Which do you prefer, this one or the original? Ryan or Harrison?

It won Best Visual Effects and Best Cinematography, making it the first Blade Runner movie to win in any category.

Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 are perfect companion pieces, I don't see 2049 as a sequel but a second part of a whole film. True sci-fi masterpieces.

This movie is so beautiful I burst into tears watching it.

So I thought that in the original Blade Runner, the implication with the unicorn was that Rachel was a special version of a replicant and that she wouldn't die in four years like the others, but I could be wrong. I think Deckard was always meant to be human.

The ending of this movie is beautiful and sad at the same time.

My point of view is that what it means to be human isn't as important as what it means to be a person. We see aliens and artificial intelligence often treated as "people" in Sci-Fi. The lesson from Blade Runner is if we someday learn to make artificial people, will we recognize them as such or will we subjugate and exploit them because they're "inferior" to humans.

it was frustrating seeing you guys talk about the nature of replicants: 1. THEY'RE BIOLOGICAL. they're not metal robots. they're biological constructs. a flesh robot if you need that image. but they're NOT BORN. they're essentially manufactured like potatoes. they eat sleep shit piss fuck etc.... they don't plug in. they don't have batteries. 2. the entire schtick of PKD is how do you know what "real" is. replicants seems real and seem sentient. are they? but humans seem real and sentient too... are THEY? and here, they're posing the question of whether joy is real... or not. it's turtles all the way down and that's the schtick. 3. people will harbor prejudices over any little difference. especially when it pertains to class.

One of, if not, the best sequel ever in my opinion

One of the greatest films and sequels ever made. I saw it 7 times in theatre! Had to keep going back for more, there's so many layers. Great reaction guys!

The way this movie not only effortlessly captures both the feel of the original film and a pure sci-fi feel alone is laudable. This is how modern sci-fi movies should be made. Dennis Villeneuve can direct any sci-fi he wants in my book!

Glad you're watching this, IMO one of the greatest films ever made, without a doubt the greatest sequel ever made and one of the most beautifully acted, scored, shot and directed films ever made. Love it*

Her last words before her chip was crushed says it all. She didn't have to say that.

21:05 Japan theme is a big thing in cyberpunk, because in the 80s Japan seemed to be an economical miracle, hi-tech heaven. Citizens of USA heard about greatnesses of Japan and felt like USA is loosing a competition. So in original Blade Runner there is an image of future where Japanese goods and technology became even greater deal even inside LA

Happy "STAR TREK"- Day! 🖖😊

I feel that the first one is confusing but amazing.. but this one is just jawbreaking and amazing in a suddle way. It's a visual treat and I feel that it doesn't try to overtake the first one but to just build up the world. It's a slow burn and I love every minute of this movie.

Denis Villeneuve...That guy is chasing crazier and more difficult projects all the time ! In sci-fi movies, there is a before and after Blade runner...it's that influencial ! To not only make a sequel of a cult transformative classic like that movie, but also make it good, deep, with the same style, atmosphere and respectful of both potential ending of the original is pure insanity ! The fact he did it is incredible...You think he would take a break but no, next movie he does is Dune aka the movie that many consider impossible to direct and make it equal to the original source material...We know the results !! Apparently he will do a Cleopatra movie after that ! He has no bad movie yet and is getting better and better...THE most underrated director in all of Hollywood right now !!

Blade Runner 2049 is one of the best sequel of the last 20 years for many reasons...It adds to the original, pay respect to the style of it and is not taking anything away from it ! The best sequel do that, it doesn't break, but add and let you go in different directions and make you analyze the original in other directions ! Deckard is the best exemple in that movie...was he a replicant or not in the original ? 2049 doesn't answer it and the way it is built, it can still be both way ! It's kinda amazing !!

Replicants aren't AI. They're just humans grown in labs with some genetic engineering for specific purposes. I don't think replicants have chips and metal in them, just similar to humans. That's why the replicant girl said you don't like real girls. Because even replicants consider AI to be different and lower.

