Yes, the film had a slow pace. While I wouldn't call it "boring", you still need to sit on your ass for 160 minutes and that's not including the ads/trailers that are shown before the film starts.
They seem to indicate that there is more happening in this new film than in the original. So that's good. Especially since the film is nearly 3 hours long...
It's nearly three hours but it never felt boring to me. Even when it's slowly building up to something it doesn't get tedious because every shot is so beautiful that it could be a desktop wallpaper.
Caught it yesterday, was good. Felt a little too artsy at times with the long almost stills and glaring monotone-like music blaring, though the original had this too, but more subdued.. But it's good, defo worth the watch on the big screen, imo.
I dunno. I only watched the first 10 minutes. My first thought would be that it didn't have quite as big of a cult following as the execs may have thought/hoped it did. For every person who thinks the original film is a sci-fi classic masterpiece there are at least 1 or 2 others who find it boring. So I bet that has something to do with it. Plus it doesn't have dinosaurs or lightsabers and wookies, so the nostalgia factor is out.. lol. Robots are too much of an intellectual enterprise. So I never would have seen this having big mainstream appeal.
Not sure why folks are trying to make out the movie is a flop is such a bad thing, The first movie was also a flop too when it was released back in '82'.
Good. I don't want Blade Runner to turn into the next Alien or Terminator franchise where the shit movies outnumber the good ones. BR2049 is a good ending the series.
Brave film making. Totally at odds with the modern blockbuster. The snail's pace editing and large chunks of sheer dark cinematography make it as bleak a dystopian movie as there's ever been. But by God it is an audio-visual masterpiece. It tackles big questions and themes with far more subtlety than Interstellar did. It's arguably far more relevant now than the original was as we move into an era of true artificial intelligence.
The fact that it'll flop disastrously doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Mass audiences don't have the attention spans to watch a 3 hour long movie unless it has lots of jokes and/or explosions.
It does make me wonder what's next for Denis Villeneuve.
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