Thread: blade runner (II?)

Saw this the other day.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/...-runner-writer

Honestly, a little disappointed. I thought the first movie was fine...

Originally Posted by mobygrape

I thought the first movie was fine...

Beyond fine. Sublime.

Rutger's role, Leon...

Priss

Eddy Olmos as Gaff

The whole thing set the bar that has rarely been risen to or approached.

" I hope she lives, but then again, who does"

Blade Runner was perfection, and to add anything to perfection can only reduce it. Hopefully, the carry-over will be minimal, with a whole new premise.

Well, the movie was a bit rosier than the story it was based on...

Still great though.

Blade Runner had a couple good moments but all-in-all it is one of the most overrated movies ever.

Sure ..... right up there with Titanic and Ishtar

Originally Posted by spindrift

Well, the movie was a bit rosier than the story it was based on...

Still great though.

Watch the director's cut. The studio made him add the fluff BS in the end of the original release.

Most amazingly lit film ever, nd arguably the best directed SciFi film of all time. Any student of film who doesn't rank this masterpiece in one of the top ten slept through their classes.

Originally Posted by Tippster

Watch the director's cut. The studio made him add the fluff BS in the end of the original release.

Most amazingly lit film ever, nd arguably the best directed SciFi film of all time. Any student of film who doesn't rank this masterpiece in one of the top ten slept through their classes.

Technically the film was amazing. But you could do the best lighting and direct the hell out of someone throwing a shit at a wall. At the end of the day it is a finely directed and lit film of someone throwing a shit at the wall.

And speaking of sleep through something. That film is so incredibly boring.

My fave film of all time - esp. The director cut

I kind of hope that a BR2 is never made. It is a singular piece of Sci Fi that should be left alone. Absolutely not overrated.

First up, a lot can happen that could lead to this never happening (i.e. getting made).

Secondly, add this to a list of films that Hollywood types are trying to get made that have no business getting made:

new Road Warrior - Why? George Miller's original is a seminal work of sci-fi.

Remake of The Wild Bunch - this has been in the works for years, which stupefies me as Sam Peckinpah's original is one of the greatest westerns of all time and the movie is not only a benchmark in blood soaked cinematic violence--it influenced the hell out of early John Woo classics like The Killer and Hard-Boiled--but an extremely poignant commentary on male bravado and the encroachment of modern civilization.

There are others out there being greenlit, as well, which continues to prove that 90% of Hollywood is devoid of an original thought. Didn't anybody learn anything from Gus Van Sant's frame-by-frame remake of Psycho?

Originally Posted by dookey67

First up, a lot can happen that could lead to this never happening (i.e. getting made).

How well Prometheus does at box office close to top of that list of lots of things.