Holee Shit, Blade Runner

[featherynscale]

I just saw the director's cut re-release of Blade Runner. I had not seen the film before (although I did read the story last year...) and every time I say that to somebody, they go, "WTF? You haven't seen Blade Runner? How could that be true? It's so very you!"

And, now that I've seen it, I had to ask myself "Holy shit! How could I have not seen this movie?". I mean, really, I've spent 25 years of my life having not seen Blade Runner, and it is so very very fucking me. It expresses practically the whole of my aesthetic preferences. It asks Probing Questions About What It Means To Be Human. It is chock full of moral ambiguity. You don't really know what happens to the hero and the heroine at the end. And, a guy fucks a robot(!!).

Anyway, I feel enriched by the experience.

Comments

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

I am duly astonished that you have lived so long without this cultural cornerstone. Blade Runner has, for 23 or 24 years, been my all-time favorite movie ever. And I've watched a lot of movies.

I've seen three of the five versions included in the "ultimate collector's edition" -- the original 1982 US theatrical release, the 1992 director's cut, and the 2006 director's re-cut.

Which of the two director's cuts did you see? Finish this quote from Roy Batty, addressing Tyrell near the end of the film: "I want more life, _______."

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Father. It was marked at the end as a 2007 film.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Right, I meant "2007 director's re-cut."

Anyway, that line of dialogue was the one thing about the 2007 release that bugged the hell out of me. The original and preferred line, as quoted by White Zombie in "More Human Than Human," is "I want more life, fucker!"

I encourage you to watch the original 1982 release, with the voiceover, at least once.

Are you sure a guy fucks a robot? You said you read the book, right?

[malvito.livejournal.com]

Actually, I should not fail to point out that a fellow copulates with a robot in Westworld, as well.

I very much plan to get teh Director's Cut of Blade Runner, but, being the uber-geek completist, I want the 5-disc Whoa Mama Edition that comes in teh metal briefcase.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Shit. I haven't seen Westworld either.
I'm a bad sci-fi fan. :(

[malvito.livejournal.com]

Classic 70s dystopian tech-gone-awry flick. (And I have it.)

I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

It's actually a gun-metal grey plastic briefcase, sadly. However, it does include a metallic origami unicorn, and a hot-wheel-sized replica of Gaff's police cruiser.

My sister gave me a HD-DVD player for xmas, and I immediately ordered the HD-DVD version of the Ultimate Collector's Whoa Mama Edition. I am a happy geek.

C-beams. Right.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I heard that last night and was momentarily distracted by thinking "sea beams? how does one get underwater light in space...?"

Re: I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.

[malvito.livejournal.com]

Plastic, metal, what the hell ... It's all about the kitsch.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Are you familiar with the White Zombie song I mentioned above?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm perversely fond of it, actually.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Have you listened to it since being exposed to the film, or did you already know that it was a Blade Runner reference?

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad, K. I *still* haven't seen it nor have I read the book nor did I know "More Human Than Human" was a direct reference. I don't even really know what it's about.

I've been further under that rock than you ever were.

Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell Industries. "More human than human" is our motto.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Hmph. Kids these days.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

&T*&^$^#&^#^#

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[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

There was a ninety minute debate last quarter in the science fiction appreciation class at AIA about whether or not Deckard was a replicant. It would have come to blows had the instructor not shaken from her malaise long enough to call a break and let people cool off.

Also, this is the only movie where I have looked at Sean Young and said, "Oooh, baby, give me some of your circuit-based loving." Or, you know.. words to that effect.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Another piece of Ridley Scott magic: garnering decent performances from Sean Young and Darryl Hannah, both of whom are far better suited to modeling. The man is a marvel.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That's a hell of a thing. Why didn't we have science fiction appreciation at my school? I'd have seen this damned thing ten years ago!

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

Gods, I haven't seen it in so long that I'm fuzzy in the memory department. Time to get the netflix membership, I believe...

S~

[starrthinks.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it either! And if there is sex with robots... well, I gotta get watch it!

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

Thank $DEITY that I'm not the only one!

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I was sufficiently distracted by Rutger Hauer and Harrison Ford that the rest of the movie Did Not Exist for me. I've seen it at least three times (defined as "sat in the room for the viewing") and barely remember anything else about it.

Shame on me, eh?

[revolution-grrl.livejournal.com]

My now fiance said the same thing to me one night when I was trying to tutor him in Russian. So after I tutored him some, we went to grab something to eat (so much less scary that "get dinner" when you aren't dating yet) and then we went back to my house and watched it. Two days later, he kissed me. Exactly 7 years and 1 day after I watched Blade Runner with him, we're getting married. Great movie, totally!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

So did he ever learn any Russian? ;)

[cptchuck.livejournal.com]

I believe it is the most artistically beautiful science fiction film year to date. And, although, the book it is based on is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," as we see in the movie, they are flesh and blood creatures that have been genetically engineered to look, act and in every way perform the purpose for which they were designed. Nevertheless, the female "pleasure units" (e.g. "Pris" played by Daryl Hannah), for example, were made to exactly be like nymphomaniac whores, they just didn't have landing lights on their stomachs. The trouble is, they finally made a batch that were too smart. They were modern day Frankenstiien's monsters. So technically speaking, when Harrison Ford phucked Sean Young, she wasn't a robot, she was more of a "DNA salad bar."

-just me