I have been looking forward to this reaction all week (no lie) and it did not disappoint. This movie is one of my favorite sci-fi films ever made. As I mentioned last week, even though some might call this blasphemy, I prefer this film to the original. I loved your analysis at the end of the film and think it really hit some interesting points. For me one of the most beautiful (and at the same time very sad) things about this film, was the relationship between JOI and K. Was it a relationship though? Is it even real? What does it need to be considered real? It’s done so well though, and for K it felt real I would say, right up until the point where he saw the advertisement. That’s when he realised the thing that kept him feeling human in a way, might just be fake after all, just like his fabricated memories. That said, JOI did go beyond her programming I think, when she intervened when LUV was beating the crap out of K. She did save him in a way by making an appearance and yelling stop! Either way this movie is one to watch many times and come up with new theories after each watch. I also highly recommend watching the three small films by the same director that were made prior to the release of the film. One is a short anime that shows how the Blackout came into existence, and is definitely my favorite of the three. Anyways, I just wanted to thank you guys for having such a wonderful channel, and I really hope you reach the 100K sub (and beyond soon). Keep having fun! 😊

You guys need to watch more movies with Ryan Gosling he has so many great movies

No one notices how tiny Tyrell HQ looks with Wallace HQ towering over it in the background. And I remember Tyrell HQ being one Massive Unit. No windows anymore too because Wallace Jr. is blind. I remember seeing them unfinished in BR Black Lotus when Jr. was still young. They had windows back then. What poor replicant souls got the contract for that. Edit: Also remember how expensive wood is in the BR universe. The tiny wooden horse could have gotten K a full sized horse. Jr's entire "Kingdom of Heaven" is covered with wood and from what I can see, the rest of of the interior is also wood. Crazy.

Has the pleasure of viewing this in imax before a few weeks ir was taken off of theaters. The sound design is amazing for this film.

the place he found harrison ford was las vegas btw. Blade Runner Black Out is a 30 min anime film that shows you what happened between both movies.

Nice. Blade Runner has been my alltime favourite movie for over 35 years now so, when I heard they were making a sequel I was devastated, as sequels typically ruin a movie. Then I heard the brilliant Canadian Denis Villeneuve was in control, and even had Ridley Scott's blessing. And damn, this is an amazing movie.

that origami guy, is the same actor in both Blade runner and Blade Runner 2049

This movie is an actual masterpiece

Officer K wasn’t only able to withstand tons of damage because he was a newer model, but because he was made to beat the best.

The subtitles are wrong. The machine wasn’t speaking Japanese. Sounded like the Engineers’ language in Prometheus. Apparently, Blade Runner & Alien are in the same universe.

Watch "Drive" with Ryan Gosling

Decker daughter sounds like Rachel w/green eyes- he found love again. Joe was the angel.

Replicants aren’t AI. they are for a better term designed, genetically engineered and grown people.

Watching you guys think your way through this movie, trying to dissect the twists and philosophies, was delightful. This movie is absolute art. Can't wait to see what Denis Villeneuve puts his hand to next. Blade Runner, Sicario, Dune, Arrival. The man knows his craft. Part of what makes Jared Leto so effective as the villain in this movie is that he's basically just playing himself: a pseudo-philosophical sociopath given far more influence than he should've been.

what i like about this movie is that Joe died in the same way Roy had died in Blade Runner 1982 movie, peacefully and just setting there but this time he was under the snowflakes not like the rains with Roy. the resemblance between Roy and Joe were perfect as a the point of view to the replecant, and it reminds me of Jurassic Park movie and how they were dealing with the Dinosaurs they produced with genetics technologies and how much the world see those dinosaurs as animals or just an objects from the labs.

Another really good sci-fi movie that kind of asks the question is this a real relationship is “Her”. It’s a drama that’s so amazing and heartbreaking about a human and an AI’s relationship. I think you guys would love the movie and I’d love to see a reaction from you guys.

I do love this film. Plus it's visually stunning. If you want more confusion, try Ghost in the Shell, Dark City, and maybe Donnie Darko ;)

Great reaction. You nailed it. To be human is live for a purpose. To be fully human is to love someone/something worth dying for.

Here's a great bit of trivial. If David Bowie didn't die he would have gotten the character of Wallace. I would have LOVED to have seen that.

"You know, I'm something of an A.I. myself"

This film lampshades the idea of conditional humanity. The condition the film offers is that you have to have been born, not created. The film at first instills us with the idea that "Joe is Rachel's son, so now he is discovering his humanity, his earnest, independent side". And then the films pulls the rug from under our feet and forces the question upon us: If Joe is just a replicant, like all others, does it make his path up till this point meaningless? Do the changes that happened in Joe's mind only "count" if he was born, not made? And the answer the film offers us with Joe's decision - no, its not. Think what does that mean for all of Replicant-kind: you don't have to be born to go down that path of self-discovery. You simply have to stop thinking about yourself as unworthy of it.

