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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?"
Hey, I got the first post but forgot to make it "official." So here it is.
The present day was depressing enough back then, and now, it is even more depressing. I remember when Blade Runner came out. I saw it in the theater, and I thought that it sucked. It was too slow, too long, and the ending was weak and depressing.
When this movie came out, Reagan was President, the Cold War was on, and the real vision of the future was more about mushroom clouds rising up over all of Europe, Asia and North America. At least if the world was going to end, it wouldn't just burn out like BR did, it would go out in a blaze of manly glory.
Who cares if Harrison Ford's character turned out to be a replicant, and that was part of the bleak vision of the future. So what if a bunch of clone / droids / zombies get out of hand in the future. How sad. I laughed at the premise, and I still do. Had the end of the movie had a bunch of replicants dropping an asteroid on LA, that would have been cool. But, I remember watching that, and thinking, "jeez, the end is these two dudes sitting in the rain. Where's the war?"
The Ewoks were tougher than the Replicants, and infinetly more entertaining. They were probably smarter too - nab Carrie Fisher and put Mark Hamill on a spit. That's genius. You didn't see them whining like Rutger Hauer and Harrison Ford did in BR. "Woe is me. I'm a clone. Life sucks". We're all clones anyway - each of us is an anonymous nuclear target. Get over it.
The movie was stupid. I'll take Jar Jar Binks any day, even, over this crap.
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Those guys are annoying, not to mention lacking in any sense of scientific method. What really gets me though is this:"I worked on Star Wars Episodes I and II, on the Matrix films, on AI and Terminator 3". Oh wow! So he worked on a bunch of films that really, really sucked and were riddled with CGI... You know, the kind of special effects that look dated before the films are even in theaters. The exact opposite reason Blade Runner stands the test of time! Let's hope that's something they remember for the so-called "Final Cut".
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
Im not trying to troll but it was boring, pointless and LONG. Why does everyone love this movie?
What a booring movie, Blade Runner destroyed a great book. It should be forgotten...
well maybe contact, but contact comes second in my mind to blade runner
Except Contact kinda blows. Pretty hard, actually. Other than that, yeah, it's one of the best sci-fi movies of all time.
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