Seriously. Her and K are both programmed killers. K (tragically) swallows his emotions and believes that he must not have any if he "isn't" human, and he transforms them into a cerebral, spiritual purpose he gives up his life for. Luv, on the other hand, is ruled by her emotions, but has no idea how to (or is unable to) process them and goes on with her programmed purpose anyways. She takes her anger out on Joshi as a Wallace analogue, she feels a sort of righteous indignation towards what's happening to her kind, but above all she still wants to make Wallace happy. It all comes crashing together in her inability to distinguish between being attracted to K and hating him. She beats him half to death but doesn't want him dead. She's jealous. The actress has mentioned that Luv is 12 years old, and that checks out (particularly since she probably doesn't have any implanted memories) I wonder how old K is meant to be.
Villeneuve did the impossible with this movie and made a sequel to Blade Runner... what I like are the subtle nuances, especially the piano tone... if you notice, the key he presses in Vegas, is the same key he found the sock at Sapper's house. Villeneuve's movie Prisoners is a also fantastic look into the psyche of humanity and what it means to be right or wrong. I think the only thing Villeneuve needs help with is the marketing team. They revealed Harrison Ford in the trailers and posters, but they weren't meant to. It was meant to be a secret reveal... they did the same with his movie Dune and marketed Zendaya heavily as a main role, and she was only in the movie for about 45 seconds.
One of my early memories is watching blade runner with my dad in the 80s. I rewatched it with my dad before taking him to see this in theaters. Such a great memory and time with dad.
I actually love this movie more than the original Blade Runner. I didn't check this out until after I'd seen Arrival, and realized that Villeneuve was someone working on a level that we haven't seen much of in Hollywood for decades. But once I did, I adored every second of it. The ending with K drifting off to sleep in the snow as he dies is absolutely perfect, as is the pregnant silence of Deckard and his daughter seeing one another for the first time. I love that you mentioned theme, because this is such a deeply, carefully thematic movie. It's very much a meditation on childhood and parenthood and dependence and upbringing and abandonment... Those are kind of soft spots for me as a topic, and I always love to see them done well. It's easy for them to hurt me in the wrong way, but when Villeneuve hurts me, he leaves me feeling like I've healed a little bit in the process. Regarding the original Blade Runner itself, there is some real magic in that last third, and Rutger Hauer deserved an Oscar for that monologue performance, but I kind of despise the pacing of film noir thanks to all the faster-paced derivatives I grew up on. Same as for Westerns, actually. I mean, why would I watch A Fistful of Dollars when I have Back to the Future 3 and one-off Western episodes in my 20 minute episode daily cartoons like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? I mean, I love Blade Runner, but when younger generations look back at the movies of my era and say they're "slow", it both makes me wince that something like Predator or Aliens now falls into that category, but it also makes me nod my head in recognition at that feeling of boredom and impatience. To quote 2013 Tumblr: "mood".
I love this movie. One of the best sequels ever made, despite that there is so much time between it and the original. It stands alone at the same time as it's continuing the story and themes of the original, both delving deeper and presenting new questions. Denis Villeneuve is a true master of his craft. He always brings great visuals, great score/atmosphere, great acting performances, and stories worth thinking about long afterwards. I highly recommend reacting to more of his films.
This was one of the best theatrical experiences I’ve had. The Thursday sneak in IMAX was incredible, and it was better than it had any right to be. It hit just as hard as the original for me. “More human than human” kept coming up in my mind, and it’s interesting to see how relevant that is through the film when you see the humans vs replicants in this world. The score is incredible as well. It was a must own and one I go back to often. Naturally Hans Zimmer had to do it.
@@EdninetyApparently my theater had a double bill with the original, which I never knew until a year or so ago. Had I known, I’d have gone. The original is on my grail list of library titles to experience in a theater. It was criminal how few went to see this theatrically. I’m glad it’s finding a second life on home video just like the original did.
Jóhann Jóhannsson (“Sicario”, “Arrival”) was originally slated to score “2049”, but apparently it was too experimental-sounding, so they brought in Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch - they did an excellent job. I wish we could hear Jóhannsson’s score, even if it was never completed.
