BLADE RUNNER 2049 is a MASTERPIECE | First Time Reaction! 

That Denis guy seems to be pretty good at the whole movie making thing.

A little detail no reactor ever gets- the score at the end as Joe is dying on the steps is the same as is playing during Roy’s “tears in the rain” monologue in the first movie. Cinematic perfection.

This is in the top of my favorite movies; taking the best of the original and added layers, beautiful designs and endlessly compelling existentialism

You should also watch the 3 short films that the released in the run up to this movie. Dave Bautista really shows off his acting ability.

This movie never got the credit it deserved because it was always in the shadow of the original, but it truly is a masterpiece. When you pick up all the nuance in the facial expressions and cryptic dialogue you realise how incredible it is.

Luv calling in a drone missile strike while getting her nails done is one of my favorite character moments ever. She is such a terrifying villain in this.

Ana De Armas is so gorgeous as Joi. And a really interesting role to make us care for what is essentially a digital assistant. In the neo-noir of BR2049, she functions as a combination girl Friday/red herring, helping K while misleading him and the audience away from the truth. Not out of malice or incompetence, but simply because she's programmed to say what her owner wants to hear (and by extension the audience). That he's special. A real boy. But K's just K, and that's enough 😉 For K to find out the name she gave him is something all Joi's say, beaten and bloodied while faced with a giant naked billboard of his love literally talking down to him, is really powerful imagery.

I love that moment with K in the rain in front of the giant hologram ad of Joi where he makes the choice, the *human* choice, to do the right thing and save Deckard at the expense of his own life. Also, I love Luv as a villain. She’s so dangerous and unbalanced, but you can see she’s struggling like most Replicants do with her emotions and her desire to please her maker Wallace

This was straight up one of my favorite theater experiences.

One clue that gets overlooked is when Farayza says "We all wish it was us" she probably means that all her fellow rebels have the same orphanage memory that K does. So it was probably implanted in numerous individual Replicants and that became their shared experience that would pay off in the future. Although, there's an Easter Egg in a deleted scene in PROMETHEUS that heavily suggests that BLADE RUNNER takes place in the ALIENverse, which takes place about 50 years after this. So if it were true, it would mean the Replicant uprising doesn't pan out well since androids become the servant class in that universe.

There are three 'mini-movies' that fill in some of the years between both movies: (1) animated one explaining the 'blackout'. (2) Wallace trying to sell his 'better' replicants to the government. (3) Sapper being discovered and snitched on. They are great too.

17:42 that scene... it still blows my mind how they did that! the special effects are amazing.

It's gratifying to know I wasn't the only one that laughed when Robin Wright's head bounced off the desk!

After the first time I saw this movie I went on social media and wrote, "Blade Runner 2049 is more Blade Runner than Blade Runner" and I still consider that an accurate review of the film.

5:05 What you're hopefully thinking about after watching this film is; how do you define real? Is real what you can physically touch? Is real defined by feeling love? Is real defined by your ability to create life? Or is real defined by your ability to conceive a baby? When you feel remorse for K/Joe, does that make him real because you're emotionally invested in him? This is why I love Blade Runner 2049 even more than the first Blade Runner, it takes what the first movie stated and builds upon it without losing the respect. It's a beautiful movie that's so thought provoking.

There was a popular game called 2048 some years ago, maybe that's the reason for the confusion. 😅 And one thing that always stuns me on this movie is that the most human character is a hologram.

All those years we wanted another Blade Runner, but were always worried in case it was less than the first. We were so lucky it was this movie.

So glad you loved this film as it really is amazing. Denis Villeneuve's grand slam of 4 of the best sci-fi films ever made is such an incredible feat, and his use of color in this film really stands out against the dark beauty of the original. But, don't discount his drama/thrillers films, all of them are amazing as well, especially "Sicario" and "Prisoners", which might be my favorite thriller of all time, and definitely my favorite Hugh Jackman performance. Great reaction, as always, Addie!

