2049's soundtrack sucks balls in comparison. Half the time actually sounds like Blade Runner, but most of it sounds like a rejected score of The Dark Knight where Hans Zimmer kept banging on the keyboard just for the purpose of blowing up the theater's speakers, lol.
"Blade Runner...is all style over substance"(4:19) Absolutely no my friend it has both, you got it all wrong. Blade Runner has plenty of substance, it raises many questions about human nature and what constitutes the human soul.
yes, I agree with you. It's a philosophycal movie and looks beautiful. But you can ell the guys don't like or don' t get it. This movie deserved a better review or they shouldnt have talked about it.
They said it though in the review, the problem is that we were supposed to be sympathetic toward replicants but here they showed them to be bad - killing people and stuff like that
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan How could Roy know Deckard was a replicant? If replicants can just identify each other, then what's the point of the Voight-Kampff test?
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Then, if Dekard is a replicant he would know. My point is Roy saving him is still equally important, wether he's human or not. He just saved a precious life
I love the fact that Batman The Animated Series, had the actor, William Sanderson (J.F Sebastian), voiced the character, Karl Rossum, who ended up making replicants in two episodes of the show, as nice nod to Blade Runner.
This is my favorite movie of all time. I watch it every year with my dad, and we always pour some scotch when Deckard drinks in his apartment. It is THE cult movie
Blade Runner is a beautiful and grim film. It's sad and cold and inspiring. The score is wonderful and it's beautiful to see. It's a dream and a nightmare.
"This movie's all style over substance" James: "Well, some people would debate you on that." Gotta love how quickly James catches stupid shit and shuts it down immediately.
But, it is. 100%. This movie is for people who can look at pretty things for 2 hours, then convince themselves that they are the smartest person in the room for liking it.
@atd8vii Idk I thought a story about a man slowly regaining his humanity while trying to hunt down robots who desperately want to have their humanity interesting but to each their own.
Speaking of re edition, Star Wars A New Hope version for Disney+, has a new recut of the Han/Greedo encounter, now they both shoot at the same time. For the love of Super Mecha Death Christ, just let Greedo die in peace...
I love that you guys have a copy of Heavyweights sitting in the front there...PLEASE do a rental review of this Disney classic, the world needs to know. Keep the great content coming!
Blade Runner is incredible. The book was amazing, the movie was insanely good, the PC Game is one of the best games and Blade Runner 2049 is an awesome sequel. Didnt get much better then this!
@@davidnolan6162 It's really hard to come by these days and even if you get a second hand copy, it will not install on 64bit Windows. There is an illegal version that runs somewhat on modern systems but ya know, can't discuss that here :P But the game is great, it does not follow the story of the movie but does borrows heavily from it it's kinda weird...
@@khululyp Blade Runner (1997 game) is now available on GoG and runs perfectly on Windows 7,8,10 64-bit. No issues as all. There is even a remaster coming up.
Ya was such a good game! Westwood was the shit. It was pretty awesome that the game changed on multiple playthroughs and had multiple endings too, should check out yt vids for it
The idea that the unicorn dream was test or stock footage from Legend is a common urban legend, it's not actually true. Personally I like that hint that Deckard might be a replicant
Jesse Friesen agreed, it’s necessary in order for the average viewer to question what humanity really is. Where the line is drawn? When does a created being cross that line? Do humans only come from mothers? Does origin define existence? Does belief? Upbringing? Does experience?
@@crackedupmonk 1 when you were created in a factory 2 never 3 yes, not necessary to create machines that do what a human can for much cheaper 4 no 5 it can 6 yes, among other things
Exactly. The pitch for Legend did not come up until 1982, and while Blade Runner was released in 1982, it was shot in 1981. Ridley Scott simply had a thing for unicorns, apparently.
There is a line when his talking to "the girl" and he's telling her a memorie from her childhood woith a spider, he explains that they put the memories in her and they also decide what she dreams. Also he has a picture of his love partner, or his mother or something and is a link he has of the past, he wonders if it's real you can tell
If you haven't watched this movie before I recommend you only see the 1982 theatrical version and the 2007 final cut, all another cuts are pointless and unnecessary imo....
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i agree completely. I'd recommend starting with the original theatrical version... and then maybe watching the final cut.
