I've tried watching it a number of times as I keep being told how good it is and I just can't get excited by it at all and have given up each time. So, no it is not just you
Plus of course it's well worth watching a wooden Harrison Ford being comprehensively out-acted by Rutger Hauer – some might argue that this was intentional on Ford's part.
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I'm afraid I'm going to file it under 'pretentious old w@nk', along with Apocalypse Now, Withnail and I and everything by Tarantino
Well done that man, a lesson on how to win people & influence them if ever there was one 😉
FWIW I turned off With nail & I, as I'm not, and never have been a student. I love Apocalypse Now though, & Tarantino is normally worth the effort in a mind numbing, get to the **** point, kind of way…
Blade Runner was seminal and is the most important film ever made.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those … moments will be lost … in time. Like … tears … in rain. Time … to die”.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those … moments will be lost … in time. Like … tears … in rain. Time … to die”.
I remember, at the time, being mostly impressed by the vision of the Far East becoming dominant in the future, which still remains the case. However, other than that, I never quite got it, so it has never been on my list (I love SiFi BTW). Apocalypse Now and Withnail and I certainly are on my short list. Loads of people quote it as a seminal film, so I'm prepared to concede that I missed something, somewhere.
I sometimes find its gloss ( and the acting of some of the leads) a bit shallow, but it is probably the most influential SF film- all views of the future reference it in some way,
Its ironically one of the few films thats arguably takes a more moral, humane and complex look at its themes than the book it is based on, as Dicks androids were more one dimensionably evil-incapable by their man-made origin of being truly human.
Syd Meads design work is outstanding too.
BTW, Dustin Hoffman was alledgedly originally up for the part of Deckard-that would have been great IMO
i like blade runner but being more of a book person i found the book "do androids dream of electric sheep" a really good read, i find that you need a good imagination to watch films like that and good understanding of the mental process that is STOP LOOKING INTO IT TO MUCH ITS ONLY A FILM plus sci-fi needs that certain kind of person to watch it. if you dont get dont worry your just not that sort of person but please dont bitch on about it yeah. 😉
I should be a fan as it was shot in my home town of Middlesbrough…
it also looks nice and ticks the box in terms of the type of film I like, but I just find it a bit dull and confusing in what it tries to be a metaphor for
maybe when I'm older and boreder it will make sense
Posting up about how you 'don't get' a certain film/book/piece of music just makes you a target for abuse. If you don't understand it, fine. Just get over it and move on to something simpler, like Knocked Up. I loved Bladerunner from the first time I saw it in the cinema first time around, same as 2001, which I certainly didn't understand, but I didn't care, 'cos at the age I was then it just totally blew me away. Apocalypse Now was based on the book Heart Of Darkness, but translated to Vietnam from Africa. The making of the film was just as insane as the insanity of war it portrays. I love the smell of napalm in the mornings, BTW.
Anybody notice that one scene in the film has dated really badly-
When Deckard calls Rachael from the bar, much is made of the huge wallbooth videophone,
Now, weve got tiny handheld devices that do the same thing!
but weve not yet flown away to the offworld colonies yet 🙄
I think it's a great film. I'd be seriously worried if we all liked the same stuff though. Don't worry if you don't like it. Just enjoy the stuff you do like.