Blade runner
whats left to say? A film as important to modern science fiction cinema and modern cyberpunk as any I can think of, made as a big budget, high concept art movie. Also a terrible adaptation of the Phillip K Dick source material. A film where there's something like seven different cuts as the definitive one took 20 years to reach us. Its a film that tanked heavily at the box office but found its audience over time. Admittedly a mess in many ways yet manages to find moments of poetic beauty in-between the melancholy. Its one of my favourite Sci-fi pictures for its world building alone and in spite of its flaws it still works somehow.
Blade Runner 2049
While doing nothing original, Blade Runner 2049 still does it well enough to be recommended. Part of the problem is that since the original came out, the cyberpunk genre has been well mined, to the point that the stuff that might have felt more fresh back in the mid eighties now feels like you've seen it before.
However. It's still a great movie. Visually its one of the most jaw-dropping things I've seen and needs to be seen on the biggest screen you can see it on. Ryan Gosling is astonishing, but I'll say no more as you need to go into this blind. The attention to detail is amazing, with the technology looking very much like an advancement of the stuff in the first film to the point it feels a little retro. Atari and pan am still advertise and all the little details work to make the film feel like a genuine sequel and set in the same universe.
Overall its not perfect but I would happily recommend it.
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