Blade Runner 2048 is one of the shorts created to market 2049. It stars Dave Bautista, and it shows how Joe was able to find Sapper Morton. It's available on YT.

It is an incredible achievement to follow up many of us thought could never have a sequel... and to do it in a way that elevates both films is stunning.

Man, Jared Leto as an egotistical insane man is just perfect casting.

This is really a Sean Young week of films. Addie watched Ace Ventura and now Blade Runner. Also, this film subverts so many tropes in the best ways.

the film actually already gave a hint that the child in K's implanted memory was actually a little girl because in the orphanage only the boys were shaved, unlike the girls

The soundtrack in these films are just something else altogether. Incredible music!

This movie is so beautiful, the visuals alone brought me to tears when I was watching it in theatres.

The original Blade Runner was my favorite film of all time, so it was a big relief that this film ended up so good because it didn't screw up the legacy of the first film.

Joe's memory was real... it just wasn't his memory. That's the problem Rachael had, she remembered piano lessons but didn't know if that was her memory or Tyrell's niece's.

This film is a gift.

Not since "Empire Strikes Back" have I seen a sequel that rocks me harder than the original. Keeping the authenticity of the first movie, then taking us on a whole new and unexpected journey.

"because you've never seen a miracle" one of the best lines since "tears in the rain"

This was the only movie I’ve seen in theaters three times. It was just an incredible experience every time

So glad you did this so soon after the first one. I REALLY love the tone of this film and how quiet it is, something about it just gives chills and a nostalgic, bittersweet feeling.

A film so good even Jared Leto can't ruin it

It’s incredible how well Denis made a sequel to a movie with so many open-ended questions by adding more of them. Great cast, incredible visuals, great score. I was really worried when this came out how faithful it was to the original, and I thing they nailed it.

I think Blade Runner 2049 is one of the rare cases of a sequel that not only is better than the original, but arguably enriches and makes it even better than it was previously. It builds on the themes and core ideas of the original film and does so in a powerful and emotionally satisfying fashion, adding more weight to the original story while still being highly compelling in its own right. Plus, it's got an absolutely stellar cast, Hans Zimmer and Ben Wallfisch kill it with the score, and the whole film is just breathtakingly beautiful - no wonder this got Roger Deakins his first long overdue Oscar for cinematography. Denis Villeneuve really pulled off the impossible with this film - making a worthy sequel to Blade Runner - and pretty much guaranteed his place in the directors hall of fame

BLADE RUNNER 2049 in 30 minutes - that's what I need before I go to bed. This is the commentary version, it looks like. Oh, why not.

Denis Villeneuve really can pay attention to the details. "More Human than Humans" says one of the androids, and if you look back, all original humans were somehow look "sick". Bald, pale, scrawny, or just ugly, you name it! But the androids all looked if not always beautiful, but healthy and strong.

"Hes been through a lot over last few days.I don't know if this is exactly what is on his mind." Clearly she doesn't understand the male brain. 😊

You know what's sad: David Bowie was considered for the role as Niander Wallace.. but since he passed away due to cancer... Jared Leto was picked.. and to be fair.. he did a great job!

The ending made me cry too on 2nd viewing. Strange it didn't the first time. But the 2nd is when it just hit me because I saw him reconnecting with Rachel through connecting with his daughter.

We are going to have to face this same question at some point in the future. "When is a feeling being equal to a human?" There are people who argue even other animals have no soul and no right to live either, so there might be wars over this.

a little fun fact - when the word "replicant" appears in the upper left corner of the screen it cause the viewer to look in that direction to show if they too are replicants

I love the fact that you saw the first film before seeing this one, you get a lot of references and understand the universe and characters much more. react to the film stand by me stand by me (1986), hugs from brazil addie

masterpiece indeed, playing the soundtrack regularly as well

I'm so glad I saw this at the cinema. It was so much better on the big screen than on my TV.

