The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

he in fact stated this explicitly

seen this thrice now. every time I watch Jared Leto I feel like they filmed his cold reads or somethin

How...how have you spent nearly nine hours of your life like this?!

I have a lot of shit i want to avoid in the outside world these days

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?

because he's stupid?

isn't he supposed to know more about them than practically anybody else?

Easier to break than build

he just hunts n kills 'em, no genius required

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

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

Fact

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

Yeah. Anthony Hopkins possessing a lean Schwarzenegger

haha yes

and now all is swept away in what momentum obtains in Woozy Dread

is 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)

I think Pris is there as part of a plan, not coincidence?

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

darragh otm

like 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.

seein this shit tonight

ah pris has a plan! i have forgotten most of this stuff

zhora death truly horrific & abject. ford as terminator.

that was an actually well-shot remade scene in the final cut!

in the original you can tell it’s a stuntperson

how come Harrison Ford's grizzled blade runner has to have the simplest facts about replicants explained to him?

??

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

he explains what the nexus 6 line is

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)

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

what are throbbing dread vibes? sounds awesome

i was wrong it's Sexy Sax Vibes now

or is it just plain sexual assault vibes

I assume all the nexus models are bioengineered, but the early models were... less good

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

for such a good actor he sure is in a lot of shitty movies tho

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

http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000442/filmotype/actor?ref_=m_nmfm_1

If you've never seen Turkish Delight...it's really something

And yeah he's been a depressing paycheck guy for a long time. His appearance in Valerian is almost comically snoozy.

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 hitcher" is all-time

it's like you're leaving out Ladyhawke just to make me cry

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?

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

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

seein this shit tonight

― flopson, Monday, October 16, 2017 6:38 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loved it

otm

was the bug planted by the replicant sechs worker what led the baddies out to deckard's hideaway? like it was sort of a shonky bug that the police noticed too? or was she a double agent?

and why did the police just leave K there??

many things i liked about this, particularly the sound. my cinema had a great sound system. i could feel the spinners in my chest. it wasn't very thought-provoking. i did like how it militated directly against matrix-style "special one" logic, where the hero realises he is destined since birth to be different and unique blabla. (tho his fake soma-gf tries to convince him of this)

hey resistance lady! dying for a cause you believe in is the thing that makes you most human?? fuck off! (and who wants to be human anyway amirite)

No. Luv killed Joshi and used her facial recog to get into the police computer and presumably track his ehereabouts

ah yes

i was clutching my own hand too tightly to think v clearly about anything at that point

Them leaving k there alive is a major misstep plotwise tho

The "left for dead guy comes back to get revenge" trope is classic fuiud