First look at Blade Runner 2049!

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“Where’ve they been all these years?”
“Had a job in the off-world colonies”

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Here’s that sound on everything but the Yamaha CS-80 Vangelis actually used.

I fear the sequel will be much the same. Cool, stylish, but not…quite…right.

Happy to be wrong, though.

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Is he dead?

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Edward James Elmos is actually three muppets in a trench coat.

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The problem with Prometheus wasn’t really the direction, it was the writing.

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lol, I posted a new topic because I didn’t see this one because I didn’t look because I’m childishly excited.

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Based on the trailer I assume Vangelis is getting a credit?

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EGGsactly.

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Or seven Motie watchmakers having a big day out.

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The small rouge one, not the yuge one, then.

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I think I’m the only person in the world who kinda liked the Dick Tracy movie.
(ETA: I also thought Arrival was a bit meh)

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I was thinking the soundtrack was an interesting variation on the original-- some of the same sounds (not just the synth washes, but the low reverberating “thump”), but also uses some more recent (“modern”?) glitchy sounds. The video is not much to go on, but so far I like it.

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So he didn’t write it himself, but wouldn’t director/producer Ridley Scott have had ultimate responsibility for making sure the script wasn’t a stinking mess? I would have thought him powerful enough to order as many rewrites as he damn well pleases…

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I dunno,before my time. What about Joaquin?

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Agreed. There are so many good original stories out there, the addiction to sequels is really getting old.

I get it when there is more of the story to tell, but when even The Hobbit gets screwed up, you know there’s a problem.

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Hey, from what I’ve heard, the Hobbit was a very good, well-made movie.

…That they somehow added enough pointless, unnecessary scenes to that it then had to be spilt into three films.

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Exactly. There’s a brilliant 1 hr 45 min movie within that bloated 474 minute monstrosity.

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Found it! (Though actually it was only 90 minutes)

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I am not a huge Tolkien fan. My ex was. I loved the Ralph Bakshi stuff. My dad, the meat and potatoes guy he was, still grew up in the 60s and had the books, and even had this cool Gandalf shirt that had to be 40 years old before he retired it finally.

I thought the LotR trilogy was well done. Even took my ex to the see the 3rd movie premier by watching the first two extended ones in the theater. Like a marathon.

But OMG… the Hobbit. What a fucking hot mess.

First off, I forgot how much Gandalf was a Deus Ex Machina. But putting that aside, the actions and effects just got cartoony and stupid real quick. When Legolas can hop floating barrels like a video game and kill two orcs with one arrow, it has gone from high fantasy with tension, to a 14 year playing a video game on cheat mode.

YEP! I remember Gollum freaking me out on TV. In a good way. And as an adult I really appreciate Ralph Bakshi’s work (sp). Some really some things.

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Christ, that “dwarves in barrels” scene. It was the point in the movie when I was just thinking “wait, are we just watching a cartoon now?” But the ultimate “video game” scene for me was in the last movie when Legolas was hopping across a chasm from one falling piece of rubble to another in bullet-time mode. PHYSICS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.

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