Star Whores

Saw The “new” Bladerunner last night. My take? Well the original is one of my top 5 fave films of all time and I played Deckard onstage, so I’m a hard sell. Visually it was stunning, picked right up production design-wise. The actress who played the female villain was fantastic. The rest? Story was convoluted, and did we really need Jared Leto doing a toned-down Joker in this? And Ryan Gosling, whom I do like, was just not right. His sad-eyed, hang dog, boy-man look was the same as in Drive and so many other films, and each time he hit a piano key I thought he was gonna start doing the La La Land shimmy. Then there was Robin Wright, who had no presence in her role whatsoever. This star stuff has really gone too far. If it wasn’t Gosling you know it woulda been Leo or Matt Damon in the lead. This is how big films (and Broadway and most TV shows) are made I know more and more nowadays but that’s sad, as these three overused stars took me out of the film as I was watching it. As for the story? The original was based on a well-thought out book, this one, like most Hollywood concocted sequels, seemed all over the place in comparison, and at 2.5 hours that’s a lot of ??? I liked it enough, as I said it looked great, and am glad it went long too as was more bang for the buck, but I’d give it a C+ at best as was disappointed that it ended up another Star Whores with a half-assed script. There’s got to be PK Dickophiles out there saying “I coulda written something better, why didn’t they ask me?”. Of course Hollywood doesn’t ask, it assumes, and really needs to be shaken up and stirred man. I wouldn’t be surprised if the reasons I bring up here are why this blockbuster-to-be has stalled at the box office... but who am I? Just an actor with years of experience and a million credits trying to get a fair shake before I expire.