Exciting. Watched a few science fiction movies over the last 2 weeks - of varying quality.
Blade Runner 2049: brilliant on 2nd viewing in comfort of home. Compelling and moving central story. The director does an incredible job of making the protagonist empathetic, and you experience his emotions as goes through his journey of conflict and discovery; and the contrasts amongst key characters - self-styled gods, messiahs, and men. It was also felt a challenge to me in that more than in any movie about androids and AI, I was forced to question if I cared because the lines were more blurred than ever. Movies like AI and I Am Robot attempted this but their life forms never had the sentience or seemed as integrated.
Beyond the sumptuous visuals, there is incredible attention to detail, whether its the 3-way AI love scene, the furnace finding or the interlinked interrogation in an unnerving chamber.
I don't know why I did not enjoy it as much in the cinema the first time around. Maybe IMAX was the wrong setting - it overemphasized the visual element at the expense of the human.
On the hand I also watched Jurassic World - an incoherent money grab. and Solo, soulless money grab. Jurassic reminded me of Star Wars franchise in that they just took the worst ideas from previous movies and stitched something together to quickly make a profit before fans forgot the previous one
