Blade Runner

[David LaPell]

I hope this movie never gets remade. Yes there are bigger budget films like Star Wars and Avatar, but I love this film, even with all the different versions of it, it is still a great movie. Someday when I get the chance I'll have to get the Phillip Dick book.

 

[palmetto99]

I watched about the last 30 minutes of the film a week or so ago. It still holds up pretty well. I've heard that it might be remade. Hollywood doesn't seem to be able to come up with new ideas.

 

[Ironhand]

The book, " Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", is a pretty dated read if you've seen the film, but it's interesting.

"Blade Runner" is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I don't care which version I watch. I have "The Final Cut" on DVD, and the behind-the-scenes stuff is as interesting as the film itself. What a nightmare it must have been to make the movie, with the endless rewrites, friction between cast and crew, the studio making Ridley Scott's life a living hell due to budgetary and time constraints. The rooftop ending was some of the last footage shot, as they were out of time, money, and patience. The fact that the film was released at all is nothing short of amazing.

Blade Runner - TEARS IN RAIN [Hi-Res Video] - YouTube


And to think that it wasn't a blockbuster due to being released at the same time as "E.T."

 

[Oldiron]

Watching it on amc right now.

 

[j38]

Tremendous movie, ... one of my favorites, for sure.

Jerry

 

[akviper]

I'm watching it right now. Fantastic film.

 

[Marshwheeling]

It's been playing on cable the last couple of weeks; I watched it with my wife not too long ago, and it was on again last night.

Rutger Hauer's "Tears in Rain" soliloquy at the end is one of my favorite movie scenes.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.... Time to die."

K.W. Jeter wrote a couple of sequels to Philip K. Dick's original novel. They continue the saga of Deckard and Rachel. It's been a while, so my recollection is a little dim, but I had the sense that these would not have been written if not for the interest in the story that the movie created.

 

[ogilvyspecial]

I remember seeing Blade Runner when it first came out and have watched it many, many, times since then. I'm glad to see I'm not alone.....

 

[RonJ]

I really enjoy the performance of Willliam Sanderson, a really under appreciated actor.

 

[Decker]

I also hope the remake doesn't get made.

There are a small number of movies that have been done that should be left to stand on their own, and most remakes end up being "agenda" movies that ruin the artistic merits of the original.

The Day the Earth Stood Still is an example of where the remake was lousy compared to the original. Yes, the original actually was an "agenda" movie of it's day, but it's message was more in the background which let the sci-fi story come through much better.

There are other remakes that escape me right now, but I don't have many good feelings about them in general.

In short, the best way to ruin a great movie is to remake it, and Hollywood has done it's share of that.

 

[Sprefix]

I have it on VHS!! Oh yeah!!!

 

[rimfired]

I have it on Beta.

 

[cmort666]

It was one of the first movies I saw when I got back from Korea. I went to see it with my best friend and his wife (who's Korean). When Edward James Olmos says to Harrison Ford, "Iriwa!" ("Come here!" in Korean), my friend and I lost it!

 

[Tom K]

I hope this movie never gets remade. Yes there are bigger budget films like Star Wars and Avatar, but I love this film, even with all the different versions of it, it is still a great movie. Someday when I get the chance I'll have to get the Phillip Dick book.

I read the book after seeing the movie, and could never figure out how they were able to make such a great film out of such a terrible book. I mean, it's a lousy read - the film is sooo much better.

Likewise the stage play "Wicked". If I had read the book first I never would have gone to see the play. The book is ugly to read but the play is wonderful.

 

[Dennis The B]

For a long time, it was a "cult" film, and you could hardly see it on TV, and the major premium channels never ran it. I always thought the dialogue was outstanding, and the near-constant rainfall, really added to the bleak outlook. I also thought that Joe Turkel's Dr. Tyrell, was about as cold and analytical as it gets.

 

[Ironhand]

It was one of the first movies I saw when I got back from Korea. I went to see it with my best friend and his wife (who's Korean). When Edward James Olmos says to Harrison Ford, "Iriwa!" ("Come here!" in Korean), my friend and I lost it!

You want to laugh even harder during that scene, watch it with a Hungarian. When Deckerd tells Gaff that he "has the wrong guy, pal.." Gaff's answer is in Hungarian. Loosely translated, and edited for language, it's, " Horse-*appendage*!! You are the Blade, Blade Runner..."

E.J. Olmos speaks 12 languages, or something close to it, in the film, but only a few phrases in any language at a time.

 

[NE450No2]

That is a good movie.

A bit of trivia, Deckerd's "handgun" is a movie prop using a reciever from a Steyr Bolt action rifle...

Also what is the opinion on whether Deckerd was actually a Replicant himself???
Many people cite, as one main reason they think that, is when Olmos says to Deckard, "You've done a Mans job, Sir"...

Also did anyone notice when Deckard was in the Lt's office the Lt's lamp shade, had pictures of him with a cape buffalo he had aparently killed in Africa...

 

[Joni_Lynn]

Home again home again.
Great movie, one of my favorites.

 

[mtheo]

I'm not in favor of a remake. I wouldn't mind a sequel based on the sequel book.... Although I have seen few sequels hold up to the original movie.