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Blade Runner at 25, Why the F/X Still Matter
mattnyc99 writes "Today marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's dark vision of the future that changed the future of filmmaking and still stands up today, argues Adam Savage of The MythBusters (and the F/X crews of The Matrix and Star Wars). Between the "lived-in science fiction," pre-CGI master models, futuristic cityscapes and tricked-out cars, don't you agree? And after we got the first official glimpse of him from Indiana Jones 4 this weekend, isn't Harrison Ford still the man?"
Still living with my parents 25 years on
Oh, shit! Put a spoiler alert above that!
...Harrison Ford's holding up pretty damn well.
Oh...what? Damn!
I can live with those sorts of "enhancements", just so long as they don't put a CGI jamaican frog-man into any of the scenes.
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On today's episode of Mythbusters, Jamie and Adam examine the myth that a four-paragraph article should be spread across four pages.
Just junk food for thought...
German guy: So, Doctor Jones, boxers or briefs?
Indiana Jones: Depends....
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The real controversy will be when Deckard shoots first. ;)
Poor, Harrison.
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...who will be digitally replaced with Hayden Christensen in the special edition.
...who will be digitally replaced with Hayden Christensen in the special edition. This would be a somewhat appropriate excuse to have that shot of Darth Vader yelling "Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!"And its strange English-to-Chinese-to-English subtitle:
"Do Not Want".
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well maybe contact [imdb.com], but contact comes second in my mind to blade runner
Contact is definitely first in my list, because of the "my daddy is an alien" and "your mind can't bear how we actually look" cop-out ending.
You gotta be very brave to masterfully build suspence for hours in this otherwise great movie, and end with daddy talking condescendingly to the main protagonist "honey, you're too stupid to even have a look at me".
I mean, what the hell could they be? Really ugly fat green gelatinous blob monster? Seen that. Gaseous purple clouds? Seen that, too (although the comic version looks kinda different).
I mean WHAT, what the hell did it look like? Maybe they all looked like middle-aged average dads and this is why all the lies. Outer space jerks.
"The movie was stupid. I'll take Jar Jar Binks any day, even, over this crap."
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...Decker shot first?You kiddin' me? Decker always shot first.
Any sort of “Special Edition” release is only going to emphasize that point; he had a job to do, and it meant shooting at something. (Coincidentally, it looks/feels/acts human in every way, even down to the blood.)
If this were truly to fall in the footsteps of “Lucas-ized” video releases, then...
*Pray* that I am mistaken about any of these changes coming to pass. <knock, knock>
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He never was a *man* he was a replicant.
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Gee thanks, I never noticed them...until now!
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Why spoon-feed them EVERYTHING?
In truly great sci-fi, there is no spoon.
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Contact is definitely first in my list, because of the "my daddy is an alien" and "your mind can't bear how we actually look" cop-out ending.
A really nice echo of that theme was in the Venture Brothers episode "Twenty Years to Midnight". That was probably one of the best episodes of one of the best cartoons for geeks.
spoiler:
"Jonas": Alright, fine! You wanna see?! Here! ["Jonas" starts to rip open his face; we only see everyone's looks of horror and a bright light from "Jonas"'s direction] There! That would have been better?! If I had shown up like that out of nowhere?! Look at you. You practically crapped your pants! [points at Ned] Except him. He crapped his pants!
If they do remove them, now you'll just notice the absence of wires. :)
> it was the first movie in which I ever saw a fully naked woman... and I mean fully!...
> and Jenny Agutter at that! Rowrr. At age 12
Age 10 here. She was my first "crank", if ya know what I mean. A huge, warm place in my heart.
That Logan got to live in a world where you could walk up to a woman and say, "let's have sex", and she probably would, shee-it. That didn't help any.
Yeah. It was a lousy, contrived explanation covering for poor script writing.
Apart from anything else 12 parsecs is a hell of a distance for a black hole, or cluster of holes, to have an appreciable impact.
What were they? Half a dozen galactic cores or something?
Using occams razor I deduce that the simplest explanation is this: "George lucas is not a genius".