XPost: alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk   
   From: mimus99@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 13:58:54 -0700, Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
      
   > On 4/29/2019 1:38 PM, mimus99 wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:51:01 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 4/22/2019 4:34 PM, mimus99 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> _ Blade Runner _ is one of my favorite movies of all time, with only two   
   >>>> acts of mercy in the whole film, one by mistake (Gaff letting Rachel live,   
   >>>> thinking she was lifespan-limited).   
   >>>>   
   >>>> So I finally sat down with the DVD of _ Blade Runner 2049 _, and I tried,   
   >>>> Ubiq knows I tried, to watch it, but I gave up after an hour and a half   
   >>>> (into about 2:40).   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In that time, and being as charitable as possible, there might've been a   
   >>>> half-hour's worth of plot.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The eye-candy and score were both inferior to the original.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And everybody kept talking in these flat, hushed monotones all through,   
   >>>> like they were in a fucking cathedral or something (and not one on fire).   
   >>>>   
   >>>> A treatment like this would've made even my suggested sequel, based on   
   >>>> Cordwainer Smith's "The Dead Lady of Clown Town", dull.   
   >>>   
   >>> I watched it last weekend also.  Total drivel.  There was no plot and I   
   >>> did not understand the ending whatsoever.   
   >>   
   >> Well, one can always watch _ Alien Opponent _ (2010) again.   
   >   
   > I liked 'Blade Runner 2049'.  I didn't have any problem following the story.   
      
   I had no problem following the story, I was just bored, where not repelled   
   by, say, the pathetic holographic relationship, and the casual and   
   senseless knifing of a new replicant by our arch-villain (Tyrell II or   
   wotever).   
      
   Which brings up the deeper point that it was hard to suspend disbelief in   
   the replicant industry even in _ Blade Runner _, but it was much harder to   
   believe that the subhumanization of replicants would still be going on   
   umpteen years later (which is what suggested TDLoCT to me as a good   
   candidate for a basis for a sequel):   
      
   Replicant rights!   
      
   --   
      
   If it can ask for a lawyer,   
   ball-game over.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)