Blade Runner (1982)

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Play On! Need A Break From Halo 3? Watch One Of These 5 Picks
Published 9/26/2007 by Andy Adair at FirstShowing.net
... The first is Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford and directed by Ridley Scott. Released in 1982, the film takes place in 2019 in Los Angeles. Harrison Ford's character Rick Deckard is in charge of destroying four fugitive genetically engineered cyborgs. My suggestion of Blade Runner is to get you in the mood of the sci-fi feel of Halo 3. The movie by itself is a great flick, and hopefully you will find some motivation here. ...

Ridley Scott's Blade Runner Interview
Published 9/28/2007 by Matt at The Spoon
Don't read Ridley Scott's Wired interview if you haven't seen Blade Runner yet. And then smack yourself in the head for not having seen Blade Runner. ...

NYFF: Blade Runner, Scrubbed and Polished
Published 9/30/2007 by NATHANIEL R at Film Experience Blog
... My eye has seen the glory of Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Technically my eyes saw it... but I am thinking about just one of them since the film's opening shot is so dependent on that reflective eyeball. I'd forgotten that, so entranced have I been for decades by its widescreen cityscape with fiery explosions. But the macro eye closeup is a perfect statement for Blade Runner's opening, human but abstract... unconnected to a face. ...

Blade Runner: The Final Cut to Screen in More Cities!
Published 10/26/2007 at Cinema Fusion
... Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner: The Final Cut has been screening a few weeks now in Los Angeles and New York before the highly anticipated DVD hits store shelves on December 18th. If you’re one of the folks like me that believe this is a movie that must be seen on the big screen though, you just might be in luck, as ...

Blade Runner: The Final Cut to Screen in More Cities!
Published 10/27/2007 at Movie Blog
... Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner: The Final Cut has been screening a few weeks now in Los Angeles and New York before the highly anticipated DVD hits store shelves on December 18th. If you’re one of the folks like me that believe this is a movie that must be seen on the big screen though, you just might be in luck, as ...

American Gangster
Published 11/13/2007 by Chalupa at Chalupa's Movies
Starring Denzel Washington as Frank Lucas, a real-life American gangster, I feeling like I was watching Training Day, only this movie was much cooler, much classier, and just better all around. According to the film, which was based on claims by Frank Lucas, Frank Lucas was the driver/bodyguard that stepped in after his boss died of a heart attack. What's different about this mob story is that Frank Lucas is black; he's not Italian, Sicilian or Russian. He brings in his brothers to help run the business and runs shop like the Italians. He makes sure the public and everyone around him loves him. People even ...

Today's Mood
Published 11/20/2007 by JA at my new plaid pants
... A happy birthday going out to the... uh... the incomparable... Sean Young. Rachael (Sean Young), Blade Runner "The egg hatched... and a hundred baby spiders came out... and they ate her.". ...

Review: Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Published 11/30/2007 at Cinema Fusion
... I was too young to see Blade Runner in theaters when it was originally released. Instead I grew up with the televised version of Blade Runner, which seemingly was on an almost monthly basis on Sunday afternoons to counter program against the ratings beasts that are NFL telecasts. This resulted in me seeing the most carved up and hollowed out Blade Runner film ever seen and not surprisingly, I never was much of a fan of the film. But over the years the film slowly grew on me, as it did on seemingly everyone else in the world. Now, 25 years after its ...

New DVD Picks of the Week: 'Balls of Fury' & 'Blade Runner'
Published 12/18/2007 by Monika Bartyzel at Cinematical
Filed under: New Releases, DVD Reviews, New on DVD, Home EntertainmentBalls of Fury Does anything more need to be said other than that Balls of Fury is a ping pong action movie co-starring Christopher Walken? Frankly, that's enough for me. But if you happen to be a Bruce Lee fan, the fact that it's a spoof of Enter the Dragon may entice you. The comedy details a former Pong phenom called Randy (Dan Fogler), who is sent on a special mission to nab his father's killer, Feng -- who just so happens to be played by ...

The Best Of BLADE RUNNER On The Internets
Published 1/21/2008 by Dan at film babble blog
When I saw in the Independent Weekly last week that BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT was going to be playing at the Carolina Theatre in Durham I was excited for several reasons – 1. The thrill of seeing this now inarguable classic film on the big screen. 2. The legendary film, adapted from Phillip K. Dick's short story "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep", had frustratingly been at “very long wait” in my damn Netflix queue since it was released on DVD last month. 3. It is one of only 4 35MM prints in an extremely limited run. The 4th and most important reason: It is my Father’s all time favorite movie. So I called ...

Buy Daryl Hannah's Biodiesel El Camino!
Published 1/23/2008 by Christopher Campbell at Cinematical
... , but you'd still be buying a car that you can say was driven by Pris from Blade Runner. Plus, you can make a copy of that photo of her and the car and tape it to the dashboard. But why else might you want the thing? Well, it runs on biodiesel, which means it's better for the environment than whatever you're driving. Don't know anything about biodiesel? Don't worry: Hannah is throwing in a resource guide and a fueling station that's said to be about the size of a garbage can. ...

