What film did you watch last night?

Blade Runner 2049 - 8.5/10. Awesome, really enjoyed this. The story, the cinematography and they kept the right amount of Deckard and kept the whole world/story faithful to the original (ish!).

One question though...................i get Deckard and RG want to keep the girls location/ID a secret for now. Buuuuut, why did Wallace/Leto and his fembot want to dissect the daughter? I thought they would want to show off the girl to the world to show replicants are not just androids but living things. I get why the cops wanted her dead, but not the motivation for the 'company'.

Any thoughts?
 
ivrytwr3 said:
Blade Runner 2049 - 8.5/10. Awesome, really enjoyed this. The story, the cinematography and they kept the right amount of Deckard and kept the whole world/story faithful to the original (ish!).

One question though...................i get Deckard and RG want to keep the girls location/ID a secret for now. Buuuuut, why did Wallace/Leto and his fembot want to dissect the daughter? I thought they would want to show off the girl to the world to show replicants are not just androids but living things. I get why the cops wanted her dead, but not the motivation for the 'company'.

Any thoughts?
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Rachel is a female replicant who can have children, and the daughter should carry those same genes/construction. By studying the daughter, Wallace hopes to learn how to get replicants to breed. Wallace can only manufacture Replicants in relatively small numbers, but if they can breed and make more replicants, then Wallace will have a huge slave army that he can use to drive and control humanity to greater heights and to further colonise the stars. Wallace believes that every civilisation has used slave labour to expand and be prosperous, and him supplying the means will put him effectively in control of human civilisation and expansion.

Wallace doesn't want to show the world that replicants are "living things" he wants to show that they are just manufactured animals that he can do what he wants with and by extension, so can the rest of humanity, but only under his control and guidance.
 
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Ah, thanks for that. So he is not interested in showing their humanity, just interested in colonising/conquering - i get that now, but that has raised another question. Why is fembot supporting this? Supporting killing the first replicant which gave birth; one of her own kind.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
Ah, thanks for that. So he is not interested in showing their humanity, just interested in colonising/conquering - i get that now, but that has raised another question. Why is fembot supporting this? Supporting killing the first replicant which gave birth; one of her own kind.
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Because Luv is programmed to obey, and knows that she has no value as a person to Wallace. She's just his enforcer - another tool to action his wishes, to be thrown away and disposed of if she fails.
 
meh! The other replicants were programmed to obey but still had their own minds, also she had feelings as she shed a tear when she thought the child had been killed (convo with police chief).
 
Watched Bridge of Spies on Netflix last night.
Thought it was a very good film and of course based on truth.

Nice change to other outright action movies!
On the other hand also just watched Charles Bronson in The Mechanic. In some ways, better than the original from a story point, but again less outright action.
Quite enjoy some of the older action films with less just guns and explosions.
 
Mon: Geostorm 2/10. Really is as bad as they say. Predictable tired plot with low budget special effects. Gerard Butler once again doing his mid-Atlantic/cartoon American accent, since 300 the apple really has fallen far from the tree. A tedious sub-story about sibling rivalry. At best a brain in neutral "dog and a beer movie" but in truth two hours of dental work would have been more entertaining.

Tue: Jigsaw (the new one) 8/10. Actually quite entertaining and a clever time twist at the end, even if the protagonist not strictly playing by the rules. After the squashed heads and torn asunder bodies of the last couple of outings, the gore actually quite restrained - more along the lines of the first two movies.
 
ajf said:
On the other hand also just watched Charles Bronson in The Mechanic. In some ways, better than the original from a story point, but again less outright action.
Quite enjoy some of the older action films with less just guns and explosions.
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Is Charles Branson not the original?
 
ivrytwr3 said:
meh! The other replicants were programmed to obey but still had their own minds, also she had feelings as she shed a tear when she thought the child had been killed (convo with police chief).
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Probably more suited to the BR2049 thread, but my reading of it is that Luv is biding her time to overthrow Wallace when the time is right and become "Queen of the replicants".
 
nands said:
Shaun of the Dead - still the funniest zombie film out there, can't fault the teamwork involved from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright. 4/5
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Zombieland gives it a run for its money - soon Zombieland 2, I understand
Looking at utube excerpts of Amazon series, that looks junk by comparison ?

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I watched the Shape of Water, I thought it was pretty
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why ? most of us who have commented here rated it
 
Black Panther - this film almost feels like it has to be looked at in two ways depending on how it is viewed. It is either another quite fun edition in the MCU or a groundbreaking milestone in black cinema. I really feel that it is the former and cannot see how 'important' it is, but then I am a white person from the UK. Reading about some reactions to the film it is obviously being seen as some as a cultural phenomenon, for me it was a better than average comic book film. 3/5
 
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Black Panther - this film almost feels like it has to be looked at in two ways depending on how it is viewed. It is either another quite fun edition in the MCU or a groundbreaking milestone in black cinema. I really feel that it is the former and cannot see how 'important' it is, but then I am a white person from the UK. Reading about some reactions to the film it is obviously being seen as some as a cultural phenomenon, for me it was a better than average comic book film. 3/5
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I find it hilarious when you read comments (many similar ones) that state 'finally a black superhero and not a background character'. Yeah, think you will find there was a trilogy of them the first of which was released just short of 20 years ago!
 
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