Tony Scott was the star of Ridley's first short film 'Boy and Bicycle'. There are quite a few 'Philip K Dick' movies, even the not so great ones have good things in them. Adjustment Bureau, Pay Check, Minority Report, Screamers, and A Scanner Darkly are all worth a look.
Yes... That's Edward James Olmos in both movies... Maybe you could do the Battlestar Galactica pilot and treat it as a standalone movie... He's great in it.
Lol, don't feel bad that you didn't know his daughter was the dream maker Shanelle. But, and this may not be the best time to mention this but you also didn't pick up on the fact that they were in Vegas in the end. The elvis hologram was meant to be a dead giveaway.
Sylvia Hoeks, who plays Luv, does an amazing job at playing her villains with a unique craziness, and making her characters people you love to hate. She's the antagonist in the series 'SEE', and is wonderful in it. The series Blade Runner: Black Lotus is set between the original movie and the sequel, and features a younger Wallace in it. They do a good job of depicting the way that Wallace manipulates his replicants and plays them off each other so that you end up with Luv's "I'm the best one!" mentality. It's very possible that the main character in that series is meant to be an early version of Luv, and like Luv, doesn't have the programming to not harm humans.
Can a holographic program and an android feel more real and alive than I do? If I can say "yes" to those questions, then that is solid sixties-style sci-fi.
I saw the first film in the theaters and I hated it. A few years later it became one of my favorite films. I saw the second film in the theaters and hated it. Over the years since, it’s become one of my favorite films. I’ve had this reaction from very few movies so it’s really strange that I had it with both a movie and its sequel. There’s just something with Blade Runner movies.
This was a spectacular sequel. I didn't read reviews, but everyone I know and everything I heard was very positive on it. Rather shocking it did badly at the box office, but we've been heading away from 'going out to the movies' gradually decade by decade. I have loved every Denis directed movie I've seen [6 thus far]. I'm only missing one that I'm aware of to date.
Yeah, replicants look identical to humans on the inside, which is why no one could tell them apart from "real" humans without the Voight Kampff test. The first movie is based off of Philip K. Dick's thought experiment as to whether beings who are indistinguishable from humans aside from emotional responses (which they would develop after four years anyway) can really be thought of as property (or even be thought of as not-human in any way). Or, how exactly like a human being would a replicant have to get to in order for "it" to not be an "it"? This movie extends that question to include AIs that have no corporeal form (and thus are very much unlike a human being) but who can love and be loved, and offspring from replicants and humans who are no longer man-made and are otherwise completely indistinguishable from human beings aside from the artificial origins of their progenitors.
I loved this movie and sobbed at the ending in theaters, no one else had the reaction around me and I’ve always felt like I’ve had to defend my love of this film. it’s so refreshing to see that other people loved this as much as I did ❤
I absolutely love this film (and the original). I’m a big fan of Denis Villeneuve and Philip K Dick and the worlds he created - his themes are all so thought provoking. If you want another Philip K Dick experience check out a Scanner Darkly; it is rotoscoped animation with Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey jr, Winona Ryder, and Woody Harrelson, and has some fun acting. It’s also trippy like most of Philip K Dick’s stories.
Blade Runner is a movie about a grey man living a grey life. Deckard is so pathetic he can't even get four pieces of fish with his noodles, and he's resigned himself to that. Then he gets drawn into the life struggle of a group of toasters, and from them he learns what it means to be alive and to love. It's a magnificent exploration of what it means to be human, and how hard it is to draw lines between who is human and who is not. 2049 pulls this further, with Joi reacting so much like a human companion, yet much of what she does being revealed as simply aspects of the product she is. Scott wants to remove this, and replace it with a badly programmed toaster going through the motions of hunting other toasters. He really was hit hard by the loss of his brother, but really, his vision can't be that cloudy. I'm starting to believe he's contrarian simply because he feels he has something to prove - which is so far from reality that it's not even funny.
The color correction on the original was substantially different between the theatrical release, the first director’s cut, and the final cut. I liked the warmer tones. I also really liked the voiceover narration in the theatrical release. I also was left with the impression from the original that Deckard was an experimental model replicant like Rachel with implanted memories and no set expiration date, which explains why he was being watched so closely by the other cop. For me it was a little disappointing that 2049 went with the other side of the was Deckard a replicant question.
