I've never seen it all in one sitting, I've seen most parts on TV, I've seen the ending on YouTube a ton of times. I always knew what the movie was about but never sat through it from start to finish. Finally did, very good movie. I love Carrey in dramatic roles.
Don't wanna see it but I am curious who the killer was, my guess it was herself or something? Kinda like the movie Triangle. DM/Rep comment it if you dont wanna spoil it for everyone else.
One of the best films of the year. Its about a young women found dead on an Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Great performance from Jeremy Renner. It's sort of a drama/mystery. I think you guys will dig this one. It also stars Elizabeth Olsen, she's pretty darn good too.
I watched it on Saturday.... I liked it, but not sure it is 5/5 or 10/10 great.
I would give it a 7/10... the plot was pretty linear the entire way thru.... it basically said "Oh, maybe this is what happened" and then ten minutes later it was like "Yep that's right, that's what happened!"
Renner and Olsen were good, but other than two scenes neither character was in any danger/suspense.
I am being intentionally vague to avoid spoiling, but I will put my breakdown in spoiler tags:
1. A girl appears to have been sexually assaulted and died out in the snow.... yep
2. Nearest place is an oil rig, maybe it was someone there?... yep her bf works there with a security force
3. Maybe these security guys know something and/or were in on it.... yep, find the bf dead
4. Maybe they will try to kill the FBI agent (Olsen) and her Cop escort.... 2 minutes later.... yep they do
5. Oh I bet Renner, who is nearby with his sniper rifle, will save Olsen by sniping the bad guys.... yep, he does.
6. The one main rapist guy got away, I bet Renner will find him and dispense justice as he promised earlier in the movie.... yep, he does exactly that.
I mean at no point was there any mystery or deception or deeper conspiracy.... every character did exactly as you would expect through the entire story.
It was well executed, but it would be like calling a cheese pizza a 10/10 meal.... I mean you can execute the dough/sauce/cheese perfectly and it might be good, but at the end of the day it is not a 10/10 meal.... it is a cheese pizza that was done well.
I watched it on Saturday.... I liked it, but not sure it is 5/5 or 10/10 great.
I would give it a 7/10... the plot was pretty linear the entire way thru.... it basically said "Oh, maybe this is what happened" and then ten minutes later it was like "Yep that's right, that's what happened!"
Renner and Olsen were good, but other than two scenes neither character was in any danger/suspense.
I am being intentionally vague to avoid spoiling, but I will put my breakdown in spoiler tags:
1. A girl appears to have been sexually assaulted and died out in the snow.... yep
2. Nearest place is an oil rig, maybe it was someone there?... yep her bf works there with a security force
3. Maybe these security guys know something and/or were in on it.... yep, find the bf dead
4. Maybe they will try to kill the FBI agent (Olsen) and her Cop escort.... 2 minutes later.... yep they do
5. Oh I bet Renner, who is nearby with his sniper rifle, will save Olsen by sniping the bad guys.... yep, he does.
6. The one main rapist guy got away, I bet Renner will find him and dispense justice as he promised earlier in the movie.... yep, he does exactly that.
I mean at no point was there any mystery or deception or deeper conspiracy.... every character did exactly as you would expect through the entire story.
It was well executed, but it would be like calling a cheese pizza a 10/10 meal.... I mean you can execute the dough/sauce/cheese perfectly and it might be good, but at the end of the day it is not a 10/10 meal.... it is a cheese pizza that was done well.
I found the message at the end of the movie very disconnected from the content of the movie itself.
The movie wasn't about an abundance of missing Native American women.... and this 1 case in the movie was allocated an FBI agent who lobbied for an entire team to be sent in.
If the message was that Native American women going missing is under reported and/or under investigated.... the movie failed to make me think that.
Perhaps if Renner had wound up needing to do it alone and/or he dies trying to solve the crime along with the FBI agent?
The movie leads you to believe if a Native American girl went missing or was killed that the FBI and local authorities can/would investigate and solve the crime quickly.
Even if they had something at the end with Olsen like trying to make a difference and attempting to dig up missing persons cases on reservations, but being unable to obtain such information and she has to admit to families that she can't do much to help.
The story was very much good guys find/kill bad guys, then some text at the end about missing Native American women.
But if Renner hadn't found the body when he did it would likely be just another unreported NA missing woman. But he found her and wanted to make sure she didn't suffer the same fate as the others. Him losing his daughter with no closure haunts him to this day.
But if Renner hadn't found the body when he did it would likely be just another unreported NA missing woman. But he found her and wanted to make sure she didn't suffer the same fate as the others. Him losing his daughter with no closure haunts him to this day.
I suppose if you take in the entire movie and go looking for how the movie's plot signifies the message at the end, then yes you might take it that way.
Keep in mind Renner's daughter was not a missing person.... they found her dead.
Natalie was not a missing person, they actually discuss why she wasn't reported missing, but don't even touch on perhaps that it would have been useless to report her missing or something that would tie to the message at the end.