@Lonewolfg13 Wtf are talking about? Tony is one of the most knowledgeable and objective of the bunch besides the only one who looks like he's having fun, the other guys regularly look like if the reviews were a chore or think movies are bad just because they're aren't pc...
Upon hearing the name Blade Runner always makes me think about being in a rough situation like being on a razor's edge. This is maybe because of the fact that we have kind of the same metaphor in Hungarian: dancing on a knife's or razor's edge. :)
This movie inspired and continues to inspire Cyberpunk properties to this day, but Snatcher is definitely my favorite video game created as a result. Also..the best Christmas video game as well!
I'm so insanely pumped that James is even addressing Blade Runner. For years, I've always thought "Blade Runner is relevant to exactly this thing they're addressing on Cinemassacre," and then, nothing, until that quick reference in the Rental Review for, I think, The Fifth Element.
CaptainCroutons ya I can see both sides. There is more going on in the substance I feel but the style really stands out and may overshadow the plot to some.
The book Neuromancer by William Gibson is the granddaddy of all cyberpunk. EVERYTHING in EVERY cyberpunk story can be traced back to Neuromancer. But I guess more people have seen Blade Runner.
Well, Blade Runner came out two years prior to the publication of Neuromancer. But Neuromancer is awesome and anyone who likes Blade Runner and similar movies should give it a try.
@@jamesfanshawe6807 johnny mnemonic and burning chrome came out prior to blade runner and was the bases for nueromancer. The cyberpunk settings were developed independently.
17:03 Holy shit, the second you said that it immediately clicked in my head. Granted, I've seen Blade Runner 100 times and I just watched House on Haunted Hill during my 31 day October horror movie marathon.
A few months back when someone mentioned the movie in an offhand comment, I immediately thought, "They gotta review that!" One day... (and that Time Travel.....The Bible. lolwut)
That movie is great but the with how sensitive people are about body appearance these days it’s been cast aside. I news a husky kid but I was never taught to be a victim so I always loved it.
Hard disagree on him being a replicant not having a point. It’s meant to basically get the post Across that replicants are for all intents and purposes humans or the same as humans, with the same fears and desires. As for it working or not in 2049, him and Rachel were obviously a special kind of replicant so I don’t think it’s that far out of the question that they would have no expectation date.
"what is the point of being human?" "if creations can created something has soul, could be the creator was also created?" all Ridley Scott's films have this message, especially in the new Alien films
I'm happy you guys sat down to talk about this movie. On a side note I lost my mind laughing seeing a DVD standing up of Code Monkeys. I have it in my collection and it's sad season two was never released on DVD
Ridley Scott said that part of his inspiration for the look of future LA was the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, specifically the area outside of Shinjuku station. And if you've ever been there at night you can see what he was talking about.
Deckard isn’t confirmed to be or not to be a replicant because it doesn’t matter if he is or not which is the message of the movie. It works better as a mystery.
A lot of movies are like that, set in 'the future' and now we have caught up to them. Back to the Future, 2001 A space odyssey (and 2010 The year we make contact) I'm sure there are others.
Getting that sweet notification that a new episode of rental review is up and seeing Justin is like coming across the three stooges and realizing it's a shemp.
My fav movie of all time hands down. I dont think theres a single movie ive watched more than Bladerunner. Music setting characters are amazing. And sequel is amazing as well.
Blade Runner is literally one of the only movies I can watch over and over year after year. It becomes something I don't even exactly directly pay attention to it anymore. A few years ago when I invested in a throttle and joystick to play Elite Dangerous I'd always put Blade Runner on on a secondary monitor to soothe and add to the atmosphere.
Probably my favorite movie ever. I like dystopian fiction, and noir settings...so this is just the right amount of everything. Rain and night, neon lights, dreary, slow scenes with lights flashing by... not too many explanations... I saw this movie as a very young kid, so it really influenced how I see ...well..the world, I guess. Science, progress, society, humanity...ethics, empathy. What are those, what can we do, what is ideal? How can we judge something that we create for being too alike to us? A machine does not commit homicide. It's in the word.
