Which Blade Runner movie do you prefer and why?

Wallace both figuratively and literally sees the world through the eyes of a machine.

This is the first video of yours I've seen, and it alone sold me on your channel. Your self-awareness and introspection at the end are really nice to see, and the emotion in your voice was moving.

Strangely enough, Luv is my favorite character, because she's just so fascinating. She's clearly far more aware, more developed, than other replicants, and yet she also obeys with *nearly* unswerving obedience. The only deviations in her obedience are things that let her perform violence or cruelty. And in her final moments, when she's beneath the water, we see in her face the truth behind her mask, that she is in reality filled with hate.

I loved 2049 and maybe even prefer it over the first film. The most affecting part for me was K believing that he was the child only to find out that he wasn't. Imagine living your entire life thinking you were one thing. Then you find out that in reality you are something very, very special. Only to learn that, no, you're no more than what you thought you were to begin with. That loss was so overwhelming to me. Almost like a death in the family. I grieved for K in that moment.

K did get to see a miracle in the end. The question Deckard asks, "Why do you care?" goes unanswered so we could answer it. His death meant something.

When K saw the JOI hologram on the billboard he realized that JOI never loved him she was just programmed to simulate affection.

I was Floored by how good this sequel was. The fact that we can even debate which one is better says a lot. I grew up with the original but I think 2049 is better. Excellent breakdown BTW. I appreciate the opinion of someone that truly loves the original

The sheep at 12:35 is in homage to the 1968 novel by Philip K. Dick that inspired the first Blande Runner film: Do Androids dream of Electric SHEEP. 😃

I really liked the fact that you waited months before posting the video and had patience. it was a sign of great respect for these two films

waiting was good advice. i had to wait 40 years. but seriously, this movie has to be watched as its own thing. this movie made me cry when i saw it. i thought it was not what i was expecting and its better than we could have expected given the current state of Hollywood sequels

The Pris makeup was a nice touch. Phenomenal film.

I prefer the older one but this one was like a really nice psychidelic trip you never wanted to end.

I'm glad you decided to wait and watch it again before issuing your reaction to it. I've seen reactors on here who give snap judgments of movies and are (perhaps) overly harsh or have unreasonable expectations, and it's always frustrating when they dismiss a movie based those expectations. I'm of the firm opinion that a movie should be watched at least twice before judging it, especially by critics. A lot of movies that we regard as classics now were derided or dismissed by critics when they first came out. We can say in hindsight that "of course" they were wrong because they "just didn't get it", but we do the same things ourselves. When it comes to movies, there are so many ingrained preconceptions in all of us that we can't properly appreciate a movie for what it is *or* what it's trying to be on the first viewing. Whether it's a sequel that may or may not be trying to live up to the original, or part of a recognized genre going up against every other movie in that genre, or simply another movie made by a director, a writer, a crew, and/or an acting team that we've experienced before, we're all going to have preconceived notions of what it "should be", no matter how openminded we think we are. And if it's *none* of those things, then we have expectations of a movie that's trying to be "different" and are disappointed whether it is or isn't. It's not fair to the movie or the people who made it. So, we should all watch a movie twice before judging it; once to clear our expectations out of the way, and then again to take it for what it is. I'm glad that's what you did here.

You have to see the two dune films! They are great but I won’t spoil them by giving you any more info!! Same director as 2049 and arrival - another excellent film!

This is such a fantastic reaction, glad you took time to sit with it and let your thoughts marinate.

Identical twins have the same DNA, but also the same gender. Boy-Girl twins are fraternal twins and won't have identical DNA. That is how he knew one of the records was an edited copy of the other. There was only one child.

Nice to see this posted on Father’s Day. Points for suspecting that Ana’s compromised immune system may be fictitious. I love how the film ends on Deckard’s little quarter smile reminiscent of the Mona Lisa.

I love this movie. Like many, I do prefer the first. But this manages to be a worthy sequel, which I thought was impossible until I saw it. This was a fantastic theater experience for me. I went alone in the middle of the day and soaked it all in.