After watching a previous video of a person describing why this movie "financially" failed. Your reaction where you were getting impatient due to the sheer length and not spoon feeding you with information or exposition. Attention spans aren't what they used to be. It's difficult to tell good stories especially post MCU that created the modern template of CGI movies. At least you got your surprise at the end. Thanks for giving this movie a try and sharing your reaction.
Denis Villeneuve is one of very few directors that understands how to use 3D to good effect - interestingly another is Ridley Scott - so this was a fantastic experience in iMax 3D. BR2049 is a masterclass in how to make a sequel. Denis may prefer the Theatrical Cut of the original, but he left out the voiceover so to me it feels more like the Final Cut.
I hope you will also do a reaction to Ghost In The Shell which, to me at least, is the heir to Blade Runner in its worldbuilding. On this movie: it is Blade Runner plus Villeneuve, there was just no way this was ever going to be anything less than very good.
37:17 - Ah, so THAT'S why she didn't look CGed! They used a cast instead of building the 3D model from scratch. Now that's what I call attention to detail.
MPC VFX handled the creation of the digital version of Rachel (which involved them scanning Sean Young); it’s absolutely astonishing what they accomplished. It makes ILMs digital Tarkin & Leia in Rogue One look amateurish. Here’s how they did it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bvE1-DMlzFA.html As a huge fan of Blade Runner, BR2049 completely blew me away; it’s an absolute masterpiece. I’m so so glad Roger Deakins won an Oscar for the cinematography & the VFX team won another for the effects.
Sadly this movie was a commercial flop (like the first movie) and as such the plans for a 3rd movie were scrapped. The public can be really stupid sometimes.
People get tricked, that's the point of the movie! It would be terrible writing if we didn't get tricked. And when K lies down and dies at the the end despite not being "the one" we love him more because he's US! He also got tricked... but he maintained (or realized?) his humanity anyway.
That first huge clue that he wasn’t the child, the fact that in his memory he had hair where all the other boys had no hair (only girls had hair), went right over my head. I still can’t believe I missed that one.
My favorite movie of all time. It takes everything cyberpunk, that its predecessor spawned, and made it its own. The existentialism told from K, JOI and LUV were heartbreakingly compelling
Same. This movie defied the general rule that sequels are worse than the originals, just like the original Blade Runner defied the general rule that the book is better than the movie.
“Blade Runner” was my all-time favorite movie until “2049”. Now “2049” holds the top spot and the original is in second place. Brilliant execution by Denis Villeneuve.
I got so much more out of this movie in my second watchthrough too bad the movie flopped at the box office - a lof of the audience went in blind (without caring to watch BR first) and got bored because they couldnt understand what was going on in the slow build up scenes, and another part of the audience wanted to watch BR but after seeing all the confusion about which version to watch they just gave up. just shows that movies that are made for a thinking (smart) audience cannot do well unless peppered with pretty stuff to distract the ones who just want to kill time/have fun.
@@clayjohanson BR 82 is a cultural milestone. Its futurism, existentialism, metahumanism, design were all defining cyberpunk as a subgenre. And yes, Neuromancer was the other milestone, BR set the look and mood for decades to come. BUT as a movie, it's average. Ridley Scott has a keen eye for visual design, but why he kept clinging on Deckard being a replicant defies logic.
One of the things I really loved about 2049 is how it *feels* like *more* Blade Runner. It doesn't feel like a movie trying to recapture blade runner, it just *is* blade runner. So many decades later sequels wind up feeling like they're trying too hard to remind the audience of the original. They spend so much time recreating the original that they don't do anything interesting or new.
I couldn’t agree more! I’m so thankful they got an intelligent filmmaker like Denise Villenueve to make this. It so easily could have been a cheap-ass retread.
Agreed. Telling a new story within the same world. Expanding and building upon what came before. A continuation instead of a retread. Such A shame studios have so much trouble with this concept nowadays 😢😢
I loved the first movie and was scared that they will ruined it by making a awful sequel. But I was wrong. Somehow they get the magic from Blade Runner into a great film for the next generation. I love it ❤️
like the first Matrix movie, they actually blew all of the money for the movie with the opening scene with Trinity roof top chase, the producers saw the about 8 minutes and granted the rest no questions asked!@@Theomite
Probably the best sequel ever made. I saw it 3 times in theatres because it was such an audiovisual masterpiece. So yeah, I definitely did my best to make this a hit, where was everyone else?? lol
One, I saw it in theater but it was unlikely to be a huge hit because the original was not a huge hit. It was a cult classic. That being said, i think they didn't do a great job marketing which hurt.
