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Blade Runner is the and fore ever will be the bes t book and movie. |
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According to a wide number of scientists, Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” has been taken to be
granted as the best ever science fiction film of all time. The famous British science magazine
“Guardian” recently said that a number of scientists have voted for this film. This film is
based on Philip KDick’s short story named “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” According to
the film, a policeman was shown busy in hunting four illegal androids in Los Angeles. The film
sketched the future vision of Los Angeles in a very dystopian manner. This movie proves itself as
the best ever science fiction not only for its thinking and creativity of running quite ahead of
time, but also for the usage of science as an integral part of its narrative. The power of running
well ahead of time made the film ever lasting in the heart of the millions. |
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Never seen it, or read it... So I can't say anything bad about it. |
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I recently watched both Dangerous Days, the 3-hour documentary on the making of the film, as well as
Blade runner : The Final Cut, the definitive edition of the classic.
Virtually all elements of this film fuse together to create a cinematic masterpiece. The score by
Vangelis is outstanding; the set design is fantastic; the visual beauty of each scene is simply
peerless - Ridley Scott crafts each scene like a master painter. And the performances of the actors
and actresses were excellent too. Rutger Hauer, in particular, turned in one of most mesmerising
performances in the history of cinema and seemed the perfect embodiment of the character he
played.
Bladerunner was criticised for lacking emotional depth and being nothing but a glitzy special
effects show. I dispute this. While most science fiction films are simplistic stories of bad guys vs
good guys, BladeRunner is much more subtle. In the end, the viewer ends up sympathising with the
supposed bad-guys, as does the hero who was chasing them. It takes us on emotional journey far
greater in scope than Star Wars or any of the other contenders for the crown.
Bladerunner has also been remarkably influential. Visual motifs from this film have been showing up
in other films, music videos, computer games, as well as real-world designs, ever since it was
released. You could also make a strong case that Bladerunner's dystopian vision of the near-future
went a long way towards spawning the cyberpunk movement in science fiction literature.
All things considered, BladeRunner is, without question, the greatest science fiction film of all
time and one of the top ten films of all time. |
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It is not the best. Ive seen a lot of better science fiction films, but this one is fine |
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It's good, yes, but not the best. The best in anything beyond pure one-on-one competition is purely
a subjecting, individual matter. For me, "Silent Running" runs circles around any other SF movie,
and only "The Wrath of Khan" is close. I would include "The Return of The King", but I exclude that
from SF, owing tom its fantasy elements. |
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Have you not seen "The Thing"? |
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Nah.
Bladerunner sucks.
Star Wars & Matrix rocks. |
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Star Wars & The Matrix are so much better than Blade Runner |
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To find truly great science fiction, read the book and watch the movie "Dune". |
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What is blade runner? |
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Blade Runner is good enough, but it never fundamentally transformed the science fiction genre. On
the other hand, Fritz Lang's Metropolis certainly did. This 1927 film from Weimar Germany is a true
cinematographic landmark, even if we are missing chunks of the original movie. Blockbuster films
like Star Wars and even the Matrix were all, to a degree, modeled off of Metropolis. In fact, one
may argue that Blade Runner also took inspiration from Lang's masterpiece.
We all set different criteria when defining greatness, but I would argue that the most important
factor is to determine a film's influence within a given genre. Metropolis clearly takes the prize
in this category and some of the special effects used (such as the Tower of Babel) remain impressive
80 years after the movie was released. |
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I certainly wouldn't go that far. It's a good film, but it certainly isn't as influential as others
like Star Wars, certainly hasn't made the financial returns as others, certainly hasn't had the
impact of others, etc. There really isn't a single metric you can look at where Blade Runner is the
top of the pile. |
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This is only an opinion. Not everyone will agree that Blade Runner was the greatest science fiction
movie ever made. I actually believe that the greatest science fiction movie ever made would be Star
Wars. There is a lot more that goes into determining a great movie other than the effects and the
story line of the movie. How about the amount of money it makes? What about its running time? There
is a lot more than just a few good scenes that make a good science fiction film. But we all will
have our own opinion on this. I did not like Blade Runner. I loved Star Wars. |
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24 Jan 2008 08:18
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