Wallace and Luv didn't want free replicants. I mean, there's no indication her obedience to humans restriction isn't there, it's just she does whatever works for her boss. They wanted to find out about replicant reproduction so there could be multiple generations of ready-made slaves without building more factories. They just churn out little baby replicants and when they get to a certain age you can have them shoot each other or break rocks or whatever it is replicants do offworld.
― mh, Friday, 13 October 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
Deckard and Rachel's kid wasn't necessarily a way forward for today's replicants, but a powerful way of building their cause. K was starting to have some serious improvements in self worth when he thought he might have been born and not decanted.
― mh, Friday, 13 October 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
*suddenly realizes, somehow for the first time, that there must be a shit-ton of Gaff/Deckard slashfic out there*
https://i.imgur.com/qwxUUWE.jpg
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 13 October 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
hmm ok yeah. guess i couldn't parse from leto's speech if tyrell had put some kind of block on reproduction into the replicants' code (and leto couldn't crack it) OR if reproduction was itself something that tyrell couldn't figure out how to get right
― goole, Friday, 13 October 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
sorry that is not supposed to be that big xpost
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 13 October 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
ok lol
Tyrell was the only one who figured out replicant reproduction and Wallace can’t get it right
― mh, Friday, 13 October 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
he in fact stated this explicitly
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 October 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link
seen this thrice now. every time I watch Jared Leto I feel like they filmed his cold reads or somethin
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 October 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
How...how have you spent nearly nine hours of your life like this?!
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 15 October 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
I have a lot of shit i want to avoid in the outside world these days
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 October 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
just watchin the OG final cut and - this has to have been mentioned before - but how come Harrison Ford's grizzled blade runner has to have the simplest facts about replicants explained to him?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
because he's stupid?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 October 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
isn't he supposed to know more about them than practically anybody else?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
Easier to break than build
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
he just hunts n kills 'em, no genius required
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 October 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
hey buddy he's doing a kindness sitting there listening to the facts, he knows the audience on the other side of the fourth wall knows nothing
― mh, Monday, 16 October 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
if you want the conspiratorial version, it's because at the beginning of the film he's still getting his bearings from having been born a couple days prior
― mh, Monday, 16 October 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
Fact
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
hauer just so outrageously good value "where would i find this j.f. sebastian?" is what presumably was written on the page but hauer turns it into a Moment
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
Yeah. Anthony Hopkins possessing a lean Schwarzenegger
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
haha yes and now all is swept away in what momentum obtains in Woozy Dreadis Pris just drawn to J.F. in some kind of homing instinct? it can't be coincidence that in all of a depopulated L.A. that she winds up in a garbage heap outside his. but they've never met. he acts like he doesn't know her but he has to doesn't he? or know OF her. (i think he's being kind and gentle to her, playing a part to allow her to feel more human)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
I think Pris is there as part of a plan, not coincidence?
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
And I don't recall any hint he knows she's a replicant until the hand in the water
He's an innocent, beautifully played too
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
darragh otmlike the only thing most of the replicants in the original wanted was to live longer and disappear into society. Roy, though, he was a special boy. They might not have pursued the life angle without him.
― mh, Monday, 16 October 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
seein this shit tonight
― flopson, Monday, 16 October 2017 22:38 (six years ago) link
ah pris has a plan! i have forgotten most of this stuffzhora death truly horrific & abject. ford as terminator.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:38 (six years ago) link
that was an actually well-shot remade scene in the final cut!in the original you can tell it’s a stuntperson
― mh, Monday, 16 October 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
how come Harrison Ford's grizzled blade runner has to have the simplest facts about replicants explained to him?
??
― the late great, Monday, 16 October 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
isn't deckard supposed to be some old blade runner veteran called back for one last job? "we need the ol' blade runner magic!" m. emmet walsh then.... explains what replicants are, that they're programmed not to have emotions, they have a "failsafe" that they live four years etc - ford acts like it's all news to him
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
he explains what the nexus 6 line is
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 16 October 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
ah these all came out while deckard was just kickin it, losing his edge! got it
it is true i miss plot stuff in movies. more than the average person probably. but some stuff that's not really signposted imo? the apartment where deckard finds the snake scale for instance i did NOT clock that it was leon's (though it makes sense that it is)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
anyway i'll shut up now and get back to the Throbbing Dread Vibes
yeah my sense was that he was coming out of retirement and unfamiliar w nexus 6, not replicants in general
this implies that nexus 5 replicants live forever but look like bender
― the late great, Monday, 16 October 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
what are throbbing dread vibes? sounds awesome
― the late great, Monday, 16 October 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
i was wrong it's Sexy Sax Vibes now
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
or is it just plain sexual assault vibes
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 October 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
I assume all the nexus models are bioengineered, but the early models were... less good
― mh, Monday, 16 October 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
Hauer is incredible - this time rewatching more than ever I was just transfixed. every moment on screen is so good. The way he delivers his lines, carries himself, the slightest move is so deliberate
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 October 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
for such a good actor he sure is in a lot of shitty movies tho
― the late great, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 00:08 (six years ago) link
enh he had BR, The Hitcher, Flesh + Blood and the other early Verhoevens, the nursery scene in Hobo With a Shotgun, pretty good run imho
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000442/filmotype/actor?ref_=m_nmfm_1
― the late great, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
If you've never seen Turkish Delight...it's really something
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
And yeah he's been a depressing paycheck guy for a long time. His appearance in Valerian is almost comically snoozy.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 00:16 (six years ago) link
xp he has definitely been in some great movies but the sheer volume of low budget crap on his imdb page is something to behold
― the late great, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 00:16 (six years ago) link
"the hitcher" is all-time
it's like you're leaving out Ladyhawke just to make me cry
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
loool at the plot synopsis of Wedlock
After stealing diamonds in a robbery, diamond thief Frank Warren (Rutger Hauer) is betrayed by his best friend Sam (James Remar) and his fiancée Noelle (Joan Chen), who turns him into the authorities. Frank is sentenced to 12 years imprisonment at Camp Holliday, an experimental prison where each convict is given an electronic collar containing an explosive device which is electronically connected to another inmate. If any inmate tries to escape from Camp Holliday and is separated from the collar-mate by more than 100 yards, their collars will explode. Frank learns the inmate he is connected to is Tracey Rigg (Mimi Rogers) and Tracey and Frank both escape with their collars intact. On the run from the authorities, Tracey and Frank find they are being pursued by Sam and Noelle, believing Frank will lead them to the diamonds, which he has hidden. Can Frank and Tracey get to the diamonds without separating from each other more than 100 yards?
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 00:24 (six years ago) link
Hauer felt free to do crap after BR because there's pinnacles that once reached you never really come down from regardless of what follows, Hauer is essentially George Best
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
we watched Wedlock many times when it was on cable, one of the great head exploding films of the 20th century along with Scanners and Chopping Mall
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 01:06 (six years ago) link