So, I watched it over and over.to the tune of over 100 times. When I saw BLADE RUNNERfor the first time in 1990, it left me confused, sad, shellshocked, and fascinated. I love this movie.įor the most part, BLADE RUNNER 2049 is a masterwork that marries up to the original 1982 film in all of its good and bad ways. As the final credits rolled, I was in awe and emotional spent. It echoed the memories of sadness, depression, fascination, and wonder perfectly replicating them. The best praise I can add on to BLADE RUNNER 2049 is that it left me emotional how I felt after seeing the first film back in 1990. Joshi appearing in the film and how strong she was in it. The one performance I was surprised at was Robin Wright as Lt. Three other performances I thought were spot on where MacKenzie Davis, (who plays in one of my favorite current TV shows, Halt and Catch Fire), the always good Jared Leto, and newcomer Sylvia Hoeks round out the new evil faces of the new megacorporation. It is that emotion center that brings heart to the messy, dirty world of BLADE RUNNER. While I've not seen much he's been in, Ryan shines here, turning a great layered performance that is the best when acting opposite the talented and lovely Ana de Armas playing K's "girlfriend" Joi. While Harrison Ford does resume his role as Rick Deckard, it is new Blade Runner, K played by Ryan Gosling that is the heart of the film. Populating this world of 20419 is an awesome assembly of actors and actress that bring flesh to the dystopia. They replicate the original look and feel of the first film by Ridley Scott, but adding their own spin and style, creating one of the best sci-fi films in years that is more than just BLADE RUNNER visuals. Much praise must be laid at the feet of director Denis Villeneuve, writers Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, along with cinematography by Roger Deakins. BLADE RUNNER 2049 still asks the hard questions of slavery, quality of life, and what makes someone really human while examining these question through the lens of a gumshoe police assassin on the path of runaway technology in a flying car cutting throughout the dense asian-infused urban jungle of a broken, sick world. It also does not alienate the fans of the original film by being a serious departure from the original. The short of it is that BLADE RUNNER 2049 is a sequel done properly with great respect paid to the 1982 original and careful consideration paid to the path the new 2017 film blazes with expanding the world of BR. I was nervous when the BLADE RUNNER sequel became reality.what if it sucked? What if it was another Scarlett ? Fortunately for all of us BR fans, that did not happen. It just so happens that my wife's favorite book and movie are Gone with the Wind, while my favorite movie is BLADE RUNNER(I hate the PDK book BTW), so I felt that the parallel needed to be made. The 1991 book Scarlett was widely panned and the miniseries was just good enough, but not the same level as the "best movie ever made". When the immortal classic Gone with the Wind was finally gifted with a sequel in book and miniseries form, it was the 1990's and there was much risk due to the legend status of both the 1936 book and 1939 film. This is only compounded when the original work and the sequel are separated by a wide gulf of time. Sequels come at high peril, especially when adding onto a classic of film or literature.
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