The long overdue _Blade Runner

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Ah, Megaforce. With Persis Khambatta!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

see the explosion just below that vehicle on the right? the B-52 dropped a BOMB

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)

I once broke up with a girl because she didn't understand the dove.

douchebag says what?

― nervous.gif (eman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)

omg, gear, that's what i was just about to say!

also: just watched first 5 minutes of blade runner. shivers. (but now listening to friend on radio trying to pronounce name of an avarus song. brilliant.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:49 (twenty years ago)

MegaForce Headquarters, P.O. Box A, Culver City, CA 90230

― nervous.gif (eman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:53 (twenty years ago)

my life is complete

― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:04 (twenty years ago)

are you man enough for a P.O. Box?

― the enduring pueblo (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:04 (twenty years ago)

The skin coloured boilersuit makes it look like he is naked, and his ass is on the front. :/

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:14 (twenty years ago)

my life is complete

Vahid, I love you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:18 (twenty years ago)

Trayce, don't ruin fun! Ass-crotch will blast you! + he has computer-pack on chest, which counts for something. something good.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:22 (twenty years ago)

AND THE MOVIE HAD FLYING MOTORCYCLES

also, as some of you may know, the blown-dried hero up there is also "Brad" from Rocky Horror Picture Show

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:31 (twenty years ago)

a proper review here

and thank god we're not talking about 1986, when we'd have to deal with this horror

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:35 (twenty years ago)

EVERYTHING BLASTS

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:51 (twenty years ago)

not to detract anymore from the importance of Blade Runner, which is very important, but:
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/megaforce/megaforce6.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:55 (twenty years ago)

ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH FOR GOLDEN DUNEBUGGY??

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:56 (twenty years ago)

SKINTIGHT BODYSUITS AND HEADBANDS NOT WORDS

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:57 (twenty years ago)

i smell a meme comin on

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:58 (twenty years ago)

which, "are you man enough for..." or "_____ not words"?

― the enduring pueblo (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:01 (twenty years ago)

either one...haha now i don't wanna jinx it!

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:02 (twenty years ago)

wait that's barry bostwick?? i thought it was a gibb

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:04 (twenty years ago)

ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH FOR GOLDEN DUNEBUGGY??

Funny you should mention that... The "Megaforce" golden dune buggy has been parked in front of a Newport Beach surplus store on PCH. I used to drive past it every morning on my way to work. It's directly in the center of this Googlemap

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:05 (twenty years ago)

SPEAK N SPELL ON CHEST, NOT WORDS

:D :D

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:05 (twenty years ago)

OK, here's a ground level picture

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:07 (twenty years ago)

WHOA

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:11 (twenty years ago)

And meantime I just finished my BR rewatch. More tomorrow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:11 (twenty years ago)

I tried to watch it! Got distracted by internet thread on BR instead. OH TEH IRONITRON. EVERYTHING BLASTS.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 06:13 (twenty years ago)

I once broke up with a girl because she didn't understand the dove.

douchebag says what?

-- nervous.gif (ï¿...), April 18th, 2006 12:45 AM. (eman) (later)

If Kenan does it, you call him a douchebag, but if Seinfeld did it, it would be a "classic episode."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:28 (twenty years ago)

that's a bit unfair

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:15 (twenty years ago)

I suspect it was a serendipitous event, with expert use of tech artists and a literate script, in the career of a hack.

yeah cos this is the shit that matters, it's not about good films, it's about whether this or that director is or is not a 'hack'.

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:25 (twenty years ago)

I made my dad take me to see blade runner when it came out and i was blown away. when i got back to school i couldn't shut up about it and i was surprised to find that NOBODY there had seen it and didn't know what i was talking about. i couldn't talk about it with anyone until i met my best friend lance a couple of years later. he was a fanatic. i could have sworn that i had the blade runner comic before i actually saw the movie, but maybe i bought it after the fact. i couldn't get enough of it. (And I was already a Hauer fan cuz my dad had dragged ME to nighthawks a year before blade runner came out. my dad and i were both very disappointed by the osterman weekend)

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:32 (twenty years ago)

On the DVD for Magnolia, there's a bit where Anderson screens Network for the crew as inspiration. So maybe it's just a Hollywood ritual where the director makes everyone watch his favorite movie before shooting begins, whether it has any point or not.

