#13663066 DamodarThade wrote:I watched Blade Runner 2049 last night, it was pretty good had great visuals and SFX. The story was fairly good but could have been better, while I said it had great visual it also had some that I thought where out of place like the Police station looked very sterile and bland. The characters for the most part for me let the film down there was very little character development beyond K and his relationship with Joi and Wallace (he didn't have much screen time thankfully) was just awful in my opinion, it was as if they where trying to emulate Roy and it just didn't work. Good movie over all but it could have been better character wise and with some better visuals in certain places but for a two and half hour movie it kept me engaged.
I have also been watching a show on Fox over here called a False Flag, it is a lot like 24. Not a great deal of action but very well written and acted thriller set in Israel. I am upto episode five at the minute and it does a very good job of keeping you guessing about who is involved in what and how and who is innocent. Well worth a look it you are interested in a good thiller.
I could see what they were trying to do with Blade Runner 2049,which is basically show a huge deterioration of Earth,from being Cyberpunk to being wastelands,as well as trying to make it more of an action movie since it would be hard to make another character that's as likable as Deckard. However, it was inevitable people would compare BR 2049 to the original Blade Runner,and it doesn't even come close to the brilliance of the original BR, especially artistically and musically , as well as creating likable characters. However, if the movie didn't try to force itself into the BR universe, and used a fresh story unrelated to BR,and was only called 2049,I think it would have received a much better reception.
BR 2049's story felt contrived because of the way it tried to force things relating to Deckard and Rachel into the story, but it had the potential to be something great on it's own without needing to use the name 'Blade Runner',