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Blade Runner
| First or second?
| Either the Original or 2049.
| Seen the original to prepare for 2049. Both are nice
| I saw the original many years ago back then, and then both of them a while ago.
I did not feel the excitement and 'wow' this time as I did back then. For neither of the movies.
I think it has to do with age and becoming mature and seeing things more clearly. If back then the portraied reality seemed fascinating, now it seemed despicable, repulsive and like having nothing to make me long for such a reality.
| Speakin' of Blade Runner, has anyone read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"?
| Nice
| I have as well. The book is so much better - like always. It also is so much different in setting and plot. The movie is very loosely based on that book, but most of it is actually changed and different.
And only two weeks ago I biought 'Electric Dreams', by the same author Philip K. Dick.
| Can anyone give me a spoiler-free outline of the differences?
| Because the second movie was a sequel, not a reboot.
| >>159028
The setting is more or less the same, most characters are there like Decard, Rachel, Roy Batty, but their relations to each other are different as the story develops quite differently. Yes Decard is a bladerunner and all that, but who he meets, what is told, what happens, outcomes and conseguences, reasons and motives that everyone has in events... these are either slightly different, or heavily different, or completely removed/invented.
Can not say more without spoiler.
| Interesting.
| I didn't really like the original. It sure was pretty, but a little unfocused IMO. I couldn't treat it like a detective story with killer robots because of forced philosophical stuff and I couldn't treat it like philosophical movie about what it means to be human because of mindless and completly unhuman antagonist robots. Shame, I really tried to like it.
| I read an oxford(?)-abridged version of Do Androids Dream when I was 13 or so. It was the most fascinating thing I've read.
Watched the first Blade Runner, and it was kind of meh.
Still interested to see 2049 though.
| >>159436
You will think 'meh' about the second as well. The story drags and lingers in the same manner with the first one. With a bit of 2017ish envisioned techo stuff, while the original had it 1982 style.
| Blade Runner is definitely one of those films that you'll either love or hate.
| Do robots think about mechanic goats?
| I liked the aesthetic of Blade Runner but I just couldn't get into the story that much. It felt like it was dragging on for so long to the point where I was falling asleep.
| In 2049 the story took too long in some places but I vastly prefer it to the rushed feeling of other modern movies.
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| Anyone here ever seen Blade Runner?