If all this 5G gibberish isn't enough to weary the soul, now this...

I can feel a thread coming on. https://twitter.com/ThePlaylist/status/1250100011737575424

Don't get me wrong, BR 2049 is a fine sequel, one that grows more interesting with repeat viewing. Such is the bracing Soviet hugeness of its reimagining of a reimagined LA it's almost a reboot, but still murky with noir themes and impenetrable plot. But...

There is an absence at its heart. There is none of the original's cool romanticism, its fairy tale whimsy. That all the replicants are all bizarre, twisted, angelic, otherworldly creatures. That the divine Roy Batty is the true protagonist — that he the most alive of all. And...

That the aesthetic — and the whole sour, uncertain mood of Deckard (despite everything, Ford's finest moment?) — is old fashioned not new fangled. It's a film forty years in the past as much as forty years in the future. Moreover...

Ridley Scott's imperious eye is arguably second to none. It is the eye of an artist, who couldn't explain why something looks (or sounds) right, even as he fought nail-and-tooth for it. Blade Runner is his most personal film, I'm not sure the sequel is for Villeneuve. Plus...

Vangelis's score is as integral to this world as John Williams's is to Star Wars. The visuals are music and the music is visual. It's a lyrical, enchanting, synthesised soundscape — replicant music. Zimmer gets nowhere close. Also...

The things Roy Batty has seen...

And the greatest opening shot of all time...

Honestly, with all those new images, I couldn't be more hyped about Villeneuve's Dune. But, if it came to it, I would still take the version Scott had planned for after Blade Runner. Time for this thread to die.