Blade Runner has been my favorite movie since I saw it in high school when it was new. I never felt human as a teenager and really identified with the theme of what it means to be human. I bought it on VHS tape and watched it to death. When this sequel came out I was so nervous that it wouldn't be good, but I'd seen some of Denis Villeneuve's movies and had a lot of hope it would be good. I saw the movie in the theater alone and afterward sat outside the theater and thought about it. I had a lot of conflicting emotions about it and didn't know if I liked it or not. The similar music but not-quite-the-same kept bringing me out of the movie, but I did like the Tears in Rain theme. It felt right. This movie really grew on me, and now when I reach for a Blade Runner rewatch I'm hard pressed to make a choice between them. The themes are so good, but yet not the same, the little differences giving more breadth to the discussion of what being human really is and examining the scope of the human experience.

Fantastic review Bunny, especially on Father's Day. You found profoundness in this one I didn't and I watched the first movie's original theater release in college. You make us all proud with your emotional perceptions that aren't spelled out in the scenes. An old movie you might find interesting is George Lucas' "THX 1138" from 1971. It laid the groundwork for techniques he used in Star Wars along with a few predictions and some dark humor. You're getting better at this all the time. Happy Father's Day.

You've given an amazing and heartfelt breakdown of this story and its characters here

When I prepped to watch this sequel, I was ready to be completely disappointed. Was one of THE best sequels ever. Thanks for your reaction. Made it even better.

I love this film, as well as the original. They explore very important questions and use the best strengths of science fiction to do it. K is an incredible character, who like us, wants to be the hero in his own story, wants to be special and matter, and as a conduit for us, we want it for him. It was a brave subversion to take that away, and I think lost some viewers because of it, but it makes him such a better character for it, because he chooses to be a hero and finds a path to it. He wasn’t given a great purpose to fulfill, but found his own purpose instead, and maybe found his own humanity and his own soul through it.

there were about three shorts made by the director with the actors for backstory... you should definately watch them on youtube. One is very significant for the big replicant at the beginning. Its my favorite back story short about who he was... Btw, these are not cut scenes, they were released before the movie came out to give back story for the side characters.

I really apprectiated the fact that you held off on sharing this. It's also great that you were able to reflect and filter your thoughts with time. Great react! I really enjoyed this react, and your review! I would definitely recommend watching any/all of Robocop/Starship Troopers/Total Recall. I would also recommend the movie Soldier, staring Kurt Russel. It is set in the Blade Runner universe, and is a very impressive movie. Kurt Russel only has, like two or three lines of dialog through-out the entire movie, but you understand him just by his acting skill.

Your perspective on these 2 films is itself beautiful.

Thank you so much for showing such reverence and care to the 1982 masterpiece. Most people tend not to show this film more than a passing respect for the technical aspects and completely pass over the deep questions and subtext of the plot. It is understandable as the film rewards many rewatches, but the way you were moved by it warms my heart as it is the same way I felt watching this film at the cinema in 1982 when I was 15 years old. I can only ever watch it by myself and and in a darkened room. Movies are amazing and your partner is a lucky person. Keep it up luv.

You've considered quite a bit in your review/analysis of both films. Very, very thoughtful. I appreciate your comprehensive examination of so many areas of the plot, characters, re-use of music, and so on. Well done.

I LOVE Vangelis and Tears in Rain, and even though it's titled after Roy's final words, I don't see it as something exclusive to Roy or inextricably tied to his identity. Tears in rain is an idea Roy was trying to communicate through metaphor and it came to him because it was raining. What he describes is death, ALL death. Human death and Replicant death, because he is in a very unique position to contemplate life, one lived "so very brightly." The song belongs more to the concept than to Roy. Consciousness, and memory....lost in the noise of reality and time. When Joe dies, it's snowing to illustrate this concept again as an echo of Roy's scene. I'd say a Replicant carrying out one final selfless act in the name of true humanity as he contemplates his insane life and premature death....is a pretty solid connection to Roy and the song despite "having nothing to do with the character." It was a moment you had with that song and Rutger Hauer and Harrison Ford in that scene on the screen, sure.....we all had it in our own time and way....but there's more to the music and what it's trying to achieve than just Roy Baty, on the rooftops with Deckard. And there's a reason they show Dr. Ana in Joe's scene as well making her own "memory" of snow.