A lot of these questions people ask, I don't think are answerable if you are human. I don't think we could understand how an AI would feel unless we were AI. But it is sort of fun to listen to people ponder it.

Vangelis is still the master of the score for Bladerunner.

A MASTERPIECE.. I was so nervous when I found out they were making a sequel.. then I heard it was DV doing it.. I knew then it would be OK. Better than OK.. truly one of the best sci fi movies ever made.

NONE of the replicants are A.I.! There is absolutely nothing robotic about them. They have human brains, human thought processes (perhaps faster than humans, since they ARE genetically engineered to be better)... they just have artificial memories, but even those memories are designed by real people, not an artificial intelligence. Replicants are organic beings, but are grown/created artificially. The whole reason they have artificial memories is because they think and feel like humans and... humans don't function especially well without memories to reference and show them how to respond to others, so they have some implanted in them. It also makes society move more smoothly when, as long as you're not paying attention, you can assume the person beside you is human; memories help with this by allowing the replicants to seem more normal. Otherwise you have 24/7 situations like that cop calling K a skinjob. "Joe" is so human because all replicants have human brains and emotions. They think like humans. Actually, Joe acted more robotic than most of the other replicants in the movie. Luv was angry and jealous, Sapper Morton and the other 'rebel' replicants wanted freedom and believed the birth of Rick and Rachel's daughter was a miracle... Joe's line delivery is very flat compared to them. He doesn't even really act angry when Morton stabs him. It's when he allows himself to believe he may be a normal human and gets his hopes up that he ends up on an emotional roller coaster that makes him act more human. Joi, the hologram, IS an A.I.. Very convincing at times, especially to a lonely man yearning for closeness, but still just a simulation. She's the only A.I. in the movie (she and her billboard doppelganger).

Glad to see more people appreciate a truly great movie. Been one of my favorites since I saw it opening night in the theater.

13:35 there is a anime short that goes into this. It should be viewable here on KZfaq for free. It’s called blade runner: blackout 2022. Ironic with the year placement now.

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe. Also RIP, Queen Elizabeth.

I really like how complex and open to interpretation and discussion these movies are. You may have already seen it, but I HIGHLY recommend an anime film from 2001 called Metropolis. It's not as complex a story, but it's beautifully animated and the ending gets me every time. 😢💔

What i love about Blade Runner 2049 is that this movie gives me something calm and heavenly peace the way it sounds and i felt the sorrow too. First time, we got to see Ryan vs Batista here haha.

Thanks guys. This was very enjoyable.

14:14 Some say this replicant looked like the alien being in Alien Covenant, which was a 2017 film produced by Ridley Scott as well. Perhaps Tyrell's wish came true and eventually spawned across the universe to trillions.

Excuse me if this has already been mentioned below, but the giveaway that the "one" is a girl and not K is that his memory shows all boys having shaved heads except himself, but then when he visits the orphanage it shows that all boys have shaved heads - but girls do not. He has her memory.

Anna De Armas is playing the role of Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming biopic BLONDE on Netflix. It will be rated NC 17, the first time Netflix has given one of their films that rating.

right when I finished watching this movie, you uploaded this! remember, denis also made Arrival, which you guys enjoyed too

For a long time, I really didn't want there to be a sequel to Blade Runner, because it seemed as though any sequel would ultimately have to answer the question of whether Deckard is a replicant, and I never wanted that question answered, because it's the question rather than the answer that's interesting. I was therefore really happy when the sequel broached the subject but still left it unanswered. This is hands-down the best way to do a sequel, by expanding on the world that was there, but honoring the original without overturning anything it did.

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe is so good and funny in the movie The Nice Guys definitely recommend it

Ah, the age-old dilemma - to cut out or pause the reaction to collect your thoughts and cry, or to fight through the emotions and force the reaction forward. It's a false choice. We all crave connection through emotions. We cried on our first viewing. You missed the opportunity to let us connect. Share emotions first, and then opinions. Don't be afraid of what makes us human. Or maybe YOU guys are the "A.I."...

