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drivinmeinsane · 8 months

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Hi! Just super curious about what are your top three favorite Ryan Gosling movies and why?

Firstly, thank you for the question!!! You had me fighting for my life trying to decide, but I think I've narrowed it down to these three in order of favoritism based on what I have watched. There's still a (very) small handful of movies with Ryan Gosling that I haven't seen.

When it comes to picking a favorite movie, the characters and the themes/overarching motifs are what speak to me. So these picks are based on vibes, not anything technical... if that makes any sense?

1. Drive

This is my favorite movie even outside of the Ryan Gosling qualifier. I was hooked from the minute I heard Driver's opening dialogue. Driver's swinging between violence and tenderness? The futile destruction of everything to keep a found family dynamic intact because he needs it so badly? The intensity of Driver himself? The way he's largely silent, but there's so much to be read in the absence of words? I'm feral for it all.

The threads from some scenes connecting to others in unexpected ways was phenomenal (the no good sharks scene tying into the car chase with Nino gets me every time). I loved the setting, the characters, the lighting, the soundtrack... just all of it. 10/10. I could write entire essays on this movie.

2. Blade Runner 2049

I found the character of K to be so compelling. His devastating exploration of what it means to be a human being, to be important in a way that he feels matters... it's heartbreaking. I was also drawn to the relationship he had with Joi. It was a bittersweet insight to K's mind and his desire to be wanted, loved.

It's a movie that has stuck with me ever since I first watched it. There's numerous scenes and lines that have taken up residency in my thoughts. The performance that Gosling gave was truly incredible. He breathed so much life into a character that, by all rights, should have been a soulless, stoic machine. As with Drive, I could go on and on about this movie.

3. The Gray Man

This is a movie I don't mind watching again and again (It's turned into a bit of a comfort movie, I'm afraid). I absolutely loved the character of Courtland Gentry/Sierra Six. He stands out in a sea of misogynistic, arrogant "macho men" that tend to populate movies of this genre. He's resilient, he's personable, and, most importantly, he's kind. Despite his line of work, there's this massive capacity for care that we see throughout the movie. It doesn't make his life any easier (we see it negatively affect him time and time again), but he doesn't lose that aspect of himself regardless of the outcome. That's the kind of thing that makes me root for a character and actually get invested in their story.

I also really enjoyed his dynamic with Claire and Fitzroy. I'm always a sucker for found family and grouchy, fictional men metaphorically adopting kids.

It was so difficult not to put Barbie or Stay on this list.

I adore the Barbie movie so much, but it didn't feel right to put it on a Gosling-centric list because it's at least as much a Margot Robbie movie as it's a Ryan Gosling movie. Ken is such a great character and I think Gosling went above and beyond and put his whole heart into the performance. It's a ten in my books for sure, so just because it's not one of these three, that doesn't mean I forgot about it or didn't like it!

Stay very nearly unseated The Gray Man for the third position. I love the character of Henry Letham. I also love dang near everything about the movie. It's just a hard watch for me, too personal in a way that makes it difficult to have the same rewatchability as its competitor.

#ryan gosling #drive 2011 #blade runner 2049 #the gray man #yikes #I didn't mean for this to be such a long response #i got carried away 😔#🐝#from you

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bettsfic · 8 months

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hey betts :) just wanted to check in on how your ryan gosling summer went! (or if it's still ongoing?) how would you rank all of the ryan gosling movies you've seen so far?

alas, Ryan Gosling Summer was cut a little short by my vacation, but there were only a few movies left on my list that i really wanted to see that i'm sure i'll catch eventually (first man, united states of leland, stay, murder by numbers). i'm in a weird brainspace where i'm experiencing my post-travel funk but also my pre-travel jitters, and that makes for like an uncontrollable fire hose of attention which is probably why i'm reblogging a whiplash-inducing array of interests.

i have two ways of ranking: based on actual quality and based on how much i liked them.

