Blade Runner 2049

10 September 2018

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

• Director: Denis Villeneuve
• Based on novel by Philip K Dick (or so they claim but it’s really not)
• Cast: Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Ryan Gosling – La La Land, Lars and the Real Girl, The United States of Leland
• Robin Wright – Wonder Woman, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Breaking and Entering, White Oleander, How to Kill Your Neighbour’s Dog, She’s So Lovely, Moll Flanders
• Harrison Ford – Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Fugitive, Working Girl, The Mosquito Coast, Witness, Blade Runneretc
• Jared Leto – Requiem for a Dream, American Psycho, Girl Interrupted, Fight Club, Black and White, The Thin Red Line
• Why? Well, if you’ve seen the first…
• Seen: 5 September 2018 with YW and Hal in our read-book-see-film group      

       We’ve read Philip K Dick’s book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Which was good. The first film had its merits, but it wasn’t very good. I’m hoping this one is better. Ryan Gosling is good.

       Here he’s a model replicant hunting down and retiring – killing if you will – old model replicants from 30 years before. Thirty years ago, a replicant gave birth to a human child. Now the quadrillionaire tyrant dictator bad guy (Leto) demands that this child be found.

       Humans and replicants, what’s the difference? And so on. And so on.

       It’s a bit interesting once in a while and there are some nice visual effects but mostly it’s so dark you can’t see what’s going on and it’s so slow, and very long, that we have lots of time to chat without missing anything.

       It’s confusing and predictable at the same time and what are supposed to be big dramatic revelations are like, ‘Yeah? And?’

       What the film really does not need is a fist fight between Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford.

       My friend JS texted me while we were watching it and asked me to let her know if I figured it out ‘cause she didn’t like it.

       Well, JS, I don’t think there’s that much to get and what there is, is pretentious.

       Will this never end?

½ * of 5