Syd Mead, Lawrence Paull and David Snyder.
Syd Mead, Lawrence Paull and David Snyder.
Awesome. I really liked the first film.
Denzel Washington is doing a remake of “The Equalizer” for a series of films. That is the one I hope will live up to the original.
Makes me think of how quickly these actors seem to age. It seems like just yesterday Indian Jones was cracking the whip against the Nazis. Now I don’t know, I picture him as this old guy who keeps falling off this blade he’s supposed to be running on.
I’ve seen a magical movie, made long ago ... full of little jewels of film-making ... all those... moments... will be lost in time, like tears... in... rain.
Douglas Trumbull!
Cheers,
Jim
is ridley scott the producer of Prometheus?
after some free passes to see the new x men movie, I don’t have much respect for the new class of movie makers. (if you saw xmen iii you saw this movie already. to say it was pathetic writing, slooooww plot, inconsistent continuity and just plain stupid is an understatement. This xmen was produced by sony not Disney)
That said, Harrison ford yes, ridley scot no.
Most of the main cast members are still around. Just saying.
Maybe as a cameo. But he’s a little long in the tooth for realistic action.
It is 32 years since the original Blade Runner...
A half-black, half-replicant android has attained a position of considerable power.
The “blandroid” has no past. No origin. All such records have been erased. No one admits to anything. The Voight-Kampff machine yields indeterminant results.
Yet, from his position of power, the blandroid replicant has managed considerable destruction. Few spinners are in the skies. And this has made the blandroid replicant angry.
Retired police officer Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is called in to investigate the illegal transfer of disruptor weapons. All evidence leads back to the blandroid. Deckard finds a way to bring the blandroid down, but before he can act on the information, the blandroid finds out and sends his Turner Corporation replicants to destroy Decker.
Will humanity survive?
Loved the original. I think Ford could still do the job but will any of today’s directors be able to slow themselves down enough to create the sort of atmosphere it needs? Can they find anyone as beautiful as Sean Young?
I think this is a bad idea. One of the great parts about Blade Runner was it kept you wondering if Deckard could be a replicant himself. If they show him alive, a few decades later, having aged like any ordinary human, then I think that spoils the mystery.
The truly great things about Blade Runner, in no particular order.
1) The music by Vangelis. The soundtrack CD is still being sold after all this time, and has had one or two revisions with additional material.
2) The use of the Bradbury Building (1893) set. It is one of the more famous science fiction sets and beloved by fans. It was designed by the grandfather of science fiction and fantasy “superfan” Forrest J. Ackerman. Marvel Comics has an office in the building.
3) The Los Angeles cityscape. It passes the “travelogue” test of a city so interesting that you would be entertained just traveling around it as a tourist.
4) The 1940s costumes and hairstyles. While done to support the ‘noir’ feel, it also signaled this was the style of the wealthy and powerful.
5) The dissonant elements. Things that intentionally broke the mood, that worked to prevent assumptions about the flow of the plot.
Original truly blazed an atmospheric trail
Screw Hans Solo
Rutger Hauer stole the show
It is interesting that back in 1982 Hollywood was preaching climate change - it rained all the time in this future L.A.
What bugs me I cannot remember if I saw this in a theater when it came out. Doesn’t seem likely I’d wouldn’t have gone.
After the absolutely HORRIBLE Prometheus I now have ZERO faith in Ridley Scott making a decent Blade Runner sequel.
The guy should just retire.
EVERYTHING about Prometheus sucked.
Alien and Blade Runner were the best sci-fi films from that era and still at the top of my list. Alien had the best sci-fi monsters which we are missing these days. Generalizing but sci-fi film are tame and lame these days. Feminized.
We need some nazi zombie monsters from outer space that we (humanity) have to go to war with. Make their commander a Joe Stalin looking monster.
Okay, I get that having 200 million dollars won't stop you from getting old, but can't it at least get you a decent haircut?