But that wasn’t a plot for the whole movie, marrying Lydia was one of Beetlejuice’s many attempts to stay in the world of the living. He was sort of an equal opportunity manipulator of the living, he wasn’t focuses on the teen the whole time. 

If Lydia simply said “Beetlejuice” very quickly 3 times as soon as she saw him in the attic instead of staring in surprise-shock-horror, the movie would be over in 5 minutes.

Lydia’s “style” could be a red herring since they’re in funeral garb. But even if it’s not, most kids that were goth and emo in high school didn’t have direct contact with spirits and confirmation of an afterlife though. That’s gotta have some impact on a person’s development.

Generally speaking, I loved it, and for sure I’ll be seeing it in a theater at least once more.
I watched in in IMAX at Lincoln Square in NYC, which is city’s premier IMAX screen (to the best of my knowledge). Perfect seats. I found the projected image to be a bit too dusty and dirty, to the point of distraction. I…

(what? can’t be first comment. there must be thousands of ‘Loved it!!!’ prior to my mediocre impression, ah well...) Can’t really distill it down to a “It was spiffy keen dandy” or “It sucked” can we? The acting gently declined as the amount of screen time increased - and in general was meh. The cinematography and…

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…

and I don’t think I will ever approach someone else’s universe again,”

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.

It’s not like the original did well at the box office.

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. 

Denis, buddy, 2049 was a better film than the original. By a country mile. You did good, man.

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.  

Oh, for sure I’d expect her to bulk up. There’s no way she’s capable of getting Abby big though. That’s almost a Tatiana Maslany/She-Hulk level difference between actor and character and I’m pretty sure Abby won’t be CGI.

She doesn’t have Abby’s physique now... but I expect her to bulk up before they shoot season 2. That’s usually what happens - they get cast, then get paid trainers to become huge. 

wow so much FOX-fuelled Russia-hatred in the comments.