The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

event horizon! (sooooooooooo bad.)

i'll grant that lang vs. scott is no kind of comparison at all. but i think metropolis is a weak movie, plotwise, with convoluted -- nay, incoherent -- politics and characters who could be generously described as two-dimensional. what it's (rightly, justly) famous for is its design and vision of da future. but that's what blade runner is rightly, justly admired for too, and i think blade runner's story and characters are more coherent, and the cast is a lot better. so i think it's a better movie, lang's general genius notwithstanding.

BECAUSE HE WANTS MORE LIFE FUCKER

anyway, which mad max are you checking there in yr list vahid? speaking of adolescent film experiences, the 2nd one blew my leetle mind, age 15 or so. the simplicity of the plot and the agorophobic blankness of the setting really got to me, and i was like, "this is like a greek myth or something dood."

yeah, there's the whole "expanding the general vocabulary of film" thing that you can't get around w/ lang.

the crowd scenes in metropolis were the first of their kind, right?

I'm still not really clear on why this is such a terrible thing to say. Breaking up with someone because you don't think they're very smart is a great reason to break up with someone -- one of the best reasons there is, I think. Just about everyone on this thread with any kind of dating history has probably done it (or, um, had it done to them).

Breaking up with someone because they don't like the film/music/whatever you like...well, maybe that's a little more questionable, but still, especially with film, who wants to spend your life fighting with someone, or slowly losing respect for them, because you're just not on the same wavelength?

(And would anyone really argue that strongly differing tastes in art can mean -- doesn't always mean, but can mean -- that there's an underlying personality difference that may prove to be a problem? Or that it can be just a wee bit alienating?)

So given all that: are people coming down on Kenan just because they don't think much of him, and so they're inclined to take the most negative interpretation of what he says...even if it's something that, if phrased a little more carefully (I'd leave out the "as smart as I am" bit, for starters) and posted by someone else, would get a free pass?

Ah seen things you people wouldn' buhlieve.

It is suggestive of something that I've seen Poltergeist and Blade Runner any number of times but I only ever saw E. T. once in the theaters during its original run. And even then I missed the middle section cause I was bored and went to play video games in the theater lobby.

Krull...er, wait.

Ha! I wish I could have that movie permanently removed from my memory

1981, I think.

She won't live, but then again who does?

i like lots of movies from 1982.

Jenny Curran: Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest?
Forrest Gump: I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all the time.

ROYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! ROYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Grudge Match - Deckard vs Richard Kimble:
http://www.grudge-match.com/History/deckard-kimble.shtml

I suppose Robert Urich *did* keep acting.