ranking by quality (all):

blue valentine

barbie

drive

blade runner 2049

half nelson

the gray man

lars and the real girl

the nice guys

the place beyond the pines

only god forgives

the notebook

la la land

crazy stupid love

song to song (DNF)

ranking by my enjoyment (top 5 only):

barbie

the gray man

drive

blade runner 2049

lars and the real girl

honorable mentions:

the first half of place beyond the pines (like why the fuck would you make a phenomenal character like handsome luke and then just kill him off in the middle of his story?? i have a craft essay in my head about this)

the stellar vibes and mommy issues of only god forgives (i still intend to watch it again!)

there is yet another ranking of iconic-ness of characters but that would be hard to discern i think. ken would be at the top though.

overall, i've written ~40k of fic inspired by Ryan Gosling Summer (but i've only posted 16k). i'd like to finish and post my barbie fic but, again, weird brainspace. i also wanted to pick up my 2049 fic i started in 2017 but the premise is so complicated i have no idea where i was going with it. i probably stopped writing it because the premise was so complicated i had no idea where i was going with it.

thank you for asking! this was super fun to answer.

#ryan gosling summer

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fragments-of-a-hologram-dystopia · 7 years

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Review: Blade Runner 2049

Genre: sci-fi

Year: 2017

Directed by: Denis Villeneuve

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista, Sylvia Hoeks, Ana de Armas, Jared Leto, etc.

Notes: sequel of the famous Blade Runner movie inspired by the work of Philip K. Dick. Read this review in Italian here.

K is a replicant working for the LAPD as a blade runner. Meaning, he hunts and terminates old models of androids that are not in production anymore… much has changed since the times of the first movie, and so has android production. Wallace Industries had acquired what was left of Tyrell Corp and created a new line of “unproblematic” androids. It is up to people like K to track down and deal with the old models (whose lifespan is way longer than that of the Blade Runner androids). After having retired a rogue replicant called Sapper Morton, he finds something. A box buried in his yard, a box that contains the remains of a woman. Those remains, when analyzed, reveal that the impossible has happened. And now many people want to deal with that impossible, including Mr. Wallace himself, who sends his enforcer Luv on K’s tracks. I really don’t want to say anything else, because I want you to enjoy every little detail.

Do you remember the opening of Blade Runner? How it featured Deckard’s car flying over a series of flame-erupting industrial complexes? Well, in a stunning parallel here K’s car flies over a series of fields of solar panels. And this already speaks volumes.

Because guys, Villeneuve did it. He directed a sequel that actually works, and since good sci-fi is all about the fears and hopes of the present, he shows us a world that has to deal with the need to generate energy, to produce food for everyone, to abandon an old, impossible lifestyle. It shows us that to produce that nice tech people use, and to produce the ships to bring people offworld, someone has to suffer. This isn’t even excessively sci-fi either, we do know that many people, especially kids, suffer to mine or assemble essential parts of our daily tech. The first Blade Runner movie gave us a futuristic tech, Blade Runner 2049 shows us how expensive that is in terms of human lives and resources. No, don’t worry, it doesn’t shy away from giving us magnificent cityscapes. But the comparison with those who live harvesting the waste or farming insects for protein makes this universe incredibly real. The giant holograms around the skyscrapers are much more effective now, and make the Ghost in The Shell city look bland and well, fake. Visually, this is a truly stunning movie, and even the music is effective, mixing the original Blade Runner vibes with that epic solemnity of Arrival’s soundtrack.

And the plot? Well, if you accept the main premise, it works. It has themes that Dick might have liked (like the search for an identity and the need to understand if who we are and what we lived is real or not), and a plot twist that might surprise you.

It works really nicely, you guys. I wasn’t expecting too much, in fact, I was afraid that it might have ended up as a shitty “grab the cash” sequel. And mr. Villeneuve fooled us all. Because yes, there are references to the original movie, but they’re essential to the plot, and even visual or conceptual similarities do not feel like stale copies put in there to cash into the 80s nostalgia which is rampant now. This is truly the Blade Runner of our times. If Villeneuve is really directing a Dune remake, as it has been .announced, I’m more than ready for it: if he keeps working like this, he’s going to do an amazing job.

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abiteofnat · 6 years

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HELP I SEEM TO KEEP GETTING NOOD(LES)...

