I like Peter Jackson's LotR movies quite a lot. More than the books really. That said, some things in both - the fact that all non-white people in Middle Earth are under Sauron's thrall, for instance - makes me quite uncomfortable. And seeing the very few scenes featuring non-white characters in the films- well, you can hardly call them characters since they don't have names - at the cinema made me pretty uncomfortable too. Not least because my husband and kids were the only non-white people in the audience. ;)

Curious what you thought of Bladerunner 2049. Can you give me a non-spoilery response?

Erm...hmm.

Okay, Bladerunner is one of my all time favourite films and I was rather dreading seeing the sequel, but now I have I've dismissed it as an irrelevance. It looks amazing and the soundtrack is fantastic but it's completely disposable. It didn't spoil the original for me because I dismissed it from my mind almost the moment I left the cinema, whereas the original stayed with me for weeks. Years, even.

IMO, they should have left well alone, but since the movie flopped in theatres and will probably remain a one-off (it's pretty clear when you watch it that they were aiming for a trilogy) it hasn't spoiled the original.

I'd say wait till it appears on Netflix or wherever.

ETA: There are actually things in it that I disliked intensely, but to tell you what those were would probably be spoilery.