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Post by lia on Feb 28, 2004 2:49:36 GMT -5
BATTY I've seen things... seen things you little people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium... I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. all those moments... they'll be lost... in time........like tears in the rain.
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Post by imayne on Feb 28, 2004 3:33:27 GMT -5
Definitely one of the most atmospheric films ever made. Also, makes you realize that promises of stardom have less longevity than replicants. How many people today can recall Sean Young, Rutger Hauer or Joanna Cassidy? Daryl Hannah is only making a small comeback with KILL BILL VOL. 1...
Side note: Speaking of all things Yellow and Perilous, easy to tell this film was made at the height of the fear of Asia-Pacific economic hegemony worldwide, particularly Japan, the crowded, menacing Chinatown, and the character of Hannibal Chew...a typical caricature to say the least.
BTW, you may not be able to tell but the crummy B-film SOLDIER is set in the same universe. Kurt Russell's character, for example, has served in the "Battle of Tannhauser Gate". I think that movie was written to show that replicants were sent to protect humans in the off-worlds against these battle-hardened, trained-for-war supertroopers.
Too bad Rutger Hauer became nothing but a B-movie staple after this...he's also guilty of committing one of the greatest travesties to Asian cinema, BLIND FURY, which made me wonder what director Philip Noyce of "The Quiet American" was thinking then...
OK, now the bigger question: Harrison Ford says he and Scott agreed that Deckard is not a replicant, but Ridley Scott now claims Deckard is. Who do you believe?
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Post by Charles on Feb 28, 2004 9:01:10 GMT -5
I voted excellent. Vividly atmospheric describes it well. In the middle 1980's my former business partner taught a course at MIT call "The Future of Cities" and he had an evening film series to illustrate how Hollywood portrayed cities in the future. Films included Fritz Lang's classic "Metropolis," but "Blade Runner" was by far the favorite.
Cheers, Charles
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Post by imayne on Feb 28, 2004 9:22:06 GMT -5
One overlooked sci-fi film in terms of production design: BICENTENNIAL MAN.I thought that even though it was dismissed as a "Robin Williams vehicle", it at least had a nice envisioning of future San Francisco in that it showed a transformation that was not uniform...bits and pieces of old SF showed through with the passing years. A lot of expensive sci-fi films like these tend to forget that cities are not huge metallic grey monoliths where every single block appears to be constructed by the same architect. I am looking forward, BTW, to "I, Robot" this year. Like BM it is based on the works of Isaac Asimov and is set in his universe, using his three laws of robotics, but not on any specific story. The site is up, and is niftily disguised as an ad for a " domestic assistant" (same tactic used in the "Stepford Wives" trailer). www.irobotnow.com/index.php
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Post by Jen on Feb 28, 2004 11:02:09 GMT -5
never seen it...but i did c Bicenntenial Man. :-*smooches; ~Jen~
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Post by bigdaddy on Feb 28, 2004 12:00:36 GMT -5
I love the first version the best, with the Ford naration,and the ending where he gets to sail off into the sunset with Sean Young. "Who knows how long any of us have??"
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Post by imayne on Sept 28, 2004 10:52:01 GMT -5
I have now seen both versions for college. And I am starting to agree with one of my Profs that the movie may well be a gigantic Voight-Kampff test performed on the audience. That it's a poorly-written film that thanks to great direction and sets came off a lot more than it seemed to be. Does anyone notice the continuously changing number of replicants, the odd and disjointed cadences of dialogue, and the fact that the V-K tests make no sense whatsoever? (The entree consists of boiled dog? I'd say the play was set in Korea.)
Those to me are some of the most frustrating as well as captivating aspects of the film.
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Post by imayne on Nov 5, 2019 3:27:13 GMT -5
Welcome to the future.
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