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Icarium 
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Posted: March 16 2016 at 09:15 |
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Two different films genre wise, but i find them to have similar mood, and tone, both also had better success post cinema release, went first under the radar,then become a cult classic. Both based on books, both also features rainy weathe, and philosophical speaches about life and stuff.
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Posted: March 16 2016 at 10:05 |
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Judging by my usual tastes I should go for Blade Runner, but as much as I love it I still prefer Shawshank Redemption.
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Posted: March 16 2016 at 10:53 |
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I've never seen The Shawshank Redemption, so no vote, but I recently watched Blade Runner and wasn't really impressed.
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Posted: March 16 2016 at 11:17 |
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PKDick and sci-fi wins every time for me......never really got into Shawshank.
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Posted: March 16 2016 at 14:57 |
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I didn't like either of these movies much. "Blade Runner" has some good moments though, so my vote would go there. but there are so many better SF-movies, like for example "Silent Running", "Phase IV" or "2001"
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Posted: March 16 2016 at 15:30 |
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Haven't seen Shawshank so I can't say.
With at least three versions of Blade Runner to date, it's unclear if this would temper my vote anyway. I first saw the original with the voice over and thought it was a cool juxtaposition of genres. After hearing the it was mandated by the studio, and having seen the revised version I was left wanting. With the final cut by Scott I assumed that was the movie as it was meant to be and have only watched that version once or twice.
My guess is I would pick Shawshank Redemption
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Posted: March 16 2016 at 15:37 |
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I am a massive Philip K. Dick fan (or maybe just a Dickhead), but I went with the Stephen King based film.
I used to love Blade Runner, but it lost its lustre for me. Of course it's only loosely based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? My favourite film adaptation of a Dick work is A Scanner Darkly, which I felt good at capturing Dick's sense of paranoia. Blade Runner is a very cool movie stylistically.
By the way, somehow I never got around to watching Phase IV, since I love so many quite obscure and not so obscure sci-fi films of its era, that has been a massive oversight. By the way, though I could mention lots in the sci-fi[ish] realm, I'll give props to classics such as Alphaville and Stalker.
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Posted: March 16 2016 at 16:02 |
now that is a tough one... one of the toughest polls I think I have ever seen here haha. then again.. one is in my top 5 movies of all time. The other merely in the top 20. So maybe it wasn't that tough. Blade Runner for me! 
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Posted: March 16 2016 at 16:03 |
 BaldJean wrote:
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clappies for remembering that one.  Always loved that one myself.
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Posted: March 17 2016 at 12:22 |
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Dickheads rise up! Phillip K. sure had a way with understanding the universe.....much deeper than that hash slinger S. King (but at least King is a Red Sox fan).
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Posted: March 17 2016 at 12:44 |
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I really like many Stephen King novels (haven't read anything of his in years, though), even if I don't put him at the level of Dick, who was a visionary. My favourite of King's was his collaboration with Straub, The Talisman. Also a fan of his Bachman books, especially The Long Walk and Rage.
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Posted: March 17 2016 at 14:10 |
Intruder wrote:
Dickheads rise up! Phillip K. sure had a way with understanding the universe.....much deeper than that hash slinger S. King (but at least King is a Red Sox fan). |
He, PKDick, was also a paranoid person who had some moderately severe mental issues on and off throughout his life and I also belief he took LSD on occasion . He wrote several books about his problems which are fascinating on their own. I have never been a fan of King though I have read a 2 or 3 of his books over the years.
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Posted: March 17 2016 at 15:19 |
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Shawshank
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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Posted: March 17 2016 at 16:10 |
back in the olden days when I was a fool and payed Comcast for CTV services... I could have seen Shawshank a 100 times.. perhaps 500... and every single damn time I was surfing and I ran across that movie on some cable channel I would stop and watch it. What a fabulous movie. Well deserved place in my top 20 list of alltime movie favorites! Blade Runner though touched me on a much deeper and heavy level though. I would rank Rutger Hauer's final scene on the rooftop among my favorites of all time.. and what really seperated the two movies in my mind. That incredible soundtrack which perfected captured Scott's bleak urban landscape.
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Posted: March 17 2016 at 17:37 |
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Blade Runner. Because it is one of the few movies Morgan Freeman isn't in.
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Posted: March 17 2016 at 17:56 |
I've never been a fan of prison movies but Shawshank is one of the few exceptions. I still had to vote for Blade Runner.
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Posted: March 17 2016 at 19:36 |
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Midnight Express is my favourite prison movie. Maybe they'll make a similar movie about American student Otto Warmbier who was recently sentenced to 15 years hard labour for trying to steal a political propaganda poster in North Korea. Both Otto and Billy Hayes both having been caught as they were about to board a plane, Billy with hash, Otto with a poster. Both, probably not, sweating under their sunglasses as they nervously prepared to smuggle the goods.
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Posted: March 17 2016 at 19:37 |
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Shawshank
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Posted: March 17 2016 at 20:02 |
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Both over-lauded, both collapse under the weight of their own popularity.
Bladerunner, if I have to choose.
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Posted: March 17 2016 at 21:22 |
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Shawkshank is a great movie bur Bladerunner is top 5 all time
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Film poll - Blade Runner vs Shawshank Redemption
