Attention fanboys, this is literally Musk’s lifelong modus operandi. Super genius indeed.

The emails reveal Musk was originally on board with making the startup less open-sourced and profitable, even though he is now suing OpenAI for those reasons. The key difference is that Musk is no longer in charge.

Sure, guy

Dune has been among my favourite books for a very long time. This is the best adaption that finally does justice to the epic scale of the story. I love both of these movies and I am fan of Villeneuve’s other work.

Also Harrison Ford giving a real performance since....I dunno honestly. Too many years.

No, it’s not. As I explained. (shrug)

I can’t disagree. Ridley’s best films outpace Tony’s best (only by a little in some cases) but Tony’s were pretty much all bangers. Unstoppable remains one of the films I’ve probably watched the most. Any time it’s on tv I’ll stop and just watch. Although Black Hawk Down is probably tied on that count. 

Maybe adding extra flavor to those night terrors is the fact that Ridley Scott himself has expressed regrets over not helming the follow-up to his 1982 classic; just last year, the Napoleon filmmaker said timing conflicts meant he was forced to choose between Alien: Covenant and Blade Runner 2049: “I shouldn’t have…

I think he just means that he won’t be contributing to any more pre-established cinematic worlds. Dune is not a continuation of any previous film. He’s not beholden to what Lynch did, or to the Sci Fi Channel miniseries, or even to the books. He can make his own choices without worrying about whether it lines up with…

I’ve said before: It’s a movie so good that Jared Leto isn’t annoying. Sure the part could have been played by absolutely anybody, but technically correct is the best kind of correct after all.

Everytime I think of the quality of Ridley Scott’s movies I can’t help but bring in his brother’s filmography to make a comparison. Ridley definitely has the more iconic, classic, all time movies on his resume but I feel Tony was the consistently better film maker. Were all of Tony’s movies going to be classics,…

Yeah, as I said in my own post, I think that a lot of what Blade Runner did is so groundbreaking that it’s an absolute masterpiece, but in terms of telling a compelling story about characters with interesting emotional arcs, I think that 2049 is the better movie. The original gets by on vibes a lot.

Blade Runner is an absolute masterpiece, and the techniques used in filming it are both still amazing today and likely never to be recreated because of the painstaking work that went into them. But as a film that tells the stories of characters with emotional arcs, 2049 is better.

I think Blade Runner can be groundbreaking, and 2049 can still be a better film. I'm not sure I agree that it is, but I don't think those are mutually exclusive ideas.

BR2049 had Jared Leto in it and the movie didn’t suck and Jared Leto didn’t suck (for that one brief moment). I don’t know how Denis can do the impossible and walk away with doubts.

Ridley will always be an absolute legend. But BR2049 is so superior to anything he’s created in the last 15 years, we are deeply lucky that things worked out the way they did. 

BR 2049 is both a sci-fi classic AND superior to the original imo, box office be damned. Lay your burden down, Villeneuve.

Well if it’s any consolation, 2049 is better than the first and I’m really glad Scott - for as much as I love a lot of his work - didn’t do it. It needed a fresh visionary director on it and was better for it.

So...Bladerunner 2049 is fantastic.  Blew my mind when I saw it, and I always find something else to appreciate each time I watch it.  Denis should be proud of 2049.  

Maybe if we’re lucky, the final shot of the movie will be a pan out from the Enterprise revealing it to be in actuality a model in a snow globe held by Picard’s son as he sit in on another session with Counselor Troi.