Blade Runner 2049 is part of a recent series of movies I'd describe as Dunning-Kruger Sci-Fi. Along with Interstellar and to a somewhat lesser extent Arrival, they perfectly play to the crowd that fancies themselves as (and, to be fair, may truly be) smarter than average audiences but are not as smart as genuinely "smart people." They are movies designed to make the audience feel smart by introducing complicated and heady concepts, and then holding the viewer's hand the entire way through until there is next to nothing to be left up to interpretation.
If you didn't already know the twist in Blade Runner by the time he was visiting Leto's factory AT LEAST, you perfectly fit the audience I am talking about.
There is no reward for being smart while viewing these movies because everything is eventually spelled out in big fridge magnet letters. Any clever idea is made so transparent that even the most simple in the audience will get it. It also removes any reward for rewatching or trying to figure out what you just saw.
Granted, there is a difference between BR2049 and Interstellar. I think where Interstellar was pretending to have a brain it actually didn't have, 2049 has a brain that it is refusing to let the audience use.
Completely disappointing movie.
Also >not an Arrival quote
Jacob Nelson
nah I disagree, besides there is nothing intellectually reinvigorating about blade runner 2049. It features a few cliches and narrative vices (like exposition) just as the original did, yet does not wallow in the cliches like the banal twist at the end with Harrison's daughter where the twist itself is not that emphasized at all besides that the entry-level philosophical questions are back but all in all it is a decent movie because it is visually stunning
dont be a contrarian for once
Grayson Harris
a tip to you too kind sir
Angel Brown
Genius IQ here, I found Arrival and Interstellar to be almost entirely uninteresting, but loved BR2049.
You have highlighted one issue I have with sperg types like yourself, though: >If you didn't already know the twist in Blade Runner by the time he was visiting Leto's factory AT LEAST, you perfectly fit the audience I am talking about. I literally turn my thinking brain off when I watch a movie and just absorb everything happening as it happens. It's so twists are actually twists. It's a good feeling. The kind of people who think they're smart for seeing a twist coming and feeling the need to tell everyone afterwards (or even during) the movie are some of the most insufferable people.
The replaying of earlier lines was annoying in BR2049, but that's almost my only criticism of it. I loved every frame.
Cooper Brown
When did K go to wallace's factory? Also its a 8/10 sci fi movie it doesn't need to be 2intelligent4you when it has that.
Gabriel White
What was the "twist"?
Just because something isn't spelled out and then it turns out to be not what the movie was alluding to is not a twist
Austin Ross
A bit too much handholding for my taste in BR2049 but it still leaves some things for the audience to figure out on their own so I'm fine with it
Michael Jackson
mamma mia, hope you enjoyed your meal
Oliver Brown
>a whole post without the word "imdb" You're still a turbo autist but I commend you for your effort.
Camden Taylor
for sure you meant RT
Grayson Adams
How don't you recognize that one guy spamming his Villeneuve hate 24/7? He's one of the biggest joke on this board.
Here's one
Brody Gutierrez
Most of Sup Forums was to retarded to understand Interstellar, even you OP.
Luke Sanders
358 IQ here, mine went up by at least 40 points while watching BR2049.
Isaac Richardson
>people only like things because they think it makes them smart >I'm smarter than these people So you enjoyed the film then?
Dominic Russell
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Jordan Ward
>Blade Runner 2049 is part of a recent series of movies I'd describe as Dunning-Kruger Sci-Fi. Along with Interstellar and to a somewhat lesser extent Arrival, they perfectly play to the crowd that fancies themselves as (and, to be fair, may truly be) smarter than average audiences but are not as smart as genuinely "smart people."
I thought everyone went to go see a neo noir cyber punk film with pretty colors...
> movies designed to make the audience feel smart by introducing complicated and heady concepts
Movies are only a few hours long; they can only be so """complicated and heady"""". Read a book for once. Your bar must be set real low for "complicated".
Julian Ortiz
>RT ?
Oliver Gomez
how nu r u
Aiden Morales
First time on the board. Whats kino?
Jordan Nelson
>kino literally any movie or video that you like, ironically or uniroincally, the more contrarian, the better
Jackson Nelson
>If you didn't already know the twist in Blade Runner by the time he was visiting Leto's factory AT LEAST, you perfectly fit the audience I am talking about.
Nathan White
Origins of the term?
Xavier Cruz
I already knew the twist in Blade Runner by the time K. noticed the dead tree for the first time. I'm that intelligent, shame on you retardop.
Christopher Adams
SAME PASTA EVERY DAY
SAME IDIOTS FALL FOR IT EVERY TIME
Brody Phillips
>his IQ was only 318 before BR2049
when will they ever learn
Gavin Johnson
Does a film have to be as convoluted as something like Primer to warrant your seal of approval? This movie was pure Kino I'm sorry dude.
But the twist was he was actually a replicant? I don't get why you and op thought he was a human
Evan Harris
I'm newfagging
Thomas Collins
This has always been the case. Read some really old stuff. It is axiomatic that people have limitations, to include limitations to which they are blind. This is why humility exists.
Lincoln Diaz
fuck off, Wallace, your speeches suck
Zachary Rogers
>wtf is book.jpg
Christopher Bailey
To accept Villeneuve as a quality director is to garb yourself in a coat of hot pockets and video games and then writh around on the ground in a supermarket while screaching and slapping yourself on the sides of your head.
He is cheeto dust. Nothing more.
Nothing more than a hack, a useful tool for studios to trot out to say "Hey, we're making art house!" I cannot wrap my head around the adulation he receives, let alone the wide praise this has got. The film trudges from set piece to set piece, leaves us no real questions or anything to think about really.
The worst part however was Deakins "look at me i'm acting!" cinematography. This poor sap has become a parody of himself to appease his internet fans(much like Refn after Drive)
The same bullet that kills a capeshit fan will also kill the Villeneuve and Paul Thomas Anderson fan. They come from the same root, from the same doritos stained console. They are frauds, and as a warrior of cinema it's my duty to expose the fakes and the inauthentic when I see them. I will fight with crawls and teeth until the last imposter is fallen to the ground.
Gavin Bailey
>Dunning-Kruger
Hola reddit! Couldn't stop regurgitating and misapplying shit you read on wikipedia because you're an intellectual hack who needs someone to feed you lines about cognitive biases and logical fallacies in order to have a critique deeper than "I don't like it."
In b4 "ad hominem"
Caleb Taylor
>handling year-old pasta like a champ
welcome, newfriend :^)
Thomas Peterson
reddit flicks
Kayden Bennett
Don't bully Korinebro, he's fighting suicidal ideations ever since everybody found out Korine is a hack who will never work again and PTA is the actual american working kinomaster. Let him have this
Michael Martin
no BR2049 wasnt one of those pretentious flicks it poses questions but doesnt hamfistedly bludgeon you with an answer
Hudson Anderson
This The top of 2017 threads have proven that fans of this "man" are literally the lowest of the low