I like Blade Runner 2049 a lot. It's a terrific piece of future mood, a peerless showcase for cinematography and unintrusive VFX, and a poignant meditation on humanity. But it's also saddled with the baggage of the first film, and in that respect I think it's a bad sequel. I would like it more as a standalone film.
The first Blade Runner is all of those things - mood, cinematography, VFX, themes - with none of the added weight to drag it down. Considering that the the first BR also refined the template for essentially all of those things in sci-fi cinema, I give the edge to the original.
The first Blade Runner is all of those things - mood, cinematography, VFX, themes - with none of the added weight to drag it down. Considering that the the first BR also refined the template for essentially all of those things in sci-fi cinema, I give the edge to the original.