The candle that burns twice as bright burns, half as long. Thank you Bunny

@12:41 He's not calling K a sheep, he's the guy that did origami in the original movie! "It's too bad she won't live, but then again, who does?"

What a beautiful, thoughtful, honest response video.

You understand now, why some told you not to watch it too soon afterwards. I was not happy that it took so long for the sequel. After watching it a couple of times, I then understood the need for waiting for it.

I get it. I had to wait 30 years to see the sequel. I was mesmerized and astonished by 2049 as a worthy continuation of the story of what makes anyone or anything human. The original is still my #1 movie, as it was, and is what you said. Like it was made for me. As an aside, Blade runner is in the same universe as Alien. In the hall of replicants is an Engineer model.

Your reaction makes perfect sense. Things like the 'Tears in rain' moment are truly not to be touched. I think you're right that waiting a longer time makes the sequel a bit easier to handle. I love both movies and I thought your insights to your own original reaction were really.... well, insightful!

I found out fairly recently that Rutger Hauer came to Ridley Scott with a speech he had written himself and Ridley liked it.. so the fantastic "tears in rain" speech was written by Hauer and for me it is a defining moment for the movie. I think of Joy as a newer - digital - version of Pris and she was a "basic pleasure model". Over time she will be influenced by her interactions, but she probably comes with some basic settings and memories, so she, for example, likes the name Joe. She shows us that even a piece of software has become capable of real emotions. To me this world would disprove the existence of "souls". They are just an emergent property of the hardware - or software - as they are shown here.

I can not express enough how emotionally invested I was in the relationship between K and Joi. It was such a bittersweet love story, and I loved everything about it. You had two people who were not real, essentially pretending to be in love, but was any of it real? In the beginning, we see Joi trying to be the perfect wife to him, repairing his shirts, creating a new meal for him, eager to turn herself into anything to try to get his attention. And yet, K is so emotionless, and stoic as he seems to pretend to love her, but really doesn't know what that means. Then we have a sweet romantic moment of them on the rooftop kissing, only to be interrupted by a phone message, showing once again how artificial everything really is for them. As a hologram, she tries to simulate the environment, which is why she could show her hair getting wet and rain droplets on her hand... but it's not real. Even her name "Joi", is K's way of trying to hold on to 'joy' in his life, but it's so easily turned off and disabled. Also, in the past, "Joe" was a very generic name given to soldiers during wartime, so K's Joi used the name Joe, because it was the default setting most likely. But I'm sure he could have programmed her to call him a different name if he decided. Which is why it's even more painful when the giant hologram calls him Joe. It's his 'wife', who he knows is gone, haunting him. And yes, Wallace absolutely sees himself as a god, which is why he instantly killed the replicant that was 'born'... because he could. I enjoyed the first Blade Runner, but I think personally I liked this one just a bit more. For 1982, it was visually amazing, but I don't think I appreciated the story quite as much. And as good as Ridley Scott is as a director, I think I liked the colors in this one and the visuals a bit more in 2049. This really made me appreciate what an amazing director Denis Villeneuve is.

Fun fact: David Bowie was cast to be Wallace but unfortunately he past away before production began on the film.

Glad you gave the public this reacts. Your choices in editing after thinking and rethinking your take were thought provoking. Blade Runner 2049 is similar but it's definitely New Model Blade Runner. I like it, more than the original. There is more understanding of AI today than in the eighties. Bunny susses out the themes in a very satisfactory reacts. My favorite character was Joshi. I felt she was the source of the motivation K had that lead to him finding his family in the teeth of Wallace. Thanks bunny!

I just read an article stating that Blade Runner 2049 was one of the biggest box office bombs in history (production/distribution costs versus box office income). The original Blade Runner also faired poorly when it first played in theaters and only later on gradually built up a substantial audience.

