"On the Edge of Blade Runner"

[plagiarism]

<heresy>I'm a big science fiction fan, but I thought Blade Runner was one of the most boring movies I've ever sat through.</heresy>

And no, I don't need an explosion every 5 minutes or need to see a green alien chick with 3 tits to be entertained.

[Bitter Almonds]

<p align="justify">I was initally also bored with [i]Blade Runner[/i]. It's definitely a "grower" kind of movie for me, where I watched it a few more times before getting a taste for it. However, it may be that you just don't dig the style. It's a Neo Noir film, so if most classic Film Noir*** don't do it for ya, then this one isn't gonna be better in spite of the Cyber-Punk theme, the elaborate sets, the SFX, and Vangelis's music. I think my initial reaction to [i]Blade Runner[/i] is that it was too rich in every one of those elements: too much Cyber-Punk, too much SFX, too elaborate sets, too much music. Once I got to see Greenaway's and Jeunet's films, though, [i]Blade Runner[/i] looks rather minimalistic in comparison[}:)]




***And when I say "most classic Film Noir," I mean you can name at least 10 favourite films in that genre after having seen a bunch of them (not just [i]Double Indemnity[/i], [i]Out Of The Past[/i], and [i]Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers")[/i][}:)]


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[Frau_Blucher]

I find that many of my favorites have a slow pace. It's not even that - scenes are allowed to dwell on details and characters and even existential meanderings. Blade Runner, Thin Red Line, Out of Africa, The Deer Hunter. If you could remake something like Masculin-Feminin or Hiroshima Mon Amour into a science fiction movie, it'd probably be something like Blade Runner.

[zill]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Frau_Blucher[/i]
<br>I find that many of my favorites have a slow pace.
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Much like the hymnal music you listen to.

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by zill[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Frau_Blucher[/i]
<br>I find that many of my favorites have a slow pace.
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Much like the hymnal music you listen to.
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