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Nic Cage man. I saw Drive Angry the other day, talk about a bad movie with one of the best endings ever.
IMDB was a crap forum with inconsistent moderators and outdated technology but it was the only place in the web where right after I finished watching some crap, B movie with Michael Ironside on tv at 3AM with my wife snoring beside me, I could log in, search the movie and actually have people down below talking about that movie with recent posts. I could expect to get a response to what I thought about the movie in a few days.
I had been going to IMDB pretty much ever since I first hooked up to the internet in 1994 but I stopped going regularly after they closed the forum. I found this site, picked my same nickname I used there and I have to admit I am pretty happy here.
While I agree, we have young guys doing sht movies as well so why not let the old guys make some money.
Pretty much think the opposite as you. I never loved the first one, gave it too many chances, theatrical, director's final cut. I appreciate it and respect what it did for future sci fi, I love many shows, movies, writings, etc. That exist thanks to this movie. The movie in itself is not very good, very boring at times, Daryl Hannah flipping around for no reason, Rutger Hauer over dramatizing every line he says, even the police captain looked ridiculous. My favorite part of the movie is James Edward Olmos.
I liked the shorts for the second film and the anime was fantastic but what really got to me was the actual sequel. I fell in love with this movie. The main actor could have been anyone, he is a replicant, who cares who plays him, a piece of wood would give out a similar performance to Ryan Gosling but the movie just drew me in, I loved it, I thought Harrison Ford hasn't given a good performance like this in ages, mckenzie james was great good, Ana De Armas is beautiful (as pretty if not prettier than young) so it I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I will also say this. Harrison Ford's performance in the original Blade Runner is just as bad/wooden as Ryan Gosling in here. No one ever really confused Harrison Ford with a great actor back in the day, he was just a good looking "man's man" kinda guy, he didn't start getting respect for his acting until later on in his career.
The way the whole blade runner story is evolving, it seems less and less relevant if you are a replicant or not. To the point where it doesn't seem that important in the new movie.
haha :) I am not a big fan of Gosling myself but I loved this movie so much that I am willing to accept him 100%.
As easy as I can explain it.
The daughter of Deckard happens to be in charge of creating most if not all the memories of all the replicants wallander makes. They hire her because she is the best at making up memories.
But as they explain in the movie, all artists leave a little bit of them in their work, which means that as much as she makes memories up, sometimes real stuff will also make it through the implants of the replicants, so many replicants walking around in the world have memories in their head that are actually hers in reality, this isn't normally an issue, it's not like replicants start chatting up between each other remembering the past, after all, they know their memories are implants as well.
When K sees the numbers and then triggers a memory from when he was a kid, he realizes this memory may not be made up and actually real, the thing here is that K, just like the audience, start to believe (with hope) that he is Deckard's son but in reality nowhere in the movie do they say this. Just like in the first blade runner, Raechel's memories were actually Tyrel's niece, so it was more likely that K was implanted with the memories of the real son/daughter than actually him being the actual son of Deckard.
But then he starts digging and find that apparently there were two of them and that the daughter died and the son lived, this was just a decoy to keep people looking for someone else other than the daughter but we as an audience (just as K as someone looking for a reason to exist) want to believe deep inside that he really is deckard's son.
At the end we get hit with the harsh reality that "they all want to be the one" obviously, they all want to be the real replicant son/daughter of a replicant, just like K.
But for K, even if just a little while, Deckard was his dad. It's a very powerful moment when Deckard asks K "who am I to you?"
You know K was thinking "for a little while I thought you were my dad" but he takes him to his real daughter.
While it would be fun to think Tyrel left a replicant to continue his work, I think you nailed it when you said he is flawed because he is blind, they probably made him blind on purpose just to show he is human and put a halt on the inevitable conversation.
Although to be honest, he didn't need to be blind, the man clearly has access to several flying cameras that send the images directly into his head, he could easily just make himself fake eyes that do the same thing, after all, they showed even in the first movie that designing eyes was pretty easy.
I am guessing he wanted to be/look blind, stay that way, to celebrate his humanity to a point.