I feel this movie posed many questions that were left to the viewer to answer. In a sense that is where much of the substance of the movie is derived. Ridley Scott has a special ability to give the viewer just enough to interpret their own questions and meanings for what is happening in the film. That is why there is so much dead air in this film. Ridley is allowing us to ponder the deeper thoughts and emotions that all truly make us more human than human.
I was always under the impression that Deckard was a replicant in the original and I felt it was elaborated on in 2049. Also a little disappointed the rumored link to the Alien franchise wasn't discussed here.
Easily done, he received next to no characterization, we see nothing of the memories he speaks of so it's hard to care about them, and it sounds whiny and overly dramatic
In the book, The androids don't feel empathy but, Deckard does feel empathy for his targets....this kinda tips him off that he might be an android himself....this is a central irony of the story. Does it mean that the androids actually CAN feel empathy?.....and does the fact that humans assume they don't, allow humans the luxury of treating the androids as property.....as commodities.
Sir Friendship Hey You! Did Hans Zimmer’s Blade Runner 2049 soundtrack not sound good enough to convey that beautiful cyberpunk aesthetic? Listen to Birth of a New Day by 2814 and your ears will be filled with A E S T H E T I C
To me, why the Rental Reviews series hit and why the podcast didn’t hit is because James interjected more and brought more ideas to the table in Rental Reviews due to his passion related to film.
To quote Razorfist about Deckard's humanity or lack thereof.. "If he is, I think Blade Runner is a much more thin, vapid science fiction film than if Deckard is human. As a film about a cop who hunts down false humans, and in so doing loses his humanity… only to have it redeemed by his budding relationship with one of the very replicants he’s sworn to kill? And solidified by the messianic sacrifice of his arch nemesis, the leader of the rogue replicants, Roy Batty? It’s quirky sci-fi, rife with knotty, philosophical dilemmas and a solid main character arc. If it’s a film about a dude who doesn’t know he’s a robot… hunting down other robots? Then it’s pretty to look at, and there’s a gimmicky twist at the end." I've got to agree with the man.
I live in Philadelphia, like James, and when its late and I'm driving back into town past the oil refinery with the cityscape lit up a few miles off, I often put on the Blade Runner soundtrack and imagine it's the future. Blade Runner is just such an ambience, a futuristic world that doesn't yet exist.
@@anequallygoodchannel.2761 I own the Ultimate Edition that includes every cut and I just checked that scene. He does indeed say "Fucker" in the Theatrical Cuts and the Directors Cut. Interestingly, the German dub says "Vater" (father) in all versions.
That Family Values Tour VHS in front of James is the messed up one where the singer from Rammstein....Relieves himself on the crowd... Still less disgusting than listening to Limp Bizkit.
All these reviews will be lost in time...like, tears....in the rain.
time... to backup
Touche
Hopefully this review will be lost forever
Reviews...I saw so many of them that you people couldn't imagine...
R.I.P Rutger Hauer
Vangelis' soundtrack is absolutely unparalleled in atmosphere and tone. It's practically a character unto itself.
in itself?
lastofmygeneration i hate it. Ruining the whole movie.
2049's soundtrack sucks balls in comparison. Half the time actually sounds like Blade Runner, but most of it sounds like a rejected score of The Dark Knight where Hans Zimmer kept banging on the keyboard just for the purpose of blowing up the theater's speakers, lol.
@@AgsmaJustAgsma I'll have to watch 2049 again just to get the hype out of my brain and focus on the soundtrack before I pass judgement on it lol
@@AndyJackson380 My grammar leaves much to be desired and is a capitol offense unto itself
I'll bet Tony's favorite scene in Blade Runner was when Batty confronting Tyrell and gouging his eyeballs with his thumbs.
A true fan here
My favorite scenes in anything are the ones where Tony isn't in them. Also my favorite youtube videos
It's almost a "Stabie, The Eyeball" moment
Dev Hann keep crying
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 in order for me to keep crying, i would have to have been crying to begin with. Your comment makes no sense.
Rutger Hauer died the same year as his character in Blade Runner
Guess his will like tears in the rain
it was a doc
That makes me cry now with the cruel irony
😥 did not know that
"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?"
"That's what it is to be a slave... "
With all the great quotes from that movie, that phrase always stuck with me. I don't know why younger me was so amazed by it.
