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Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021)
Points for soundscape
I did everything I could to look for positives and found very little. Sitting through the first two episodes was rough to say the least. Im not really sure who this was made for as the BR franchise doesn't really have enough momentum to support a poor new entry based on franchise name alone. Off the bat the series is filled with design details from 2019 and 2049. We drive through an orange desert into the exact same city from 2019. Only... it's now 2032. Are you telling me we still have the same geisha ad playing everywhere? The same blimp? Everything is just a recreation of set pieces and environments from the 1982 movie. Every building contains elements from buildings from the film. Although all that is sort of lazy and nostalgia bait it is not my main issue. The character animation and movement is not good. It sort of reminds me of poorly rendered video game animation. And the dialogue and story is run of the mill. Because the animation is so distracting I don't think I can see this through to the end. The Blade Runner franchise is wonderful because of its innovation and thematic writing, but there is little of that here.
Ice Spiders (2007)
Mesmerizing and HAUNTING from the start
There isn't a lot to say that hasn't already been said about this movie. Each year since it's release it has continued to gain more attention from outside the Sci-fi channel community. (Yes, I'm still calling it sci-fi, you can't convince me that I should use the terrible 'syfy' acronym.
It could very well be the greatest cinematic achievement of the modern age. This movie made me feel many things, especially shocking was the colorful ice spider CGI and the performances from such A-listers as Patrick Muldoon and Noah Bastian. Truthfully though, the spiders outshone even the best talent with their frantic and unnatural movements. I know I can't be the only one to feel a profound inspiration from this viewing experience. Why else would hack filmmaker Jon Favreau create a poor knockoff of the same spiders in The Mandalorian? What impact has this movie left on me? Well consider that for me no skiing trip in the mountains will ever live up to Vanessa Williams fighting off ice spiders!