The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

vahid OTM way upthread about all the SF movies better than this one.

i dont even care for blade runner that much, but no, vahid is not OTM about tron being better than blade runner

ok, not all of them i guess

you know, the only feeling i can muster is utter indifference.

it's ridley scott doing a sequel to his own movie...could be interesting, could be terrible. who knows?

a year ago if you had told me that a planet of the apes rebootquel was gonna be pretty good i wouldn't have believed it

vahid OTM way upthread about all the SF movies better than this one.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

someone needs to be "retired"

I will hunt down and "retire" all associated if a sequel gets made

― ☠-post (latebloomer), Thursday, March 3, 2011 7:10 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark

i've been replaced by a replicant

it's ridley scott doing a sequel to his own movie...could be interesting, could be terrible. who knows?

― thick-necked and hateful (latebloomer), Thursday, August 18, 2011 6:54 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, agreed. i'll wait and see, whatever.

do you know what? i recently went through the process of rewatching blade runner with my gf - it was her first time! - and i found i really liked it again. i think maybe having entered a different phase in my life i can feel more empathy for harrison ford's evident self-loathing, and so the cruelty of the movie makes more sense to me. i also spent a lot of time over the last few years digging deep into heavy metal (the comic magazine) and i really, really appreciate the set design during the different "blade runner blues" montages.

man, that guy is obnoxious upthread

there is sort of a relaxing, warm fuzzy sweater, big cup of hot chocolate quality to turning the lights way down and watching blade runner. and that is pretty hard to find in good science fiction movies.

i think, though, that the following sci fi movies might be better than blade runner

-- sun ra's "space is the place"
-- a clockwork orange
-- fantastic planet
-- forbidden planet
-- holy mountain
-- thx 1138
-- videodrome
-- war of the worlds w/ tom cruise
-- zardoz

One of the best things about Blade Runner, and the first 2 Alien movies, which almost no other sci-fi movies manage, is a sense of the reality and solidity of the rest of the world beyond the bit you're looking at. They feel like real (fucked up) societies, not just sets for adventures to happen in.

that is a much more agreeable list

One of the best things about Blade Runner, and the first 2 Alien movies, which almost no other sci-fi movies manage, is a sense of the reality and solidity of the rest of the world beyond the bit you're looking at. They feel like real (fucked up) societies, not just sets for adventures to happen in.

― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Friday, August 19, 2011 4:57 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

so OTM. I feel like SF stuff often uses that clunky 'quick explain the backstory and get it over with' thing. Alien and Blade runner do it on the fly and it works.

-- war of the worlds w/ tom cruise

u mad

yeah, i was gonna say

I re-watched BR recently, after re-reading Do Androids Dream etc.. First time round (a long time ago) I saw the film (with voiceover) and then read the book.

One thing I was struck by in the film this time was how the androids have funny reflecting eyes when you shine lights on them - so why do the cops bother with all that Voigt-Kampf test shite?

I was also struck, again, by how the film leaves out what is perhaps the most headfucky scene in the book - the one where Deckard finds himself in the other police HQ that he has never heard of and is told that the one he is based in shut down years ago.

Anyway, this time round I found the film mildly disappointing. It looks great and has a nicely tight narrative, but it seems to lack the depth of the book. Taken independently of its source material, though, it is an impressive piece of work.

Ridley is *73*! jesus h..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/19/new-blade-runner-ridley-scott

he still looks spritely

http://io9.com/5836049/beautiful-behind+the+scenes-blade-runner-video-will-change-how-you-think-about-movies

and from the comments

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbwoodside/sets/72157621762437297/

vahid now going straight into self-parody

This thread is so good. "sex replicants!"

-- sun ra's "space is the place" - few things are better than this movie
-- a clockwork orange - sure
-- fantastic planet - eh maybe
-- forbidden planet - sure
-- holy mountain - sure
-- thx 1138 - gtfo
-- videodrome - def. on the level of bladerunner
-- war of the worlds w/ tom cruise - GTFO x 1000000
-- zardoz - this is a silly, fun movie but come on now

I feel like SF stuff often uses that clunky 'quick explain the backstory and get it over with' thing

I can pretty much tell you whether or not I will like a sci-fi work based on how much explication is in it. (the main reason I thought Inception was so terrible, for ex)

i LOVE fantastic planet

whoa!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crc5Ldkv4VU

i also really like THX-1138 a lot, though i don't watch it in the same way i watch blade runner

when blade runner is on i can do nothing else but look at blade runner. there are def parts of THX-1138 that i get up and wander out during. i also really like some parts of the remaster - like the new robot factory FX - and really don't like some parts of the remaster - the car chase additions.

zardoz is sort of like blade runner, can't do anything else but watch zardoz when it's on. you're right though, it wears thin. i just put it there because i put barbarella on the list first, decided that was too obvious.

i would put up a barbarella poster in my house before a blade runner poster

zardoz is cool for the first half while it's total WTF, sags during the big reveal, and the violence at the end is just yawnsome. it is sort of like dawn of teh dead in reverse.

i would put up a poster of this though

http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/blade-runner-city-01.jpg

war of the worlds i just put on there because a) it's a really good movie and b) i want to be open to new mainstream sci-fi not sucking, even remakes. i thought even "day the earth stood still" had some worthwhile moments.

though i've stayed far away from the new planet of the apes stuff

i wonder what the blade runner reboot will be like

gaspar noe's "through a scanner darkly"

dude, the new apes movie rules.

apart from one neat ideas (the nanobot thing) the day the earth stood still remake was probably the worst movie i've ever seen. yeah, i'm being hyperbolic.

idea, singular. uuuurrrrghhhhhhh

agree that war of the worlds was pretty good though. except for the ending with the totally dead son being alive, that was soooo heinous.

So, in re Blade Runner 2:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/17/ridley-scott-opens-up-about-prometheus-kick-ass-women-and-blade-runner-2.html

What about the rumored Blade Runner sequel?

Funny enough, I started my first meetings on the Blade Runner sequel last week. We have a very good take on it. And we’ll definitely be featuring a female protagonist.

Oi, Scott, No!

Bladerunner 2: Bladerunnerer

This scares me

Blade Runner 2: Replicant Boogaloo

Bladerunner 2: The Things He's Seen

(about the Tannhäuser Gate c-beams and the burning attack ships off Orion's shoulder and stuff - maybe the fires of Orc too)

surely it will be blade runner: the bladerunniest

Bladerunner 2: Rise of the Ganymedean Slime Molds

Bla2erunner: Follow That Unicorn!

Bladerunner 2: Dark of the Smog

Bladerunner 2: Cherished Memories of Sean Young In Furs

Blade Runnerer
2 Blade 2 Runner

Blades Runner

Episode V: The Replicant Strikes Back

stopmenow

Blade Ran