It’s THE perfect sequel. It doesn’t feel sloppy, or like an attempt to make a franchise. It’s just a solid film made for the fans, and acts as a love letter to Scott’s original.

I loved this film - especially the concept of "the hero isn't the chosen one"

born as a replicant, die as human, he won his soul

Probably the best sequel ever made. This one is for the history books

He saved the world and nobody knows.

The biggest tragedy is that I didn't get to see this in Imax

Tears in the SNOW.

These movies have such a terrible beauty to them. They show a single point in time that makes a tragic life worth living.

He dies for the most human cause in the place where he first felt human.

too bad she won't live, but then again who does? That line gives me chills! A candle that burns twice as bright for half as long!

K started the movie as an ordinary replicant who was designed to obey.

Batty was afraid the moments of his life would be lost and forgotten. Tears in the rain.

I always cry when he says "all the best memories are hers", because to me what he'd been through and felt are way more beautiful and meaningful than that. Of course his life as a replican isn't "pretty", but it is "real", he IS living.

This scene was perfect. Absolutely perfect. In the first movie it was in the rain and in sequel in the snow. All these moments lost like your hand in the river trying to hold the flow of water. You touched it for but a moment and that moment is gone just a fast.

Do you want to know why Denis is an absolute beast of a director? Because where others chose to show not tell, he decided not to show as well. Instead he let you listen. Those notes you hear will forever be bound to Rutger Hauer’s brilliant monologue. A monologue which cannot and will not be surpassed. That’s why Denis doesn’t even try, instead he lets your brains editing software put it together and we as an audience know exactly what is going through K’s mind without him uttering a single word or even having an expressive performance. I’m sure somewhere down the line the Mandela effect will leave people convinced that K also said “tears in the rain” and that is directing way beyond camera placement and actor performances. Denis is simply on another level.

Some people say that the original had a grittiness and dirtiness to it while the new one looks so clean even with the dust. I think this scene captures the difference between the original and the sequel perfectly. The 2049-look seems more pretty and organized. Still the environment feels way more oppressive in the sequel because you can't hide your tears in the rain anymore, it's snowing; and snow is more beautiful than rain but harsher and much much colder. The beauty of snow hides its oppressiveness, like corporations and JOI seem more beautiful than ever now, but their beauty is only a facade. That is why the clean look of this movie works, because its meant to be deceptive.

Real human being and a real hero!

Vangelis. The best moment of the OST

Tbh, humanity in the Blade Runner films is probably one of the worst futures for our species I think I've seen on film.