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The Oscar-Winning Special Effects of Blade Runner 2049 (bbc.com)
On Sunday, 'Blade Runner 2049' won the Oscar for the movie with the best visual effects. BBC spoke to Richard Hoover, the visual effects supervisor at Framestore which was one of the companies responsible for the movie's special effects.
Further reading: How 'Blade Runner 2049' VFX Supervisor John Nelson Brought Rachael & Pic's Holograms To Life (Deadline); Behind the breathtaking visual effects of 'Blade Runner 2049' (Digital Trends); How Blade Runner 2049's VFX team made K's hologram girlfriend (Wired).
Further reading: How 'Blade Runner 2049' VFX Supervisor John Nelson Brought Rachael & Pic's Holograms To Life (Deadline); Behind the breathtaking visual effects of 'Blade Runner 2049' (Digital Trends); How Blade Runner 2049's VFX team made K's hologram girlfriend (Wired).
Likewise. My main issue with 2049 was that it was too loud.
I loved the menace of the Tuvan throat singing... I hated that it blasted me into my seat.
Incredible! There was a saying about a fool and her money..... and that's coming from someone that has spent about 10 000 bucks on movies alone....
TFA was the last straw for me...no more going to the theater.... and no more additions to the collection.
Rewatching ST DS9 ATM. Now that is proper Sci-Fi....
BTW my friends that still watch Hollywood crap said del Toro's movie was absolute garbage but PC....well
Than BR49. Characters and plot FTW.
personally i thought that this movie related to all the subtext of the original rather well. the original was probably sold as an action flick with some philosophy added to appease the fanbase (electric sheep) and writers and the creative process.
this however took that deeper meaning and made the questions that we may ask have more nuance and extend where the story goes.
I rather enjoyed it a lot. i think they should have kept "Rachel" from showing emotions because that was the only way to catch her fakeness, can't copy the underlying muscle.. at least not just yet plus the softness texture of skin was in stark contrast with Decker.
I liked it. It was kind of slow and thoughtful but that's no bad thing.
Then again I'm a Bladerunner fanboy and I'm easily pleased. Hopefully they don't run the Bladerunner franchise into the ground they way that Star Wars and Star Trek have been with loads of unnecessary subpar sequels.
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Movie sucked who cares
Amen to that. From the moment I saw on screen the initial "explanations" where they mentioned "open-ended lifespan" for some replicants models I asked to myself "why?" Not only why would anybody allow immortal replicants at all, but why would anybody think that could improve the story in any conceivable way. Then it hit me that they needed them for reasons, because that's the only way they could concoct a story where you could somehow shoehorn Harrison Ford. Then I knew the film was going to suck big time, and I was not wrong. Synthetic narratives have a way of sucking that no honest narrative can imitate.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
You don't understand, that's Best Cineamtography at the fucking Oscars, which is meaningless. It's just people working in the industry advertising themselves and fluffy themselves. It's like electing a prom queen. Clear now?
I thought the film was fantastic. Good detective stories. Fascinating characters. Moving. I recognize many of the wonderful things in this film are quite different from the wonderful things in the original Blade Runner. Some lovers of the original will mistake that for thinking this one is bad.