Something that interests me in this movie is how female characters are presented and how women in general are utilised in the cinematography and world building. JOI (first appearing as a 1950s housewife) is the ai literally owned by everyone, Luv is the ‘best angel of all’ and is obsessed with maintaining that position in an awful system. Female bodies are plastered everywhere, and while it can feel male-gazey at first, it gets to a point where there’s so much of it (huge JOI projections and massive statues of naked women) that you realise it’s not really there for a male audience to ‘enjoy’ at all, rather it sort of becomes grotesque and makes you want to turn away. It’s just interesting to see this theme of replicants and ownership branch into different paths in this highly developed (yet under-developed) world.

the prostitute "pleasure model" replicant who Joi uses as a surrogate, is played by Mackenzie Davis, who also played an enhanced human in Terminator: Dark Fate, and the character Yorkie in the Black Mirror episode "San Junipero" so this isn't her first time doing a science fiction story.

Reaction request; Place Beyond the Pine (Ryan Gosling)

I saw this opening night on a dark rainy night in Shinjuku, Tokyo on an iMax screen at the TOHO cinema in Kabuki-cho, one of the major location influences for the look of the original movie. The entire experience blew my mind. I absolutely love this movie (along with the original) and have seen it a dozen times. Really enjoyed seeing you guys react with the film.

Joe was the hero in this story but was just a side character in that world.

Stoked to watch this when it premiers. Amazing movie by one of the greatest living directors today (with a LONG runway ahead of him)

If you liked Ryan Gosling, one if his (several great) movies is Drive. Recently watched it, reeeeally good.

You guys have completely misconstrued the Blade Runner fiction by confusing Replicants with "AI"

Love both the og and this

The interesting thing about Wallace is he`s a cyborg, speaks in artistic and poetic language like Tyrell and compares the Replicants to 'children' and 'angels' like Tyrell did but is almost more robotic and businesslike than either Tyrell,the Replicants or Deckard combined beneath the pseudo-philosophical prose he spews.

There is a good movie "Queen" about recently departed monarch. Consider reacting!

Deckard is a replicant. Deckard had a dream/implant memory about a unicorn. Gaff made unicorn origami. Ryan(K) could never have been human. He broke through concrete brick walls which HUMANS CANT BREAK THROUGH BRICK/CONCRETE WALLS. They are AI. Thats why VK machines can spot them out.

Deckard is a human. He ages. They didn't make Replicants a Blade Runner back when the first movie was based. There is no debate. There is nothing mysterious about the first movie that should make people unsure about it. 100% Deckard is a human.

They aren't AI, just genetically engineered humans

I need an Ana de Armas AI ever since.

'Abstract Inversion' moment: Compare Leto killing a newborn replicant to his own fate vs Bale in 'American Psycho'. A.I. 😎

so excited for you guys!

Super cool reaction!

If you guys liked this, you should watch the ff: Dark City The 13th Floor Equilibrium Minority Report The Fly eXistenZ Freejack

I'm pretty sure the ending had most Cowboy Bebop fans screaming.

they're both brilliant. i forget who in this movie said it but dying for a cause, like k did, is the most human thing you can do…

Wait, so I just realized that the first fight we see starts with him fighting against someone with old medical equipment and the last fight is against new medical equipment with Luv

This really does make me think of how the Death Note world had sort of an offspring into an anime that wasn't a sequel but behaved like one Psycho Pass. Everything was essential and a sort of domino effect of this is because of that. It was great

I love both versions of the first Bladerunner: The happy ending cinema release where Deckard is human, and the darker but pushing-the-philosophy even more Director's Final Cut, where Deckard is a replicant set to catch replicants. I recommend seeing both movies every ten years or so. As I grew and changed, the original Bladerunner meant more and different things over time to me. Truly a classic movie that never dates. One of my takeaways from 2049 is that every one of us yearns to be special: or at least have our true specialness and uniqueness as a human being seen and acknowledged. Joe is just as important and special as the first replicant-human hybrid that he thought he was, and was devastated to learn that he wasn't. I'm not sure that Joe died knowing that he was just as special. Just as loveable. But at least I think he died happy he reunited Deckard with his daughter. And he has a sense that the daughter's existence will eventually lead to the emancipation of replicants, sooner or later. When you said that the duplicated Rachel was not the same, because she didn't have original Rachel's experiences, I think the same could be said for Joe's Joy. I think it's very in doubt whether Joy was conscious or not. But if she has even a glimmer of consciousness, she has her own uniqueness because her experiences were different than all the other Joys.

