So am I. ”Blade Runner” is one of the best and most important films ever made IMO.
hooray - i thought there must be some fans around 
Film gets better on repeat viewings for me. Love the score.
Blade runner is a millestone film for me also. One of those film that change things there was a cinema before Blade Runner and thre was another after (alongside with Jaws), and there’s nothing you can compare with
Well, it has always devided people. I’m one of the few to cover a middle ground, usually people think it’s either a masterpiece or a pretentious bore. For me it’s just a good movie.
I’ve seen it at least five times, and every time I expect to discover the masterpiece others have seen it it, or at at least discover why others call it a masterpiece. I only see a visually striking, occasionally interesting and compelling, but uneven movie with a couple of characters that don’t really work (and a few others who do) and a story that doesn’t make too much sense.
It would be interesting to hear what it exactly changed in the history of cinema. It wasn’t particularly successful and what it basically did, was attracting the attention of film makers and screenwriters to Philip K. Dick, who has become a true cult figure ever since (for all the good reasons, he’s an excellent writer, along with Lem, Asimov and Heinlein one of the most interesting SF writers of them all)
IMO alonside with the already mentioned Jaws (and Star wars of course) it openned the way to modern cinema, those typical 70 productions and style of film making ended with Blade Runner. Modern here doesn’t mean more quality or something like that, only a different style
Visually, technically everything was different from then on, from Transformers to Lord of the rings they all own something to Blade Runner. And contrary to Aliens for instance, its a film that you won’t find any term of comparison
[quote=“El Topo, post:8766, topic:1923”]IMO alonside with the already mentioned Jaws (and Star wars of course) it openned the way to modern cinema, those typical 70 productions and style of film making ended with Blade Runner. Modern here doesn’t mean more quality or something like that, only a different style
Visually, technically everything was different from then on, from Transformers to Lord of the rings they all own something to Blade Runner. And contrary to Aliens for instance, its a film that you won’t find any term of comparison[/quote]
So you think it’s a pivotal movie, the last of a kind and at the same time the first of a new kind? The last classic and the first modern movie? Personally I see no possibility to look at it this way.
I’m a fan myself, and like Ennio said, it gets better with each viewing.
I really like Blade Runner The Final Cut. But however I think if you were sorta left wanting more out of Blade Runner you should check out two films titled Ghost In The Shell and Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence.
Now first off these are both anime movies but they are not typical by a long shot, they are slow moving, dark films with long scenes of dialogue delving deep into cyborg/sci-fi psychology, philosophical meanderings, ins and outs of the futuristic technology as opposed to just showing futuristic stuff with little explanation other than “it’s the future”(Also the bad shit that happens to characters is goddamn awful to think about)They are very similar to Blade Runner but I think they’re superior films due to the immense amount of material they give your brain to chew on during and after. The parting images of part 2 gave me the fucking chills being the most pitch perfect ending I’ve seen yet. I am definitely not a fan of anime and I was dragged kicking and screaming into watching these two movies but I am so glad that I did.
Also if you watch one you have to immediately watch two, I always thought they were both one movie split in half and they’re both pretty short. I haven’t seen any of the spinoffs and they look dumbed down in comparison but have a look!
Score is wonderful! 
[quote=“Gringo!, post:8769, topic:1923”]I really like Blade Runner The Final Cut. But however I think if you were sorta left wanting more out of Blade Runner you should check out two films titled Ghost In The Shell and Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence.
Now first off these are both anime movies but they are not typical by a long shot, they are slow moving, dark films with long scenes of dialogue delving deep into cyborg/sci-fi psychology, philosophical meanderings, ins and outs of the futuristic technology as opposed to just showing futuristic stuff with little explanation other than “it’s the future”(Also the bad shit that happens to characters is goddamn awful to think about)They are very similar to Blade Runner but I think they’re superior films due to the immense amount of material they give your brain to chew on during and after. The parting images of part 2 gave me the fucking chills being the most pitch perfect ending I’ve seen yet. I am definitely not a fan of anime and I was dragged kicking and screaming into watching these two movies but I am so glad that I did.