"Blade Runner...is all style over substance"(4:19) Absolutely no my friend it has both, you got it all wrong. Blade Runner has plenty of substance, it raises many questions about human nature and what constitutes the human soul.
subtlety. A lost art in film and story telling. Unfortunately the average consumer doesn’t buy in evidently.
yes, I agree with you. It's a philosophycal movie and looks beautiful. But you can ell the guys don't like or don' t get it. This movie deserved a better review or they shouldnt have talked about it.
it has STYLE and SUBSTANCE.
They said it though in the review, the problem is that we were supposed to be sympathetic toward replicants but here they showed them to be bad - killing people and stuff like that
Yea, I've been disagreeing with him more and more. This was facepalm worthy.
Both Rutger Hauer and Roy Batty died in 2019 (o.0)
karlzen86 oh man. That’s creepy. Good stuff.
What Facebook post did you learn this from?
@nunya baznus Pretty amazing game however I got motion sickness very bad from this... I hardly continue but still really good game
@The Credible Hulk what?
I noticed it too, quite romantic if sad.
The whole point of Deckard potentially being a replicant is that it's irrelevant, his life is still precious, just like all other life on earth
Thank you!!!! Totally true.
I'm ashamed to say up until a few years ago I never even thought that Deckard might be a replicant.
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan How could Roy know Deckard was a replicant? If replicants can just identify each other, then what's the point of the Voight-Kampff test?
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Then, if Dekard is a replicant he would know. My point is Roy saving him is still equally important, wether he's human or not. He just saved a precious life
Biologic life? Some droids are more human then humans. More.. emphatic.
I love the fact that Batman The Animated Series, had the actor, William Sanderson
(J.F Sebastian), voiced the character, Karl Rossum, who ended up making replicants in two episodes of the show, as nice nod to Blade Runner.
Hello from 2025, Blade Runner the series premieres in the summer. Filmed in Prague!
Even Akira is taking place in 2019
karim tanfous And The Running Man
Can't wait until Watiti's remake moves it on up to 2069
Akira actually took inspiration from Blade Runner
@Joseph Thornton And the Tokyo Olympics in 2020
@@Vaisin
No wonder I love both movies
This is my favorite movie of all time. I watch it every year with my dad, and we always pour some scotch when Deckard drinks in his apartment. It is THE cult movie
I miss drinking with my dad 😢
@@scramblesthedeathdealer Those memories with your Dad, unlike tears in rain, will never be lost in time. Cherish them
@@ptcrusa I always will. Thank you for your encouraging words.
Mine too. Flawless cinema, IMO.
My absolute favorite film as well, nothing can beat it
Like our video store?
- It's artificial?
Of course it is.
-Must be expensive.
Very...
Is this testing whether I'm a Replicant or a lesbian Mr. Decker...
Blade Runner is a beautiful and grim film. It's sad and cold and inspiring. The score is wonderful and it's beautiful to see. It's a dream and a nightmare.
"This movie's all style over substance"
James: "Well, some people would debate you on that."
Gotta love how quickly James catches stupid shit and shuts it down immediately.
But, it is. 100%. This movie is for people who can look at pretty things for 2 hours, then convince themselves that they are the smartest person in the room for liking it.
@atd8vii Idk I thought a story about a man slowly regaining his humanity while trying to hunt down robots who desperately want to have their humanity interesting but to each their own.
no, Jim was wrong
I always thought Blade Runner was in reference to him always in danger and running on the line between humanity and inhumanity.
Fore Skin Jobs- Gives Blade Runner a whole new meaning.
Skin Jobs, Are Replicants.
Brisrunner
Deckard from the book would probably love Goat Simulator
Oh and "more human than human" is a Nietzsche reference.
or a rob zombie reference if you prefer :P
The more you know...
@@R3X_BUTT The more you know, the less you don't know.
Nietzsche*
@@smoshbooz What's that? Whozit? Did you say 'eat me'?
That was the best intro ever on Rental Reviews. Thumbs up for nailing that scene!
Speaking of re edition, Star Wars A New Hope version for Disney+, has a new recut of the Han/Greedo encounter, now they both shoot at the same time.
For the love of Super Mecha Death Christ, just let Greedo die in peace...
