Quote (seifersan @ Oct 17 2017 04:42am)
Because the 2 movies hardly differ at all. Both are very slow paced, very little action, and a lot of deep philosophical questions being raised.
You just don't get it.....
I don't care if a movie has zero action, as long as it's done well. A movie can be paced slowly and still work as long as the subject matter is engrossing enough to keep people interested. This movie was not. The original brought up interesting questions and concepts, while this movie just contradicted and executed everything horribly. Again, the acting and actual script in Blade Runner was AMAZING from start to finish, not to mention that the Replicant/Human antagonists were actually interesting characters. In the sequel, the Replicant/Human antagonists were just fucking terrible, Leto's monologue and that entire scene with him stabbing the replicant he just made was one of the worst scenes in the movie and it made no fucking sense, like a lot of the movie. You can't place a set of rules at the beginning of the movie and then just start breaking your own set rules to try and move the plot along, that's bad/lazy story writing. The replicant antagonist was just a horribly written character. She didn't say or do a single remotely interesting thing throughout the entire film and her acting was the worst of the film, close second was Ford. The Daughter and the entire scene with her making memories etc, crying when she sees her memory was AMAZING. That scene was touching and it was so clear right away that she was the daughter. At that point, I was just still under the impression that when they changed the paperwork, that twins were actually born. Of course I was wrong about that, but her being the daughter was a good "Ahah" moment and they did an excellent job of it. Most people I talked to didn't get it right there, making the reveal even greater for them. The philosophical questions that it seems you people are referring to are the exact same ones already discussed a billion times over since the first Blade Runner and since the discussion of AI was first brought up. It doesn't raise any questions that haven't been beaten to death, and the way they went about raising those questions was bland and just bad. There was a lot of bad writing/acting in this film. It seems that you're still just under the impression that I don't like movies if they're not all Michael Bay splosion tastic, when I'm a person who fucking loathes movies with action and no substance. I will ALWAYS take a good story/plot over action. Once again, I loved the first Blade Runner, and it's still in my top 100 list easily. This follow-up was just not a well executed movie. I'm glad you enjoyed it, but I've gone over what I liked/didn't like so much and all I'm hearing from people who like it, are "Oh my, it's so philosophical". I'd love for someone to actually go into their opinions without copy and pasting something they found online, but nothing discussed here was new or interesting. If you're going to open a discussion on something that's been talked about to death, you need to have an innovative way of bringing the conversation into your mind, and they failed to do that.