Posted on 09/08/2017 8:39:51 PM PDT by djf
OK.
Well, I am getting older.
And as I age, I find that some things simply don't excite me as much as when I was young.
Food. You know, you gotta eat!
Women. Well for most women not as much - but a few women still get my eye!
Politics. You know of course that the whole political theory has been corrupted, governments main job has shifted to whatever it can graciously and with pomposity GIVE to the people...
Anyways I remember when I was younger and actually went to the theater once in a while. And in 1983 I saw one of the most fantastic movies I have ever or will ever see.
Blade Runner.
At first I was in shock, in awe. I couldn't make any sense of it. In a lot of respects, I still don't. But gradually, over the years and seeing a number of versions of the original, it started to have some order to it. Personally, owning Blade Runner - The Final Cut has told me alot about the movie that makes sense. It's a two disc DVD with tons and tons of interviews, alternate endings, etc.
I am sure you have all seen it. A future where dystopia has emerged as the driving force. Cops maintain (well, in their private realms at least) order somewhat.
It STILL shocks me today!
Ridley Scott was a young director and chose (for most of us) almost unheard of people to play the parts, which they did superbly. He was in the middle of a few projects at the time, soon to do Aliens, and it almost seemed like a bit of an effort to fill a void, both in his time and in the movie genre then.
Now, after 30+ years of having Blade Runner under my belt and in my house and in my yard and in my bed I am very, very excited about his new movie.
Blade Runner, the Sequel will be in theaters Oct. 6th
From the look of the trailers and previews, this probably will not surpass the original... but it will be very, very close indeed!
And I am excited!
I heard it was going to be-——A Three Hour Film-A Three Hour Film.
I too am excited!!!
Hollywood can ruin anything it touches, including sequels to great films. Still, if FR reviewers like it, I might see it. If so, it will be my first film in many years.
i really REALLY expected big things from Sean Young and was sad she never foe-filled her potential... she was sooo hot
I’m putting my hopes on Ridley Scott.
He seems like a person who would not detract or corrupt the original, but add to and expand it.
****I got excited over a movie the other night... I got over it pretty quick****
If you keep doing that you will go blind and get hairy palms.
Not sure that would be a good idea in the middle of an opioid epidemic.
How old were you in 1983? I’m 49 and I still get neck cramps from twisting around to look at women :)
lol
I just did it until I needed glasses...
My favorite movie of all time. I saw it on the big screen in Montgomery, Alabama in 1983. I crossed a decade of time that day to be with the woman I loved. The music still haunts me. Sean Young had to know that her epic part would be it for her, everything else was downhill from there. I’m hoping Ridley Scott remembers her in the new movie in at least some small way.
Can you explain that?
12 Monkeys is my sons favorite movie
he’s 17
Posts here
Can you explain women, lol? I wasn’t speaking of Sean Young.
"I crossed a decade of time that day to be with the woman I loved."
I crossed a decade of time that day
To be with the woman I loved.
That's just lovely.
What was the movie?
Blade Runner, the original from 1983.
Did Blade Runner time travel?
The original was in 1982, not 1983. it was rated a flop in it’s first showings.
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