Because there are way too many big hot crocks of yum out there. Yes, re-read that, it says “crock” you pervs. My guilty snack growing up was always those awful styrofoam cups of instant noodles (complete with the astronaut freeze-dried carrots and peas) because somehow nothing beat the hot artificial broth and texture of that ramen, and now I think I’ve graduated to the kind that won’t give me MSG poisoning. To be honest, I still eat the 59-cent kind too but it’s nice to splurge now and then! With how cold and foggy Chicago has been, literally the only food that sounds good is a thick soup and some veggies that remind you there is a sun out there somewhere, growing fresh produce for celebrities. Hence all the soup I’ve eaten.

I’m gonna walk you through the past week so you can find warm dinner inspiration, but for the love of all things good drink so much water before/during/after you eat since the salt in miso broth is IMMENSE.

1. CHI CAFE, CHINATOWN

I really wanted to go explore Chinatown with Sheila since we both love a good rice dish and photography, and if you’re going to find anything super different from the typical Chicago skyline architecture you have to go where it’s all tiles, pointed roofs, red bridges, and some pretty cool signage. Walking around the Chinatown court area is one of my favorite things to do since there are so many unique shops selling everything from authentic Chinese candy to interesting medicinal remedies, and of course endless options for food. My #1 spot is Joy Yees but they’re currently shut for renovation so we went with a friend’s recommendation to try Chi Cafe. It took some searching to find it, but inside it was completely adorable and clean (!!!) and the wait staff was super nice. I’m all for a clean but cute eating environment, and once the food came out looking too damn good I was sold. With a big but vegetarian-limiting menu I choose to go the pescatarian route and got a lotttt of shrimp. Sorry little guys, it had to be done and my skin/hair is healthier for it. #anemicissues.

I went with the Shrimp Dumpling Soup and it was loaded with thin noodles, a decadent but somehow light broth, some greens, and then fat dumplings packed with boiled shrimp. Put a dollop of hot sauce on that before taking a bite? Bliss. Since that seemed like a good starter I also got the Sweet & Sour Shrimp, and didn’t event need the rice because the fat shrimp covered in sauce and veggies was more than enough. I could tell this was just well, genuinely prepared food that I would for sure go back for. And share a lot more plates to try more stuff out!

2. LULU’S, EVANSTON

I have for sure mentioned Lulu’s before but it’s worth a mention every time. This place has seen my sister and I grow up, and even though they’ve moved locations a couple times they still make the same fucking incredible food they always have (and have plastic dinosaurs to play with while you eat. Big bonus. Gonna have kids soon just to have access to the plastic dinos again). The menu hasn’t ever really changed but somehow each time we go back we order the same stuff and notice a different flavor pop out in each dish which I think is a dope quality, given it never gets boring. Sometimes one dish is low on spice and high on savory, the next week it’s super spicy but also more saucy, and it NEVER TASTES BAD. NEVER.

As a family of four we like to get a lot and share all of it like great white sharks feeding on a school of fish that never saw it coming, and we order: the tofu bibimbap bowl with rice, kimchi, steamed spinach, pickled cucumbers, and carrots, the sesame peanut noodles (theirs are probably one of my favorite foods in the world), miso udon noodle soup (what’s pictured), and then a big ole salad with their fantastic garlic dressing to pull it all together. YOU CAN’T GO WRONG HERE. IT’S ALL GOOD.

And it’s perfect carry-out food so if you’re at a loss as to what to bring home, they package it up real nice. My hometown wins for best food to be raised on. I’ll swear on that for the rest of my life.

Last but not least, I’m a huge fan of Furious Spoon because they know how to bring some heat to the table. Their “Furious” ramen is absolutely insane and while incredibly delicious, it’s also super spicy and not totally vegetarian so I deserve a couple raps on my knuckles with a wooden ruler for trying it. But sometimes miso ramen gets boring! And just tastes like mushrooms! Check out where Furious Spoon is online, they have a bunch of locations and they all offer a really cool urban vibe that makes you for sure feel like you’re in Blade Runner (which you should Google if you don’t know what that is, Ryan Gosling is 10x more attractive as a bot hunter than a dumb southern romantic i.e. in The Notebook).