Bunny, I loved your reaction as well as your thoughts afterward. I understand your trepidations about 2049. For ne, even though I was weary about it, I liked it. I've had nearly 40 to ruminate about the original. I was happy to be back in that universe again. How far has you deep dive gone into Bade Runner?

I love the depth and introspective you have, especially revisiting this. I’m glad you waited to come back, and wow these movies bring out the emotions. It’s wild how a movie can do that, I love it. Thanks for sharing this!

Blade Runner is a very important film to me, too. I was hesitant about the sequel but it turned out better than I could have imagined. I think you should see the 3 shorts they released just before this came out. "Blade Runner: Blackout 2022" "Blade Runner: Nexus" and "Blade Runner: Nowhere to Hide." They are all available on KZfaq. They help further expand that world. I would also like to recommend the 1997 Blade Runner game. Which, before all of this, was the closest thing to a sequel to the original, without changing Deckard's story. It was massively popular at the time, and an amazing experience that managed to capture the mood and the feel of the original. I think the remaster (with bonus content) is about 10 bucks. Well worth a playthrough.

What an excellent review you picked up so many ideas that I didn't even think of when I first watched it. It only listening to the "Shoulder of Orion" podcast I realised how much I missed. It took me a few watches but I love this as much as the original now. Great vid!

I had the soundtrack of Blade Runner in my possession since I saw it in the theater 40 years ago. Tape cassette, then CD, then MP3s. It started with the New American Orchestra's version as Vangelis's version wasn't available straight away.

Its a difficult one, In total isolation I prefer 2049 just a hair, but its not really a fair comparison because I got to Blade Runner after growing up seeing a lot of what it influenced. I mean, it did for movies what Gibson did for novels and 2000AD did for comics in defining the Cyberpunk genre; While I love Blade Runner I can only imagine how much more I would have loved it seeing it at its release when youve never seen anything like it before.

It helps having watched the original several years if not even decades before the sequel. Then the merits of the latter are more easily discerned.

Great review. I waited 38 years to see 2029.lol. It's a wonderful tribute to the original. What is it to be human? Our memories? Our actions? To live for 'something'? PKD wrote the original 'Do Android dream of Electric Sheep' which was what Blade Runner was based on. A must read btw. Thanks for giving us your insights to these 2 amazing movies. Cheers.

Both of these movies are "event" movies for me. I have to plan ahead when I'm gonna watch them so I can prepare myself, and I'm usually totally emotionally drained afterwards. I love them both, for different reasons, and I don't think I could pick a favorite.

It's always great how quickly you catch on to things. Also, suffocation is the deepest, most instinctive fear humans posses (and probably all vertebrates it's that deeply embedded in the nervous system.) It's even able to trigger a fear reaction in people who have a genetic defect that makes them immune to fear. Being starved of oxygen is a visceral, full-body, _organic_ fear that comes from much deeper than just the brain. The people with the genetic defect whom they tested it on were actually kinda thrilled to experience fear for the first time (they had them inhale carbon dioxide at levels high enough to trigger a suffocation response but still not really dangerous.)

Memories are a buffer for emotions. A four year lifespan was made to stop the emotions forming, replicants were not allowed emotions. Roy was holding a dove when he saved Decard from the first film, a sign of 'inner peace' and new beginnings. Replicants are a slave nation and must be controlled. One of my favourite pastimes is spotting the "human" females in a City of Angels... there are very few! x) K is having emotional responses! Liv is also a very emotional replicant. :)

I saw Blade Runner in the theater back in 1982. Roy Batty's death scene was amazing. I like the first movie better but there were things I liked about Blade Runner 2049. Great reaction and analysis Bunnytails!!

There are 3 'mini-movies/sequences' that fall between the original and this one that fills the time-line a little more. One deals with Bautista's character, another with Wallace and an animated one dealing with the black-out. Watch them - they're excellent.