They have both shot at the same time since the dvd version I think. The Disney+ version added the extra line from Greedo before they shoot.
Maclunkee!
I love that you guys have a copy of Heavyweights sitting in the front there...PLEASE do a rental review of this Disney classic, the world needs to know. Keep the great content coming!
November 2019 is here
rip rutger hauer
We will forever revel in your time
I'm 100% certain that I've seen Blade Runner more times than any other film
Same here...i promise.
Same here. It might be tied with the original Star Wars as my most watched film
I can almost quote the whole movie.
Same
And you still don't know what the hells going on. Unicorn?..
Blade Runner is incredible. The book was amazing, the movie was insanely good, the PC Game is one of the best games and Blade Runner 2049 is an awesome sequel. Didnt get much better then this!
Never played the game but I agree with everything else
@@davidnolan6162 It's really hard to come by these days and even if you get a second hand copy, it will not install on 64bit Windows.
There is an illegal version that runs somewhat on modern systems but ya know, can't discuss that here :P
But the game is great, it does not follow the story of the movie but does borrows heavily from it it's kinda weird...
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan It is recently been released on gog after scummvm support has been conpleted.
There is also the visual novel, which is top notch.
@@khululyp Blade Runner (1997 game) is now available on GoG and runs perfectly on Windows 7,8,10 64-bit. No issues as all. There is even a remaster coming up.
I LOVED the game blade runner for the pc back in the day, played that game a billion times which actually led me to the actual movie + books
Westwood Studios, man!
Never beat the game but it eas awesome and it take place at the same time of the movie
Same
Ya was such a good game! Westwood was the shit. It was pretty awesome that the game changed on multiple playthroughs and had multiple endings too, should check out yt vids for it
The idea that the unicorn dream was test or stock footage from Legend is a common urban legend, it's not actually true. Personally I like that hint that Deckard might be a replicant
Jesse Friesen agreed, it’s necessary in order for the average viewer to question what humanity really is.
Where the line is drawn? When does a created being cross that line? Do humans only come from mothers? Does origin define existence? Does belief? Upbringing? Does experience?
@@crackedupmonk
1 when you were created in a factory
2 never
3 yes, not necessary to create machines that do what a human can for much cheaper
4 no
5 it can
6 yes, among other things
Exactly. The pitch for Legend did not come up until 1982, and while Blade Runner was released in 1982, it was shot in 1981. Ridley Scott simply had a thing for unicorns, apparently.
When people talk about Blade Runner, I immediately think about Iron Maiden’s “Somewhere In Time” album
One of the best Maiden albuns
I think about Fear Factory. Like, Demanufacture, Genexus, and especially the closer of the latter album, Expiration Date.
I always thought about perfect dark instead, it had alot of inspiration from this film
When Maiden toured in 86-87, they used the Blade Runner theme as an opener.
“He say you bwade wunna”
Tell him I'm eating.
...oing-dee-boing gun der flip der floppin.
You know the score, pal!
@@oaktree2406 You're little people!
@@CaveyMoth I'm not cop so I guess I am...
There is a line when his talking to "the girl" and he's telling her a memorie from her childhood woith a spider, he explains that they put the memories in her and they also decide what she dreams.
Also he has a picture of his love partner, or his mother or something and is a link he has of the past, he wonders if it's real you can tell
If you haven't watched this movie before I recommend you only see the 1982 theatrical version and the 2007 final cut, all another cuts are pointless and unnecessary imo....
i agree completely. I'd recommend starting with the original theatrical version... and then maybe watching the final cut.
The theatrical is unnecessary.
Agree, but The international cut and the Final cut. Theatrical cut has violence cut out, which the international cut kept.
Agreed 100%
This movie has a perfect atmosphere
Vangelis is the composing beast
The music is genious at the very least
Best thing come out of Greece
Since Feta cheese.
And here's another neat tidbit about Vangelis: he was never formally educated in music. Yet, IMO, he kicks Yanni's butt.