Hope you have some new places to check out now!

Until next time, Happy Eating!

-Natalie

#food blog #food #chicago #chinatown #ramen #noodles #send noods #spoons #dinner #adventure #vegetarian #yummy

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pigballoon · 7 years

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Blade Runner 2049

(Denis Villeneuve, 2017)

Watch this movie in IMAX if you can. I don’t say this as someone who necessarily thinks that bigger is better, the images of the good lord Roger Deakins would hold up on an iPhone, but it’s an issue of sound. When watching this film in regular big screen fashion there are stretches, particularly early on during scenes set in bare, echo-y rooms, where dialogue proved often indecipherable (or maybe I just have really bad hearing) in IMAX this is not an issue. If you are not blessed with access to this grander format it’s not too great a tragedy as it’s a film in which a lot of the dialogue is not particularly essential to the linear understanding of the basics anyway, but in the opening act of a film when things are being set up it would be nice to be able to determine that for yourself.

Anyway, Denis Villeneuve’s latest moody epic is a film that sets its maker the arduous task of bringing to life a sequel to a film that stands as a classic of its genre, but probably more dauntingly the near impossible job of continuing a story its difficult to follow up without ruining the original work. It is at least safe and sort of undeniable in regards to that second point to say, that aided by original Blade Runner scribe Hampton Fancher, and Michael Green... He��s done it.

Despite the fact that it took its time to find its audience, the original adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ is one that through its many iterations over the course of the 25 years it took before Ridley Scott finally got the movie he wanted, was a trailblazer that followed up his earlier Alien by continuing to take back the science fiction genre on screen from the grand galactic adventures of the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, and reestablish hellish, dystopian visions of the future grounded in the every day horrors of reality.

35 years after said groundbreaker first arrived it is basically impossible for any film to leave so large a mark either from a production standpoint, or a thematic one, given the near constant evolution of possibilities offered up in cinema via visual effects in the past quarter century, and the influx of numerous science fiction dramas influenced by the ever larger, ever more intricate impact of technology upon 21st century society.

Indeed, it’s probably 2049′s greatest failing that it’s hard to watch it without calling to mind the likes of Her, The Matrix, Snowpiercer, Children of Men, Ex Machina, and numerous others. All films that dealt in subject matter touched on here however heavily or briefly, and it’s that attempt to cover so much ground, the fact that it has so much on its mind, and tries to squeeze so much in there that to me leaves it a large, and sprawling disappointment.

That sprawling size should be noted. It’s a two hour forty minute movie, and it feels it too (Indeed it not only looks like the latter day version of an Andrei Tarkovsky movie - I got Nostalgia vibes in particular - but it also feels like one) Villeneuve lucky enough to get the time to play his ideas out on so grand a scale, with so large a budget, and so few apparent restrictions from suits, or concessions made for the average filmgoer. Those that call it a cross between a blockbuster and an arthouse movie are not wrong, it takes its sweet time in exploring all that it wants to explore, my issue is that because it approaches from so many angles it cannot even in 160 minutes go as satisfyingly in depth in any particular area as the movies mentioned above.

Like an arthouse movie it seems more about feelings that it conjures up in the viewer, whether via some seemingly throwaway line, or some glorious image, rather than satisfying via plot. It should be said that it does have a plot, a pretty intricate detective story full of twists and turns, but said plot seems something of a disappointment too, certainly to anyone familiar with the ideas introduced by the original movie that throw off the effects of its attempts at plot twists.

Still, it’s to the credit of the film that at least on a revisit once you are familiar with the story, and able to distance yourself from the central narrative you can use it probably as it’s primarily intended, less as particularly interesting story, and more simply as vessel for its creators to delve into the deeper ideas that they want to explore. In that regards it mostly works well, there’s a sort of Frankenstein/Pinocchio-ish type vibe that hangs over the whole thing, and there are a handful of scenes in there that achieve truly incredible impact (the “Her eyes were green” scene, the one where Ryan Gosling walks along a bridge and a billboard ruins his life, the one with the bees, the entire romantic subplot, particularly the sex scene) but it’s all connected by too much that doesn’t amount to enough to be worth it.