"That conversation around what's real and what's not" is kind of Philip K Dick's thing. All his stories are about real and fake and they link that theme to a moral judgement. For him fake worlds and fake people are always a bit dodgy, dangerous, sick, or outright evil. I think that's a difference between the book and films. For Dick the androids are absolutely unhuman and the story is more focussed on the danger of humans coming to act like machines as well. In the films, on the other hand, replicants come to be seen (by the audience at least) as something like an alternative form of life, rather than unambiguously inferior, and we come to feel some sympathy for them (even if they don't feel for us). So it's the same themes, but addressed from slightly different angles.
Wallace outlines how Deckard *could* be a replicant, but also explains how it ultimately doesn't matter. One wonders how Deckard could survive in irradiated Las Vegas if he was human. Is the dog a replicant? Does the presence of the bees indicate the radiation has dissipated enough for life to take hold again?
When K is first scanning Las Vegas with his pilotfish drone, the readout says that radiation is nominal. That means the radiation is not at a harmful level.
Bumblebees exposed to levels of radiation found within the Chernobyl exclusion zone suffered a "significant" drop in reproduction; I suspect the same is true of honey bees.
The entire film I was getting more and more angry in the cinema, wondering why it was taking them so long to discover he was the child... I love the film even more for that.
You checked out during the battle between K and Luv..?? That was one of the most intense scenes! This film was one of the best ones to come out in the past 20 years. Easily one of the greatest sequels ever made.
I liked this movie. The element of at what point does an AI have a soul. To K, joy was real. Joy thought she was real, the telling line, I’ve been inside you, there’s not as much there as you think, and K seeing the giant Joy hologram ad, calling him Joe, but then the despair in Joys face at the car crash, and wanting to be real. Just fantastic, and echoes K also wanting to be real.
To K he wanted her to be real. But in the end she wasnt. Which was the point. And why he decided to save Deckard in the end. Making his own decision for the first time in his life. Joi was never real. Everything she did was fulfilling her programming to be the best product she could be. Getting K to buy more products. The emanator. Presumably the prostitute replicant. The food. All Wallace products.. The best way she could fulfill her programming to someone like K was to be how she was.
Any atheist would point out that robots lacking a soul is the same as humans lacking a soul, there is no proof that such things exist. Buddhism doesn't believe in souls either, but a stream of consciousness that is not unique to humans anyway. I think it's clear in the movie that the replicants are as real as any other humans. The question of Joi is interesting, whether she has her own volition or is just programmed. She is the most real relationship that Joe has, and helps him a great deal.
@@danielpeckham5520a being having emotions, thoughts and responses partly programmed and partly voluntarily is also not different from humans or other living beings.
27:56 The billboard with JOI said "Everything you want to see, everything you want to hear". It's up for interpretation, but I took it to mean Joi is programmed to tell you things you want to hear and to be the things you need her to be. Which would mean "Joe" wanted to believe he was the child. It all goes to the theme that Blade Runner is all about which is basically what does it mean to be real?
Blade Runner is my favorite movie of all time, so it was a big relief when this one turned out so well, because it didn't screw up the legacy of the original.
100 percent. He went out of his way to make the worlds seem the same fromthe colors to the lighting and especially the soundtrack and the mood. It was all meant to feel like the original.
The nature of replicants is, I think, sometimes misunderstood by people new to the story. The opening text of Blade Runner is largely to blame. By calling replicants the next phase of robot evolution, the impression is that Replicants are mechanical machines. The movie doesn't make it abundantly clear that replicants are genetically engineered life forms. They are grown, their dna designed by the genetic designers like the ones we met in the first film. The moral disconnect becomes that humans have learned how to design life, and in doing so have devalued that life to avoid the ethical responsibilities of that achievement. They aren't "really" alive because they were artificially made.
