XPost: rec.arts.movies.current-films, alt.movies   
   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
   In message  J  Clarke   
    wrote:   
   > On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:37:08 -0000 (UTC), Lewis   
   >  wrote:   
      
   >>In message <59dbee33.2225145375@localhost> Bice    
   wrote:   
   >>> Someone mentioned in this thread that the timeline doesn't really fit,   
   >>> that we should have flying cars and space colonies by now.  Remember   
   >>> that the first one was based on a book written in the 1960s, and for   
   >>> the new movie they were stuck using the same timeline if they wanted   
   >>> to have Harrison Ford in it.   
   >>   
   >>In Blade Runner 2049 the Soviet Union still exists and Atari is a real   
   >>company. Oh, and there's also a PanAm airline.   
   >>   
   >>The typical mouth-breather will be confused by this.   
      
   > I missed all of that.  However there was so much advertising depicted   
   > that I could easily have been looking elsewhere on the screen   
   > (probably at some portion of the female anatomy, quite a lot of which   
   > was depicted in a manner that left little to the imagination).   
   > Interesting that neither Amazon nor Apple sprung for product   
   > placement--Joi could as easily have been Siri or Alexa (and I now have   
   > a horrible crush on Ana de Armas).  But I did notice that K's car was   
   > a Peugeot.   
      
   > One thing that I did wonder about though was all the solar farms   
   > depicted at the beginning--why would anyone build that quantity of   
   > solar farms in that climate?   
      
   You need a lot of solar to make up for the poor conditions.   
      
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