[Closed] Blade Runner, is it me?

Which version editors cut or original release?

Great film IMHO

It's you.

I didn't like it first time either, but it kinda grew on me. It's a lovely film and worth the effort.

The version that was on the telly a couple of weeks ago. Supposed to be the 'ultimate' version.

Sorry mate but its you. Watched it a couple of weeks ago and its bloody genius!!!

Ha, tried to watch it so many times as it supposed to be such a classic but it just bores the back teeth out of me after 10 mins.

What's the appeal? What am I missing?

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

Nothing. It's naff but people love it for the beautiful scenery and cinematography, sci fi naffness and Ridley Scott factor.

Its , just.... like TOTALLY about our fragile mortality an stuff, innit?

The ambitious, enigmatic, visually-complex film is a futuristic film noir detective thriller, blah blah blahdy blah and I've gone again.

Give it time...

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.

Compelling.

I liked it but if you aren't into it it's not the end of the world for me.

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

PJM1974 - Member

Give it time...
I've given it since 1989 when I bought it and haven't been able to sit through it yet.

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

Awesome movie. I go against most and reckon the original version is best, the later versions remove the ambiguity about Deckard.

It is in my top 10

IHN - you've just dismissed my three all time favourite films. Just out of interest what are yours fella?

It's you. Don't worry about it - I loathe Tarrantino movies.

In my top 10 as well; what does it mean to be human?
what assumptions do we make about our existance (and how mundane it is?)

watched my copy of blade runner directors cut last night, might watch withnail tonight! My other bestest are 5th element, Ronin, and Bullit.

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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 ****ing point, kind of way...

Cheers.

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”.

Superb.

Easy there deluded that is a hell of a claim.

“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”.

Superb.

[i]Blade Runner was seminal and is the most important film ever made.[/i]

I think the Lumiere brothers might have something to say about that

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.

La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon was a little short in my opinion. 😉

It's interesting and looks great but doesn't really work particularly well as a film overall imo.

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

It's shite as the story line is predictable.

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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.

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

Good grief. If these films/directors are pretentious in your view, I'm Brian Sewell..!

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.

the original narrated version is best

The narrated version is only best for the hard of thinking (or American audiences), but the reason for the voiceover may have been influenced by another of the films source references; 'The Long Tomorrow'- a comic strip by Dan O'Bannon and the French artist Moebius, It features a hard boiled narration too.
Some of the street-level architecture and detail is very similar as well.

West Kipper if that is the case why does Deckards dream about the unicorn which appears in the later versions tie in with the origami unicorn left by Gaff.

In the first version it is only hinted that Deckard is a replicant. The later versions make it very obvious.

I should be a fan as it was shot in my home town of Middlesbrough...

Don't think so (??) but the cityscapes WERE inspired by ICI Wilton, British Steel etc

Its you, one of my fave films. Amazing to watch even now considering none of it was shot with cgi, the book is rather good too.

Doesn't do much for me. I'll always watch it if it's on, but it's one of those films where I think I'm meant to like it much more than I do, but ultimately it doesn't have an interesting story for me. Good people can do bad things, bad people can do good things. Hardly ground breaking stuff.
Give me the Matrix and shiny PVC any day.