Worthy

Rating: 8/10 (6 October 2017)

Date Day! And we used our Senior's discount cards to see 'Blade Runner 2049'. We'd dutifully watched Blade Runner 2019 again to whet our little appetites, and thusly prepared, off we trundled. I didn't fall over or anything and didn't have to go to hospital. WIN!
We were a bit hesitant because we like the first one, and also I am not much of a Ryan Gosling fan. He is both lugubrious and named after a young goose.
Gozza is a Blade Runner and a replicant and it's fair to say not much loved by his fellows. Or his neighbours for that matter. He takes insults with a shrug. He has a girlfriend. Sort of. In the way you might have 'sort of' had a girlfriend when you changed your relationship status on Facebook to 'it's awkward'.
He lives in a slummy sort of building in a slummy sort of city. The city will be familiar to those who know the first movie, although the holograms are more, well, naked. I am not sure what effect ginormous holographic pudenda are supposed to have. And on whom. I expect that this is a niche market from which I am excluded . It still rains a lot. The two are, hopefully, unrelated.
There are baddies and there is a new Tyrell. Not to be confused with 'Game of Thrones' Tyrell. Well you wouldn't. It's not his name. 'Wallace' is. But he doesn't wear a kilt, presumably so he cannot be confused with 'William'. He has got ball bearing eyes. To say that he treats his newborn creations with off-handed malice is a significant understatement. His chief helper is the inappropriately named 'Luv'. Her over-active tear ducts add a touch of undeserved humanity. She is not one whom you would want to cross.
'Not William' Wallace is manufacturing replicants like a madman but he can't make enough of them to meet demand and thinks that it'd be better if the replicants did their own replicating and there are rumours of some replicant-on-replicant or non replicant-on-replicant action and he wants the result of said shenanigans in the worst possible way. And most of the movie is about whether there is or isn't and if there IS who it is and how many there might be and if there isn't, well it's back to the drawing board for 'not William'. His poor attention to detail could be a reason for his failure.
Harrison Ford is in it and still plays Deckard, and you can't help think that he might like to play someone not called Deckard. Or Solo. Or Jones. He lives with a dog that is probably a replicant and a million bottles of scotch that seem legit.
The Gozza fights lots of replicants including the big bloke out of Guardians of the Galaxy.
There is a tree that is dead but has a date on it. It hasn't got a name. But if it did, I bet it'd be 'Groot'.
There is a Dickensian orphanage which may be the source of replicant memories; but are they real, and to whom do they belong?
Is it any good?
Well on a scale 1-10, where 1 is the execrable and pretentious 'Interstellar', and 10 is 'Starship Troopers', the greatest movie ever made, it's a solid 8. It goes alright.
It's a looong movie. The elderly or incontinent will struggle.