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"Bladerunner = Genius"

Saw Bladerunner last night for the first time in years and it's so awesome. It was the Director's Cut edition without the narration, had some extra scenes and a different ending. So so good. Was Deckerd a replicant? I think so. The unicorn sequence gave it away. But it raises so many questions. It blows the Matrix out the water by suggesting the same story and doing it better, years before. I love films that have that bleak future thing going on - Just seems more real than Demolition Man. Harrison Ford is the man too. Indy, Han, Deckerd. So many great characters, but he still looks like the most boring man in the world in all the interviews I've seen him in.

I didn't like it when I saw it.

Then again, I did watch it in 3 different viewings, and it was taped from channel 5. The DVD is £8...I may have to get it.

Not really.
It's nothing like the film, Deckard is a weedy little civil servant type bloke with a nagging wife.

I was really disappointed with it.

Is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" worth getting?

yeah,sorry about getting too in-depth.
It does make a good read though, the theory of Deckard being either homosexual or frightened of women.

The fact that he lives alone, only ever kills 2 replicants and both are female. And is assaulted by 2 fembots, both in sexual ways (Zora is half-naked and Pris gets his head between her thights).

And Deckard being told "You've done a man' job" at the end, not referring to whether he's an android or not, but saying that he has reinforced his masculinity once more.

It makes sense when you sit and watch the movie, his love-scene with Racheal is violent and commanding "Kiss me" and shows little tenderness, but when he does get it on with her, either he's an android or by murdering 2 women (replicants) he has extinguished his hatred of women.

Goatboy wrote:
> Yeah! I forgot about that game.
> It ruled, and was Blade Runner-ish.

Yeh. I'm sure I read an interview with the guys that made it (Bullfrog?), and they said something like, "We took inspiration from Bladrunner, and we don't care who know's it!"

Goatboy wrote:
> What a rotten hero,shooting girl robots because he can't
> cut it as a man anymore

Ahhh, but is he a man, or a replicant?

> - he also cops off with a girl robot.

If he is a robot himeself, is that so bad? What kind of kids would they have? Like, Metal Mickey or something...

> I read a feminist tract on this movie, and Scott agreed
> that Deckard was basically afraid of women and possibly
> gay. Which might explain him being chased by Batty in
> his pants.

Hmm. Very deep that. Much too deep for this time of day...

Yeah! I forgot about that game.
It ruled, and was Blade Runner-ish.

I love the visuals in the film. I used to want to work in special effects when I was little and I won a trip to Pinewood Studios and I got to see some of the original Bladerunner models. Someone had dropped one though and there was a massive chip in it.

Bladerunner is the best movie. Ever. Only Gladiator comes close, and thats made by Ridley Scott as well.

First time I saw Bladerunner I was about 12 and had the measles, so I was allowed to stay up late 'cos I had to put cream on my spots. I watched Bladrunner on ITV.

It changed my life. Honest. Ever played Syndicate Wars?

Yeah but he missed.
That girly droid blew Leon away in the alleyway, Deckard only managed to smash Batty with a pole.
The only two he offed himself were fembots.

What a rotten hero,shooting girl robots because he can't cut it as a man anymore - he also cops off with a girl robot.
I read a feminist tract on this movie, and Scott agreed that Deckard was basically afraid of women and possibly gay.

Which might explain him being chased by Batty in his pants.