Really enjoyed re-living these films through your eyes guys. Wonderfully mysterious, thought provoking films by Ridley and Dennis. Striking visuals, stories with patience and openness to interpretation, and amazing sound design. True works of art.

oh my God, Dennis is fr my favorite director. he's a contemporary master. I think you guys would love Prisoners if you haven't seen it already.

One of the few sequels that exceeds the original, which is also tremendous. Certainly more coherent. A brilliant film.

did no one on patreon tell the guys that they’re replicants, not ai? this reaction is enough to drive you up the wall when you notice it. 🙄 edit: still a great reaction and discussion guys

Its crazy how good both film is visually but i still prefer the visuals of the first one which was made in the 80s. Fantastic movies. My favorite is easily the sequel, story wise it connected and ended perfectly. The twist and turn was on point and the protaganist is a badass. 10/10 sci-fi storytelling

Vanilla Sky (2001) Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell . Watch this movie guys ;)

You two needs to read Phillip K Dick's Does Androids Dreams of Electric Sheep. I think you are ready for it. That is the author and novel for Blade Runner. You might like his books at the origin of AI, Total Recall and Minority Report. Strangely enough, if hi novels are hard to adapt into movies, those who can practice their teeth at them (Riddley Scott, Paul Verhoven, Denis Villeneuve, Stanley Kubrik...) does wonders at it because they kinda pick the right doses of the right layers to synthesize it as the right movie (if you can format them in less than 3 hours). A new young director gets to a producer with a Phillip K Dick book in his/her hands, if the producer is bright, they'll get on don't call us; we'll call you list.

Love the Blade Runner movies some of my favourites, also if you need a suggestion for another Ryan Gosling movies, Drive is a great one and for something a little different The nice guys also with Russell Crowe is also really great, Love your reactions and insights guys, looking forward to what's next.

The thing with questioning the reality (or more properly the self-awareness, sentience, life) of artificial beings is that we don‘t know. Looking from the outside we don‘t know if it‘s real or just clever make-believe. We can never be sure. And Sci-Fi can make us consider how we might possibly be able to tell the difference. And it also points out that we don’t really know with real people either: Does this person saying something nice really mean it or is he just socially conditioned/programmed to (a. k. a. being polite.) And with regards to being special, K is doing what every human being is doing: Find some kind of meaning in this random and intrinsically meaningless series of events that is life. We put together the story of our lives by putting events in an order and meaningful context. Everybody needs that (the whole Lovecraftian horror genre feeds off wiping away any semblance of meaning of human existence). So, what’s especially cruel her is how K starts out without a notion of meaning to his own life, then find the promise of meaning. Though he’s scared of the repercussions, he is drawn like a man dying of thirst to water. And then it turns out it was all just an illusion. At the end (though maybe he dies) we’re back to the question of how a replicant would give his own life meaning, if nobody bestows it from the outside. And then again, whatever answer one comes up with, is it really so different for humans?

Joe is like Rachel and that's the whole point. He has real memories that came from Deckard's daughter, which makes him so human.

OOT: I recommend a book called "Opening the doors to perception" It points to the theory that our brain show us a defined version of reality. Not realality.

I love the soundtrack in this movie

Love your guys reaction to this if you enjoyied this one i would strongly suggest Altered Carbon S1 ^^

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I'm beginning to understand that the young generation wants "everything" explained and nailed down. Y'all seem to prize information over the experience, the ride. For Gen Z, more data = richer experience--but it becomes kind of a quantity over quality conundrum.

