I have a few movies like that, but blade runner is definitely one of them. Another somewhat similar, yet also completely different film for me is Gattaca.
I think both for similar reasons, that I can't quite put my finger on
I have a few movies like that, but blade runner is definitely one of them. Another somewhat similar, yet also completely different film for me is Gattaca.
I think both for similar reasons, that I can't quite put my finger on
I find myself watching Blade Runner every few years and each time I end up finding new details about the film I hadn't noticed before. The last time through I took a bunch of screenshots and sketched them in oil pastel. Also for whatever reason watching it usually kicks off a months long obsession with the cyberpunk genre as a whole.
IDK I feel like I never really enjoyed Blade Runner as much as I should have. Like so much Sci-Fi, it's pure setting. They did a 10/10 job on the setting. But the actual plot is pretty meh, I don't really care if he's a robot or not.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but learn how to watch a movie you stupid fucking piece of shit.
Really, though, yeah, it’s very much a setting and world building kind of story before it even tries to be anything else. I love it all around, but I can definitely see where you’re coming from. A good lot of sci-fi is more focused on setting, theming, and world building more than any kind of independent story within it, unless it’s something that gets a lot of continuity to build a story and characters in the framework of the world that can be more of a focus than the world itself, like Star Wars or Star Trek. 2049, I think, did a better job at making a character story since the original did so much to establish the world it was happening in, but I also just get a hard on for world building.
For me the huge problem whith Blade Runner is Vangelis's music. Other than that I really like this movie.
Yes, although for me it's 2049 rather than the original.
2049 is fucking amazing. It was a razor’s edge they were walking choosing to even do that movie, if they had gotten even a bit wrong it could have ruined everything, but they did it right and it’s just as good as the original, which is a high as fuck bar to reach.
I do watch Alien for what I think might be similar reasons.
The set design and world building in those movies is unreal. The big chunky buttons, the clack and whirs of the computer drives spinning up, the analog screens, the hard molded plastic feel of everything...
I’m not going to lie, I read your title as ‘Blade’ and not ‘Blade Runner’ and came to the comments to agree.
For me BladeRunner (Final Cut) is joined with Sicario, Heat (1995), Léon (Version Intégrale), and No Country for Old Men
Indomitable people facing nightmares with guns.
All are part of my "men with guns" film festival.
Since you seem like a good person to ask, which version of the movie do you watch when you're craving a watch?
I've never seen it. I'm 43 and I've wanted to, just... never did. But I found a copy of the final cut on BluRay for like $7 the other day and will probably finally watch it this weekend some time. I'm actually pretty stoked.
Some other movies that also help that itch for me are; Dredd(12), Mario Bros(93), Mute(18), Ghost in the Shell(95),
You mispelled "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension".
I wish I had that way of thinking. Sadly i barely rewatch anything. Not that there aren't movies I love, especially Bladerunner. It's just that I can't get out of the mindset that theres so many other movies to watch or see and its probably best to invest that time into discovering something new. Also yes, it doesn't have to be something new just new to me.
I guess the only movie I remember rewatching over and over was Jurassic Park. I was probably like 12 and i remember watching it like once a day for that entire summer break and it was fantastic.
Well, I've never watched it so I'd say no.
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