*genius
Blade Runner...where would the cinematic world be without this amazing movie
someplace better than 20 years late sequels, reboot, remakes and rebooted remakes
I absolutely love the Harrison Ford narrative version
For the love of God, let James finish a sentence 🤦♂️
The Real Chris Brah That’s the one thing that bothers me about this show
@Lonewolfg13 Wtf are talking about? Tony is one of the most knowledgeable and objective of the bunch besides the only one who looks like he's having fun, the other guys regularly look like if the reviews were a chore or think movies are bad just because they're aren't pc...
Ugh, wtf is with all the Tony hate!?
Indeed! He needs to lose these two idiots.
James is super polite and generous, he doesn't talk over other people too much, he gives up space for the others.
Rental Reviews is my favorite Cinemassicre series, and Blade Runner is my favorite Scifi film. Thanks guys.
Upon hearing the name Blade Runner always makes me think about being in a rough situation like being on a razor's edge. This is maybe because of the fact that we have kind of the same metaphor in Hungarian: dancing on a knife's or razor's edge. :)
Please bring back rental reviews.
I like to think that all the Atari logos foretold the brilliance of the VCS.
Not the new VCS. The console that will never be made. I think it fortells that Atari will go out of business. Again.
This movie inspired and continues to inspire Cyberpunk properties to this day, but Snatcher is definitely my favorite video game created as a result. Also..the best Christmas video game as well!
I like how Justin claims to be a fan of anime but fails to mention the Bubblegum Crisis OVA as an inspiration.
Cyber City OEDO 808
Armitage III
Damn! 2049 was just ok? It was my favorite film of 2017! It took a new mystery in the same beautiful universe and created an incredible tale.
"It's all style over substance "?
What?
He's right
Beautiful cool movie but really it makes no sense and the story is just ehh.
I'm so insanely pumped that James is even addressing Blade Runner. For years, I've always thought "Blade Runner is relevant to exactly this thing they're addressing on Cinemassacre," and then, nothing, until that quick reference in the Rental Review for, I think, The Fifth Element.
It’s crazy that Roy Batty and Rutger Hauer both died in 2019 RIP
Damn Family Values tour 98 vhs. I still have mine and the album. Never got to a family values till 2006 tho
"I have seen things you people wouldn't believe..."
Style over substance???? GTFOH!!! 😂😂
I know right the movie is incredibly deep smh
Seriously. Glad someone else said it. Sheesh.
“Style over substance?” Why is he even here? Seriously.
CaptainCroutons ya I can see both sides. There is more going on in the substance I feel but the style really stands out and may overshadow the plot to some.
It's got a lot of both. Heavy style and Heavy substance.
If you aren't bright enough to see the substance than you only see the style
He thinks Johnny Mnemonic is "fantastic".. nuff said.
I wanted to reach into my computer screen and slap him in the face...
The book Neuromancer by William Gibson is the granddaddy of all cyberpunk. EVERYTHING in EVERY cyberpunk story can be traced back to Neuromancer. But I guess more people have seen Blade Runner.
Well, Blade Runner came out two years prior to the publication of Neuromancer. But Neuromancer is awesome and anyone who likes Blade Runner and similar movies should give it a try.
@@jamesfanshawe6807 johnny mnemonic and burning chrome came out prior to blade runner and was the bases for nueromancer. The cyberpunk settings were developed independently.
17:03 Holy shit, the second you said that it immediately clicked in my head. Granted, I've seen Blade Runner 100 times and I just watched House on Haunted Hill during my 31 day October horror movie marathon.
This is most gorgeous movie I have ever seen, everything feels so real.
That Heavyweights VHS has been staring at me for awhile now.
Staring into your SOOOOULLLLL. LOL
That Windows 95 instructional video with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry keeps staring at me.
A few months back when someone mentioned the movie in an offhand comment, I immediately thought, "They gotta review that!" One day... (and that Time Travel.....The Bible. lolwut)
That movie is great but the with how sensitive people are about body appearance these days it’s been cast aside. I news a husky kid but I was never taught to be a victim so I always loved it.
Ben Stiller was such an ass lmao
I am SO FRIGGIN' happy Mac N Me AND Milk Duds is always in frame now! The memories man...
The KoRn Family Values tour VHS!!!! WOW I had that back in the day!