Also if you watch one you have to immediately watch two, I always thought they were both one movie split in half and they’re both pretty short. I haven’t seen any of the spinoffs and they look dumbed down in comparison but have a look![/quote]
i second that - Ghost in the Shell is worth a view
Blade Runner, imo, changed notion about what science fiction movie genre is capable of
2001, Alien, Blade Runner and some other cult classics changed the face of the genre for better
Blade Runner is visually stunning, hasn’t much of a story, some pretentious dialogues, good acting, some senselessly long action scenes (but otherwise it would have been only a short film), some good action scenes and uhh, overall the mixture works.
Scott’s directing is good (actually he was never great in any of his films), a bit superficial as always, but not great. 8/10
(I generally don’t like Ford very much, but BR does not demand much acting from the lead, and Ford does a good job here)
Is it a pivotal movie for the genre? For its design, yes, otherwise I don’t know.
Stick me on the I-love-it side…
Or at least loved it… It blew me away first time I saw it, but I’m probably in no rush for a re-watch soon.
Yep, Ennioo - great score
I seduced the choir-mistress to this all those moons ago (but that’s another story) :
Re: Star Wars and Blade Runner:
It seems my taste is quite populist, because I like both of them (I even enjoy all three of the Star Wars prequels). Blade Runner is a great science fiction film, but not an action movie, which is where I think a lot of people get dissapointed. They expect it to have speeder chases etc, etc, but that isn’t what the film is about. It’s a meditative film asking what it means to be human.
I would not say the last classic, the last classic film was probaly made in the sixties, I was refering more to the 70’s and late 60’s style of film and production. Of course these are all generalizations, there were some key movies made in the seventies apart from Jaws, or even before like 2001, but those were too specific to make a change.
Never a big fan of Ford, but nothing against his acting, he was good in some films I like, Mosquito Coast and the Witness for instance, was a cool Indiana Jones (can’t imagine Tom Selleck in the part).
Anyway things are also start to change now with the internet and all, at least in starsystem, my guess is the time for the big stars, Tom Cruise style is over
Don’t post here so often, as I review what I see in Dutch on filmboob.nl, but here goes. Latest viewings:
Face to Face (S. Sollima) 7,5/10
Oasis of the Zombies (J. Franco) 5/10
Treasure of the Petrified Forest (E. Salvi) 4,5/10
Shock Waves (K. Wiederhorn) 3/10
The Savage Bees (B. Geller) 3,5/10
The Boy Who Knew Too Much (G. Zurli) 6/10
El Zorro justiciero (R. Romero Marchent) 6/10
Left Bank (P. van Hees) 3/10
Hellraiser: Revelations (V. Garcia) 2/10
[quote=“John Welles, post:8774, topic:1923”]Re: Star Wars and Blade Runner:
Blade Runner is a great science fiction film, but not an action movie, which is where I think a lot of people get dissapointed. They expect it to have speeder chases etc, etc, but that isn’t what the film is about. It’s a meditative film asking what it means to be human.[/quote]
Could be, but for me it exactly misses bull’s eye in that aspect: being a meditative film, asking what it means to be human. That’s what the novel is about, and it’s not even that impressive in this aspect (it’s not one of Philip K. Dick’s best novels and maybe the question is not that interesting to begin with), but it makes you think about a few things. As said, Blade Runner raises a few interesting questions, but imo not enough is done with them. In the end the films seems more about the question what is to be an android than what it is to be human.
Experiment In Terror - Lee Remick plays a bank cashier who is told by a maniac (Ross Martin) that if she doesn’t steal $100,000 from the bank she works in he will kill her and her sister (Stefanie Powers). FBI man Glenn Ford is on the case. Really enjoyed this one. Not the sort of thing you’d expect from Blake Edwards.
I’m not sure what to think about Blade Runner. I guess my opinion runs somewhere in between those who think its great and those who think its crap. Great visuals and interesting ideas, but not exactly my kind of film.
Vengeance (2009) with Johnny Halladay
Well IMO, this is a pretty mediocre film. Halladay in the part of a former assassin- turned-chef looks old and tired. When his daughter, husband and the kids get murdered by a gang of thugs, he sets out and hires three assassins for revenge. The first half is hmmmm…okay the second half terrible, disappointing to say the least. Will not watch this again.