You should react to Her. It's so beautiful movie

It is about racism, slavery, the human condition, and what it means to be human. History is full of examples of one group of humans treating other humans as less than, and doing so for completely arbitrary reasons. Genocide after genocide carried out because “I’m better than you and you’re in my way.” And all the slaves that ever existed for similar reasons. The movies are about one group of people thinking they are superior while the downtrodden want to be able to live in peace as the equals that they are. Replicants are not robots. They are organic beings just as you are organic beings. They just happen to have had their DNA designed by Tyrell. They had the characteristics Tyrell wanted them to have. He and the genetic designers in his employ gave all the various parts the characteristics he desired for them to have. All tweaked to meet ever changing goal posts at each iteration. The four-year lifespan was something baked in when they decided they didn’t want them to live beyond that because beyond that was when they started having their own emotional responses. And they wanted slaves they could always control. Experiments to change this lifespan after the fact failed, which he discussed with Roy. Presumably this was something he tried extending first, as perhaps it was a shorter path than changing the limit in the genetic code. Since that failed he ended up changing or removing the limitation in later versions. Deckard was a replicant. All kinds of evidence for this. The eye shine. The unicorn dream/memory. Gaff knowing about the memory. Gaff telling him he knows about the memory. Bryant showing disgust of Deckard while he was going over the case details and replicant files with him in the room with the screen that showed those files. Bryant shows very clearly in that scene that he does not like or trust Deckard, because he is a replicant. Bryant does not want to be there with him. He does not want to be near him at all. But he needs him to carry out this job for him, so he puts up with him for the time being. Watch the scene again. His despising of Deckard is all too plain. He was a replicant without a set lifespan, just as Rachel was. And this sequel only further confirms it despite Villeneuve’s public statements about the movie. What he actually put in the movie says very directly that Tyrell managed to get the replicants to procreate. Deckard and Rachel had a baby together. And the whole reason for Wallace wanting to find the child was to see if he could figure out what Tyrell did differently that enabled procreation while he had not yet been able to crack that nut with his own replicants. Tyrell’s data on that matter was lost, presumably in the blackout. He states very clearly that making the replicants the way he currently did was too expensive and time-intensive. He could not economically make them fast enough to meet demand. If he could figure out the procreation puzzle then he would be able to meet demand without issue. Wallace literally says this out loud in the movie. So he wants the kid and/or Deckard so he can figure out what he’s doing wrong that is preventing procreation. I really don’t understand why there is so much debate on the Deckard issue. It is like religious people continually bending things to fit whatever they want the answer to be rather than just actually going by the actual available information. The actual information in both movies show he is a replicant. I see no reason to debate something that is so clear. Nor do I see how it can possibly be seen any other way, unless you bend and ignore inconvenient things to meet your own desired answer.

Honestly I went to see this in the cinema and had low expectations on how they could follow Blade Runner but this blew my low expectations out the water. Manages to capture a lot of the feel of the old one but does something new. Also like you said it just looks amazing!

Okay in relation to your coversation you are having after finishing the movie, I just wanted to share my thoughts. The replicants are essentially human biology wise, but are stronger in both body and mind (capabilities wise) because they were engineered. Because they were made for a purpose, had a clean slate mind wise when created, and were given expiry dates (until the more recent-made models), humans believed they were property and tools only and treated them as such. Replicants weren't born and can't reproduce (until proven otherwise during this movie), so therefore the humans in this storyline believed replicants have rights and are disposable. This is why the replicants are fighting back. They are capable of more than just following orders. Like humans they can experience all emotions including love, and they believe that a replicant having the capability to get pregnant and give birth proves to humans that they should be afforded the same rights as them. They believe that this knowledge will bolster their revolution and also afford them more rights in the future. Replicants, like Joe, being treated like they have no rights or even a soul is what lead to the very sadness and loneliness that Joe felt throughout his entire life and what he seeked to experience during his interactions with his AI Joi. Knowing that his first memories weren't his own makes him question if he really is his own person at all or just a tool like humans view him as. What he experienced during this movie showed him that a replicant could give birth, that they could conceive with a human (so therefore EQUAL to them), and that their offspring could experience a connection and love like the one that Deckard shared for his daughter. Replicants could be more than just a disposable tool. He craved human interaction and a purpose and found it though these discoveries. I found it heartbreakingly sad and beautiful. He gave Deckard and his daughter what he wished he could have experienced himself. In regards to Joi, you both talked about how she didn't really break out of her programing to be considered as having a "soul", which you believed Joe did show on his part. Well I do believe she did show a few things that could represent her growth in terms of being more than just her programing. The main one would be that she wanted him to take her with him on his journey, but she also didn't want her back up drives or connection to the main network to potentially get him into trouble and be used to capture Joe so she asked him to erase her backups and disconnect her from the main network, KNOWING the risks to her AI identity if he did so. She also tried to wake him up when he was in danger (the car crash scene) and also when she as an AI realised she had seconds to exist before the stick containing her was crushed, she rushed to tell him she loved him first. That was her last thought. So I would like to think her AI mind did develop past her programing. It certainly is an interesting debate!