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, _______."

[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.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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!

[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