The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

that was on a double bill with E.T.: The Extra Testicle

Well, the original BR did lack balls.

this has been extremely helpful

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“Like any great movie, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner cannot be spoiled.

but Blade Runner is not a great movie.

I need to rewatch to assess whether it's great or not but I agree that it's spoiler-proof. It's pure ~viiibe, man~

BR and I are fundamentally are at odds because I can't chill with a movie like I can with friends.

just saw final cut. i feel like they added more rain to it.

Showoff. xp

the Blade Runner making of documentary >>> Blade Runner

this sucked

it's pretty, soundtrack is surprisingly great, but wow the plot's a mess and damn, the writer seriously hates women.

This got another Bradshaw 5 star review. How the fuck does he keep his job?

Silly question really. But he is such a predictable easy-shill, that I hate myself for ever taking his opinions seriously back in the day.

the movie seriously rips off Cherry 2000 and tries to sell it as pathos equal to the original

I've been meaning to see Cherry 2000 for years and now I feel extra annoyed that I still haven't seen it.

don't worry, Cherry 2000 cannot be spoiled

How have i never heard of cherry 2000 before

National Post in Canada also gave it 5 stars and called it "perfect". I guess 5-star reviews must get more clicks.

in the history of cinema, there has only been one perfect movie, and that movie's name is turner and hooch, so stfu national post

It was boring and turgid but the music and the look of the film were amazing. A lot of cool ideas that went nowhere in the end and yes I know it was a sci-fi movie but jaysus it was daft. Lacking any too intensity tbh. I've yet to see a Denis Villeneuve film that hasn't bored me yet.

I thought Vangelis was doing the whole soundtrack again? Was it scrapped or was that never the plan?

How long is Carla Juri in it? What's she like here?

so.... just like the original then!

*runs away*

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They should make a Blade Runner movie that totally drops any pretense of plot and is just a sci-fi city symphony focused on sound and visuals.

With Vangelis flying around on a keyboard ship.

a sci-fi koyaanisqatsi would be v much in my wheelhouse

now i'm sad it doesn't exist ;_;

I don't think there was ever a plan for Vangelis to do the soundtrack. Jóhann Jóhannsson was the one originally hired.

I'm glad that (according to you guys) we got the good zimmer for this one

Music is very Vangelis and spot-on but there are the compulsory Zimmer foghorns on occastion

"Long and boring!" - Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin is still alive?!

http://leonardmaltin.com/blade-runner-2049-not-worth-the-wait/

you cannot kill what does not live xp

damn, the writer seriously hates women.

the original wasn't especially nice to ladies either!

I can't believe this thread hasn't turned spoileriffic yet, that seems like a bad sign imo? I still want to see this in the theater

yeah, i was gonna say, the rachel/deckard sex scene in the original is uh problematic

to say the fucking least

i still don't understand why deckard suddenly gets all MAD THROWY AROUNDY

replicants short circuit a bit sometimes

like I LOVE YOU but I HATE YOU but I WANT TO KISS YOU but I'M THROWING YOU AGAINST THIS MOODILY LIT WALL

i dunno maybe it made sense in the 80s

yes, the original was bad in this respect, but no, I didn't think in 2017 the director would say "you know what, we need to double down on that shit"

i still don't understand why deckard suddenly gets all MAD THROWY AROUNDY

because she's not a human, just a piece of machinery D U SEE

he's like a child, he doesn't understand these complex feels he's having. assuming he's a robot too.

that too

fwiw it def is a weird and problematic scene but it does make some narrative sense

I think that's more easily explained by "it's a noir, and the main characters in those movies always push women around, to the woman's eventual delight"

yes :(

this line from the wikipedia plot summary of Cherry 2000 should entice those of you who have been putting off viewing that movie (which is set in the dystopian future of... 2017!):

As they enter Zone 7, they encounter Lester, a wasteland overlord with deranged subordinates.

Welcome to the world of in house IT support...

the dystopian future of... 2017!

cherry 2000 otm

Cherry 2000 has a fucking awesome score by poledouris in which he said he was trying to blend 'Mozart morricone and moroder'

is that why the trailer on youtube uses the score from Taxi Driver?

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

Trailers are a whole other world