it but liked it... what did I miss?
L had to hunt it down, too, because the first Red Box was out. A lot of effort really, for a movie that... was a non-event.
The scene from the preview, the one that gave me hope that it might be the Blade Runner movie I wanted, didn't come up until something like an hour in. It still looked good to me, all that red haze... and I feel that the movie should have more or less started there, with maybe 20 minutes or so of lead up. The pace that, I suppose, was intended to create a mood didn't work for me. Main character was not someone I cared to know about. The bad guy was pointless.
In the end I have to wonder why this movie was even made, beyond the obvious sounds of falling coin. It doesn't add anything we needed, to the world or canon. It doesn't tweak what we thought we knew. It doesn't tell us that Decker is... on an island covered in puffins, waiting to die, or whatever. It isn't even a bleak statement that history repeats, with no progress, as if to say that we are looking at the decline of humanity, that the city looks the same two decades later because everything is simply winding down.
In some ways, I suppose the tone was closer to the short story source material... I guess? Because BR2049 doesn't have the same brand of conflict as the original movie (or any of its recuts). But I can't state that concretely because it just wasn't terribly interesting to me as I was watching.
If you saw it but liked it... what did I miss?