Blade Runner, NEW Movie...Thoughts?

[emeraldknight47]

LEGEND was a great movie and vastly underrated! I have versions that have both score, but I am definitely more of a fan of the Tangerine Dream (which Hans Zimmer was a part of, was he not) version. Lent the movies the right atmosphere of magic and unearthliness. Good stuff, overall! Plus, Mia Sara was oh-so hot!!!!

[Hector]

Mia Sara never looked better...

[Bruce Banner]

I much prefer the Goldmsith score.
I truly cannot stand the Tangerine Dream score with the John Anderson stuff.
I find that version unwatchable.

Tim Curry is excellent in that movie. And so is Robert Picardo in his brief role as Meg Mucklebones.
The director's cut on region 1 is the best version of Legend, IMHO.

[jds1911a1]

See, that's where we differ. I love Blade Runner so much that I finally got around around to reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". I HATED IT! I could not believe this was the inspiration for my beloved Blade Runner. I hated it so much I left the HC book on the break room table at work.
But all of this has given me even more respect for Ridley Scott for turning such a crappy book into one of the greatest Si-Fi Movies EVER!

the difference comes from whether you read the book or saw the film first my friend. I was a Massive Sci fi reader and Phillip Dick was HUGE in the 70's

[jds1911a1]

The original Blade Runner operated under the premius that the Genie was already out of the bottle, Had been dealt with and And the final solution was in the creation of a special police force called the Blade Runners. So how did it get to story of Deckard.
Scotts take on the story was Replicants. Created Biological entitys so near human that even thier pursuer questioned wrether he was a replicant. How like humanity to take a shortcut on the way to creating a slave race. Instead of perfecting the difficult task of creating a machine race with programming for a brain. They take the easy road of creating a genetic alternative. Its way easier to GROW your slave race.
Watching Bladerunner, I always wanted to know if the replicants were outlawed on earth because they were dangerous or was it because some thought they should have the same rights as us. During the arguement over the status of Replicant rights. Did some filter into humanity? Did the replicants begin to evolve mentally into thinking they were superior and should take over.
I know its been done before. I Robot. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
Or it could be something else. What if Replicant's could have bred with humans. A sure exposure of Tyrols dirty secret. That the Replicants are not genetic creation but rather defficiant clones!

the idea of the simalacrum slaves with fake memories and Deckards wondering if he might be one too was straight out of the book. Decakrd begins to feel empathty torwards the androids after killing Luba Luft an opera singing android (the stripper in the film) so he tests himself to see if he might be an android too