I don’t want to keep making comparisons with the original film, but Scott’s Blade Runner was a film that through the barest, simplest narrative went about exploring wonderfully complex ideas. This one you can say attempts to explore more complex ideas, but whether it needs so much more complex a plot in order to do that is up for debate. Ultimately it can’t comfortably fit it all in to a particularly satisfying degree, and so to me at least ends up feeling incomplete, a film of tremendous ideas that in spite of its nods to Nabokov’s Pale Fire doesn’t quite tie it all together on multiple levels the way that particular subtextual nugget might seem to be suggesting is the ultimate aim.

Still, Ryan Gosling is tremendously well cast in the central role, Harrison Ford looks far more interested and involved in his return to this role than he was the ones in Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and the quintet of actresses introduced - Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, and the show stealing pair of Sylvia Hoeks, and Ana de Armas provide the movie with the majority of its thesping highlights, rounding out an ensemble probably slightly stronger than Scott’s overall with added but all too brief input from Dave Bautista, Hiam Abbass, Barkhad Abdi, Wood Harris, and David Dastmalchian. The one weak link is Jared Leto, his dialogue is bad, and he is worse. Operating on a whole different wave length to everyone else, and thankfully only in about 3 scenes in the whole movie.

And for me that stands as microcosm of the movie in general, a lot of good work spoiled by niggling little issues. If you’ve not seen all the movies that dabble in similar territory then maybe there is more to love here, but when you’re trying to squeeze so much into a movie how can any of it be entirely satisfying, and when a movie puts so much emphasis on plot, and on twists and turns it’s taking up that space that could have been put to better use, and convoluting things unnecessarily. Forget all the technological advancements that have taken place in cinema between 1982 and 2017, sometimes less really can lead to more.

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10 Things From Blade Runner That Haven't Aged Well | ScreenRant

When it was released in 1982, Ridley Scott's sci-fi opus Blade Runner presented a genre bending film unlike any other previously seen by movie audiences. Following an elite law enforcement officer as he tracked down rogue robot sentinels made to appear eerily human, it offered a shocking view of the future. It wasn't clean and orderly like 2001: A Space Odyssey, or derelict and utilitarian like Alien, but gritty, bathed in neon, and financed by mega-corporations. There were sci-fi mainstays aplenty like flying cars and artificial intelligence, but they were blended with ideas of existentialism, nihilism, and humanism.

Soon it will be forty years since its release, and due to the fact that its vision of the future was based on the vision of a future from the perspective of creative minds in the '80s, certain aspects are dated. The ideologies and technologies of the era may have informed the movie making process, but the ideas and symbolism in Blade Runner are universal, and will always remain timeless. Here are ten things about Blade Runner that haven't aged well.

10 THE TELEVISIONS

Like many science fiction films that predict the future, the technology they can demonstrate is often only as cutting edge as the technology from the era in which they're made. We see that time and time again in Blade Runner, while there are flying cars and holograms, there are pieces of very outmoded tech.

RELATED: 5 Reasons Blade Runner 2049 Is Better Than The Original (& 5 Why It Will Never Be)

There are still televisions that use a cathode ray tube, rather than LED backlit LCD technology, which we know dominates the television market today. Surely there'd be at least flat-screens in the time of Blade Runner? We see greater tech on display in Tony Stark's laboratory in Iron Man.

9 THE MUSIC

The soundtrack to Blade Runner is almost as famous as the film itself. Vangelis, who composed such enchanting scores as Chariots of Fire and 1492: Conquest of Paradise, uses his famous wall of sound technique to create soundscapes of synthesized opulence, evoking a futuristic symphony.

As much as some viewers will always love that sort of music, others will find it incredibly dated. Modern composers of Vangelis's ilk that favor electronica/percussive sounds, like Hans Zimmer, would alter the score to incorporate more urgency and varying senses of mood, which he did in Blade Runner 2049.

8 THE COMPUTERS

Blade Runner came out the same year as Tron, a science fiction adventure from Disney that not only pioneered 15 minutes of extensive computer animation, but focused on computers as the society-altering pieces of technology they were becoming.

