list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

^That is a good short description of the film 

I watched The Final Cut of Bladerunner too as the first and only version of that movie I've seen. It needed to make more sense. But I hated the book for the same reason, so I guess that shouldn't surprise me. Nice visuals though.

You definitely need to see Blade Runner more than once for it to make sense. You should also see the Director's Cut and maybe even the theatrical cut to fully appreciate what's going on, because the meaning you get from the movie changes between versions. The thing is, it has such deep meaning and philosophical backgrounds--easily one of the best "sci-fi as applied philosophy" movies. Such a rich movie visually and otherwise.

But then, Ridley Scott wanted to do Dune before deciding to pick this one up, but that didn't work out. Imagine if it did though. God, I don't know which one I'd want more....

Only the Star Wars trilogy rivals Blade Runner for my favorite sci-fi "movie." And one can't separte just one movie out of the trilogy. Nonsense.

This of course only applies until they make a good adaptation of Dune or Neuromancer. Those would be forces of nature.


Edited by stonebeard - January 23 2010 at 20:33

I'm pretty sure I caught the philosophical implications of what it "means to be human", but maybe not! Maybe I'll watch another version later, but it seems like the voice over would have made it even more annoying.

SaltyJon wrote: stonebeard wrote: You definitely need to see Blade Runner more than once for it to make sense. You should also see the Director's Cut and maybe even the theatrical cut to fully appreciate what's going on, because the meaning you get from the movie changes between versions. The thing is, it has such deep meaning and philosophical backgrounds--easily one of the best "sci-fi as applied philosophy" movies. Such a rich movie visually and otherwise. But then, Ridley Scott wanted to do Dune before deciding to pick this one up, but that didn't work out. Imagine if it did though. God, I don't know which one I'd want more.... Only the Star Wars trilogy rivals Blade Runner for my favorite sci-fi "movie." And one can't separte just one movie out of the trilogy. Nonsense. This of course only applies until they make a good adaptation of Dune or Neuromancer. Those would be forces of nature. Even though it wasn't (even close to) perfect, I really enjoy Lynch's adaptation of Dune.  I feel like if he had his way it would have been done a lot better, but I hear he was artistically limited in the making.  Still, I do hope we sometime get a better adaptation which manages to stick to the book...of course that would end up being somewhere around 5 hours long or more to get everything in correctly.

I haven't read Dune yet (soon though) but the Lord of the Rings trilogy was what, over 9 hours long(I think the extended edition is over 11)? And they still made a lot of (unforgivable) cuts and additions to the story.
Anyway, it takes a long time to tell a story that keeps relatively true to the original. For a good contrast, watch the mangled Harry Potter series, if you hate yourself.

Yeah, the Dune movie (Lynch's, haven't seen the TV movie) had even more chopped out of the story than the LotR movies, a lot more, really. 

Oops, I forgot.

Actually I think Ghost in The Shell/Ghost in the Shell: Innocence do the philosophy thing better than Blade Runner. But I need some humanity, which is why Blade Runner still gets high marks. (Also it was earlier by a long shot). Still, those movies are amazing.

Actually I like Alien more than Blade Runner, but when I think of Ridley Scott I think of him as the director with the best debut "trilogy": The Duelists, Alien and Blade Runner. None of my favourite directors can beat that. 

Well I had a bit of an interesting movie experience yesterday....

Fire and Ice

One of those soulless budget numbers from the SyFy network about a kingdom terrorized by a fire dragon.  Not so terrible actually, with John Rhys-Davies as an inventor years ahead of his time and his dragonslaying cohort.