Awesome / Blade Runner 2049

• The gorgeous Scenery Porn through and through. It all screams "Give an Academy Award to Roger Deakins!"
  • Which eventually happened.
• The Visual Effects of Awesome, Joi and the city holograms in particular.
• The sound design is no slouch either.
• K's fight with Sapper Morton at the beginning. A simple yet effective way of establishing K as a Replicant Blade Runner.
• Luv saving K's life with drone missile strikes. All of this while she gets her nails done, too.
  • Just a little bit before that K rapidly capping 4-5 scavengers in mere seconds. And all of those are non-lethal hits. His combat capability is simply inhuman.
• Joshi facing her death calmly, simply telling Luv to 'do what you have to'. The moment is not only a "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner, but her defiantly reminding Luv that she's not as superior as she likes to think. She's only Wallace's trained attack dog, nothing more.
• K's brief fight with Deckard in his booby-trapped hideout in Las Vegas. Deckard, despite his age, manages to get the drop on K several times, while K's ability as a Replicant means he can No-Sell Deckard's punches, treating them as annoyances at most.
• K's escape from Luv's men in Las Vegas. He finds himself with a gun to the back of his head, quickly spins around to disarm his assailant, shoots him, then spins back around to kill two more henchmen. In maybe five seconds tops.
• While he does eventually get overwhelmed and subdued, Deckard actually puts up an impressive fight against Wallace's mooks, despite them being younger, fitter, and possibly replicants.
• K rescuing Rick Deckard, taking out two out of three flying cars of Luv's convoy with his own, and dealing with the female Replicant personally, even though he gets mortally wounded in the process.
  • It's symbolically awesome as well. K decides that he doesn't care about either side and just wants to do what he thinks is right, regardless of whether it benefits either side.
  • Luv and K's fight scene in general. It really is something to watch two combat-trained Replicants hell bent on killing each other throw down.
    • Special mention to Luv dealing out several brutal kicks, making K stumble a bit, only for K to land a single punch that literally blasts her off her feet and sends her flying away.
  • K's Big Damn Heroes moment during the end of the fight, bursting out of the waves to grab Luv by the throat and strangle her to death, all while bleeding from two lethal wounds.
  • The staging of the fight itself. Despite crashing waves obscuring the characters' aim and view, everything is clear to viewers and thrilling in its composition.
• While tear-jerking, K's peaceful death is still a moment that is lovely in its simplicity and execution. Especially when the beautiful and familiar "Tears in Rain" from the first Blade Runner shows up, at long last.
• Deckard refusing the Rachael clone by saying that her eyes were green instead of brown is both a very painful moment for him and a defiant Take That! to Wallace. Wallace likes to style himself as a vanguard of humanity's future and a god of creation to the Replicants. He's already upset that he has failed his first ambition because Tyrell, his equal and rival, took the secret of Replicant reproduction to his grave. The fact that a lowly human like Deckard has the nerve to tell him he made such a major oversight is a massive blow to his ego since gods, like Wallace sees himself as, do not make mistakes.
  • What makes this moment even more awesome is that Rachael's eyes really weren't green, Wallace actually got it right. Which turns it into a more triumphant moment for Deckard - he overcame the temptation of Wallace's perfect clone, threw it back into his face thus wounding his ego even more and at the same time successfully pulled a fast one on him, as Wallace completely buys it and retires the clone on the spot without even trying to argue or check it. Whether this is because of Blackout erasing all digital data with whatever survived being very unreliable, making Wallace gullible and believing Deckard's eyewitness account over his archives, or Wallace's arrogance preventing him from supposing that he could be deceived, this makes the whole episode a perfect Stealth Insult to Wallace that flies over his head.

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