[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Blade Runner (Page 1 of 4)
Posted: 9/9/2010 8:55:01 PM EDT
It doesn't matter how many times I see this film. I'm always blown away by the visuals. I can't believe how well they stand up all these years later.       |
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I saw that movie in the theatre when it was originally released. I was only 12 or 13 but I remember how dark the whole thing was and how different it was from Star Wars, I liked it even if I didn't really understand the whole thing. All these years later I'm still amazed at how great it is. When the underlying story is compelling, it's easier to make a great movie and Philip K Dick was a great writer. Edit....My God......has it really been almost 30 years?!??  |
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Watched it last night with a friend on his huge HD tv. Even with a DVD playing, it looked AWESOME!!! He had never seen it before and he wondered immediately if Deckard might be a replicant. HAHAHAHAHA Patrick The Bluray is sick. I would almost buy a new HD TV and a blue ray player JUST TO WATCH THIS MOVIE. Patrick |
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A movie not destroyed by CGI. I swear, CGI is making movies awful. It seems that a lot of the good Sci-Fi movies benefitted from no CGI. The just look better and actually have better, you know, plots.
The original Star Wars and Blade Runner are good examples, although the latest Star Trek is a good counter-example. |
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I would almost buy a new HD TV and a blue ray player JUST TO WATCH THIS MOVIE. Patrick It's worth it. I bought the Blade Runner BD for my dad for his birthday a couple years back (he's a huge Blade Runner fan), and we've watched it a few times since. It looks A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Quoted:
I saw that movie in the theatre when it was originally released. I was only 12 or 13 but I remember how dark the whole thing was and how different it was from Star Wars, I liked it even if I didn't really understand the whole thing. All these years later I'm still amazed at how great it is. When the underlying story is compelling, it's easier to make a great movie and Philip K Dick was a great writer. Edit....My God......has it really been almost 30 years?!?? Yeah, it has. I am approaching 30 and I was born 6 months to the day after Blade Runner was released. 
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Deckard was a replicant. Depends on which version you watch.  Yeah. Dick weighed in on this and said that he was NOT, at least in the story as he wrote it. Although certain cuts of the film do make it look that way. Dick's book had fuckall to do with the movie, though. |
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Quoted: A movie not destroyed by CGI. I swear, CGI is making movies awful. It seems that a lot of the good Sci-Fi movies benefitted from no CGI. The just look better and actually have better, you know, plots. The original Star Wars and Blade Runner are good examples, although the latest Star Trek is a good counter-example. I agree with you.  |
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A movie not destroyed by CGI. I swear, CGI is making movies awful. It seems that a lot of the good Sci-Fi movies benefitted from no CGI. The just look better and actually have better, you know, plots. The original Star Wars and Blade Runner are good examples, although the latest Star Trek is a good counter-example. I agree with you. I actually think the latest trek is a good implementation of CGI. Something like the BSG remake over used it, and over used stock footage. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: A movie not destroyed by CGI. I swear, CGI is making movies awful. It seems that a lot of the good Sci-Fi movies benefitted from no CGI. The just look better and actually have better, you know, plots. The original Star Wars and Blade Runner are good examples, although the latest Star Trek is a good counter-example. I agree with you. I actually think the latest trek is a good implementation of CGI. Something like the BSG remake over used it, and over used stock footage. I'm not against CGI. I'm just against say crapping out something like the Star Wars prequels. |
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A movie not destroyed by CGI. I swear, CGI is making movies awful. It seems that a lot of the good Sci-Fi movies benefitted from no CGI. The just look better and actually have better, you know, plots. The original Star Wars and Blade Runner are good examples, although the latest Star Trek is a good counter-example. I agree with you. I actually think the latest trek is a good implementation of CGI. Something like the BSG remake over used it, and over used stock footage. I'm not against CGI. I'm just against say crapping out something like the Star Wars prequels. I agree with this. CGI really still shines when supplementing real SFX. A blue or green screne and then 100% CGI still looks like ass. |
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CGI sucks. It looks cool when it is fresh, but looks dated 6 months later. The only CGI movie that has not dated itself is the original TRON. And that is because MOST of it is actually animated and chroma-keyed. Surprisingly little CGI in that movie. Sets and models > microchips
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To this day, whenever I'm drunk, and the frazzled waitress/bargirl/server/whatever asks me if she can take my empty bottle, I'll grab it quickly, hold it to my chest, and––while looking her directly in the eyes––spout off the last words Roy Batty says just before it dies.
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To this day, whenever I'm drunk, and the frazzled waitress/bargirl/server/whatever asks me if she can take my empty bottle, I'll grab it quickly, hold it to my chest, and––while looking her directly in the eyes––spout off the last words Roy Batty says just before it dies. 
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Quoted: My favorite movie of all time  Mine as well. What is really interesting to me is that if the human race survives long enough our cities and culture will probably be right along those lines. eta: Road Warrior and Heavy Metal and right in there with this one. |
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My favorite movie of all time This. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. |
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Quoted: Is this part of the test? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ph8V052fCNE/SkVwHBPgb5I/AAAAAAAAGOA/4VU0o1Si2Ik/s400/8636-1925.gif Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother |
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Deckard was a replicant. Seriously, I never understood the mindset that Deckard WAS a replicant. Why do y'all say that? CMOS Because a replicant made to hunt down his own kind without knowing his true nature is a lot cooler than a human doing the same job. |
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Deckard was a replicant. Seriously, I never understood the mindset that Deckard WAS a replicant. Why do y'all say that? CMOS This I still can't make the leap. 
Gaff knows what Deckard was dreaming, exactly like Deckard knows what Rachel's dreams and memories are (hint: the silver unicorn is the unicorn from Deckard's dream). Because he's a replicant. |