Blade Runner 4K UHD (1982)

[KevinStriker]

Aw, I want validation too. No fair.

[Cremildo]

A cookie for whoever elaborates on why 2049 is "better"...

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by KevinStriker

Aw, I want validation too. No fair.

You'll never be part of the Holy Trinity!

[BluProofie]

Originally Posted by KevinStriker

Aw, I want validation too. No fair.

Sorry. I see you

[notops]

Originally Posted by motorheadache95

I loved 2049. I think it might be the only belated sequel to a popular film or series that wasn't disappointing in any way. I happily watch it after the original now every time.

I agree. But I also think Doctor Sleep deserves to be in that category.

[bootsy]

I've heard plenty of people that like 2049 better. I've heard some people find Blade Runner boring or not much to it. People have their opinions. Not everyone is going to think Blade Runner is superior. I think it is but others don't. That's why we all have opinions.

[NotASpeckOfCereal]

I've got this little theory: the people that hated 2049 do so because it wasn't another BR. They expected the same thing, continued after the end of the first film, nothing in the world changed.

But it's a new film, which is based of a distant past, where many things had changed in that world since the first film.

And our real world has changed a lot (including the time-frame of the original film being already upon us and things not looking as they were predicted in the first film).

Did you really expect DV to just say "Well, I have my own visions, but I have to make this AS IF it were Ridley Scott just taking over from where he left off"?

You went into the theater with the wrong frame of mind -- of course you weren't going to like it. You probably hated it when all the folk singers went electric too.

Chris

[Lt_Cobretti]

Both films reflect the concerns of when they were made. It's a perfect continuation aesthetically if not as a whole.

[BluProofie]

Originally Posted by notops

I agree. But I also think Doctor Sleep deserves to be in that category.

And Twin Peaks: The Return.

[Geoff D]

Well, this game of Brade Runnah Bingo™ is hotting up nicely. We've had the old stalwart of Deck-a-rep and now we're onto 2019 vs 2049, all we need is dvdmike saying that the Workprint is the best version and I'm ready to yell 'HOUSE!'.

[Nitroboy]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Well, this game of Brade Runnah Bingo™ is hotting up nicely. We've had the old stalwart of Deck-a-rep and now we're onto 2019 vs 2049, all we need is dvdmike saying that the Workprint is the best version and I'm ready to yell 'HOUSE!'.

You forgot someone bringing up the LaserDisc being their favourite release

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by Nitroboy

You forgot someone bringing up the LaserDisc being their favourite release

SelectaVision all the way!

[JimDiGriz]

There's only one bad thing about 2049 from what I recall - that awful pop song over the credits. Its on the soundtrack CD set too. So out of place that its incredible to me that it got included!

[BluProofie]

Originally Posted by JimDiGriz

There's only one bad thing about 2049 from what I recall - that awful pop song over the credits. Its on the soundtrack CD set too. So out of place that its incredible to me that it got included!

It’s not in the credits. Only on the soundtrack.

[KevinStriker]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

SelectaVision all the way!

I have always liked that white-to-black gradient cover used for the absolutely earliest home video releases. Not the best picture quality though.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by notops

I agree. But I also think Doctor Sleep deserves to be in that category.

I thought Doctor Sleep was a good, solid sequel to an all-time classic film, but not a great movie in its own right.

...BR2049 was special all by itself imo.

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by motorheadache95

I loved 2049. I think it might be the only belated sequel to a popular film or series that wasn't disappointing in any way. I happily watch it after the original now every time.

Mad Max: Fury Road would count, I imagine. It surpasses The Road Warrior IMO, which is my second favorite of the series.

[bubbafett73]

I think the soundtrack sounded best on 8-Track.

[notops]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

I thought Doctor Sleep was a good, solid sequel to an all-time classic film, but not a great movie in its own right.

...BR2049 was special all by itself imo.

Agree to disagree.

What impressed me the most about Doctor Sleep was that the first two-thirds of the movie pretty much was it's own thing with it's world building, then in the third act managed to move back around to Kubrick territory and pay respectful homage to his version of the story as well as King's.

[WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW]

Originally Posted by Bn43

Well, I've seen Blade Runner about fifteen times but will likely never watch the overrated sequel a third time. Goes for almost any Denis Villeneuve movies.

are you sure you're (and some others) not just letting some sort of blind Villeneuve hate not let you see the actual film? (which, BTW, was basically largely planned by Ridley Scott anyway, I think I even read him saying somewhere that it he was responsible for the bulk core of 2049 and it was sort of his thing).

Originally Posted by nissling

IMHO the two films cannot be compared. While I wouldn't say that 2049 is terrible in any way, it's an amateurish sequel lacking all of the harmonic and senseful tone of the original film. Not to mention how Blade Runner is a magnificent portrait of lacking humanity - whereas 2049 by comparison almost becomes self spoof.

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

It looks like Denis V. and the screenwriters of 2049 (one helped write the first film) went with the original notion that Deckard was a human. That's how I choose to see him too. It makes the story more powerful that way.

I didn't get that feeling at all.
Not to mention since Ridley Scott was majorly involved in the basic story and concept for 2049 it seems nearly impossible to believe.