Blade Runner and its sequel

[Rogue Trader]

I'm suddenly excited about Blade Runner again. I grew up hearing so much about this movie but never really had the chance to watch it. Many have hailed it as the father of all sci fi movies.

Honestly i was not too impressed with the original when I finally watched it 10 years ago. Possibly because i kept wondering if I was watching the right cut (there were 3 - Theater Cut, Director's Cut and the Final Cut). Possibly also because i was tripped out stoned and freezing in my dorm room.

But the moody dystopian themed futuristic setting which was replicated in so many movies, games and comic books thereafter was just pure cinematic genius. It was also interesting that many of the big corporate brands featured in the movie was "cursed" - Pan Am, Atari, Bell - would not survive in to the future world (2019) as prophecised

And now it has a sequel which has been hailed as "even better than the original".

Anyone watched one or both movies?

 

[Leongsam]

Watched the original blade runner and fell asleep. I'm not going to torture myself again with the sequel.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Watched the original blade runner and fell asleep. I'm not going to torture myself again with the sequel.

but you got weird tastes ........

 

[Leongsam]

but you got weird tastes ........

Those who like movies like "Blade Runner" are the ones with weird taste. I enjoyed Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music just like other normal people did.

 

[tanwahtiu]

I'm suddenly excited about Blade Runner again. I grew up hearing so much about this movie but never really had the chance to watch it. Many have hailed it as the father of all sci fi movies.

Honestly i was not too impressed with the original when I finally watched it 10 years ago. Possibly because i kept wondering if I was watching the right cut (there were 3 - Theater Cut, Director's Cut and the Final Cut). Possibly also because i was tripped out stoned and freezing in my dorm room.

But the moody dystopian themed futuristic setting which was replicated in so many movies, games and comic books thereafter was just pure cinematic genius. It was also interesting that many of the big corporate brands featured in the movie was "cursed" - Pan Am, Atari, Bell - would not survive in to the future world (2019) as prophecised

And now it has a sequel which has been hailed as "even better than the original".

Anyone watched one or both movies?

Still wanna conned by Pommies fake entertainment.

Wanna them to feel they are super race than Asians with such idiotic movie script.

Watch more Asian and Chinese movie to make Asian great again.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Sequels and prequels are just to milk money from you. There’s never been one that could be as good as the original except only for Tne Godfather.

 

[Ash007]

Sequels and prequels are just to milk money from you. There’s never been one that could be as good as the original except only for Tne Godfather.

What about "Empire strikes back"?

 

[halsey02]

Watched the original blade runner and fell asleep. I'm not going to torture myself again with the sequel.

I like the original Blade Runner, though it was kind of a "sleepy movie" but it had some science fiction of things, we are using today. I have watched a few SciFi in those days which I like & can classify them with Blade Runner, Brazil, Rollerball, Early days StarWars & the first Alien , I almost forgot " Altered States", " Soylent Green" " The Mephisto Waltz" & there was one, I forgot the title...the precursor of today's Robot females we are reading up, that provide companionship etc.. " a female robot that was created by a scientist...fell in love with the robot & later the robot became a killer....for she has access to his house locks etc.." forgot the title.

 

[Sideswipe]

many classic movies were great to watch in the old days but probably pale in comparison to today movies. they were good by yesterday standards,

 

[halsey02]

many classic movies were great to watch in the old days but probably pale in comparison to today movies. they were good by yesterday standards,

There are too many remakes, Part II, III redux, reboot...until they sux!. Just like brewing coffee with good coffee beans with a filter, too many boiling reboiling etc..makes the coffee weak & soon enough, the coffee taste like drain water. That is what is happening today...technically, technologically the new films are a marvel...anything else in the remake etc...or porting a famous comic, story to movie..sux!

 

[JHolmesJr]

2049 is slow and fairly intelligent....singo intellect cant handle that sort of pace without eyes straying to check smartphone every 30 seconds.

do yourself a favour and give it a miss.

 

[Sideswipe]

There are too many remakes, Part II, III redux, reboot...until they sux!. Just like brewing coffee with good coffee beans with a filter, too many boiling reboiling etc..makes the coffee weak & soon enough, the coffee taste like drain water. That is what is happening today...technically, technologically the new films are a marvel...anything else in the remake etc...or porting a famous comic, story to movie..sux!

the classic movies storylines are good. but they often act too smart and tweaked the story too much until it sucks. just like they now have better equipment to brew much better coffee, just stick with the same formula, don't change too much, and it will come out good. but they don't get it at all.

