Blade Runner 2049

Where to begin... It's a perfectly good followup, perhaps the only way they could have followed from the first.. so overall it's just like the first movie... That's both a good and bad thing I guess since blade runner is an extremely divisive and somewhat artistically complicated film to many... Flawed masterpiece. This plot of the new movie is essentially children of Blade Runner, chasing to find the miracle birth last child of the replicants. Yep, the replicants have the ability to reproduce a new design only Tyrell knew the secret to and the key to understanding how to do it is in the one replicant who was born, not made. The future of everything rides on finding the born replicant.

I don't know if I should spoil it or not.... but definitely go see it and get the theatrical experience, Probably better in 3D, don't know.... but there's hardly any big epic action scenes that demand 3D so I wouldn't bother with that.

It's just an exausting film. One that I'm gonna wager not many will pop in and watch on repeat, same as the first blade runner. I can't watch and watch and watch that movie for any amount of time. It's too damn weird and artsy if that makes sense.

Interesting though how they brought back Gaff in this... I think it'd have been interesting to have more of him in it. That's the film's greatest fumbles I guess, it brings up an interesting thing, then because the actor who played Gaff can't possibly do action or anything anymore, his scene is a one and done cameo nothing more. But oh does it open up so many thoughts about what gaff's role in Deckard's life was, how much does he know about Rachel's purpose... none of that is shown. He puts a origami cow or something on the table. WTF is that about...

Is deckard a replicant is the question I wanted answered. It's the point of the film really, to say "it doesn't matter." Replicants are humans too, even if Deckard was, we're shown by Ryan Gosling's character that replicants can BE like humans and have similar struggles with their emotions.

His character is actually the thing that makes the movie and I felt for him when he was struggling with all the choices about who he was. The point of the film is to kinda follow a robot around as it deals with being treated as a paper cup. We're put in Batty's shoes for the first time in this movie, a genius concept. Looking at life from the perspective of a replicant. We get to know him. We get to see him HOPE to have been an anomaly and WANT to be more than a paper cup. In the end of the movie, the brilliant thing about it, is that it makes US the audience LOOK at him as more than a paper cup, that's the genius of the movie.

I don't know how to interpret Ryan's last bit in the movie before he retires, let's say, is he wondering if his actions and choices were his own or was he just following orders put into him by the person who gave him his memories. He at the end doesn't fully know if what he felt and wanted and hoped for was real or if he was just going through his programming, but overall he did feel love and Deckard acknowledges that Replicants can feel love and he shows him such compassion at the end of the movie. I liked how Gosling played this role. He goes from being this robotic emotionless replicant, to more human than human by the end of the film, solidifying the film's message.

Anyway, yeah it's up there man. It's a well crafted, deep meaningful art film. It's an art film. It's not a blockbuster at all. I don't know for shit why they expected it to do gangbuster numbers, that'll never happen for art films. 

But at least it's not fucking judge dredd or whatever other blade runner knock off movie... And I'm not talking about the new judge dredd movie, that one's actually sweet shit, no the old 90s dredd. That's the movie they wanted to make as the sequel to blade runner, but the director of this film wanted it to be GOOD and a worthy sequel. I believe in time people will see this one as such. For now it's a big expensive failed experiment. Bravo to all involved. Your work has not gone on deaf ears. Some of us understood.