Blade Runner Double Feature

I have been looking forward to the release of Blade Runner 2049 for months so when I found out that a local theater was going to screen the original along with the sequel I bought a ticket immediately!  Double features are so much fun because I feel like you bond with your fellow audience members!  I love the original Blade Runner so much!  I remember watching it over and over again late at night on HBO when I was 15 or 16 so it was a thrill to be able to watch it again on the big screen!  In Los Angeles in the year 2019 a police officer, or blade runner, named Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is tasked with hunting down four replicants, or synthetic beings engineered to be used as slaves in the off-world colonies, who have returned to Earth to extend their lives.  He also falls in love with Rachael (Sean Young), a replicant who has been implanted with false memories to make it harder to detect her.  In my opinion it is a brilliant commentary on the nature of humanity that definitely stands the test of time and its influence can be seen today in so many movies.  By the time it was over I was so excited for Blade Runner 2049 that I could hardly contain myself!  Let me just say right now that it is brilliant and it might even be better than the original because it explores the themes of what it means to be human on a deeper level.  Thirty years later the newest replicants have been integrated into society.  Ryan Gosling plays one who works as a blade runner hunting down older replicants who have gone rogue.  He discovers a secret which leads him to hunt down Deckard (Harrison Ford, reprising his role) to learn the truth.  There are many twists and turns as the truth is slowly revealed (although I still have a major question!) and there were a couple of times when I figured something out an instant before it was revealed!  Like the original, it is visually stunning and you literally cannot take your eyes off the screen.  Denis Villaneuve continues Ridley Scott's world-building to its logical progression with dark and gritty scenes of claustrophobia on the streets of L.A. and orange-infused shots of a decimated Las Vegas.  Gosling is outstanding in the role because he is somehow able to show absolutely no emotion until a key scene which left me absolutely gutted.  It was also so much fun to see Ford play yet another iconic character once again.  I think my favorite aspect of the of the film is the score because it mimics the original in that it creates almost unbearable tension which doesn't let up until the final scenes.  I really loved Blade Runner 2049 and, unbelievably, it lived up to all of my expectations!  I highly recommend that you see it on the biggest screen possible.