The long overdue _Blade Runner

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don't forget another 1982 classic...

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Directed by "Cannonball Run"/"Smokey & the Bandit" auteur and official Burt Reynolds stuntman, Hal Needham!

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 03:52 (eighteen years ago) link

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starring your new god:

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― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 03:54 (eighteen years ago) link

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Best movie ever, 11 February 2005

Author: gjpizzo04 from United States

This has to be the best movie of all time. Any future in which the properties of water change to become flammable is a future i can look forward too. Special visual and sound effects which compare to the likes of Space Invaders from Atari. However, I think the best was costume design of the monsters. It brings back memories of childhood from when my parents took me to see Dinosaurs Alive at the zoo. Reb Brown should win an academy award for his role as YOR. Only he can pull of such a great screenplay with classic lines like "Damn Talking Box". I can only hope that one day they make a sequel to this movie. I believe that it will be directed by this new and up coming star Ed V.

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link

(from 1983)

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, the box art from DVD reissues ain't got nuthin' on the originals

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link

you broke ilx

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 03:58 (eighteen years ago) link

it was a heavy year for all of us.

especially if you had HBO and got to watch all these flicks like six times a day growing up.

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link

funny coincidence happened tonight. my friend ellison stopped by to hang out for a few beers and watch a movie. first thing he mentioned to me when i asked what he felt like seeing was "you know, i've never seen Blade Runner all the way through, let's watch that." and we did. goddamn i love this movie.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link

okay, the world needs more of this
http://www.estragand.com/media/dumbpics/megaforce.jpg
!!
+ everything has blasters coming out of it! BLAST EVERYTHING NOW - DEEDS NOT WORDS

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link

ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH FOR MEGAFORCE REFLECTIVE BIKE DECAL??

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Bah, clearly the 1982 winner is...

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LET THE D&D PARANOIA BEGIN!

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link

PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED! for a film from the early eighties that means tittays and severed heads!

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link

+ everything has blasters coming out of it!

The B-52 appears to be disappointingly blast-free...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah, Megaforce. With Persis Khambatta!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link

see the explosion just below that vehicle on the right? the B-52 dropped a BOMB

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I once broke up with a girl because she didn't understand the dove.

douchebag says what?

― nervous.gif (eman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link

omg, gear, that's what i was just about to say!

also: just watched first 5 minutes of blade runner. shivers. (but now listening to friend on radio trying to pronounce name of an avarus song. brilliant.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link

MegaForce Headquarters, P.O. Box A, Culver City, CA 90230

― nervous.gif (eman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link

my life is complete

― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:04 (eighteen years ago) link

are you man enough for a P.O. Box?

― the enduring pueblo (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:04 (eighteen years ago) link

The skin coloured boilersuit makes it look like he is naked, and his ass is on the front. :/

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

my life is complete

Vahid, I love you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Trayce, don't ruin fun! Ass-crotch will blast you! + he has computer-pack on chest, which counts for something. something good.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:22 (eighteen years ago) link

AND THE MOVIE HAD FLYING MOTORCYCLES

also, as some of you may know, the blown-dried hero up there is also "Brad" from Rocky Horror Picture Show

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link

a proper review here

and thank god we're not talking about 1986, when we'd have to deal with this horror

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link

EVERYTHING BLASTS

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:51 (eighteen years ago) link

not to detract anymore from the importance of Blade Runner, which is very important, but:
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/megaforce/megaforce6.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link

ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH FOR GOLDEN DUNEBUGGY??

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link

SKINTIGHT BODYSUITS AND HEADBANDS NOT WORDS

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link

i smell a meme comin on

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link

which, "are you man enough for..." or "_____ not words"?

― the enduring pueblo (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:01 (eighteen years ago) link

either one...haha now i don't wanna jinx it!

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:02 (eighteen years ago) link

wait that's barry bostwick?? i thought it was a gibb

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:04 (eighteen years ago) link

ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH FOR GOLDEN DUNEBUGGY??

Funny you should mention that... The "Megaforce" golden dune buggy has been parked in front of a Newport Beach surplus store on PCH. I used to drive past it every morning on my way to work. It's directly in the center of this Googlemap

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:05 (eighteen years ago) link

SPEAK N SPELL ON CHEST, NOT WORDS

:D :D

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:05 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, here's a ground level picture

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:07 (eighteen years ago) link

WHOA

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link

And meantime I just finished my BR rewatch. More tomorrow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I tried to watch it! Got distracted by internet thread on BR instead. OH TEH IRONITRON. EVERYTHING BLASTS.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I once broke up with a girl because she didn't understand the dove.

douchebag says what?

-- nervous.gif (ï¿...), April 18th, 2006 12:45 AM. (eman) (later)

If Kenan does it, you call him a douchebag, but if Seinfeld did it, it would be a "classic episode."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:28 (eighteen years ago) link

that's a bit unfair

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I suspect it was a serendipitous event, with expert use of tech artists and a literate script, in the career of a hack.

yeah cos this is the shit that matters, it's not about good films, it's about whether this or that director is or is not a 'hack'.

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I made my dad take me to see blade runner when it came out and i was blown away. when i got back to school i couldn't shut up about it and i was surprised to find that NOBODY there had seen it and didn't know what i was talking about. i couldn't talk about it with anyone until i met my best friend lance a couple of years later. he was a fanatic. i could have sworn that i had the blade runner comic before i actually saw the movie, but maybe i bought it after the fact. i couldn't get enough of it. (And I was already a Hauer fan cuz my dad had dragged ME to nighthawks a year before blade runner came out. my dad and i were both very disappointed by the osterman weekend)

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link

On the DVD for Magnolia, there's a bit where Anderson screens Network for the crew as inspiration. So maybe it's just a Hollywood ritual where the director makes everyone watch his favorite movie before shooting begins, whether it has any point or not.

Haha, I heard Stanley Kubrick made his crew watch Eraserhead before they started filming The Shining. As far as I can tell this made no difference whatsoever to the finished film.

This does leads to a weird connection now I think of it, because all the helicopter shots in the "happy ending" version of BR were outtakes from...The Shining. Not to mention that Lloyd the Barman and Eldon Tyrell = THE SAME GUY.

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"Is this to be an empathy test? Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response? Fluctuation of theee...pupil?"

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link

All this 1982 love and you're all forgetting something -- ALBERT PYUN FANS REPRAZENT 1982 STYLEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link

RICHARD MOLL!! THE GUY WHO PLAYED MATT HOUSTON!! THREE! BLADED! SWORDS!!!!!!

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay, so on the one hand technically an '83 release. But on the other hand, LIAM NEESON.

http://www.impawards.com/1983/posters/krull_ver2.jpg

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Krull...er, wait.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), April 17th, 2006 5:12 PM.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

y'know, tied into the whole Spielberg thing upthread: I wasn't a big fan of Minority Report for various reasons, yet I have seen it twice anyway, and my favourite bit remains the whole GETTING NEW EYEBALLS part. Why? It seems so obvious now that it's b/c it's pretty freakin' Bladerunneresque.

-- rrrobyn (apoemabouteverythin...) (webmail), April 17th, 2006 10:19 PM. (rrrobyn) (later) (link)

Are you taking the piss dude?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I think what I was saying there was that that scene had a bit more grit to it, visually at least. It is not really 'bladerunneresque', no, haha, except perhaps in relation to the rest of the movie (vs in relation to actual Blade Runner movie, if that makes sense...)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

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