Blade Runner never needed a sequel. But, if it got one, this is what the story deserved. I also love how this is paced like 70s Tarkovsky film. I remember seeing this movie all alone in a mostly empty theatre, and it was all I could think of for months, until it was released physically. Then I forced everyone I knew to watch it. What beautifully subtle ending. When Ford touches the glass, I tear up too.

One of the few times when the sequel is just as amazing as the first film. It takes a few watches to get everything. Ex: the music cue when K/Joe is laying on the steps dying is the same cue that was playing when Batty gives his Tears In Rain speech. Fitting.

The blonde woman is from the movie : Forrest Gump - Jenny

This has one of my all time favourite soundtracks. Amazing music. Amazing movie.

This movie and Drive are the two standout Ryan Gosling movies in my mind where as a complex character that he portrays... some of his motivations are left unsaid but you see them manifest in his actions throughout the film.

This film is a masterpiece. I first got to know Villeneuve's work back in the day with the movie Incendies (that I absolutely recommend to anyone) but I believe this one is his masterpiece.

"Dying for a cause we believe in is the most human thing we can do." And that's what K does in the end.

The soundtrack song for the water crash fight is one of my fav sountrack songs. Sea wall is its name. You can hear the sea crash against the wall in the music.

Loved watching this thru your eyes! Awesome!!

Blade Runner has been my favorite film since I saw it in 11th grade for the first time. The odds were stacked against this sequel, after more than 2 decades yet somehow, I love it even more than part 1.

Best science fiction movie ever made. A rare sequel that surpasses the first. Great reaction!

Addie's hand gestures brighten my day.

Denis Villeneuve never misses. It would be awesome if you checked these two other movies from him: Incendies (2010) & Enemy (2013).

When I saw the original Blade Runner as a kid in the '80s, thought it was boring. It later became my favorite movie for over a decade. The sequel did not disappoint.

Loved your reaction, also there is a prequel animated series called Blade Runner: black lotus and apparently it takes place in the year 2032. I also heard that there would be a live-action tv series serving as a sequel to the 2049 movie. It is called Blade Runner: 2099

I think Prisoners is still the best one. You'll be amazed at what he does with visuals in rural PA in winter.

Also, also ... if you didn't know this already, Amazon Studios and Ridley Scott's company are currently working on a TV mini-series titled "Blade Runner 2099" which is going to star Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer (the only two cast members to be announced so far). I'd like to think that with those two companies involved it will be great, but I guess we'll have to see.

The fact that this film was a box-office flop is a sad reflection of modern movie viewership. It's visually stunning, evocative, nuanced... and the way it builds on the themes of the original - "more human than human", as real humans become the empathy-free monsters hanging on to a grim existence built on their more empathetic and more worthy "slaves" who simply want to be and to feel what humans have lost/given up.... It stays with you long after the movie is over.

man, I"ll never not be sad that this movie didn't do that well in the box office... it's just an amazing movie and the visuals/cinematography alone are next level. Villeneuve found mainstream success with Dune, but I still think this is one of his best movies. He also directed Sicario, which was another amazing movie. And ya, Dune I and II.

I watched this in theaters (not sure if it was in 4DX) but the soundmixing was so on point!

Denis Villeneuve did the impossible. Not only did he honour the first film 🎥 he bloody well surpassed it in alot of ways. But both films are incredible.

I had the "Peter & The Wolf" clip as my incoming text message ringtone for a while.

They gave the slave a slave, to hammer home the idea that it doesn't matter where you come from or how you're made. A big complaint I saw a lot about the original, one that I never shared mind you, was that it wasn't really very deep at all because the premise is so patently unbelievable, because obviously replicants are as real as humans. Well, this movie basically proved that the theme was deeper than people gave it credit for, especially with the number of viewers who wholly discounted Joi as fake, that none of what she seemed to think or feel, and none of what she did, was the result of true sapience but rather that she's just a product. In my opinion, that alone proves how important this is. Besides, these sorts of justifications were used toward actual slaves, but that's just so difficult to internalize as a thing that happened, in this day and age, so it's discounted as a given. But that's why scifi like this is so powerful, because it can help people internalize things like this by approaching them from a different context. I think it's a rare sequel that truly builds upon the themes of the original, without retreading the same ground. God I love this movie.