The stuff with Joi and K is so fascinating. That scene where he sees the giant hologram may be my favorite of all time. Just the heartbreak and realization at realizing that everything he though he ever had and cherished was never real. Joi was a program designed to make suit his every need. Even doing her job so well that he bought more Wallace products. Which was the whole point. To sell more merchandise. Then he decides to do the only real thing he could possibly do. Die in a way of his own choosing. Saving someone.
I like to think that Joi was truly sentient. But the point of K's journey is that, just because you're sentient doesn't mean you are thinking for yourself. Joi loved K because she was programmed by Wallace's company to love her owner, which is not really all that different from how children are born programmed to love their parents: just as a child's well-being depends on their parents caring for them, Joi's well-being depended on K doing the same. It wasn't healthy by any means, but it may well have been genuine. (The unhealthiness being made worse since she was even more dependent on her manufacturer than on K, and therefore inclined to trust Wallace and his products.)
@@ChronosTachyonyeah I like pondering the ambiguity of Joi's sentience, how her "realness" changes with the eminator, and how being preprogrammed relates to the question of whether free will even exists.
@@ChronosTachyon Yes, I feel the same. Joi may be artificial but that doesn't mean her love wasn't real, to her or to him. Love is just chemicals and synapses and memories... That's before getting into the reality that consciousness itself is most likely just an illusion -- a byproduct of the way our brains function (MRI research has shown that the bain activity for decision-making occurs before we consciously make decisions). So if consciousness is just a byproduct, then who's to say that AI doesn't experience similar byproducts?
Top 5 of all time for me. Absolutely love this movie. So beautiful in so many ways. The idea of him feeling special, thinking it was him, discovering it wasn't, but then sacrificing himself for something greater. Truly defining what it means to be human. To feel love. Just, beautiful. It pains me so much that movies like this won't be financially successful for coming generations and therefor movies like this will become more and more rare.
This isn’t a movie. This is cinema. Cinema isn’t popular today. The art of storytelling through film isn’t popular now. I love how you see the colours, tones, nuances in the experience of true cinema. ❤
I saw it in the theater. This was one of the very few films in my life that left me sitting in my seat for a while after it was over. The rest of the evening I just kept thinking about life - meaning, purpose, love, the difficult and complex nature of reality etc. I love this film and consider it the greatest sci-fi next to Terminator 2 and Aliens. The film score was magnificent too. I ended up writing a summation after having seen it a second time: There was no real decoy. It was purely on paper. K/Joe is utterly, completely, unequivocally unremarkable, thus his name, Joe... as in Average Joe. Joi does not possess a soul. She is completely fake. She is the other side of the Replicant coin and is made solely to please and coddle her owner/lover. Her entire branding scheme is that she'll be anything you want. Joi is K's fleeting dream of being special -- to be human, or as he put it, "to have a soul" -- so she always reinforced this to him. Just before Luv crushed her emanator she made sure in her final moment to tell him that she loved him. Wallace posed a question about whether Deckard was moved by love or by programming. To me there's no doubt whatsoever Deckard is fully human. The original movie is about a bad man finding his humanity through the grace of a machine. Wallace's question is not a literal "Are you human or machine?" question, but pondering what the difference is; if love is just neurochemistry, and if we are products of biological programming or something higher, like a soul. The ultimate takeaway is that it really doesn't matter. What matters is what we choose to do with our lives. We find and create our own meaning and purpose. In summary, 2049 is about dreams and delusions. K wants desperately to feel special so Joi tells him this constantly and he quickly assumes all the evidence points to him because it's his dream. He becomes deluded and forces himself into the situation even as it destroys him. He thinks this is what it means to be human - to grapple with one's humanity. Then upon meeting Freysa, K comes to learn that in fact he is not special after all. Not born but manufactured. He is torn between two sides telling him what his identity is and should be; the LAPD who informs his identity as that of a slave, and the resistance which informs his identity as that of a free Replicant. When K comes across the giant pink Joi on the bridge, she says to him "You look like a good Joe". He then realizes that not even the name his Joi gave him was special. Her feelings for him were never real... just programming. K, at this point an emotionally broken Replicant, it is in this moment that he chooses to follow his own path and not let anyone tell him who he is or what he should do. He makes the most human decision of all and takes his life into his own hands. He saves Deckard for the same reason Roy did in the first Blade Runner. He wanted someone to remember him, for his final decision that fully validates him as human to not be in vain. No one else gave him his identity, only he did, and his sacrifice ensured forever that he was by every metric a human being, even if the world would ultimately forget him.