You had 2 girls who were murdered.... they didn't really just go missing, they were murdered and found.
The movie to me speaks more to the lack of appropriate resources/law enforcement on NA reservations rather than a clear message pointing out how missing NA women is a problem that no one is solving.
They didn't present "missing women" as a problem, they presented murdered women as a problem and then they quickly and efficiently solved the one case of it in front of them.
There were probably a hundred chances for the scenes to involve Ben or Renner griping to Olsen about the abundance of missing persons cases that never get solved.... but they didn't.
Idk why you would intend to shed light on a problem with a movie that doesn't center around that problem.
The problem centered around 2 murdered girls.... 1 case was unsolved (Renner's daughter) and 1 case was solved (Natalie).... neither girl was missing forever.
I will add outside of spoiler... I enjoyed the movie, but I do not see it as tying to the message at the end very well.
I wanted so much to like this movie. I loved the original.
The original blade runner was a thinker, loaded with symbolism. (the only part that was a little dumbed down was the friggin dove. Hated that part.)
2049 moved at roughly the same pace as the original, plodding along with plenty of gaps in action... but there wasnt a ton of stuff to figure out or mull over during the down time. everything was handed to you on a silver platter.
The entire plot of the movie is a deus ex machina stemming from the conclusion of the original.
Instead of the plot building towards a grand statement on hope and the value of life and individuality, it devolves and resolves in an M. Night Shyamalan twist. Nothing more than a decent action movie.
* I should have known it was going to be a ham fisted mess half way through... there was a scene that keyed me in on it.
The Edward james olmos character Gaff was in this movie, and is being visited by the blade runner.
If you recall, Gaff provided the key symbolism at the end of the original.
Before Deckard escaped, as they were leaving his room, He finds that Gaff had been there while they slept- He was there to kill them, but chose not to (valuing all life). Instead, he leaves one of his oragami animals on the floor- a unicorn (symbolizing the unique and mythological nature of Rachel- no termination date).
... In the new movie, they visit Gaff in a nursing home to get information- he works on an oragami animal as they talk. At the end of the conversation, he places the animal on the table. It is a bull.
No matter what it was meant to represent in this movie, to me it represented the movie itself- a bull plowing through a china parlor with zero subtlety. actually made me laugh out loud.
I liked the new Blade Runner, especially the cinematography and world building/expansion from Ridley's Scott LA. Didn't like some aspects of the plot thought.
I thought Wallace(Jared Leto's character) was pretty awful(didn't even realize he was supposed to be blind. Was that more obvious than I thought?). I am also confused as to how Deckard could survive in that radioactive wasteland in Las Vegas, and what happened to that place. The movie was more about K's existential crisis,I get that, but I had no vested interest in the chick that made memories, even though she ended up being one of the most important characters in the whole thing. If they just leave the movie like it is, it seems incomplete. I kinda want a sequel.
I have heard that Gaff's origami was supposed to be a sheep, which makes more sense and alludes the novel that Blade Runner is based on, but it looked like a bull to me when I saw it in theaters.
I'm afraid to give the new Blade Runner a try. Namely because I love DADOES and dislike movies staring mickey mouse club members(because they are better promoted and hyped than actual skill. It's one of those scifi epics that deserves justice, and not some creative spin and bean-counting that make it into something that only seems accurate if you squint enough and try to ignore the 90% of changes made to it. I still can't believe how bad Ender's Game was, so I figure just ignoring all these shitty attempts at great scifi adaptations until they get vetted for a few years is the only way to filter out Hollywood trying to milk a cult fanbase.
And of course, if something is good enough to stand on it's own, they don't need to abuse the branding to get there.
It's worth a shot if you like road trip/finding yourself type movies. It's about traveling magazine salesman that travel across the United States. Aside from Shia LaBeouf the acting is shotty and the movie is longer than it should be.
I liked the new Blade Runner, especially the cinematography and world building/expansion from Ridley's Scott LA. Didn't like some aspects of the plot thought.
I thought Wallace(Jared Leto's character) was pretty awful(didn't even realize he was supposed to be blind. Was that more obvious than I thought?). I am also confused as to how Deckard could survive in that radioactive wasteland in Las Vegas, and what happened to that place. The movie was more about K's existential crisis,I get that, but I had no vested interest in the chick that made memories, even though she ended up being one of the most important characters in the whole thing. If they just leave the movie like it is, it seems incomplete. I kinda want a sequel.
I have heard that Gaff's origami was supposed to be a sheep, which makes more sense and alludes the novel that Blade Runner is based on, but it looked like a bull to me when I saw it in theaters.
I was disappointed with the movie. Pierce Brosnan and Jackie Chan were really good in this movie. I didn’t expect Jackie Chan to be that good in a serious role. The movie tried to be a revenge story and a political thriller at the same time and it just didn’t always work out.
Finished up season 2 of Stranger Things and besides a momentum slowing 7th episode I thought the second season was tremendous. I liked the first season but didn't love it, but I kinda loved this season. The season finale ending was really rewarding.
