Posted on 09/29/2017 9:06:16 AM PDT by C19fan
Even 35 years after the release of the original Blade Runner, Ridley Scott’s future feels like an invention modern cinema is still trying to catch up to. Other movies’ notions of nuclear-blasted dystopias or whiz-bang Jetsons kitsch seem to pale next to the haunting, soulful specificity of his vision: the Fritz Lang-meets-’40s-noir metropolis; the paranoid-android flair; the deeply un-sci-fi moments of melancholy. It was enough in some scenes just to watch the smoke curl from Sean Young’s cigarette, or follow the dust drifting through a bleached-white sunbeam.
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It was an ordinary plot until Roy made it something entirely different.
Dang man, I’ve seen it a couple of times (a long time ago and then recently to make sure it wasn’t better than I thought the first time - its wasn’t) and I hardly remember the last scene so it obviously wasn’t memorable to me but maybe it’s because the movie lost me way back earlier.
Maybe so. To me the mood was somewhat depressed, the atmosphere a bit stifling, and I don’t remember any compelling questions it was asking.
Another really good one was “Screamers” which was based on his short “Second Variety”. I think it didn’t do real well box office wise because of the title but as soon as I found out it was a Dick story I watched it!
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