I know this one has it's critics especially among hard core Blade Runner fans who think Deckerd was handled disrespectfully but even while ill concede some points there still there are so many fascinating ideas being explored that to me it's a worthy successor

There's a great fan theory that we were all mislead as to the identity of the child. We accept the deductive skills of K as the truth, but he was wrong before. What guarantee do we have that he got it right? There are a lot of parallels between Rachel and Luv. Visually, thematically, and in the film's cinematography. What if K did unintentionally complete the task he was given at the beginning of the film?

You make me smile with your reactions👍

There are some short films in the universe that were released before this movie you might be interested in watching. Pretty cool Lauren Daigle song at the end of the last one.

The opening sequence with K driving out of the city to retire a replicant living on a farm (including him waiting while the pot is boiling on the stove) is actually lifted straight from Ridley Scott's original script for Blade Runner. In the storyboards Deckard has a trenchcoat and Stetson hat...but when Scott met up with Steven Spielberg in London during the shooting of "Raiders of the lost Ark" he noticed that Harrison Ford was wearing the same hat as Indiana Jones, so he then ditched it...

This movie instantly became one of my all-time favorites. What does it mean to be human? What are the best parts of us?

This film is off the charts good.

Yeah IKR???????? If you intend to go back through Villeneuve's filmography, just wait till you get to Incendies lol But do some mental preparation, because that's still the most intense movie he's made.

The books by KW Jeter are direct sequels to Phillip K Dick's short story and the first film. While not canon to THIS film, it is considered canon by the PKDick family. Good reads if interested more in this universe. Will prob offer you more closure too considering I sadly highly doubt we will see a Blade Runner 3 film.

I had to see this three times in the theater.

Bummed you didn't include the giantess scene - it's the film's most iconic.

It’s no Blade Runner but it’s definitely up there. Definitely top three performances of mine.

You got it, girl! Given the actions of the humans, what does it mean to be human? And the "good Joe" line that you didn't show killed my brain for weeks.

One of the best movies of the last decade. I was so worried he was going to blemish the original but he did the exact opposite.

BR2049 is mesmerisingly beautiful & the soundtrack is just incredible; so glad I saw it in IMAX. It’s worth checking out the two shorts that tie into this film; they were directed by Ridley Scotts son. Villeneuve truly honoured the original & this film is such a worthy sequel. MPC VFX absolutely knocked it out of the park with the digital version of Rachel; it’s awesome that they got Sean Young involved with the recreation of her character. It made ILM’s digital Tarkin & Leia we saw in Rogue One look amateurish. Fun Fact: Joe’s boss, Joshi, was played by Robin Wright, who played Princess Buttercup in The Princess Bride. Did you notice the recurring “ringtone” of Peter’s theme from Peter and The Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev? The theme goes off 7 times: 1. When Joi experiences rain for the first time 2. When Luv is going to see Wallace in the Tyrell Pyramid 3. When K is approached by Mariette and the prostitutes 4. When K is looking at the DNA of the ‘miracle child’ 5. When K crashes in San Diego and is surrounded 6. When Mariette examines the wooden horse 7. And when K is hit on by the giant ad right before he saves Deckard. The number 7 happens to be the amount of characters in Peter and the Wolf with themes: 1. Peter 2. The Grandfather 3. The Bird 4. The Duck 5. The Cat 6. The Hunters 7. The Wolf I matched up the ‘ringtone’ with a character in Peter and the Wolf & this is what I noticed. 1. When Joi experiences rain for the first time - The Duck. Also means that she will later be killed by the wolf. 2. When Luv is going to see Wallace in the Tyrell Pyramid - The Wolf. 3. When K is approached by Mariette and the prostitutes, the girl wearing fur comes out and hits on K. That’s the cat alright. 4. When K is looking at the DNA of the ‘miracle child’ - The Bird. This was really fun on first watch because it’s a Red Herring. You see K staring at this DNA and you assume that the DNA is his and this ringtone is supposed to represent Peter. However we learn later that he isn’t the miracle child and that he is in fact looking at the DNA of Dr. Ana Stelline. Stelline spends her scene making very heavy algories to her ‘cage’ and freedom but never gets a ‘ringtone’ moment cementing her as the bird. We learn later that this is because we get the ‘ringtone’ moment here. When we are looking at her DNA. Also the bird, being so nimble, escapes the wolf. 5. When K crashes in San Diego and is surrounded - The Hunters. 6. When Mariette examines the wooden horse - The Grandfather. The horse, made by Deckard the Grandfather. Deckard is so obviously the Grandfather in this metaphor it hurts. But like Stelline we don’t get a ‘ringtone’ moment with him on screen. However we do see later that he made the horse and carved quite a few more. 7. When K is hit on by the giant ad right before he saves Deckard - Peter K finally decides what needs to be done. He has been through all these trials and accepts his role in this story as Peter. He goes out and uses his cunning to kill the Wolf.

