Blade Runner - there's two hours of my life I ain't getting back

Nah, the book's a real plodder, some great ideas but if they'd filmed it, it would have tanked(BR was a box-office flop but has stood the test of time). The film's so different they just share the basic replicant concept and characters.

Deckard is a replicant. An inanimate object can't gain a soul(soul's dont exist anyway). Replicants aren't inanimate - did you mean mechanical/artificial/man-made?

The same applies to Total Recall as an adaption. The story is very idiosyncratic. Haven't read Minority Report in a while, but A Scanner Darkly stanRAB out as one that was a seamless transition.
 
I think it's definitely one of the most atmospheric and visually stunning films of all time, but I fail to see what's so revolutionary about it.

Even if Deckard was a replicant - so what? I didn't find his character interesting enough to care, and it was a pointless twist which jarred with a story that was far too simplistic.
 
I think the hater has just made himself look stupid as with not picking up on the Deckard could be a replicant he's totally missed the point of the film. Well done.

I think we're seeing this more and more though with usually young people (sorry to be ageist) totally falling to see the point of older films as they simple can't relate to them. Blade Runner is a great film because it asks lots of questions about what is life? Are we that different from the replicants? Unfortunately, either because this idea has been ripped off so many times now or because the kiRAB just aren't interested we're seeing lots of classics get there status re-evaluated like this.

Its like most people think that Terminator Salvation was a weak Terminator film, but I've noticed on web forums a lot of kiRAB think its the best film in the series and think the older films are rubbish because they are "slow" "boring" and have "old fashioned" effects. Any superiority in the story telling seems to go straight over their heaRAB.
 
I do have a certain amount of empathy with the OP, when something is so highly praised and yet you wonder what exactly is it's appeal. And it can be especially frustrating when it seems every shares the opinion that something is truly great - it can drive you to ask 'am I the only one?!!!!' And such favourable opinion lavished on something that didn't quite take your fancy doesn't make you appreciate it more, on the contrary. And I certainly don't take offence to someone taking a critical standpoint on something so highly regarded.

However that's as far my empathy goes I'm afraid. :p For me, Blade Runner is the epitome of a cinematic masterpeice. Every time I watch it I'm in awe of it's purity of design and vision.
 
271 people have viewed this thread so far. If each person spent just under a minute here, you've made up for your lost 2 hours by stealing the same amount of time from other people.

Swings and roundabouts.
 
I wouldnt take too much stock of that link. It has TDK at #9 which one of my all time least favorite (read boring) movies and Pulp Fiction at #5 :confused:

I do like Blade Runner though :D
 
The Final Cut is the most recent- it's actually the director's own cut, whereas the Director's Cut isn't at all, it's someone else's cut made based on suggestions from Scott who was busy making (I think) Thelma And Louise at the time. I think.
 
Or from a different perspective, it's a load of juvenile twaddle that you'd have to pay me to watch again... let's all just agree to disagree! ;)
 
It's got a voice-over, every halfwit knows that a film with a voice-over is always a great film, it's the Law.

No?

You want examples ?

Apocalypse Now
Double Indemnity
Sunset Boulevard
Goodfellas
The Usual Suspects
 
'Is this to be an empathy test?'


Well my empathy is probably considerably lower than yours for the OP. I will grant you that it does not help if people, magazines, websites etc have been telling him that it is the best movie ever made, a masterpiece etc then expectations can be raised. But you need to try and be objective, ignore all that and take the movie at face value.

And be mindful of the era in which the film was made, the tools that were available and the different attitudes of the time.

And in truth what happens is the person enRAB up being disappointed, because it is not what they were led to believe. It's not really that the movie is bad per se, just that it is not what they expected. But I just hate it when that gets translated to these ridiculous 'worst move ever' or 'can I have the two hours of my life back' comments.

But I still say that the OP should give it another chance. Maybe years down the line they may be able to appreciate it a little more.
 
Regarding Pulp fiction. I would seriously, seriously like to know what in that overrated film makes people want to have Tarantino's babies?

Is it the Bad mofo wallet, the dialogue (French burger King and the foot massage is very amusing but the bible quotes, big deal), the violence, the music? I mean, Goodfellas has brilliant acting, dialogue and the music selection is second to none, yet it is always Pulp Fiction which is used as the perfect example of having everything mentioned and more. I just fail to see the attraction.
 
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