homages/nods/similarities to other movies?
remember BR influenced a whole bunch of other SF movies after but what movies seem to have influenced BR2049?
The Shining - The Vegas hotel was kind of like a futuristic version of the Overlook hotel (Shining has a special connection to BR)
Star Trek II - the end shot of Fords hand on the glass was abit similar to Kirk/Spock end (STII was out the same year as BR)
Revenge of the Sith - 'AHHH' opera noise (that noise in that Star Wars III Opera scene pervaded the movie in certain parts)
The Matrix - Deckard / Wallace sitting like Neo /Morpheous
Tron Legacy - long awaited sequel to 1982 original charting a younger guy (son) searching for original character hiding in cyberpunk world. similar procreating AI plot
Force Awakens - similar searching for main character in hiding plot
Total Recall 2012/Ghost in Shell - ok they were heavily influenced by original BR but couldn't help but think of those recent rip offs watching BR2 - Total Recall did look abit BR2049 in the first half in the cyberpunk colony (before they go to New Britain where it turns into Minority Report). And there was a bunch of other BR 'steals' - the piano scene, the BR style handguns, Quaids big collar coat (film critic Mark Kermode mentioned there is one bit where Farrel runs in a trench coat holding a gun and recreates the exact same pose as Deckard in the Blade Runner silhouette). when saw TR2012 in the cinema I remember thinking wow forgetting all the cheesy action, boring remake plot, questionable acting, shampoo advert flowing hair/pouting this is what Blade Runner 2 will look like (it was announced BR2 was going to happen back in 2011)