2007 Spills Over And Over And Over...
Published 2/8/2008 by Dan at film babble blog
Yeah, I know it's February 2008 but it always takes a few months to catch up on the previous years film releases so bare with me. Some are still only now making it to my area theatrically and every few days NetFlix envelopes arrive with films from the tail-end of 2007 so I'm gradually catching up. Here's what I've been seeing starting with a few movies recently viewed at the theatre-hole: ...

Remembering Movie Poster Artist John Alvin (1948-2008)
Published 2/11/2008 by Christopher Campbell at Cinematical
Filed under: Movie Marketing, ObitsAs the son of an illustrator, I grew up appreciating movie poster artists more than probably do most movie geeks. And John Alvin, who passed away last Wednesday, was one of the artists I idolized. Alvin is considered one of the most important poster artists of the past 35 years, and it's no wonder. From E.T. to Gremlins to Blade Runner to The Goonies to numerous Disney films, his art is as recognizable and iconic as poster design gets. The Smithsonian even named one of his works, for Brian De ...

Oscar Postpartum 2008
Published 2/25/2008 by Dan at film babble blog
So it’s the morning after and I’m looking over my predictions – none of my wild cards paid off and some of my darts didn’t hit the bulls-eye so what do I got? Well, I don’t know whether to feel comforted or disturbed by the fact that I got EXACTLY the same amount right that I did last year – 13 out of 24. So here’s at ‘em: 1. BEST PICTURE: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN ...

Movie Review - Blade Runner: Director's Cut
Published 2/27/2008 by Ryne at The Moon is a Dead World // horror blog - Horror reviews: New, b-films, & absolutely terrible
Blade Runner: Director's Cut Now, be sure to note that what I am reviewing is the Director's Cut of this cult classic. I haven't seen the original version where Harrison Ford narrates and it ends on a happier note, so if what I'm saying doesn't coincide with what you saw, that's probably why. I find it funny that Harrison Ford was like the go-to guy for science fiction movies back in the day. Star Wars, Blade Runner, and I'd even go so far as to say Indiana Jones. Yeah, I guess he was quite the handsome lad. I'm sure a lot of people liked to see him ...

Nit-picking On NetFlix
Published 3/18/2008 by Dan at film babble blog
... , set to be released tomorrow (March 18th), is nowhere on their schedule. The idea that NetFlix doesn't upgrade from the old original releases to the new enhanced editions with better transfers doesn't give the impression that they are catering to the real film fan. Seems like these titles would get more action if their definitive new models were available. To their credit they did have BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT available right off the bat. 2. The Removal Of Their Upcoming New Releases page - What gives? When I previously went browsing under the tab that says "New ...

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Published 4/5/2008 by rob humanick at The Projection Booth
... others, etc.) than most filmmakers achieve in an entire career. Relying almost entirely on subtext of its classic action movie plot, Carpenter's film suggests cinematic poetry in its efficiency of language, with nary a shot of verbal exchanged wasted when it comes to the director's rigorous visual codes, delectably framed in the same way every line in a manifesto is agonized over prior to publication. His Los Angeles is as godforsaken and savage as that envisioned by Ridley Scott in Blade Runner, but its setting plays like the honest-to-god real thing, unlike the warped ...

Science Fiction Double Feature
Published 4/17/2008 at 20jazzfunkgreats
... A piano’s dying lament to the Moon’s reflection in the seas coupled with melting computer sounds and cardiac monitors dutifully beeping in a dark and empty warehouse that stands wind battered on a beach with Saturn rising in the moonlight. This was used in Blade Runner , but its delicacy was somewhat lost with the barrage of millenial noir imagery, imprisoned behind the stark shadows cast by LA shining through the blinds. Still, when listening to tracks like ‘Tears In Rain’, ‘Blade Runner Blues’ and ‘Rachel’s Song’ from the soundtrack you can tell that ‘Memories of Green’ was ...

When Music Talks In Film
Published 5/11/2008 by Anil Usumezbas (noreply@blogger.com) at The Long Take
... such a special film? Aside from the fact that it bears groundbreaking visual effects for its time (for which, ironically, Stanley Kubrick received his only Oscar) does it have anything that makes it exceptional? My humble opinion is that, along with the likes of Blade Runner, it's one of the rare airholes in a genre which is constantly being dominated by high-paced action. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but variety is a gift. As opposed to the conventions, Kubrick's vision of the future is extremely slow, calm and routine; ...

