The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

what a bad joke

not that she's entirely wrong, but it's 95% opinion, 5% description, and a few too many puns

also kenan you sound like an ass

Well, Alien is a horror film, not an action film, so maybe you're onto something. But you sound like an ass most of the time, too.

Try it out, it's UNCANNY.

also a lot of her reasons for disliking the movie were part of its strength! it really is a visual movie, despite the powerful score and quotable dialogue. 'the design is the statement", etc. IIRC she didnt like 2001 either.

Yes! I always thought this was clear too, yet have heard a lot of people argue against it, though with no footing, mostly "He can't be!" Get one ability to follow metaphor? I don't know.

-- gypsy mothra (meetm...), April 17th, 2006.

otm!

(altho if she hadn't retired she might've raved up mission to mars).

oh man that movie

*begin digression*

mission to mars is soooo bad. we saw on it on my brother's b-day and he was so exasperated at the movie and its retardedness that when the alien hologram thingie shed a tear he burst out laughing in the crowded theater, making a bunch of others laugh with him. god bless my brother.

and goddamn the amount of eye shadow gary sinise wears in this movie.

*end digression*

Ebert!

Ebert gave this movie three stars. He did not understand it at all.

i think in one of his reviews he admitted he prolly would have rated it higher if he was reviewing it nowadays.

Before the shooting began, Christopher Nolan invited the whole film crew to a private screening of Blade Runner (1982). After the film he said to the whole crew, "This is how we're going to make Batman."

Though they do both have Rutger Hauer. ;-)

very true, but the scene seemed so close

um... you think we just figured this out right now?

i was criticizing her writing, smuggo

http://www.itsvery.net/BladeRunner/Tyrell%20Office02.jpg

-- kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (jdsalmo...), April 17th, 2006.

otfm! like 2001 and the first two Alien movies, it really holds up amazingly compared to other movies in the genre, then and now.

I didn't care for Black Hawk Down that much, but it wasn't because of Scott - if anything his work was the one thing I liked about it.

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sorry, Ned, others brought it up

As I said upthread: "The visuals. God, what visuals. They do not age, which is point of discussion in itself. This movie should look dated, but it doesn't. Why?"

Maybe because, apart from the special effects it employs, it borrows so much from noir that it doesn't age? And that the city shots are so borrowed from every other futurescape ever (Metropolis especially) that they're more like amalgams of futurity than original visions?

what would this movie have been like if tony had directed it?

I don't know what you mean. Please explain why talking about this movie is academic.

http://www.soniguales.com/fotos/LeonKowalski.jpg

i mean, i know, comic exaggeration and all, but it's still comes from a pretty ass-y place.

(that's written by the brilliant sarah gailey btw)

oh I was thinking you’d just watched 2049

carry on