Blade Runner #1 sci-fi movie
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Siwilliams
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that is what blade runner is and all the other stories phillip k dick wrote
Siwilliams
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A long time ago could mean George Lucas in the year 3000 talking about the year 2400, still the future
I'm afraid if you can dismiss a seminal writer as Philip K Dick so casually, then I'm going to have to discard your views in a similar manner. You might not like his work but such a trite critique isn't worth the bandwidth it took me to read it.
Sigh.. what sort of response do you think that's actually worth? What do you think it says about you? Seriously, that's your considered response?
The start of the film says "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away" and you take from that, that george lucas was writing it from the perspective of him being alive in the 3000 and writing about the year 2400ad? really?
Siwilliams
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Your response says a lot.....of nothing.....oh ouch like I give a crap what you say. There are better sci fi writers.
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
I have....if I did not I would not say what it is
I have....if I did not I would not say what it is
So which of his works would you consider his best?
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
You don't know what it could mean is the point! You think everyone has to think like you? What bullshit
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
You've never read a single word of PKD, have you?
I have....if I did not I would not say what it is
So which of his works would you consider his best?
Why would I say best if I ALREADY SAID his work is crap??
I have....if I did not I would not say what it is
So which of his works would you consider his best?
Why would I say best if I ALREADY SAID his work is crap??
Because everything is relative - let's put it the other way - which one is the least worst? that you think sucked the least?
Siwilliams
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
but all movies adaptations of his books are awful
Well Blade Runner is only a very loose adaptation of the book and the characters and their motivations differ widely.
Anyone seen a scanner darkly? what's it like? Does it differ much from the book?
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
I saw that and thought it would have been a lot better without the animation over it, it was distracting. Have to read the book again to see if it was even remotely the same
Blade Runner isn't a story by Philip K. Dick. It's a movie, starring Harrison Ford, and directed by Ridley Scott.
And your opinion of Dick's work is as wrongheaded as your opinion of Blade Runner.
When I saw Blade Runner in a theater during its initial run, I left cursing the names of the screenwriters, Hampton Fancher and David Peoples - especially given the onscreen dedication to Dick, who had died months earlier and whose novel they'd trashed. I don't happen to think that Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is Dick's best, nor that it could have been filmed as written (with Mercer boxes, a married Deckard, etc.), but still, these guys should never have been allowed near the story, and the film deserved to flop in its initial release. Its great achievements had nothing to do with the script, and everything to do with Syd Mead's production design and some good casting.
My great hope for a yet-unmade movie based on a Dick novel remains Now Wait for Last Year (1966).
My great hope for a yet-unmade movie based on a Dick novel remains Now Wait for Last Year (1966).
I watched Blade Runner for the first time earlier this year and I wasn't really that impressed. It really didn't live up to they hype, I thought it was a pretty average movie.
Blade Runner loses some of its impact on modern audiences because it's been strip mined so much by later productions who borrowed all kinds of things from it. On the other hand, it's arguably the most consciously designed science fiction world yet commited to film. The details are piled layer upon layer, right down to the parking meters that electrocute you if you tamper with them. Sure, not all of this is apparent to the viewer, but that fact that all this stuff was thought through shows...its fingerprints are everywhere.
Frankly, I don't have patience for people who declare slow movies as boring. Some the my favorite films are the ones where the richness of the visual experience carries the weight of the film. Days of Heaven for one. After all, it's a motion picture, not a stage play. Then again, in this day and age people see a spectacular sunset and take a picture of it instead of enjoying the experience. We're conditioned by the typical run of the mill films to assume all films must meet certain criteria, even though that criteria is often just the lowest common denominator.
None of that is to say Blade Runner is flawless. It's riddled with flaws. But it's a still a great film, and warts and all, head and shoulders above most of the sci-fi pablum out there.
Frankly, I don't have patience for people who declare slow movies as boring. Some the my favorite films are the ones where the richness of the visual experience carries the weight of the film. Days of Heaven for one. After all, it's a motion picture, not a stage play. Then again, in this day and age people see a spectacular sunset and take a picture of it instead of enjoying the experience. We're conditioned by the typical run of the mill films to assume all films must meet certain criteria, even though that criteria is often just the lowest common denominator.
None of that is to say Blade Runner is flawless. It's riddled with flaws. But it's a still a great film, and warts and all, head and shoulders above most of the sci-fi pablum out there.