With that in mind, the fact that Blade Runner included computers of the era in any capacity is extremely forward-thinking in 1982, but ages it beyond belief now. In 2019, the year the film takes place, we have computers in the palms of our hands that are a fraction of the size of the computers being used in the film.

7 THE FASHION

Despite it's efforts to be very eclectic, and be positioned in a future that incorporates many different cultures, architectural styles, and modes of dress, Blade Runner is still a movie made in the '80s. As such, the fashion on display is very much a product of its time, and very much stuck there.

From Batty's Billy Idol-inspired platinum hair, to Deryl Hannah's Adam-Ant-inspired makeup, to the copious amounts of vinyl, pvc, and spandex on display, everyone looks like some sort of pop star of the decade. Even Deckard wears a very '80s trench coat, with the sleeves shoved up to his elbows.

6 THE FILM NOIR VIBE

Much of the '80s borrowed much from the '40s in a variety of ways; men's suits were often loose and double-breasted, women wore their hair like Old Hollywood starlets, and there was a surge in films set in that time period, like Indiana Jones and Romancing the Stone.

That being said, Blade Runner borrowed heavily from the film noir style, from the dimly lit interiors with light shot through the blinds, to the omnipresent feeling of dread in the rain soaked streets, and finally to the voice-over that ran over much of the theatrical cut. Audiences today probably won't pick up on all the references, unless they're cinephiles.

5 THE PACING

At the time of the film's release, the visuals, ambiance, and effects were so ahead of their time that audiences didn't even mind the pacing. It was slow, deliberate, and allowed viewers to savor the film's spectacle, as well as the ideas being presented.

These days, even original fans of the film might find it difficult to rewatch it, because for all the intellectual and visceral stimulation on the screen, there are parts where it lags in its narrative, and sequences that may come off as boring to anyone used to a faster editing process.

4 THE CONCEPT OF REPLICANTS

With the innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence today, and futurists' discussion of the Singularity principle, it's becoming more and more easy to imagine a world with Replicants in it. However, the way Replicants were made to be in Blade Runner seems outdated.

They were developed for slave labor on off-world colonies, to do menial, onerous tasks deemed unattractive to people on Earth. Yet they were made to be able to eat, sleep, and even bleed. What would be the point of developing Replicants you couldn't tell weren't human? Especially as a labor force?

3 THE MATTE PAINTINGS

Many of the special effects in Blade Runner would look inline with the CGI visuals of today. The clever use of practical effects like miniatures, models, and the clever use of lighting and forced perspective camera angles enable it to be timelessly effective.

RELATED: Blade Runner: Every Version Of The Original, Ranked

One glaring visual effect that dampens the effect of the film's scope is the copious use of matte paintings. Unfortunately, even those of the Tyrell Corp building look less impressive than they did when the film was first released. Luckily the director's cut fixes much of the obvious brush strokes.

2 THE CARS

Most people, when asked to paint a picture of the future, allude to some flying cars or hover craft. It's safe to assume that will be the mode of transportation by the time Blade Runner takes place, so it's appropriate that Ridley Scott included that sci-fi mainstay.

What wasn't accounted for, of course, was that most likely by that time, cars will be self-driving. Even Blade Runner 2049 didn't get that right, and had Ryan Gosling's K driving his own vehicle. Given the fact of who and what he is, it makes that even more baffling.

1 ROBOTS GOING BERSERK

Whether it's because science fiction audiences are savvy to the plotline or they've watched The Matrix, I, Robot, and the Terminator films too many times, but the concept of robots going berserk and trying to kill humans is a ubiquitous trope by now.

Though it was a fresh concept when Blade Runner was made, it's not something that ages well because most viewers won't realize it was one of the first films to tackle it with an empathetic perspective in the Replicants' favor. We can also all agree Daryl Hannah doing backflips and trying to crush Deckard with her thighs is pretty hilarious.