Here is the KZfaq video of the original BLADE RUNNER extended ending. Deckard and Rachael escape north. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z52Yidt-uafRqas.html

Paradoxically, I had always thought I would love a sequel, on the other hand I dreaded the thought of seeing this sequel after having waited so very long. I thought it might be too late and, yes, I am an optimistic person by nature, however, I seem to always hold a negative pessimistic attitude toward sequels. Bunny, your adventure with the sequel nearly identically mirrors that of my own. Your expressing the experience so candidly is something I wish I could have done but am so glad you shared your feelings which gave me a feeling of belonging, that I was not alone in how I felt. Thanks so much for sharing and for giving the 'due consideration' to the sequel.

The music is from the same artist as the first. The atmosphere in the second movie is superb and in some the second movie is superior in that is delves deeper into the moral and philosophical questions of the first.

Im impressed with your reaction BunnyT. Your insights and intelligence are beyond your years. Thanks.

Not only one of the greatest sequels ever made, but also one ot the greatest films ever made. ❤

I like the original and the sequel pretty much equally, for somewhat different reasons. Both are awesome, I wish I could see them again in a movie theatre.

Your reactions are always really insightful. 👍

Thanks for giving this film the treatment that it deserves. I love Blade Runner too. 🙂

Dave Bautista is so good in this small role at the beginning! If you get to watch "2048: Nowhere to Run" here on YT, along the two other BR shorts produced for BR 2049, you will see some amazing acting by Dave.

Blade Runner director Ridley Scott and screen writer Hampton Fancher wanted to introduce Harrison Ford in Blade Runner using this scene with the farmer and the pot of soup and the fight but decided not to. Deni Villeneuve saw the old storyboards Ridley had done and asked if he could introduce "K" in this movie with the BR opening scene as was originally written. Scott said he was thrilled that Deni wanted to do this and even helped direct the opening.

I like Bunny's thoughtful discussions. I feel like they could have left out the narcissistic Wallace character ( I just read that the part was inspired by David Bowie, that would have been weird). The tears in the rain speech is a little easier to take if you believe in some kind of Heaven.

"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things," Terry Pratchett, *I* *Shall* *Wear* *Midnight*.

I'm 2 weeks late commenting so no one will probably read it, but oh well Good sequel. I really enjoyed your fantastic analysis of the movie/characters. This movie makes it clear the Unicorn was always Rachael, as she could have children. Niander Wallace was obsessed with figuring out how Tyrell made Rachael that way. I want to know more about crazy replicant Luv's motivations. At the end I wish we got to listen to Deckard and Ana's conversation finally meeting, and her learning the truth about herself. I agree her illness was probably made up to trick authorities and keep her safe from discovery. Hopefully she can now have a life and get to know her father Deckard and he can tell her about her mother. You see Ana cry when she looks over the memory K/Joe brought her to analyze. She did say the memory was real but I wonder why she didn't tell him it was her memory? K's story is tragic, but understand why you felt initially upset about the same song being used at the end. I didn't notice that the first time. I know some people want to think Deckard is a replicant but the author Philip K. Dick that wrote the book Blade Runner is based on always said Deckard was written as human. That's also what makes him and Rachael having a child even more of a miracle. It proves the replicants are essentially human.

K understands his best memories are Deckard's daughter's. In a sense Deckard is K's father too. That's why he cares. Because she cares. The advertisement for Joi doesn't know Joe's name. It calls everybody Joe. Like a hooker might say "Hey Joe, You want to party?". Since K doesn't have a name he takes the name Joi first calls him when he bought it. K lets himself die at the end because he knows the secret, and knows he was made so he would give it up. Deckard isn't like that, and has kept the secret. With Love dead all Wallace will ever find out from the other replicants he may capture is that K killed Deckard because that's all they know they sent him to do.

The Verhoeven Trilogy isn't a trilogy, they're just 3 dystopian sci-fi movies made by a single director that are chock-full of violence and existential themes. I would watch them in chronological order though, but just know that ROBOCOP, TOTAL RECALL and STARSHIP TROOPERS are not in the same universe.

Girl, I feel like you just took me to church in that final breakdown. Keep preaching. 🥰

8:00 it's perhaps more obvious in IMAX but when she's being rained on the holographic algorithm adds rain to her image to enhance the illusion that she is real.

