[PenultimateManStanding]

Just watch the old Sci-Fi classic. Could it be futher from the mark of the future? I doubt it. Big skyscapers that lean at 40 degree angles. Replicant humans programmed to live for a few years, yeah, well maybe. Just what do these futuristic cities live on for energy? Nonetheless, the atmospherics of the movie were superb. A Ridley Scott flick. Rutger Hauer played his usual role of the Blonde Beast. Man he did that so superb. Whatever happenend to him? I think that sci-fi is a bankrupt idea.

[Jake_old]

I watched Blade Runner on Saturday.

you spyin on me?

Thought it was boring. I hadn't watched it properly before. Rutger Hauer is a great character in most things though.

I like sci fi though, even now.

[PrairieMule]

When the movie came out 23 years ago it blew everyone away. I remember a year after it came out catching it on cable. movie was based on a short story by Phillip K.Dick. A lot of his books were turned into movies (Total Recall, Minority report, Paycheck, Imposter)

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RedJake', 'I') watched Blade Runner on Saturday.

you spyin on me?

Thought it was boring. I hadn't watched it properly before. Rutger Hauer is a great character in most things though.

[Jake_old]

Ok Ok

I'll probably never appreciate Blade Runner, it has slipped me by.

Watched Mad Max Road Warrior the night before

First time I've seen it and thought it was superb.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'W')hen the movie came out 23 years ago it blew everyone away. I remember a year after it came out catching it on cable. movie was based on a short story by Phillip K.Dick. A lot of his books were turned into movies (Total Recall, Minority report, Paycheck, Imposter)

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RedJake', 'O')k Ok

I'll probably never appreciate Blade Runner, it has slipped me by.

Watched Mad Max Road Warrior the night before

First time I've seen it and thought it was superb.

[Eli]

Blade runner is a great movie.

You just have to get used to the pacing it is mostly slow and methodical but the look is great.

Speaking of a movie that is slow and totally unrelated try watching Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick it is an great period piece that is very slow and it is three hours long but when ever it is on I always get drawn into it, it is an amazing picture.

[DomusAlbion]

Blade Runner is an excellent movie. I particularly like the theater release version that had a Harrison Ford voice over ala the 1930s and 40s detective movies.

Rutger Hauer has worked consistently since then but you might not recognize him as he got rather thick (too much German sausage and beer). He's trimmed down of late and had a small part in Sin City as Cardinal Roark. He still has that same intensity he showed as Roy Blatty.

[swingbolder]

I always thought that Bladerunner was overrated. But so many people I know -- whose movie views I generally respected -- thought it was one of the best movies ever, so perhaps I am missing something.

Soylent Green is nearer to my vision of the future. Also The Omega Man.

[tivoli]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'J')ust watch the old Sci-Fi classic. Could it be futher from the mark of the future? I doubt it. Big skyscapers that lean at 40 degree angles. Replicant humans programmed to live for a few years, yeah, well maybe. Just what do these futuristic cities live on for energy? Nonetheless, the atmospherics of the movie were superb. A Ridley Scott flick. Rutger Hauer played his usual role of the Blonde Beast. Man he did that so superb. Whatever happenend to him? I think that sci-fi is a bankrupt idea.

[holmes]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'H')ere we have the old idea that humans can possibly live in a world where nature has been poleaxed into oblivion.

[Omnitir]

Rutger Hauer was recently in Sin City – did a great job playing what was possibly the toughest screen character of all time.

Sci-fi is awesome; it’s a great form of escapism. Nothing wrong imagining what could be.

The resources in the Blade Runner universe all come from space. If we ever do manage to make it past the oil age and keep growing, that just how I expect the future would be – the Earth becomes depleted and humanity and industrialism is forced to move into space to keep growing.

One question about Blade Runner I never figured out: was Deckard a replicant?

[holmes]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('swingbolder', 'I') always thought that Bladerunner was overrated. But so many people I know -- whose movie views I generally respected -- thought it was one of the best movies ever, so perhaps I am missing something.

Soylent Green is nearer to my vision of the future. Also The Omega Man.

[SinisterBlueCat]

First off, this is not really a movie about the future, it is a love story and a movie about human interaction, and how to define the term human.

read the book that inspired the movie....do androids dream of electric sheep.

I love Blade Runner. A huge part of Ruteger's lines were improvised, mostly the part where roy is dying. A tremendous actor.

"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 Tannhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die."


one of my all time fav lines from a movie...

you are a tough crowd.

[fossil_fuel]

watch "the postman".

this doomer thinks that the future will be quite similiar.

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'W')hen the movie came out 23 years ago it blew everyone away. I remember a year after it came out catching it on cable. movie was based on a short story by Phillip K.Dick. A lot of his books were turned into movies (Total Recall, Minority report, Paycheck, Imposter)

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Omnitir', ' ')
One question about Blade Runner I never figured out: was Deckard a replicant?

[swingbolder]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')A huge part of Ruteger's lines were improvised, mostly the part where roy is dying. A tremendous actor.

[Eli]

I thought Deckard might be an advanced replicant as well just like the Rutger Howard character there were some clues but I can't remember what they were.

Ridley Scott answers the riddle