What did you think of this scene, and more importantly, what did you think of Villeneuve deciding to take a movie that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and just play it out in the slowest, weirdest way possible? This scene was the strangest, ballsiest thing I’ve seen in a “big blockbuster” movie in a long time, and sitting in a theater on opening night watching the people around me try to figure out what the f*** they bought a ticket for (and even watching some people straight up walk out at this point) was an experience that made me weirdly giddy. THERE’S LIKE A 25-MINUTE SCENE WHERE SHE INHABITS THE BODY OF A PROJECTION LADY SO SHE CAN MAKE OUT WITH RYAN GOSLING! (And presumably do more after that, but idk). The thing about Mackenzie Davis, though, is that there’s only one thing people will really remember about her in this movie. She pulls some Anthony Hopkins-level work here (in the sense that she shows up for like three scenes but makes a huge impression by virtue of being interesting, mysterious, gross, pretty, thoughtful, rude, and just an all-around great robot lady) in BR2049.
As a Halt Head (who, admittedly, has not watched the final season yet), I’ve gotta take that choice and start there. That’s the sound of someone coming to a stop and catching fire because they walked into a movie theater right as Mackenzie Davis came on the screen. Taylor: As many words as I could write about the end of the phrase “happy birthday,” let’s save the Leto of it all for later. Here are some starting points you can choose from: What should we talk about? I have no idea. Like someone took the original “Blade Runner,” “The Fifth Element,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the Tupac Hologram, a neon light, a rock, a wool coat, the skeleton of Harrison Ford and a trumpet blast to my eardrum, and put all of it in a burlap sack and hit me over the head with it. We can talk about the plot if you want, but all I really remember is the way this movie felt. It was what I imagine heroine is like – and even though I’ve never had the luxury of purchasing an ounce (a gram? a rock?) of the liquid lady, I can’t imagine it costs any more than an IMAX ticket – and let me tell you, was worth every cent of the 200 dollars I spent to see it. I need to see it again so my senses can corroborate what I’m pretty sure I experienced.
Occasionally, a Blade Runner comes in to retire him, and Dave buries them under his worm farm. He probably has a folding chair that he keeps in the farming tent to sit and watch his worms do whatever the hell. Dave bites into a strudel, zips up his hazmat suit, gets his lunch pale, and Dave goes and FARMS WORMS.
Dave looks out the window at the grey landscape and taps out a couple notes from a sad but familiar riff on his sad but familiar piano. Dave shuffles around his house with a normal-sized cup of coffee that looks tiny in his hands and puts on normal-sized glasses that look tiny on his head. Dave puts a kettle of coffee on the stove. Look, I came for Dave Bautista farming worms, and that’s where I want to set up shop for a couple of sentences. Partly because I know the deeper into the movie we go, the more deeply I’ll be confused, and partly because it took me approximately zero seconds to be sucked all the way into this movie (and partly because Jared Leto isn’t in this part). Sam: I want to start from the very beginning. What should we even talk about with this one, Sam? I feel like I could write 77,000 words about this movie. I’ve seen the Lord, and his face is brightly shining! “Blade Runner 2049” is here, and it’s amazing. This time: “ Blade Runner 2049.”Īfter weeks and weeks of build-up and hours and hours of watching and talking about old Denis Villeneuve movies, we’ve finally – truly – arrived. Their brilliant minds will unleash many words. For each movie in the “Denis 2049” series, Taylor and Sam will sit down and bounce some thoughts off each other, off-mic.