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I find Bladerunner 2049 frustrating, because I *almost* love it.

The characters, themes, acting, and the overall plot structure are great, imo.

However, villains give melodramatic exposition monologues, villains leave heroes alive for no reason other than the plot needs them to, important things are left thinly guarded for no reason other than the plot needs the heroes or villains to easily get at them, etc. In other words, there are distracting writing/execution issues in what could otherwise be a masterpiece.

The first time I watched it, I didn't love it. It did stick with me though; I think about it sometimes, for years afterward. And watching it a second time I appreciated it more, but still was frustrated by the same things.

What does everyone else feel about it?

Globe99 1mo ago

Yes! there was some blog essay back in the day that encapsulated many of these perspectives (can't find it now). I felt like I was crazy at the time, because EVERYONE loved this, but I thought it was just sort of "mid."

A lot of it I think is because the original Blade Runner is just so thin of a text, and because that movie relies so much on a sort of "atmospheric" mood, that the result is that trying to flesh out the world into a 2 hr 44 min (!!) screenplay is stretching the concept past its breaking point.

So the "stitching" used stretch out this concept is a rogues gallery of 2010's tropes:

* The Jared Leto of it all

* Let's bring old and wizened Harrison Ford back to grouse and growl

* Uncanny valley Sean Young

* Action scenes going on way too long

* A Score of Pounding Noise by Hans Zimmer

There could have been a nice, tight 90-minute movie here if they just cut out more of this pseudo-spiritual stuff that doesn't really go anywhere

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