I think you’re one of the first reactors I’ve seen who’s kind of gets that scene with the prototype replicant that gets stabbed. That basically it’s a failed prototype experiment so he has no use for it.

So happy that you got to this. Since I first watched 2049 I've come to think that it's one of the best movies ever made! Every aspect of it is amazing. The casting, the sets and design, the sparse yet intense script, the phenomenal sound design and the CGI. EVERYTHING! It took a few views before I realised what an absolute master class Sylvia Hoeks' performance is! Astounding. It's also my favourite ever sequel, when you first here Rachel's voice a shiver goes down your spine

One Villeneuve movie you might want to react to because it's so different from the others is Sicario.

Maybe not quite in my top 10, but probably the most visually impressive film I'd ever seen...until I saw Dune Part 2.

love and blessings!

You're not the only one to laugh at Joshi's death. ;)

I would recommend the work of Nicholas Winding Refn for more of Ryan at his best. Drive is top notch and Only God Forgives is a dark twisted tale but eerily beautiful. Ryan crushes his performances in both.

So pretty. Such a good movie. Such an entertaining reaction. Interlinked. Freedom. Choice. Interlinked.

the cityscape was practical. wetaworks made a Huge set with all little windows etc etc. amazing

You missed the most essential part of the movie where he looks at giant hologram of ana de armas

Great reaction Addie. They pretty much set up a sequel but the movie, like the original, underperformed at the box office so we won't get to see the replicant uprising. This movie really brought Ana DeArmas to my attention.

as usual a great reaction ❤💯👏

Since you're such a fan, you should check-out the Theatrical version of the first movie.

(In response to the title of this video) It is indeed, Addie. Blade Runner 2049 is DEFINITELY a good sequel. I did watch this movie in IMAX 1.90:1, when it first came out in theaters and I enjoyed it. This and The Fall Guy (2024) are my all-time favorite Ryan Gosling movies.

Denis never misses. Never.

Denis Villeneuve makes wonderful movies. His eye for visual storytelling is genius. I'm not a big fan of the screenwriter, Hampton Fancher. He also co-wrote the original Blade Runner movie. I don't think he and Ridley Scott understood the themes which the original author, Philip K. Dick, was exploring. In particular, they don't seem to understand that PKD insisted that Deckard was a human and that it was essential to the story that he be human. Ever since Blade Runner, Scott and Fancher have been pushing their own idea about it. But still, kudos to Villeneuve for making a great visual masterpiece out of the flawed script.

19:44 RIP Buttercup. What will Wesley say?