"a soul" is a poetic reference here as it is most often used. The concept of a soul is just mythology.

I so appreciate your visceral anger at this film after seeing the first. All lovers of the original Blade Runner were more than trepidatious about a "sequel". This one is a respectful homage to its inspirational forefather. An excellent film in its own right. The fact that this film could have never existed without the first instantly puts this film second to its parent. There are many great films out there, but so precious few that impact ones life so deeply that it is carried with them in a near daily journey.

I appreciate the reaction, but also the reconsideration. Sometimes your immediate response to something is the best measure of how it really hits you, and sometimes it's the worst. It's good to take some distance sometimes and check back. And like your Trek season wrapup, it's interesting seeing (from the outside _and_ the inside, IMO; I hope doing them gives you something you can take away too) what sticks with you and what you forget; what you thought was very important right away and faded over time, what you dismissed on first watch but kept coming back to since, etc. I mean, if your opinion and understanding of something is fully formed and unchanging right away after you first finish it... how important can it really be?

I love both, but prefer this one. It fleshes out some things I wish they had done more with in the first. But, the first one does have Roy Batty, and Rutger Hauer did a great job with him, aaaaand the "tears in the rain" monologue is one of my favourite scenes of any movie. Really added emotional depth to the plight of the replicants.

Ana de Armas was incredibly charming as Joi in 2049. She is completely on K's side until her "death". However, there is the advertisement at the end that uses some of the language of K's Joi. This makes you question if K's Joi really developed a love for him or was she just following her programming that adapted to K's personality. If he got a new Joi, could he recreate her? Personally, I think not... but maybe. BTW, a common, generic name for a guy is a "Joe".

Your personal feelings for the first one are wonderful. I love how we can connect to film/art that way. I have that with _The Fountain_ (2006). A long time before that it was _Creator_ (1985). But then life imitated _Creator_ but I simply couldn't watch it again once my life similarities didn't have the happy ending that the film had.

Loved your insights!

"where's the rest of the scene?" same 😆

It actually makes sense that the born daughter of Rachel is immunocompromised. In making adults only Replicants don't develop, so they have a preset, rugged, simple immune system because theyre programmed that way from the factory, But when a child is born they DEVELOP their own immune system. And during oart if that process, normal human babies are VERY vulnerable, and part of that development involves getting their mother's antibodies from their mother's milk. They probably also get skin flora from their mother, and interact with the germs in the benign home environment... but if rachel managed to BEAR a child but couldnt naturally hand down an organically developed immune system, and then died, and the child was moved around a lot, put in aj orphanage surrounded by radiation, etc... it's possible that she developed a dysfunctional immune system, having neither a manufactured one, nor a fully inherited one, and a rough childhood. Just speculating. I think it makes sense.

Great reaction with emotion and heart.

I'd throw my vote for you reacting to Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers. While they aren't really what I'd call a "Trilogy" they are connected in that they're all directed by Paul Verhoeven and have strong satirical threads in each of them, well, at least I think so. But they also are really fun movies and I'd think you'd like them.

She's just a hologram. She was just imitating interaction with the rain

I recommend the 3 short films that fill gaps between BR and BR 2049. In chrono order: 2022 - Black Out; 2036 - Nexus Dawn; 2048 - Nowhere To Run. All here at YT, both individually and bundled together. In my view the movies improved upon Philip K. Dick's novel in that PKD's replicants were straight-up psychopathic villains, whereas the movies made them not just relatable, but ironically more human than the people who created them as slaves. Re Joi the AI girlfriend, your earlier concern about her was very apt -- we have good reason right now to be paranoid about AI as a surveillance tool -- but the movie needed her to be trustworthy. However imho the giant Joi advert made K realize she was just a well-programmed human impersonator (still, it messes with our heads, as sci-fi does).

I used to run movie Projectors at the Walk-In and the Drive-In Theaters when Blade Runner came out in '82, it had it's own flavor and style unlike any other movie of the time and was held over for several weeks (Trust me I was ready for E.T. to "Go Home...") after the month I had to show them over and over. I thought the sequel was pretty good all things considered.

Dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do...I think Joy did exactly that. Was her "love" part of a program? The same was asked of Deckard. His response? "I know what's real".

I agree, a few months is not enough to digest the first movie and watch its sequel. As someone who watched them years apart I like 2049 better and I think it's because it's not a direct sequel to Blade Runner, but rather a sequel to all the years I have experienced in the cyberpunk genre since watching the first movie. An indirect sequel to Blade Runner, but a direct sequel to the topic of AI and how we interact with it and think of it as humans.

Haven’t seen your review yet but Blade Runner original will always be my all time favorite a lot of us here waited 35 years for a sequel and for me its def a worthy sequel they did a great job! Made us nervous as hell waiting but 2049 is a great film love it too but nothing can out do the original can’t wait to see your review

I really need to watch this movie sometime soon. Blade Runner is one of my absolute favorite movies, it is so deep, and intelligent and it almost fools you with the way it starts. I have avoided the movie for a long time because I worried it wouldn't live up to the original and I appreciate your thoughts that I need to give it space and time to be its own thing but also link to the original, and I look forward to seeing it finally.

I rewatched your original blade runner review, you are the first reviewer to feel, like I felt how disturbing Zhora's death is falling through the glass plates fighting the still alive. thankyou

18:12 Very good question!

thats understandable, but as a chronically depressed person i love this movies atmosphere bc it mirrors how i feel most of the time❤

Holly crap. Interesting war paint.

Glad that you could put an exclamation mark to it! Both movies are quite good in putting us through the emotional wringer, aren't they?! 🙂

I respect the hell out of you for postponing your review. Talk about integrity! I felt exactly the same way after watching BR2049 for the first time, and I do mean exactly. And deep down in my gut I knew I wasn't being fair, so I abstained from shitting on the sequel in online forums. ^^ I took my time, watched it again and learned to appreciate what a one-in-a-million film this actually is: a worthy sequel to a timeless masterpiece that created a film genre. Especially in this day and age where everything gets remade, rebooted, reimagined or gets a shitty sequel by talentless hacks who aren't fit to shine the shoes of those greater creators whose coattails they're riding because they can't create anything of value. In this day and age, BR2049 stops being merely outstanding and actually becomes what Sapper talked about: a miracle.

Good review and summation of how some people felt about the sequel and how it exists in relation to the first. I personally liked 2049 more, but I didn't feel the same way as you did about the original. At least you recognized that it's also a good movie thats earnestly made. I listened to a scifi author's take on JOI and it made the movie so much better, for me. He said that JOI is nothing more than just a product. She's not a true A.I. in the sense of how we think of the idea because her every action is an extension of K's wishes. He was arguing that she has no autonomy. She says exactly what he wants, what's best for him, making her nothing more than an external representation of his will. She's basically no better than an iPhone. Rewatching the movie with that in mind made me see her in a different light.

I absolutely love this movie. It has proudly taken my all-time favorite movie spot, with the original following in second. I love every aspect about it. While this movie definitely feels more sterile and dead compared to the original, it works. It feels more lonely and shows that this movie is kind of like a dystopian future of a dystopian future. If you remember in the opening sequence where they mention complete environmental collapse as well as look at some of the behind-the-scenes, the planet is dying, and many of their means of energy production have ceased causing the world to look even more dead and dark. The sea wall and the snow represent climate change as the planet continues to destabilize. I can talk about this movie for hours. If you're curious, there are actually three official short films on KZfaq called "2036: Nexus Dawn" "2048: Nowhere to Run" and my personal favorite, "Black Out 2022"

40:28 - Now this might be a much better movie

Roy Batty expired in 2019. Rutger Hauer passed in 2019.

Its an excellent sequel, much better than I was expecting, due to the fact the old one was a Noir with with a kind of Gilliam vibe which I guessed would not be followed in a more technical modern film, I am looking forward to "Blade Runner 2099" TV series, its got a high budget so hoping it will be good.