Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

*especially in what should be quiet scenes

i think you've mistaken "cold hard truth everyone is afraid to admit" with "utter falsehood nobody thinks is right"

because they've been fooled~

maybe its a great album to sit down and listen to, i wouldnt know, but it's crappy shit when you're watching the movie.

the score is sublime at the beginning when it meshes with the sounds of the cityscape. you've gotta admit that.

yeah i mean, i am exaggerating my distaste for it - there are moments where it's really effective. i love the end credits music, and i couldn't imagine batty's final scene without the score. i think the movie would've been more effective if there was less of it though (which i think holds true for a ton of movie scores). think how well the voight-kampff test plays with no music. the movie could've used more sonic breathing room like in that scene. i'm also going off the theatrical version, which is the one I've seen most recently, maybe the score's used differently in the final cut which i havent seen yet

Robocop is great because it has the Verhoeven seriousness-as-humor thing going for it. Robocop 2 is entertaining, but also troubling because it's nearly 0% ironic.

Which really codes as "Frank Miller wrote this" because the humor in the film is all based on people trying to repurpose the original Robocop as some sort of consensus-driven nice guy while really nefarious things are still going on.

robocop 2 is nuts. not very good though (save for the robot fight towards the end).

― Cruller, Cobbler, Poffert, Pie (latebloomer), Friday, March 2, 2012 1:35 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

it was in either robocop 2 or robocop 3 (which one features the little punk teenager who gets inducted into the drug trade?) that the corrupt police officer gets vivisected - that gave me nightmares as a kid (and still does!)

Robocop 2.

I must be one of the few people that does NOT take Deckard=replicant as a given, no matter wtf Ridley Scott thinks is going on and in the face of origami unicorns. Whether or not he is a replicant is less important to me than the fact that it's his interactions with replicants, not people, that allows *him* to develop the empathy that is supposed to mark one as "human."

Yeah, whether you believe he's a replicant, human, or anything else doesn't really matter, since the main lines of contemplation are based around "what if" scenarios.

Man, "They Live" could have been written last year.

It's about Obama iirc

Rowdy Obama Piper?

No you put on the glasses and you can detect false birth certificates and non-citizens

I SEE MUSLIM PEOPLE

i always wondered tho, if decky is a reppy, what is his backstory exactly? i guess they set him up as a set a thief to catch a thief kinda jobby?

and doesnt it dilute the idea that batty is so much more of a 'real person' than deckard is, if that is so?

see those are the thoughts you have with the ambiguity. does it dilute the idea? hmm let me write an academic paper here

k im waiting

I dunno, I got sort of the same vibe as I later did with "AI," that everything that happened was in some ways designed as a test. Obviously he's a replicant, or at least there's plenty to support that hypothesis; the ambiguity is why they let him go.

deckard's replicant ambiguity is probably the least interesting thing about blade runner

i figured he was a creation like 'rachael', but put into life maybe decades before. it's probably the reason he was such a good detective, and may have been made exactly for that. but his own batty-esque story of irrepressible humanity happened years before the movie begins, when he had had enough and quit the force. batty knows what he is and knows how little time he has left, while deckard is in a fog of depression and indecision like every other human. so is he more human or less, for not knowing? idk i could go all day about this.

Deckard was created five minutes before the opening of the movie and deposited at the noodle stand

well that's my theory blown

I like yr theory goole

Not a bad theory, but Deckard is the ultimate unreliable narrator. He may as well have been created five minutes before the movie began.

i'm in the process of designing a ronin coffee cup on zazzle fwiw, who wants one

me me

me me meeeeeeeee

does it have an lcd screen with BMW's zooming & screeching round and round?

What does it say?

doesn't say anything, just screws its mouth a little and shrugs noncommitally

i sent y'all a message w/the image

If it were me I'd just have the words, in white! But it's not me.

ME OMAR ME

i thought about doing it w/just the images actually! too subtle?

check your email slox

omg that's awesome omar

i would love to see this

sent

still a work in progress, plus i want to do a test run and send a mug to myself for quality control.

killer

omar send it to me

you got it~

it's already my favorite coffee cup in the history of everything

omes i think this image should be part of it

http://static2.dmcdn.net/static/video/884/228/29822488:jpeg_preview_medium.jpg?20110322065045

(or like a better version of that)

yeah i was trying to dig up a good coffee spill image, might have to do some digging. we can't rush something like this.