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Alien: Prequelification
Tom:
Blade Runner is so good that not even studying it under duress for my HSC has ruined it for me.
KvP:
There's not much we can definitively say about ancient Romans / Greeks who weren't upper-class. For all we know the Coliseum had a "no scabs" policy.
Alex C:
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--- Quote from: Alex C on 24 Apr 2010, 16:04 ---the whole populace apparently loves bloodsports
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They pretty much did?
Anyway Gladiator was cheesy as heck but I loved it because I have a serious weak spot for films with endless "thems fightin' words" moments e.g; "At my signal, unleash hell" and the whole "I will have my revenge" speech
Also am I the only person in the entire world who doesn't get what the big deal about Blade Runner was? Seriously I want someone to explain this to me because I can't help but think I am missing something considering the sheer weight of popular+critical boners for this movie.
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Yeah, see, I saw Gladiator in theater and on video a couple of times before I realized where that "unleash hell" quote was even from. Such things have pretty much no positive impact on me unless we're talking about something inherently kind of fun and campy like Warhammer. Gladiator by contrast just had too big of a stick up its ass. At least 300 knew it that it was basically the movie equivalent of Gears of War. Yeah, that's right, I just compared 300 favorably to a movie that recieved 12 Oscar nominations. I'm completely fine with that.
Anyway, as for your second question, I can definitely say you're not alone. Blade Runner is one of the least popular well-regarded movies of the last few decades, and to this day it still divides movie critics. The pacing is glacial, the protagonist is kind of a creep and the performances are generally so-so. The ending confrontation hits audiences weaned on shoot outs as anti-climactic since it ends with a short monologue instead of a bang and offers little in the way of closure.
So, yeah, the movie is a mixed bag, really, and certainly not a crowd pleaser by any stretch of the imagination. It's too cold and alien for most people to get emotionally invested in. But with that said, it's a triumph of set and audio design without being a mere empty headed spectacle movie like Twister. There's an awful lot going on in that movie, and the themes and art design has inspired a lot of subsequent artists and writers. You can argue that the stuff Blade Runner has inspired is largely mediocre, I suppose, but an impact is an impact, and you simply cannot have a comprehensive discussion of recent sci-fi while leaving Blade Runner out of the conversation.
David_Dovey:
Oh OK that actually does make a lot of sense, that people are talking about the look and feel of the film and uh, metaphors 'n' shit -which I can strongly agree on all counts are irreproachable- when they classify it among the best in sci-fi as opposed to the more standard arbiters of film quality. Thanks!
Dazed:
I just think the final sequence between Rutger Hauer and Harrison Ford is brilliant, and even if the rest of the movie were trash (which it isn't) that set of scenes would make up for it.
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