Hard disagree on him being a replicant not having a point. It’s meant to basically get the post Across that replicants are for all intents and purposes humans or the same as humans, with the same fears and desires. As for it working or not in 2049, him and Rachel were obviously a special kind of replicant so I don’t think it’s that far out of the question that they would have no expectation date.
"what is the point of being human?"
"if creations can created something has soul, could be the creator was also created?"
all Ridley Scott's films have this message, especially in the new Alien films
The new "alien movies" are garbage. Wish he hadn't strayed and focused so hard on his god complex.
I'm a huge fan of the alien movies but the new ones are so confusing.
I'm happy you guys sat down to talk about this movie. On a side note I lost my mind laughing seeing a DVD standing up of Code Monkeys. I have it in my collection and it's sad season two was never released on DVD
"It's all style over substance" ....come on Justin.
Thank you for talking about one of my favorite movies of all time. More people must watch this movie and appreciate it for what it is.
The Chronological Viewing Order is :
01) Predator
02) Predator 2
03) Predator 3 (Predators)
04) Alien vs Predator
05) Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
06) Predator 4 (The Predator)
07) Prometheus
08) Alien Covenant
09) or 10) Alien
10) or 09) Blade Runner
11) Aliens
12) Alien 3
13) Soldier
14) Blade Runner 2049
15) Alien Resurrection
I gotta do this
I dig it. Imma make this chick sit through all this. She gon hate it. By the end maybe she’ll forget she hates my nerd shit
Ridley Scott did cinematic universes before it was cool.
I miss this series.
I can't believe that the version that's on Netflix is the one with the shitty Ford narration.
Also, RIP Rutger Hauer :(
The Hitcher is his best role.
@@wildbob Alright, edgelord, calm down.
Does the final cut have the narration?
Does the final cut have narration?
No. Final Cut is truly the best version.
Ridley Scott said that part of his inspiration for the look of future LA was the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, specifically the area outside of Shinjuku station. And if you've ever been there at night you can see what he was talking about.
I feel like it's what influenced dark city along side hell raiser
Maybe it influenced Dark City's look a little bit. The story not so much.
You guys murdered this one. Pearls before swine is the saying that comes to mind.
Deckard isn’t confirmed to be or not to be a replicant because it doesn’t matter if he is or not which is the message of the movie. It works better as a mystery.
I love the Unicorn concept and execution
Hard to believe this movie doesn’t take place in the future anymore since it’s already 2019 😂
Well it takes place 5 days in the future so we'll see if we catch up I guess. Lol
Alternate reality now.
We've got five days to create superhuman Androids...
It's going to be an all nighter people we're through the looking Glass.
@@PACKERMAN2077 well maybe Boston Dynamique have a hidden perfect human like robot or maybe all employe of B.D are advance robot who know?
A lot of movies are like that, set in 'the future' and now we have caught up to them.
Back to the Future, 2001 A space odyssey (and 2010 The year we make contact)
I'm sure there are others.
Blade runner is one of my favorite movies of all time
What a masterpiece that inspired so many other movies!
Getting that sweet notification that a new episode of rental review is up and seeing Justin is like coming across the three stooges and realizing it's a shemp.
My fav movie of all time hands down. I dont think theres a single movie ive watched more than Bladerunner. Music setting characters are amazing. And sequel is amazing as well.
Blade Runner is literally one of the only movies I can watch over and over year after year.
It becomes something I don't even exactly directly pay attention to it anymore.
A few years ago when I invested in a throttle and joystick to play Elite Dangerous I'd always put Blade Runner on on a secondary monitor to soothe and add to the atmosphere.
Probably my favorite movie ever. I like dystopian fiction, and noir settings...so this is just the right amount of everything. Rain and night, neon lights, dreary, slow scenes with lights flashing by... not too many explanations... I saw this movie as a very young kid, so it really influenced how I see ...well..the world, I guess. Science, progress, society, humanity...ethics, empathy. What are those, what can we do, what is ideal? How can we judge something that we create for being too alike to us? A machine does not commit homicide. It's in the word.
I feel this movie posed many questions that were left to the viewer to answer. In a sense that is where much of the substance of the movie is derived. Ridley Scott has a special ability to give the viewer just enough to interpret their own questions and meanings for what is happening in the film. That is why there is so much dead air in this film. Ridley is allowing us to ponder the deeper thoughts and emotions that all truly make us more human than human.
