I dunno kinda reminds me of
http://www.hulu.com/watch/124875/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-the-curse
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
vangelis saxophone is like the best thing ever
― goole, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i dont know what to tell you, i like careless whisper and baker street too
― max, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
I can't even fathom how a person could not enjoy the Blade Runner soundtrack
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
and what's up with deckard forcing himself on rachel? no means no man!
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
this is my fave track from the album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF2JJjr4qvg
― max, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
ok edward 3, you're in the desert, you see a tortoise on its back...
― goole, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
let me tell you about my mother
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
also never noticed how terrible the music in blade runner is
This is why I have somewhere around four or five fan-made Blade Runner music compilations that try to grab all the music bits that weren't released on a soundtrack
Wait no, the opposite of terrible
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
btw blade runner end credits theme is the best thing of all time
yeah blade runner OST is terrible, like 100% awful, in a world where awful is great and die hard isn't all that~
― omar little, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://hollywoodhatesme.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/bizarro.jpg
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
Is this a joke? Cause I still don't get that part. I'm sure this means I've missed the point of the movie somehow.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not joking! that scene is kind of troubling. "seduction" scenes where guys push women around always creep me out.
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it's just supposed to prove that robots are better than ppl, roy and pris seem to have a pretty healthy relationship
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
dude I have bad news about that "robots are better than people" assumption with those two pairings
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
WAS GON SAY
― FPocalypto! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
there is a law on ILX that all film discussions sooner or later center on blade runner
― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
*recoiling in horror* Edward III I renounce all knowledge of you...
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://oreald.com/pictures/w/d/0002067.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Genl%20Images/Images/Portrait_Images/Edward-III.jpg
o cool let's debate whether deckard's a replicant
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 1 March 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
did anyone hear that? sounded like the ghostly voice of someone who was always wrong about Blade Runner. Huh, must have been the wind.
― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
we already referred to the final cut as the definitive edition upthread, it has the text that flashes "DECKARD IS A REPLICANT" at the end
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 1 March 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
in the novel Dick flags him as probably a replicant about 50 pages in, it's not even a big SURPRISE or anything
― FPocalypto! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 March 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
in the novel he ends up not being a replicant though, he just thinks he might be for a while
― silverfish, Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
iirc the point is far from clear?
― FPocalypto! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
maybe, it's been at least 10 years since I last read it. I vaguely remember him passing some kind of test proving he's human.
― silverfish, Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
i wanna read it again now. anyway i definitely remember the ambiguity being a minor thread rather than a big central theme
― FPocalypto! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
blade runner OST is probly the best vangelis album of all time!
^^^
― be scientific, douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
There's a alternate BR soundtrack album called Los Angeles - November 2019 which is just Vangelis' ambient soundscapes mixed in with background sound from the film. Well worth tracking down...
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
tbf that's kind of the ambiguity introduced in the movie. I didn't necessarily mean that Deckard is a replicant so the comparison is robot-robot versus robot-robot, I meant that the ambiguity exists so the question posed by the movie is whether humans would act any differently, really.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
it's Deckard demonstrating that he has no empathy - esp for another robot
― be scientific, douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Like to my mind, Roy Batty isn't a violent, alpha male because he's programmed to be a soldier. He's violent and confrontational because he is scared of death and wants answers!
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
tbf, Shakey, it was showing that Deckard lacked empathy for someone he knew to be a replicant and he was manipulative. By the end, it doesn't really matter what he is because he's acknowledged that.. oh hell I could write an entire essay
love this film
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
blade runner is great, why, because bowl of noodles
― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WKCGPxkG-U
― scott seward, Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I can agree with that mh, the "another" in my post is probably unnecessary
― be scientific, douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
brb getting a blade runner-themed tattoo to solidify my commitment
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Is it "DECKARD IS A REPLICANT"?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.liveforfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/blade-runner-tattoo.jpg
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
ridley scott left out the parts of the book flagging deckard as a replicant ie failing the test
however that flashing text at the end of the final cut does help to clear things up
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, 1 March 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, after watching and loving Die Hard the other day, today I watched Die Harder get pretty much everything I loved about Die Hard wrong. It felt very Ghostbusters 2-y, i.e. perfunctory and rote.
"Hey, remember when McClane said 'Yippee ki yay, motherfucker'? We should make him do that again, except without any context. And he should totally dodge a million bullets and beat up multiple special forces guys. Ooooh, and that guy that his wife hates? Let's put them at each other's throats! Oh, and uhhhhh...it's Christmas again. Why not?"
Die Hard was super economical. Die Harder was a sloppy, shitty mess without even that many fun or exciting action scenes. I'm glad it didn't make the top 75, but I'm baffled as to how it fell just outside of it. Still looking forward to the next one, though, given the fandom here.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 2 March 2012 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
What do you think of the third one?
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, maybe I was unclear. By 'the next one', I meant DH3. I'm working my way through them for the first time. Well, the first three, at least.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 2 March 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
third one rules
never really got die harder
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 2 March 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
the third one had its moments (& the fourth launched a police car into a helicopter, which was nice), but overall I feel the pile-on of sequels has diluted the objective thrill of the original - of course this can be said of many series, but is esp. true w/ Die Hard.
― ho don't kno I'm bout that skrillex (Pillbox), Friday, 2 March 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
saw the beginning of Harder on TV once, was so obviously getting everything wrong/repeated that I turned off
Vengeance does take away from the elegance of the first one but it is v fun so w/e. also benefits hugely from not being written as a Die Hard sequel, with the traps of repetition that Deric identifies above, but buying a thriller called Simon Says and sticking Willis and idk that guy in Pulp Fiction was p good can we get him? lets have some sushi. into it
#4 I watched only bcz I was on a plane, it gets things even wronger by having McClane be a ludicrous action hero with everything exploding all the time and the world is CGI. plus going to Kevin Smith's basement for no good reason for ten minutes.
McTiernan or gtfo is basically how I break it down to an extent
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Friday, 2 March 2012 05:31 (twelve years ago) link
not to mention a decade plus of being the model for every action movie ie "it's Die Hard on a _________"xpost
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 2 March 2012 05:32 (twelve years ago) link
dudes there is no ambiguity. he is a replicant. it's not sufficiently redundant i guess, but it is not ambiguous.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 2 March 2012 05:33 (twelve years ago) link