Just saw it last night.
I thought it was very pretty- some great ideas-and interesting world-building, and I'm fond of a slow, slow pace but nonethess I was really bothered by a couple of elements. I saw it alone, and none of my friends have seen it yet so I hope nobody minds me turning up here out of the blue to rant. I have three nit-picky-niggles and one major point.
1[spoiler] The Tyrell-replacement villain was just awful. What was he doing with his face and his voice and his eyes and his body- and why didn't they re-shoot all of his scenes with a different actor after they saw what they looked like on film? (I wasn't impressed) [/spoiler]
2[spoiler] Harrison Ford is gone a bit ould to be swingin' digs at people; one or two old-man uppercuts would be tolerable, but the 'action hero' punchy-punch stuff in this seemed a bit much, for my tastes.It reminded me of crystal skull.
I do not cherish the memory of crystal skull.[/spoiler]
3[spoiler] They made Deckard/ Rachel's romance so central to the big story.
I say 'Nay' .
'Nay' I say!
For- when you cast your mind back, Deckard and Rachel weren't exactly the 'love-at-first-sight' star-crossed couple retroactively depicted in this story.
Is it just me or does the repeated audio of VK test seems to be regarded as the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet in this universe? That aint right I tellsya! Think back!--
Their one 'love scene' in the original fillum is spectacularly awkward, and, quite frankly, a bit 'rapey' (which makes a kind of sense if you're of the belief that Deckard himself is a recently-created emotionally-underdeveloped machine- a notion completely dispensed with by this story btw- which means now it's just 'rapey' again).
I reckon this is important because; In the original film Deckard and Rachel just seemed like small, emotionally stunted, unimportant cogs in a vastly bigger dystopic system; they were just small- fry that Gaff could, on a whim, afford to let go: But in this universe they are the parents of the 'star-child'* equivalent (*from 1983 V miniseries on 'telly). This is a shift and I hate this. I really do.
It grinds my personal gearbox because it really seems to me as if just because Blade Runner (from relatively humble beginnings) became an important film in history and culture,--then the characters in Blade Runner must correspondingly become unbelievably important characters in their universe, and I hate when that happens.
Am I alone in this or does anyone else also feel that by turning the VK test into foreplay and then making Mr and Mrs Deckard's resulting offspring the possible progenitor of a new species this script has done something over-blown and bombastic and unnecessary and contrary to the atmosphere and themes created first-time 'round?. (and that that's a real pity because otherwise it's really quite good) [/spoiler]
4 [spoiler] Also there's maybe three too many scenes illuminated by light reflected off water. It's cool but it's overdone[/spoiler]
I thought it was very pretty- some great ideas-and interesting world-building, and I'm fond of a slow, slow pace but nonethess I was really bothered by a couple of elements. I saw it alone, and none of my friends have seen it yet so I hope nobody minds me turning up here out of the blue to rant. I have three nit-picky-niggles and one major point.
1[spoiler] The Tyrell-replacement villain was just awful. What was he doing with his face and his voice and his eyes and his body- and why didn't they re-shoot all of his scenes with a different actor after they saw what they looked like on film? (I wasn't impressed) [/spoiler]
2[spoiler] Harrison Ford is gone a bit ould to be swingin' digs at people; one or two old-man uppercuts would be tolerable, but the 'action hero' punchy-punch stuff in this seemed a bit much, for my tastes.It reminded me of crystal skull.
I do not cherish the memory of crystal skull.[/spoiler]
3[spoiler] They made Deckard/ Rachel's romance so central to the big story.
I say 'Nay' .
'Nay' I say!
For- when you cast your mind back, Deckard and Rachel weren't exactly the 'love-at-first-sight' star-crossed couple retroactively depicted in this story.
Is it just me or does the repeated audio of VK test seems to be regarded as the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet in this universe? That aint right I tellsya! Think back!--
Their one 'love scene' in the original fillum is spectacularly awkward, and, quite frankly, a bit 'rapey' (which makes a kind of sense if you're of the belief that Deckard himself is a recently-created emotionally-underdeveloped machine- a notion completely dispensed with by this story btw- which means now it's just 'rapey' again).
I reckon this is important because; In the original film Deckard and Rachel just seemed like small, emotionally stunted, unimportant cogs in a vastly bigger dystopic system; they were just small- fry that Gaff could, on a whim, afford to let go: But in this universe they are the parents of the 'star-child'* equivalent (*from 1983 V miniseries on 'telly). This is a shift and I hate this. I really do.
It grinds my personal gearbox because it really seems to me as if just because Blade Runner (from relatively humble beginnings) became an important film in history and culture,--then the characters in Blade Runner must correspondingly become unbelievably important characters in their universe, and I hate when that happens.
Am I alone in this or does anyone else also feel that by turning the VK test into foreplay and then making Mr and Mrs Deckard's resulting offspring the possible progenitor of a new species this script has done something over-blown and bombastic and unnecessary and contrary to the atmosphere and themes created first-time 'round?. (and that that's a real pity because otherwise it's really quite good) [/spoiler]
4 [spoiler] Also there's maybe three too many scenes illuminated by light reflected off water. It's cool but it's overdone[/spoiler]