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anyone else think it's a bit overrated visually?


Don't get me wrong, this was a pretty good movie, and the imagery in it was generally pretty solid. But I fail to see it as some sort of "visual masterpiece" all the critics are saying it is.

It's a good-looking film, but I don't consider it anywhere near on par with the original in terms of aesthetic beauty. Whereas every scene was gorgeously lit and photographed in Ridley Scott's film, here, a lot of the scenes set in interiors looked quite flat and dull to me. Basically, any scene set in either K's apartment or the police station looked really quite boring and uninteresting. The lighting is nowhere near as moody or atmospheric as Deckard's apartment or the police station from the original.

Like I said, it's still a pretty good-looking movie. But compared to the original, I would say only about 85% of it is attractive whereas I don't recall a single shot from the Ridley Scott film that wasn't visually orgasmic.

Anyone else felt the same way or was it just me?

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You're comparing it to the masterful original, so it will not seem special... However, compared to other movies released this year, it's one of the best looking by far...

Dunkirk gives it a run for the money, but not many others compare this year... Mother! was very interesting visually and had great cinematography, but is not beautiful...

I haven't seen The Florida Project yet, but heard it looks good...

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and what's wrong with comparing it to the original?¡

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There's nothing wrong with it, but it's a bit like comparing a woman to her supermodel mother... It will skew what one thinks of her "relative" apearance...

2049 is better looking than the vast majority of movies this year, but it isn't as beautiful as the original, which is one of the all time iconic looking movies.

Yeah, it's not a visual masterpeice, but does look good and approrpiate to it's story...

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2049 looks exactly like any other movie in 2017, even the cheap ones. There is literally nothing special about it. What you are afflicted with now is the current epidemic: Presentism, with a toxic dose of revisionism. Why must the past be forgotten?? Everything new needs to be compared to what came before, it's the only way to get PERSPECTIVE.

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I thought it looked atrocious, and I find all this talk about visual geniuses hilarious because there hasn't been any since Kubrick's death, deal with it. People saying otherwise are just following today's presentist ideologies or lobotomized.

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Just out of curiosity, are you a fan of Rob Ager by any chance?

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I don't know who that is.

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Nope.

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The original was ugly and extremely boring.

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Ghost in the Shell looked better and had superior CGI.

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