Denis Villeneuve reacts to ‘Blade Runner 2049’ bad box office, stands by spoiler-phobic marketing

Well, seeing a film here at the movies is approx $60 for two people for tickets and a drink/popcorn. Three hours is also a considerable amount of time since my partner works late, so we'd be out til midnight, or spending our one day off together at a movie that he probably wouldn't like. So I need to consider if it's worth the cost. There are some trailers that make me rush to see a film regardless of this, and the new Bladerunner trailer wasn't one of them, and the few short clips I saw weren't either. All I could glean from it is that Ryan Gosling has sought out Harrison Ford many years later, then random fast-paced clips of chase scenes, atmospheric images of the world, maybe a replicant corporation, and a girl who is probably a replicant. I'm just not sold. I even watched the short films commissioned that were set in the same universe, in the style of Animatrix and liked them. The most interesting thing I've seen about them the film was in this link, which is that it explores the question of K's humanity. If this had been hinted at earlier I probably would have seen it by now. Typically when I'm not sure I wait for friends or reviewers who like the same films to see it before I decide.

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