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Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film
Delchanat writes "Now there's scientific proof: according to 60 of the most influential scientists in the world, including British biologist Richard Dawkins and Canadian psychologist Steven Pinker, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) is the best science fiction film. Late Mr. Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) finished 2nd, followed by George Lucas' Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980)." There are several other stories as well: favorite authors, the basics of science fiction, and an excerpt of a new Iain M. Banks novel.
I'd read the book twice, knew exactly what was going on, and still found the movie to be a total waste of time.
yes.
it is.
No doubt.
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that this "survey" of the best science-fiction movies was specifically created to generate a high-postcount Slashdot thread?
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Man...Blade Runner was on last night on Spike but I watched Event Horizon on SciFi instead...I'd never seen either, but Event Horizon was OK.
...possibly the illiad & oddyessy.
but i like akira.
the 6-compendium set is page after page of ultra-detailed cityscapes, and sits a little higher than a foot when stacked end to end. it's an epic operettic masterpeice with strong classic 'noh' theatre themes; unfolding a tail of decay & rebirth, (imho) very accurately depicting different kinds of power struggles as society is broken by cataclysm. The scope of the story is unbeleivably broad and deep, comparable to the massive character development I see in Greek classics. As far as sci-fi goes, I beleive its' most accurate trait is in its' psychology; the science in the story is heavily eastern in nature, which is a pleasing difference from most the sci-fi I know, based in western science.
The movie is pleasing but choppy.. like what would happen if you tried to condense a three-day long norse opera into an hour.
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