Nippon Television has just acquired Studio Ghibli

Re:Nippon Television has just acquired Studio Ghibli by jncfhnb on Thursday September 21, 2023 @03:45PM (#37603153)

Idk. I thought the hooker scene and the android test scene were phenomenal and interesting. If the first one asked if synthetic life could be human, this one seemed to argue that it’s arguably inevitable if the beings are living real lives; and the ultimate meaningless of the distinction. I thought that was great.

I agree Ford and Leto were distractions to the detriment of the film. Would have been fine as an independent original film and not blade runner although the reflections of the original did help highlight the themes.

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Re:Nippon Television has just acquired Studio Ghibli by the_af on Thursday September 21, 2023 @04:44PM (#37604044)

The hooker scene did nothing for me, but the replicant alignment test was interesting. I think K was an interesting character.

I do agree there were some good questions asked by the film (just not anything to do with Wallace's "vision" -- boy did this ruin the movie for me!).

> Would have been fine as an independent original film and not blade runner

Yes. I would have received this way better had it been an original film with echoes of Blade Runner (so I would have been spared, for example, the ridiculous execution of clone-Rachael) instead of an official sequel.

I can accept "I'm a director who admires Blade Runner and want to do a film that is a homage to it", but cannot accept "I want to do Blade Runner 2".

For the record, I think Villeneuve is a good director and also think this was a genuine attempt at doing something good. It just happens that it was a bad idea, doomed to fail.

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