by shredingskin » Sun Jan 07, 2018 4:48 pm
It was a simple noir case, that was what made it pretty good. The visuals were stunning, but every character had so many layers, the whole concept of what is human and more human than human subtext was always there.
This one was kinda interesting, but after meeting deckard the movie loses it's plot, there's really nothing else going on. The AI stuff was conceptually the most interesting part and how can we forge meaning, but after that... were any of the action scenes actually worth it ? In this movie they start with the whole "replicants are discriminated", to basically give some subtext of having an AI girlfriend, then it's left on the dust and most of the people we meet were replicants either way, maybe I missed something, but I never understood the motivation of the main villain, there's nothing more in it than "life is what is lived" or some bullshit like that (and compare it with the last nexus in the original).
In the first one is a group of replicants trying to find a cure for their "illness", when there was not a cure nor it was an illness, the villain was actually symphatetic to them, the deckard replicant dilemma is always haunting there. It's just better in every way for me.