 

[halsey02]

the classic movies storylines are good. but they often act too smart and tweaked the story too much until it sucks. just like they now have better equipment to brew much better coffee, just stick with the same formula, don't change too much, and it will come out good. but they don't get it at all.

It was not only the movie making, production & so forth, given yesterday equipments one look back, it looked so primitive. It was the script writers & the writers of those science fiction, that predicted the future. In Planet of the Apes, we have the "doomsday bomb" where the underground people worshipped the ICBM nuclear missile & the silver storage disc, where, Cornelius could view what his parents recorded. In Blade Runner, we saw, the possibility of digital zoom to enhance the image. In Soylent Green, we have recycling...where we have a world, overpopulated & shortage of food, they were eating food pellets produced by a corporation, made from humans, especially the elderly, the infirmed, the disable, the criminals etc.. that's why the ending..."Soylent Green" is people. I mention about the robotic female in one movie, I forgot the title, where we have what we see "homekit"..where we can control the house doors, the whatever equipment & even produce a female robot that serve our needs...

How many films can we say today that have original story line, that make us sit up, think & notice? "Logan"?...there are few, very few. All we have is..StarWars, in which Disney is making the originality of the Star Wars series, stale as bread, by including "politically correct" filming, by adding a black man in the movie.When Star Wars came out, nobody noticed or really bothered that all the actors were whites & many had British accents, they were engrossed with the story, the cinematic erffects. Who really bothere if a femal Princess Leia was the only woman & she was a 'decoration' & not the heroine. We have Marvel & whatever making the comic heroes, more dark, much more unbelievable...lacking the simplicity of the days, we were reading comic books. Then, there are others, that rehash...old movies classics, children's books, some other novels etc...good when you read, but when interpreted into films...just don't get it....

 

[Rogue Trader]

the classic movies storylines are good. but they often act too smart and tweaked the story too much until it sucks. just like they now have better equipment to brew much better coffee, just stick with the same formula, don't change too much, and it will come out good. but they don't get it at all.

They have been remaking too many 80s classics which end up being worse than the original. The ones that i had watched like Total Recall and Fright Night totally sucked. THen there's Ghostbusters which I've read is a disaster

I find that a reboot only works if they
1) don't take themselves too seriously. LIke 21 Jump street and Stasky and hutch. Both were hilarious
2) remake a mediocre original.. like Ocean's 11, Man on Fire

Once in a while someone succeeds... like Guy ritchie's Man From UNCLE was quite watchable i thought...

 

[Rogue Trader]

We can't have a movie sequel and reboot thread without mentioning the classic case of The Highlander movie

The first movie was near perfect - fresh concept, excellent cast, cinematography and soundtrack

The next few sequels and the TV series was just horrendous! It just shows what happens if a bankable storyline does not get controlled propoerly. Great franchises like Star wars would have died similar deaths if George Lucas hadn't been so protective over the thousands of novels, games, comic books it spawned

The good news is Hollywood is looking at totally remaking the original and follow up with a trilogy. I really hope they find a strong cast to reprise the lead characters. So far they've confirmed Kurgan:

 

[Rogue Trader]

Sequels and prequels are just to milk money from you. There’s never been one that could be as good as the original except only for Tne Godfather.

I would agree and it has been one of the biggest problems in the movie industry. so nowadays studios plan for trilogies to keep up the quality standards.

 

[JohnTan]

What's this blade runner about? Some swordsman who can run very fast?

 

[Rogue Trader]

What's this blade runner about? Some swordsman who can run very fast?

no you dumbass

it's the biopic of Oscar Pistorius

 

[yinyang]

Did raw with sequel 2049, missing out on the original. Dark celluloid piece, and sci-fi doesn't appeal to me (but for Star Wars). Ryan Gosling did good, as the beat-up LAPD replicant cop giving it the 'human' touch.

But I did like his sweet holographic girlfriend, yum

 

[Rogue Trader]

Did raw with sequel 2049, missing out on the original. Dark celluloid piece, and sci-fi doesn't appeal to me (but for Star Wars). Ryan Gosling did good, as the beat-up LAPD replicant cop giving it the 'human' touch.

But I did like his sweet holographic girlfriend, yum

thanks!

I always believe the real test of a movie sequel is whether it can be enjoyed without watching it's prequel. I think only very few (like Godfather 2 and 无间道 2) can pass that test