What is the fascination with Blade Runner?

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Try watching with the soundtrack to Planet of the Apes.

Man THAT was distracting.

I saw a sneak preview of Blade Runner when it was still work print. It had POTA music.

Leon and Deckard fighting to the sound of Taylor running through Ape City.

Man that messed with my head. And I hated the movie too.

It's better now.
 
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Blade Runner is just my kind of setting. Scifi universes like Battletech (literally called the "future of the 80's" instead of just the future) have been my favorite kind for longer than I can remember.

Things look earthy, lived-in, not destroyed but in decline. It's a very 80's aesthetic that I still find the best. Many folks look on it now as dated imagery. That's where it just comes down to personal taste.

And in the end it is purely human interaction and the works of man you see. I like to compare it to the Course of Empire series by Cole. If it doesn't speak to you, well that's how it rolls.

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of course it wouldnt because as mcdavis said its not uncommon now to have these movies but back then technologies were still being made so to make speculations of what these things did when were popular (I.E. tron (1982), terminator, and other 80's movies)
 
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Ive always loved BR! It has everything I love in movies. The directors cut ending is one of the best endings Ive seen.

There are many levels in the story and it can be interpreted in many ways. The themes and topics are universal.

I can understand that todays audience dont apreciate the slow speed and dialoge.
 
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Sigma-LS said:
And in the end it is purely human interaction and the works of man you see. I like to compare it to the Course of Empire series by Cole. If it doesn't speak to you, well that's how it rolls.
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Hey, great pictures. The meaning of the series differs depending upon the order you view the pictures.
I don't know the history of the artist, but he didn't by chance visit the ruins and then try and paint it in it's full glory?

You can guess what ending I picked for Bladerunner.
 
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micdavis said:
It was made when that sort of thing was different, now it's not, so it doesn't seem as good.
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Can't sum it up any better than that IMHO.

WHEN you see a film can make a lot of difference in your perception of it. Lots of kids today don't care about Star Wars because they're more interested in stuff like Transformers or other Michael Bay type films... Thank goodness some still "get it" at least...
 
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99% of action movies bore the crap out of me, I'm a slow burn guy, love stuff from the 70's before hyper-kinetic editing and ADH audiences became 'the thing.'

Saw BR in the theatre in 82 and it changed my whole vision of what a sci-fi movie can be, probably watched it more times than any other movie other than Alien

Takes all sorts, the popularity of 5th Element baffles me, as does the modern garbage like Battle LA, Cowboys & Aliens, Transformers et al.
 
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I remember seeing BR in a proper theater. Visually it's really something, far superior to most other sci-fi subjects. The 5th element is one of the other movies I found just as stunning. Both movies do a good job at showing a fantasy world. But it's not like the SW prequels where there is just to much in a given shot.

But as far a films go, the the 5th element is a better film. Why?
Regardless of specifics such as characters and situations, it communicates the story clearly. Which is something BR doesn't do at all. It jumps around a bit, and it needs a narration to let the audience know what is going on. Which to me fails as a film, even with the other cuts of the film. It falls flat on it's face for story. Scott has no real excuse for this, for his other films I have seen had no problem with the story. Both Alien and Gladiator were both very solid films.

Well after seeing BR recently I could only figure that people will like something just because. No real analysis they just like it. I think that's fine, to each their own. My only complaint is so many other directors like to copy Scott's dark moody sci-fi world. I'm sick of it because he introduced that style over 30+ years ago. I want some goodness and light, or just some plain goofy fun(Like the 5th element).
 
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woffpack said:
I agree.. I think the biggest reason that I was disappointed in the movie is because I didn't have the right expectations before watching it. From all of the hype I thought I was going to be seeing more action.
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I think that is one of the biggest reasons for people not liking a lot of movies. They go into thinking it is one thing, it turns out not to be, and they are so put off, they cant see it for what it is. Kinda hard to appreciate a good drama when you got yourself in the mood for a comedy. Same with Blade Runner. Hard to appreciate a dark brooding noir when you were expecting Han Solo.
 
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Atemylunch said:
It jumps around a bit, and it needs a narration to let the audience know what is going on. Which to me fails as a film, even with the other cuts of the film. It falls flat on it's face for story.
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Speak for yourself! The voice-over narrative is far from necessary for at least some part of the audience, I can assure you. And the story isn't flat, either.
 
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If there was no blade runner, there wouldn't have been a fifth element.
 
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I dunno about that; I kind of see a world where The Fifth Element is made just off the strength of Heavy Metal magazine.
 
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I like them both for different reasons, and I understand that not everyone likes what I like. I don't need to know why.

Although I still can't fathom why my wife likes Twilight. :)
 
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I don't even understand why The 5th Element is being discussed here.
The only thing they have in common is the fact that they're set in the future.
They are completely different types of movies IMO.
The 5th Element tries to be while Blade Runner just is.

The casting was great. Everybody fit the bill and Rutger Hauer was the perfect choice for Roy Batty.
The score was an excellent fit for the visual style of the film and Syd Mead's designs were awesome.
The story raised questions about humanity and society and although it was slower paced than I would have preferred as a child, I was still entertained upon first viewing.
(I prefer any version that doesn't have the narration.)
 
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:lol

Thanks Larry!
I can always count on you to make me laugh in a thread that needed a little lightening up.
 
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