Too bad we didn't get to see the old Blade Runner world. The rainy nights with neon signs and old abandoned buildings. BR2049 is too clean. It doesn't look like a lived in world. It's neither tech noir nor cyberpunk. And the music doesn't come close to the Vangelis score of the original.
wait, the line cells within cells is from Pale Fire by Nabokov, the book that his holo girlfriend didn't like. So I mean I guess it was Gosling's idea to do the baseline but it's odd the trivia didn't mention that and just mentioned Gosling.
Believe it or not this movie was part of Denis Villeneuve honing his skill in preparation for Dune which he has never been really shy about wanting to bring to the big screen. If you want to see more of his work before seeing Dune I strongly recommend Arrival which is also sci-fi and also very different from Blade Runner 2049. Don't want to spoil anything so I will stop here. Great movie and reaction, as always. Thank you much. See you again soon.
You're right, I missed that detail when I first watched the video. I would have loved to watch her reaction to that movie... I did look for it before posting and didn't see it hence me suggesting it after missing it mentioned in the intro as you pointed out. Thanks. I stand corrected.
The visuals look stunning, a beautiful extension of the first film's aesthetic, brought to life perfectly by the magic touch of the legendary Roger Deakins (who won a long-overdue Oscar for his work on this film). Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch had the difficult job of following up Vangelis' seminal work on the first film, but they did a great job with the score, creating a brilliantly otherworldly sound and bringing back "Tears in the Rain" in perfect fashion. And the entire cast did a fantastic job, there's really not a single weak link here, everyone is perfect for their roles and all of them give fantastic performances. Doing a sequel to one of the most influential sci-fi films ever made 35 years after the fact could've very easily turned out terribly, but against all odds Denis Villeneuve accomplished that rare feat of making a sequel that's even better than the original. It sucks that it didn't do well at the box office, but I'm glad that it continues to get the acclaim and love it deserves.
2 extra bits of trivia for you shanelle just incase you didn't see when you read them out: 1. While shooting the fight scene, Harrison accidentally punched Ryan in the face for real. As an apology, Harrison invited Ryan to share a bottle of scotch whiskey with him an then mooned him 🤭. 2. A visual effects company worked for a full year on the scene where Rachel appears exactly as she did 35 years ago in the original blade runner in 1982. Also you said you prefer Ryan gosling playing the part of a daft character, well you should check out the film "the nice guys" with Ryan, Russell Crowe and directed by Shane black (Hawkins in Predator).
Not sure what's more insulting. Being punched or being offered something as disgusting as scotch. I probably would have been punched Harrison Ford back if offered me scotch.
Whether you prefer the original or 2049, the world building and the central theme of what it means to be 'alive' is absolutely compelling and each film is just as worthy as the other.
I saw the original in a rain storm in LA where it was dripping in the older theater in 1982. I've seen the various versions and it remains about my fave movie. This was a very worthy follow up that I found lovely. I cried when his GF halogram went away for ever. Interesting side note. That seen at the farm at the start of the movie, was originally a part of the 82 film that was cut. I'm glad you enjoyed these.
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My all-time favorite movie, supplanting the original. I was so afraid that Villeneuve would screw it up, but he succeeded beyond my wildest expectations and cemented himself as a director you can trust (along with Nolan). The score is brilliant and the film itself is stunningly beautiful and perfectly realized. There is so much potential in the world of “Blade Runner” - hopefully we will see more of it.
OMG! the Lt was the Princess Bride! Former Mrs Sean Penn! Elvis, huh? Viva Las Vegas. Deckard being human would make this story (both films) somewhat biblical. Humans make replicants in their own image. A human impregnates a replicant with life. Girl is born as 'Daughter of god', but is so pure she must be kept from contact with the corruption of the world she is born into. If you want more from this world, look into "Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe", a science fiction radio drama series by the ZBS Foundation. I had cassette tapes of this multiple episode multi-series. They were played as bedtime stories for my daughter (now 35yrs old) from when she was pre-school age in the 1990s. A spinoff was the musical 'group' the Android Sisters.