Haha, I heard Stanley Kubrick made his crew watch Eraserhead before they started filming The Shining. As far as I can tell this made no difference whatsoever to the finished film.

This does leads to a weird connection now I think of it, because all the helicopter shots in the "happy ending" version of BR were outtakes from...The Shining. Not to mention that Lloyd the Barman and Eldon Tyrell = THE SAME GUY.

http://www.mitherme.co.uk/images/shining2.jpg
http://www.briandonovan.info/self-assembly-images/200501/20050120/blade_runner/dr_eldon_tyrell_200x150h.jpg

"Is this to be an empathy test? Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response? Fluctuation of theee...pupil?"

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:35 (twenty years ago)

All this 1982 love and you're all forgetting something -- ALBERT PYUN FANS REPRAZENT 1982 STYLEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.fantasfilm.com/image/Scan10970.jpg

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

RICHARD MOLL!! THE GUY WHO PLAYED MATT HOUSTON!! THREE! BLADED! SWORDS!!!!!!

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

Okay, so on the one hand technically an '83 release. But on the other hand, LIAM NEESON.

http://www.impawards.com/1983/posters/krull_ver2.jpg

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Krull...er, wait.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), April 17th, 2006 5:12 PM.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

y'know, tied into the whole Spielberg thing upthread: I wasn't a big fan of Minority Report for various reasons, yet I have seen it twice anyway, and my favourite bit remains the whole GETTING NEW EYEBALLS part. Why? It seems so obvious now that it's b/c it's pretty freakin' Bladerunneresque.

-- rrrobyn (apoemabouteverythin...) (webmail), April 17th, 2006 10:19 PM. (rrrobyn) (later) (link)

Are you taking the piss dude?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I think what I was saying there was that that scene had a bit more grit to it, visually at least. It is not really 'bladerunneresque', no, haha, except perhaps in relation to the rest of the movie (vs in relation to actual Blade Runner movie, if that makes sense...)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

it's not about good films, it's about whether this or that director is or is not a 'hack'.

You know it's ILE, right?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

This is great timing. This Friday I see Blade Runner in the cinema for free, which I greatly anticipate because it is a rare opportunity--I was in diapers in 1982.

Obviously the movie is flawed, but I have a feeling in theatres >>>>>>>>>>>>>> on DVD in this case.

― richardk (Richard K), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:20 (twenty years ago)

can't believe there's no special-ed dvd yet.

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

rrrobyn, I think it's probably more of a PKD thing since he wrote both the original stories.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but "Minority Report" the PKD story bears little resemblance to the movie, and the eye thing is nowhere to be seen in the story. (Ha ha.)

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

so when anthony perkins does it its a 'classic movie' but when kenan does it hes a murderer? i smell double standard

― --++-+-, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

ok dude you need to warn before you say something like that.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I can't really think of a PKD story where the eye thing is a big deal, was it even in Do Androids..? It's been so long since I've read it that I can't remember. It's more like one of those meta-adaptation things where things appear in other media but not in the original work.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I should watch this movie someday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:08 (twenty years ago)

fairly certain the eyeball thing was not PKDs concept. And obviously I would think the Minority Report instance of it is a nod to Bladerunner (I wouldn't know I don't watch Slave of Xenu movies)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

was there any drug use in the movie, other than the usual booze/cigarettes?

speaking of which, I thought A Scanner Darkly was supposed to be out by now, but i guess they pushed it back to summer.

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

about fuckin' time

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 27 May 2006 07:38 (twenty years ago)

The rumors were true, then.

The restored "Director's Cut" will debut on homevid in September, and remain on sale for four months only, after which time it will be placed on moratorium. "Blade Runner: Final Cut" will arrive in 2007 for a limited 25th anniversary theatrical run, followed by a special edition DVD with the three previous versions offered as alternate viewing: Besides the original theatrical version and director's cut, the expanded international theatrical cut will be included. The set will also contain additional bonus materials."

Hmm, no Workprint?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 May 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

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