Blade Runner 2049 is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time

Holy shit this movie is pure art. The visuals and aesthetic are spot on for Cyberpunk and the sound direction is so good. Literally every set had me engaged because how good they looked. The scene with K just going around the city with these big ass logo’s of dead and alive companies was so good. Visually, this movie is a masterpiece.

The whole plot of K finding a purpose and then losing it to then making up one himself is great. Pretty similar to Detroit become human. The plot kept me hooked throughout. The whole section in the ruins of Las Vegas was peak. The pacing was also so much better than the first movie.

And then there is the Ryan Gosling is literally me propaganda which I fully subscribe to. K feels very similar as to his lack of purpose and being stuck in a society that fucking sucks. The AI Girlfriend thing has gained a whole new meaning since ChatGPT dropped. God I love this k-pain scene.

The ending was great. K did the most human thing possible after breaking his shackles even when he was not HIM hence proving that every single replicant is a living being but lack purpose and memories which shape their personalities.

And Jared Leto somehow gave his best performance in this movie. This is his peak after Paul Allen.

maccruiskeen,
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this is one of my favorite action movies of all time. I was lucky enough in 2017 to catch it in the theaters and i couldn’t stop thinking about it for like 2 years. However, it’s very easy to see why fascists incels like to use K’s face as their profile pictures.

K is a handsome, quiet, intelligent physically fit, capable loser who everyone hates on because they’re secretly jealous. This is exactly how fascists see themselves and how they see their own persecution complex. He goes home to his AI girlfriend because this is the only option he has. The world around him is in an advanced state of decay (which fascists routinely blame on the ‘fall of western civilization’ and not capitalism) but he holds onto the hope that he can become a hero through violence (mass shooting).

Anyways i dont want to shit on this movie too much. Obviously I enjoy it for the correct reasons galaxy-brain doomer

somename,

Something I think was clever was the addition of Joi, and her role in the story. By the time this movie came out, the original Blade Runner had kind of percolated through society. Replicants being human isn’t really a mindblowing or challenging premise imo.

So to get a similar feeling and though exploration going, a new level of “fake” life needs to be introduced, one that the audience might not immediately accept. You can see that reflected in the movie where a replicant treats Joi like shit for being “artificial”, reproducing the oppression of replicants, despite the history and material context of the abuser. Seeing the movie explore Joi and her potential development and emergent autonomy was super cool. She was definitely my favorite part of the movie.

SubstantialNothingness,

It’s pretty high up the list of my all-time favorites. It blew away my expectations.

Cherufe,
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Villanueve is so good

Im gonna watch Incendies now

Evilphd666,
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I liked Blade Runner 2049. That’s the type of experience I expected for Dune. But instead Dune ended up being offensively dull and void.

jackmarxist,
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Dune is a very different setting and movie. It’s about a Feudal feud on a shithole of a planet so like 1200s Germany.

FunkyStuff,

I also recently saw it for the first time. It’s solid, loved how oppressive the atmosphere felt and how the audio took over the entire experience when K was driving around. It felt so immersive, like we really were just seeing one small thread in this horrible reality full of other tragic stories. I guess that’s just successful worldbuilding. I didn’t love some of the Joss Whedon tier quips (especially in the Las Vegas part, shounen level fan service cringe) but otherwise, everything from the dialogue to the set design and VFX was top notch.

Cowbee,

Easily my favorite movie. The pacing is wonderful for my particular brain, and there are so many layers to it, with fantastic cinematography.

Beaver,
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It’s so good, that it actually makes Blade Runner retroactively better.

LGOrcStreetSamurai,
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I really think that one of the best praises of any sequel. Something so good it makes the thing it’s extending even better. I love the original Blade Runner. It was my entry way into “Sci-fi doesn’t need to be robots and laser dragons, it can be some real-ass shit”. I have watched Blade Runner about once a year since high-school. It’s also my reference point for all cyberpunk, and 2049 did nothing but make it better. Love it.

someone,

I always liked how, despite Deckard being a major part of 2049, whether or not he’s a replicant (which I don’t believe) doesn’t matter at all.

jackmarxist,
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The movie is about the fact that being human or replicant has no difference because both can feel the same thing.

With Deckards dog, K asked if the dog was real or not and deckard told him that he didn’t care about the dog being real or fake.

panned_cakes,
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Jared Leto apparently LARPed as being blind for this movie dafoe-horror

jackmarxist,
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He just played himself imo.

dessalines,

He played a good tech billionaire sociopath, which is what his personality is like anyway.

Assian_Candor,
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I love both blade runner movies, but I agree 2049 is better. The story is just so good

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