NEXT: Indiana Jones: 10 Things From Raiders Of The Lost Ark That Haven't Aged Well

source https://screenrant.com/blade-runner-things-that-havent-aged-well/

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helloworlddemo1122-yahoopar-blog · 6 years

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Harrison Ford Gives Alden Ehrenreich 'Spectacular' Review After Epicly Surprising Young Han Solo (Exclusive)

The OG Han Solo surprises young Han Solo! Solo: A Star Wars Story star Alden Ehrenreich got the best interruption ever while he was in the middle of a sit-down interview with ET's Cameron Mathison on Saturday. While chatting about what Ehrenreich wished he could have said to Ford when they previously spent some time together, the iconic actor himself walked through the doors -- and jokingly demanded that the new Han get out of his chair. The epic moment -- which has been the one and only interview Ford has done for Solo -- was captured in the video above. Ehrenreich was musing about hearing "pretty incredible" stories straight from Ford about his time on not just the Star Wars films but also the Indiana Jones and Blade Runner franchises, as well as Fugitive. "He said, 'If anyone asked, I told you everything you need to know and you’re not allowed to say a word," the 28-year-old actor recalled. "He might want to say one or two more things," Mathison pointed out as Ford snuck up beside the actor. "You're sh**ing me," Ehrenreich exclaimed. "Oh my god!" "Get out of my chair! Get out of my light!" Ford teased before, of course, saying, "Hi."

Ford joked that he just happened to be in the neighborhood checking out reverse mortgage options before sitting down for the interview, where he promptly praised both Ehrenreich and the rest of the Solo cast. The 75-year-old actor explained to ET that Solo started with "a fantastic idea" and "a great script" before going on to explain that everyone was cast very well, but Ehrenreich especially so. "I just thought it was spectacular, and I thought he was so smart about what he did and how he did it," Ford said. "I just couldn’t be happier." "Wow!... That's pretty unbelievable," Ehrenreich responded to the praise.

Ford then headed back out to see about those mortgages, but Solo director Ron Howard, who helped make the surprise happen, stayed for a little while longer, telling ET about how Ford felt upon seeing the new iteration of Han. "I have to say, I’ve known Harrison a long time. He can be great, he can be supportive. He’s never effusive," the 64-year-old director said. "And he was so behind it and into it and loved what Alden did. So, I let Alden know that, but I would never even say that to the world, because you don’t speak for Harrison Ford."

Even though Howard continued to say nice things about him, it seems Ehrenreich was still in a bit of recovery mode after seeing Ford for the first time since they had last sat down for lunch together.

"I can’t describe it... That meant a lot. That was incredible," he explained.

"That’s really special. His graciousness from the first time that I met him and then also him coming in and doing something like this, it just means the world 'cause he's a kind of partner with George Lucas in creating this part. He is this thing," Ehrenreich added. "He created it in a way that I think actors are usually just like serving somebody else’s vision."

The Beautiful Creatures star also revealed his favorite aspect of Han that he was able to bring back to the big screen.

"You’re meeting him at a different point in his life, but I think [if] there’s one thing I love, [it's] how he flies the ship, that it always feels like his bread and butter," the actor said of the character. "There’s a certain vibe that he gets into with that, and I think he’s just the coolest guy."

Ehrenreich wasn't the only one who had to recover from the news of Ford's appearance during Saturday's Solo junket. Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge seemed pretty jealous that they didn't catch a glimpse of Ford, with Waller-Bridge joking, "We have to go sniff him out!" "People keep saying that he's like Superman," Glover added. Their Solo co-star, Woody Harrelson, was especially psyched because he got to watch video from the moment the surprise went down. "That's so cool!" he exclaimed. "Wow, Harrison!... That's pretty cool, the fact that he walked in."

As for Ehrenreich, he was just excited to get to spend time with Ford both before shooting and during this surprise, as he hopes to be able to emulate his elder's impressive career path.

"He seems, at least to me, to be someone who’s managed to navigate a huge level of notoriety and fame and but stayed in his own path -- like kind of called his own shots," the young actor told ET. "And we just kind of talked about that and living in Wyoming part-time and that kind of thing. The best takeaway was just getting his blessing on the movie and his vote of confidence." "It’s just that meant a lot to me and he was very encouraging and very supportive and kind of like, You know what you’re doing,'" he added. Solo: A Star Wars Story hits theaters May 25. For more on the movie, watch the video below.