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Oct. 15th, 2017 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljWe saw Bladerunner 2049.
There were some good things.
None of them was the plot.
I gotta say both of us really didn't like it. While I could appreciate the look and feel of it, and it did look and feel like the same "world" 30 years later, with that much more pollution and evolution of the massive advertising neon everywhere, and it did get moderately interesting for the last bits with Harrison Ford's Dekkard back in it again, mostly it was slow and boring. Too dark. Ok, in a world where the pollution is so bad it blocks the light you won't expect there to be a lot of brightly lit scenes but even interiors where there might be more light were dark and moody and I hate it. So many movies are like that these days it seems.
There was a plot but it did't grab me at all. A lot of reviews talk about nuance but for me, too much of that means vague and obscure. It lost my interest through most of it until near the end when Ford finally came into it and even then, it didn't make a whole lot of sense. He's so good, though.
Ryan Gosling is an actor that I don't mind usually and I suppose he did the job the way it was supposed to be done. He's a replicant and they're not little bundles of joy are they?
The virtual girlfriend, for me, was something a sad and lonely person has to tell them what they want to hear or what they already know. Most of the characters really had no development or not much. And it was just too slow and dragged out. 2 hours and 45 minutes. Really. Could have cut an hour out of it and tightened it up considerably. There wasn't a lot of action either aside from the beginning and the very end and a few brief beatings scattered through.
Nope. we were both highly disappointed.
We did have a nice meal at Smitty's afterward to soothe ourselves.
There were some good things.
None of them was the plot.
I gotta say both of us really didn't like it. While I could appreciate the look and feel of it, and it did look and feel like the same "world" 30 years later, with that much more pollution and evolution of the massive advertising neon everywhere, and it did get moderately interesting for the last bits with Harrison Ford's Dekkard back in it again, mostly it was slow and boring. Too dark. Ok, in a world where the pollution is so bad it blocks the light you won't expect there to be a lot of brightly lit scenes but even interiors where there might be more light were dark and moody and I hate it. So many movies are like that these days it seems.
There was a plot but it did't grab me at all. A lot of reviews talk about nuance but for me, too much of that means vague and obscure. It lost my interest through most of it until near the end when Ford finally came into it and even then, it didn't make a whole lot of sense. He's so good, though.
Ryan Gosling is an actor that I don't mind usually and I suppose he did the job the way it was supposed to be done. He's a replicant and they're not little bundles of joy are they?
The virtual girlfriend, for me, was something a sad and lonely person has to tell them what they want to hear or what they already know. Most of the characters really had no development or not much. And it was just too slow and dragged out. 2 hours and 45 minutes. Really. Could have cut an hour out of it and tightened it up considerably. There wasn't a lot of action either aside from the beginning and the very end and a few brief beatings scattered through.
Nope. we were both highly disappointed.
We did have a nice meal at Smitty's afterward to soothe ourselves.
