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Have we progressed to the point as a society where we can finally just move on? Yes, I get it, it's a great movie, it changed a lot of things, and I enjoy it as much as the next guy, but please for fucks sake, can we move on please?
never seen it...
In the vein of the "Give it a season..." thread, I picked up the Final Cut DVD when it came out, having never seen it, on the basis that it was one of those films you "had to see." I liked Ridley Scott enough, and the set came with the other 3 major releases, so I figured what the heck. For the first half dozen times I kept falling asleep; I had to force myself to finish it. Then I went back and watched the other versions. For a good two weeks I watched nothing but Blade Runner, and developed an appreciation for it, but that's about as far as I go. I will say that if you're someone serious about their sci-fi you can't ignore it forever.
A lot of the stuff we take for granted in genre pictures today, like shooting primarily at night, cluttered sets, high-con lighting, naturalistic dialogue delivery and such like, first made their way into genre in Alien and Blade Runner. Those are, for different reasons, two pretty damned influential genre movies.
You know what else is a pretty damned influential genre movie?
Your DICK IS ONE OF THOSE
/percocet
I get all that, but it's been 30 years, can we please stop treating it like the second coming? It wasn't that great.
/notreferringtoyouguysjusttherestofthegoddamnworld
Eh, it's a film that's not for everyone. But I like it. I think ,in part, the reason why is because I grew up when movies took a little bit more time with their characters and didn't feel the need to rush things so much. Blade Runner was one of these movies. The flick was influential, sure but it is much slower than todays films.
I like Blade Runner but like 2001 I have to be in just the right mood to watch it.
Fuck that, it's brilliant and should be mandatory for anyone who loves film. It blew my mind as a youngster and I've never looked at movies in the same way since.
/showingmyage
I can't stand Blade Runner.
I feel the same as Fixed, tho I will agree with the idea that other film makers need to stop ripping it off every time they want to make a dark sci-fi film.
I liked BR when I first saw it, but I thought of it as a pretty standard noir picture set in a futuristic world. I can understand why some set designers and artists went ga-ga, but the fact that it looks like sci-fi is SUPPOSED to look like doesn't impress me. The fact that it and Alien were the FIRST to do that is historically interesting, but doesn't change my impression of the story.
Recently, I've come to more or less love it, except for the unicorn BS. I wish film makers would stop making Philip K Dick stories into movies without ditching his dumb maybe-it's-a-dream twists. They're in every fucking PKD story.
Hey, director— You're telling a lie in the first place. Why would I give a shit whether or not a guy who never existed is experiencing a "true" lie or a "fake" lie?
Last edited by Zarban (2011-08-16 00:54:53)
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