Is "Mystery Ridley Scott Sci-Fi Movie" Actually 'Brave New World'?
Published 6/5/2008 by Eugene Novikov at Cinematical
... Brave New World is a great novel, and it's a shame that it mostly plays second-fiddle to Orwell's 1984 in the false-utopia pantheon. It's actually very different from Orwell's towering vision, cautioning not against authoritarianism and government oppression run amok, but against a culture that consumes itself in the pursuit of eternal, mindless, carefree happiness. It's not as literally dark as Scott's futuristic Blade Runner -- done right, Brave New World shouldn't really be an effects extravaganza -- but it's at least as bleak. If this is ...

Batman (1989): C
Published 6/6/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (rob humanick) at The Projection Booth
... exist within their cinematic realm. Cutting immediately from the opening wide shot of the cityscape to the ground level of urban decay, Burton fails to grasp the largeness of Gotham, both physically and spiritually; the landscape wants for a sense of placement within and between its scantly established locales (one imagines how much of the budget that went to securing star power would have been better spent producing a more encompassing vision of Batman’s world). Ultimately, it’s Blade Runner for tykes, as the film falls back on preschool conceptions of film noir to ...

Finite Focus hits 50! Special Double Focus: We’re all Replicants (Code 46)
Published 6/26/2008 at Row Three
... and Rick Deckard , gets caught up in an affair with the woman ( Samantha Morton , earthy and icy) he is investigating for forging inter-zone passports (here, ‘papelles’). He gets caught in Shanghai and unable to travel back to Seattle due to his own papelles expiring. This leaves him with a complicated trio of choices: Go back to the hermetic life with his wife and kids in Seattle; Or start over as a fugitive in the glass and steel and neon wonderland of Shanghai; Or go off the grid into the free-zones of the Middle East. Like most great science fiction pictures (and this ...

CRIMINALS, A COWARDLY AND SUPERSTITIOUS LOT, CALL HIM...
Published 7/16/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Tim) at Antagony & Ecstasy
... helmet. Meanwhile, the amorous psychologist Chase Meridian falls in love with both Batman and Wayne, while the Dark Knight trains a new sidekick in the form of orphaned circus acrobat Dick "Robin" Grayson (Chris O'Donnell). What Went Right: Though Schumacher is often given a lot of shit for the neon excesses of his Gotham, after Burton's crazy German nightmare, it's hard to say that it doesn't look like a comic book; it just doesn't look like the same comic book. Sort of a Blade Runner feel by way of anime and the then-unpublished Transmetropolitan comic series. Kilmer's ...

JE DÉFENDS
Published 9/5/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Tim) at Antagony & Ecstasy
... story needs a lot of breathing room. What mere editing could never fix, of course, is Vin Diesel, who is not and I think cannot be a good actor, and while this script does not demand much of him, he is still not capable of much other than monotonously delivering lines and looking tough. Leave all that aside, and what you've got is one of the most thoughtfully designed post-apocalypse futures put on film in years. It's true enough that the film cribs a lot from Children of Men and Blade Runner , but if you're going to steal, you might as well steal from the very best. ...

CU Interviews: Jason Dohring
Published 9/8/2008 by --girl at Celebutopia
... the star’s question and answer sessions. “I think our fans are a bit different maybe because … the shows that we do are kind of story-oriented, character and emotion driven and people who wind up watching those shows are a bit different… (Fans) come and they get interested in the story, in the character, the emotions of the story and I think it’s cool to come talk about that.” In the science fiction genre, Dohring is a fan of “Blade Runner” and “Star Wars.” “I’m a big Star Wars ...

AN ARGUMENT THAT HAS NEVER BEEN MADE IN SUCH DETAIL, OR WITH SUCH CARE
Published 10/16/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Tim) at Antagony & Ecstasy
... and Blade Runner , and since then hasn't made a single film that's any better than "very good" - and a great deal that are much, much worse. Most of his films are unabashedly average, usually a bit more stylish than most, but just not quite enough to be rightfully called "interesting" (compare this to his brother Tony, whose films are by and large outrageously bad, but are so profoundly stylised as to make "interesting" seem conservative), and his new political thriller ...

Discuss: To Be Continued ... Really?
Published 10/27/2008 by William Goss at Cinematical
... Thusly, I ask which, if any, of these sequel/prequel prospects are you guys and gals excited for? And which ones seem downright ludicrous to consider *cough*Blade Runner*cough* ...

Pris In Boots
Published 10/28/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Thigh Master) at Thighs Wide Shut
looking for a Halloween costume that's both classic and current? go as Pris (Darryl Hannah) from Blade Runner/Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) from Gossip Girl although it's highly likely no one will have a clue as to what the frak your dressed as

The Movie Blog’s Top 100 Movies Based On Books
Published 11/21/2008 by john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) at The Movie Blog
... #69 - BLADE RUNNER Rotten Tomatoes Rating - 91% Synopsis: Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD’s Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & micro-chip jungle of the 21st century for assumed humanoids known as ‘replicants’. Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. Man’s obsession with creating a being equal to himself has back-fired. John’s Thought: I don’t like this nearly as much as most people, but there is no denying ...