Best Films of 2016/2017

[GloryofGreece]

This film is so awesome. I missed it when films had us thinking about these things days later.

Do you watch Westworld and if you did do you think it sparked those same or similar thoughts?

[Speaker to Animals]

This film is so awesome. I missed it when films had us thinking about these things days later.

Do you watch Westworld and if you did do you think it sparked those same or similar thoughts?

Have not seen that show. Don't have HBO.

[GloryofGreece]

I can't remember b/c I haven't watched the original that often or recently but is there any discussion of replicant models looking like they age over time? Also, was it brought up how Tyrell died or left the scene. I wish Wallace's backstory was elaborated more but I realize there isn't enough time in a movie to really do that thoroughly. Those little floating black min drones that buzzed around him were cryptic almost like transhuman little fairies.

[Speaker to Animals]

I can't remember b/c I haven't watched the original that often or recently but is there any discussion of replicant models looking like they age over time? Also, was it brought up how Tyrell died or left the scene. I wish Wallace's backstory was elaborated more but I realize there isn't enough time in a movie to really do that thoroughly. Those little floating black min drones that buzzed around him were cryptic almost like transhuman little fairies.

The original film is overhyped.

I think it must have been based on Larry Niven's Dream Park novel? That was the original RPG lit.

[GloryofGreece]

Wind River = 9/10. Good suspense-crime thriller. Made by the director of Sicario and Hell or High Water.

[Okeefenokee]

I saw Blade Runner tonight. I liked it.

Two questions, what happened to Las Vegas, and why was there so much damn whiskey?

I liked the part where the writer reached out to the viewer to say, "yeah, we all want to be the one, but you're not."

[heydaralon]

Blade Runner 2049. Great movie! Shot beautifully good script, thought provoking, even has Harrison Ford as a bonus! Speaker really likes scifi, so he would definitely enjoy it. Why cant more hollywood movies be more like this? Why is everything superheroes now?

[heydaralon]

I saw Blade Runner tonight. I liked it.

Two questions, what happened to Las Vegas, and why was there so much damn whiskey?

I liked the part where the writer reached out to the viewer to say, "yeah, we all want to be the one, but you're not."

Fuck yes! Blade Runner was great. I asked my gf what happened with Vegas and the radiaton, and she didnt know either. I think that dog there was real though. Looked like a stray to me. Why would they make a replicant dog in an abandoned city? Glad you liked the movie bro! I did too!

[Speaker to Animals]

The world of Blade Runner is set after a nuclear war. The Earth is dying from radiation. That is why they needed to colonize other worlds so badly. Some of the people are called chicken heads because the radiation basically made them retarded. One of the characters in the first film (and novel) was like that.

Neither film really captures the feeling in the novel that real life is slowly getting replaced by artificial life. The existential angst felt by many humans in the novel was thgat humanity is dying and all this artificial trap is replacing us. This is why people basically made a religion out of keeping live animals, which were so.rare they were very expensive. But they could by artificial life cheap.

[Speaker to Animals]

One problem with both films compared to the novel is that the replicants are portrayed as having compassion. In the novel they show no such traits. They will crush the life out of you with no more moral hesitation than a faulty piston.