Bladerunner

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I love this movie and think it's one of the absolute classics, well written, beautifuly shot and it poses a lot of questions about exploitation and mankind.
I would have to place it in at least my top 5 movies of all time.
Where (if anywhere) in your top 50 would you place it ?
 
As with all Ridley Scott movies its an aural and visual feast but I found it hard going from a story point of view .

I recently bought the 5 disc tin and the film looks gorgeous so I will be giving it another go.

Which of the multiple versions it will be I havent decided yet
 
In the top 10, which is a great achievement as I so nearly walked out the cinema when I first saw it. As a big Philip Dick fan at the time I'd really looked forward to the film, but then his sudden death just before its release and just when he'd started to get back into being prolific again depressed me. Then from the moment I saw that the androiRAB had superhuman strength and that so little of the book remained I was vastly irritated.

Then the book got reissued with the worst disclaimer ever which went something like - this book is a novel and varies greatly from the original film. The movie was then firmly my official worst film ever, but it won me over bit by bit. The first bit coming when I realized that every android character in there had a tie in with an animal, and from then on I started to appreciate its subtlety and attention to detail.
 
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I love both the book and the film, but they're very different things. The film is much stripped down and straight-forward compared to the book.
 
Agreed. Although I didn't think so on first viewing I now think it's one of the very best film versions of a book. Many films either go to one extreme and ignore the book or the opposite and film every scene as if its too sacrosanct to change anything. But in this case it's clear everyone involved had read and understood the themes of the book and the rest of Dick's work and used that as a launching pad to create something original.
 
I kind of agree with the sentiments about the book but in defense of the film I feel they had to make some adjustments to make the whole thing workable.
As a stand alone movie I feel they broached the important aspects of morality,mortality and identity. and the relationship between Deckard and those he hunted which was one of the main themes in the book (Deckard wonders if he himself is a replicant).
 
1. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
2. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
3. Star Wars: A New Hope
4. Indiane Jones & The Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. The Terminator
6. Pan
 
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