Sean young was my roll model in the 90's
I have been waiting for this rental review for a long time!
Thank you, Cinemassacre and Friends!
I wish they kept the desire to own a real animal from the book in the movie.
I was always under the impression that Deckard was a replicant in the original and I felt it was elaborated on in 2049. Also a little disappointed the rumored link to the Alien franchise wasn't discussed here.
Me and two friends got the idea to watch this today a couple of months ago, it’s cool you guys are doing it too!
James, honestly, you DO NOT sympathize with Roy Batty when he does the "tears in the rain" monologue? Really??
Easily done, he received next to no characterization, we see nothing of the memories he speaks of so it's hard to care about them, and it sounds whiny and overly dramatic
What an intro! fantastic work as always lads
Foreskin jobs
Director's cut
In the book, The androids don't feel empathy but, Deckard does feel empathy for his targets....this kinda tips him off that he might be an android himself....this is a central irony of the story. Does it mean that the androids actually CAN feel empathy?.....and does the fact that humans assume they don't, allow humans the luxury of treating the androids as property.....as commodities.
This is one of my top fave movies a timeless classic
No he didn't make up the stuff about the Tanhouser gate and C beams, he added the part, "All those moments will be lost like tears in the rain".
Fun Fact: *_Blade Runner has finally invented a new kind of genre called..._*
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Sir Friendship Hey You! Did Hans Zimmer’s Blade Runner 2049 soundtrack not sound good enough to convey that beautiful cyberpunk aesthetic? Listen to Birth of a New Day by 2814 and your ears will be filled with A E S T H E T I C
@@amiibeau4622 2814 is so good. Really gets that dystopian vibe down nice.
Dystopian Cyberpunk, actually
To me, why the Rental Reviews series hit and why the podcast didn’t hit is because James interjected more and brought more ideas to the table in Rental Reviews due to his passion related to film.
Missed a good punchline “a lot less rain. Plenty of tears though”
24:00 I love that James is not forgetting that promise to review Raid 2020 in 2020, from the Bible Games 2 AVGN episode.
“I want more life. Fucker”
A film I do have a soft spot for, I can always sit down and watch it.
To quote Razorfist about Deckard's humanity or lack thereof..
"If he is, I think Blade Runner is a much more thin, vapid science fiction film than if Deckard is human.
As a film about a cop who hunts down false humans, and in so doing loses his humanity… only to have it redeemed by his budding relationship with one of the very replicants he’s sworn to kill? And solidified by the messianic sacrifice of his arch nemesis, the leader of the rogue replicants, Roy Batty? It’s quirky sci-fi, rife with knotty, philosophical dilemmas and a solid main character arc.
If it’s a film about a dude who doesn’t know he’s a robot… hunting down other robots? Then it’s pretty to look at, and there’s a gimmicky twist at the end."
I've got to agree with the man.
I live in Philadelphia, like James, and when its late and I'm driving back into town past the oil refinery with the cityscape lit up a few miles off, I often put on the Blade Runner soundtrack and imagine it's the future. Blade Runner is just such an ambience, a futuristic world that doesn't yet exist.
I have a copy of the Final Cut on DVD.
So you must have heard him say, 'I want more life, father." Instead of, "I want more life, ****er."
@@CaveyMoth no way. That's not an actual change is it?
@@anequallygoodchannel.2761 I own the Ultimate Edition that includes every cut and I just checked that scene. He does indeed say "Fucker" in the Theatrical Cuts and the Directors Cut. Interestingly, the German dub says "Vater" (father) in all versions.
@@countzero2405 oh my god 😂
Thanks for looking 🙂
I wonder why they changed it though.
The timing on the reviewing of the this movie could not be more perfect!
That Family Values Tour VHS in front of James is the messed up one where the singer from Rammstein....Relieves himself on the crowd... Still less disgusting than listening to Limp Bizkit.
Ashamed to admit I owned it.
@@dasninjastix I rented it several times, don't know which is worse.
What does "off the crowd" mean?
@@jojoface4940 "on" the crowd.
1998 was a crazy year.
I thank you all so much for your time and hard work. I really appreciate it.
"Hard work"? Bahahahahahah!