Bladerunner 2 - It's happening
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Tickets booked for opening night 
Initial reactions are very positive: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2017/09/27/blade-...
Initial reactions are very positive: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2017/09/27/blade-...
jsf said:
Its offered in 3D at my local cinema, would people suggest that's to avoid or to watch as I haven't seen anything in 3D at the cinema?
I wear glasses so would have to keep those on as well as wear the 3D specs.
Avoid 3D. It will mucky up the visuals and ruin the experience IMO. I only ever mess with 3D when the film has been specifically made with it in mind, which is quite a rarity.I wear glasses so would have to keep those on as well as wear the 3D specs.
HorneyMX5 said:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/denis-ville...
Not sure what to think. It's my all time fave film and I have fears it will be terrible. Some stories are best left as a one off.
No need for the fears Not sure what to think. It's my all time fave film and I have fears it will be terrible. Some stories are best left as a one off.
Just don't look at the Empire review as they casually dropped some massive spoilers in. Including one in the opening paragraph that everyone else deliberately avoided.
Why is it that almost everyone manages to do a great job of reviewing the thing without giving too much away and some
just dumps in a load of spoilers which added nothing to their review?
Hope they get banned from future press junkets.
Why is it that almost everyone manages to do a great job of reviewing the thing without giving too much away and some
just dumps in a load of spoilers which added nothing to their review? Hope they get banned from future press junkets.
RumbleOfThunder said:
It's a funny old thing, film. The first was universally panned yet it's now a classic of the genre. Now we have 2049 which is getting piped off by all concerned. Will be interesting to see by things play out. 
Was the original 'universally panned'? The premiere occurred a few weeks ago now, but I went to see it for two reasons: I'm a big fan of PK Dick and there were some intriguing reviews. Not as good as Star Wars seemed to be the worst if one ignored the dailies.I loved and and I bought tickets to see it again the following week.
Some random review quotes.
"Like The Godfather Part II, it's a sequel to a very celebrated film which may actually be better than the original."
"It may seem premature to ascribe the word 'masterpiece' to a legacyquel of a heady sci-fi head-scratcher from the '80s, but its audacity and formal perfection - not to mention its thematic weight - leave no other alternative."
"It just has to be experienced on the biggest screen possible. Blade Runner 2049 is a narcotic spectacle of eerie and pitiless vastness, by turns satirical, tragic and romantic."
"Villeneuve's dazzling sequel is on its own march to screen legend. Gosling and Ford are double dynamite in a mesmerizing mindbender that asks new questions meant to tantalize, provoke and keep us up nights. Would you have it any other way?"
This is no longer just a hype-train gents, the hype-train has firmly de-railed and has morphed into a hype-flying-spacecraft with people inside doing the hype-train.
"Like The Godfather Part II, it's a sequel to a very celebrated film which may actually be better than the original."
"It may seem premature to ascribe the word 'masterpiece' to a legacyquel of a heady sci-fi head-scratcher from the '80s, but its audacity and formal perfection - not to mention its thematic weight - leave no other alternative."
"It just has to be experienced on the biggest screen possible. Blade Runner 2049 is a narcotic spectacle of eerie and pitiless vastness, by turns satirical, tragic and romantic."
"Villeneuve's dazzling sequel is on its own march to screen legend. Gosling and Ford are double dynamite in a mesmerizing mindbender that asks new questions meant to tantalize, provoke and keep us up nights. Would you have it any other way?"
This is no longer just a hype-train gents, the hype-train has firmly de-railed and has morphed into a hype-flying-spacecraft with people inside doing the hype-train.
Derek Smith said:
RumbleOfThunder said:
It's a funny old thing, film. The first was universally panned yet it's now a classic of the genre. Now we have 2049 which is getting piped off by all concerned. Will be interesting to see by things play out.
Was the original 'universally panned'? The premiere occurred a few weeks ago now, but I went to see it for two reasons: I'm a big fan of PK Dick and there were some intriguing reviews. Not as good as Star Wars seemed to be the worst if one ignored the dailies.I loved and and I bought tickets to see it again the following week.
"Since its original release, the film has become a science fiction classic.[108] Roger Ebert praised the visuals of both the original and the Director's Cut versions and recommended it for that reason; however, he found the human story clichéd and a little thin.[41] He later added The Final Cut to his "Great Movies" list.[109]"
This sums it up for me. Critics by and large didn't have their fingers on the pulse of public and they've steadily come around in subsequent decades.
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