june gloom on 12/8/2013 at 20:39
Quote Posted by Yakoob
OH why do you do think so? I just mentioned how I was considering rewatching cause my first watch left me vehemently underwhelmed (I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS :joke:)
Because it's "cool" to hate Blade Runner around here, and it's even cooler to mock me for loving it as my #1 favourite movie.
Vivian on 12/8/2013 at 21:21
they wrecked it when they got rid of the voiceover
SubJeff on 12/8/2013 at 22:13
Blade Runner and Alien were, IMHO, the only really, really good sci fi films until the 2000s.
No, I don't count 2001.
There are some others that are pretty fab, but nothing comes that close really. They are both still my top tier sci fi films. And Blade Runner is better than the book, mostly because the book is too darn weird.
SubJeff on 12/8/2013 at 22:20
In other news I saw The Lone Ranger and I enjoyed it.
It's ridiculous, or course, but fun.
faetal on 13/8/2013 at 00:28
Blade Runner is incredible. There has yet to be a more visceral sci fi world. Technologically restrained superimposition aside (occasional flying scenes), the film holds up in all its glory still.
catbarf on 13/8/2013 at 01:30
Quote Posted by faetal
Blade Runner is incredible. There has yet to be a more visceral sci fi world. Technologically restrained superimposition aside (occasional flying scenes), the film holds up in all its glory still.
Blade Runner's practical effects still blow me away every time I see it. The movie itself is a compelling argument that you don't need CGI and computer wizardry to make great effects.
I'd give the Director's Cut of Blade Runner a 5. It's probably my favorite sci-fi film.
june gloom on 13/8/2013 at 05:46
I think the Final Cut is markedly better than the Director's Cut, personally.
N'Al on 13/8/2013 at 06:35
AFAIK, the only person around here who has mentioned Blade Runner in, shall we say, less than rapturous terms is Scots. Whilst he's utterly wrong, of course, that hardly amounts to it being "cool" around here to hate on Blade Runner.
Also, the Final Cut is the better version of the movie, yes.
Briareos H on 13/8/2013 at 06:38
Sorry for being the "TTLG guy" (I'm not sorry) but while I'd in fact give BR a 5 on such a silly rating scale because it's a huge, trope-defining milestone in audiovisual design and atmosphere, I can't make myself magically ignore the bad acting and poor actor direction.
Sulphur on 13/8/2013 at 06:45
I don't think anyone said that BR was perfect. It's an important film for everything it got right, but it's a muddled acting and narrative exercise at best.
RE: Oblivion. I'm not going to be as charitable towards it. It's a tedious, cliché-ridden movie that doesn't understand a single one of the clichés it tries to pay 'homage' to. I hesitate to call it a 'pastiche' - it's more of an ungainly mish-mash of sci-fi elements sewed together with lovely cinematography. What clinched it for me was the end, where everything terrible slid into place with an assured 'click' and it assembled into the lurching abomination it was only hinting at before, with the sentient Space Uterus, and Cruise being replaced with his clone and his wife still being all doe-eyed at him, destroying anything the movie had tried to say until that point. So much for the uniqueness of a soul, huh. Farscape managed to do this so much more poignantly and believably I can only just shake my head at the ham-fisted stupidity that is the ending. Fuck you, Sally, indeed.
Even the score has M83's melodic tendencies mostly neutered because he has to score, not make something catchy, so it's mostly generic synths bubbling under a generic swell of strings. More or less the same thing that happened to Daft Punk with Tron.
