Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

otm. it's weird 'cause I watch all sorts of grubby violent movies but earnestly cheery sadism like in the willis/gudunov fight, that macho joy of dominance, is a turn off. schwarzenegger could've made it work but he then again he wouldn't have been able to fit in the air shafts so I guess it's a wash.

xpost Rutger Hauer was an international superstar. It was movies like "Blade Runner" that brought him to America and, thus, made him international.

watched Ip Man last night on netflix. i don't know how japanese people feel about that movie, but the fight scenes were suitably, uh, endless. so there is that. i dug it.

I meant leading man superstar, like he should've been on par with harrison ford, stallone, schwarzenegger, etc. but he never found the right vehicle and was stuck in b-movie direct-to-video hell by the 90s.

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i should have voted for blind fury. and the hitcher. NOT the ostermann weekend though.

rutger was already in his 50's by the 90's. maybe action fame came too late. kinda crazy that a senior citizen would make hobo with a shotgun. but everyone has bills to pay. and i'm glad he made it.

love how this has its own wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_soliloquy

it is super heavy. i always tear up. i dunno what ridley scott was thinkin with the dove though.

Hauer described this as "opera talk" and "hi-tech speech" with no bearing on the rest of the film, so he "put a knife in it" the night before filming, without Scott's knowledge.[7] In interview with Dan Jolin, Hauer said that these final lines showed that Batty wanted to "make his mark on existence ... the robot in the final scene, by dying, shows Deckard what a real man is made of."[8]

When Hauer performed the scene, the film crew applauded and some even cried. This was due to the power of the dying speech coming at the end of an exhausting shoot.[9]

damn, rutger

This was due to the power of the dying speech coming at the end of an exhausting shoot.[9]

The Power of The Dying Speech Coming At The End of An Exhausting Shoot is actually pretty underrated as far as e6 records go, honestly

see, dude had instincts. coulda been one of the all-time greats.

watching it the other night I noticed for the first time how "time to die" echoes leon and batty saying the same thing to deckard earlier in the film.

also never noticed how terrible the music in blade runner is, ridley scott should've hired popol vuh

time to die

time to die

time to....

die.

also never noticed how terrible the music in blade runner is, ridley scott should've hired popol vuh

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yo what

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c'mon dude you're really gonna rep for this skinemax quality doo doo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9KAqhbIZ7o

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blade runner is perfect. i'm banning you. where the hell is that button...

yeah man absolutely!

blade runner OST is probly the best vangelis album of all time!

Yeah that is fucking insane.

I dunno kinda reminds me of

http://www.hulu.com/watch/124875/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-the-curse

vangelis saxophone is like the best thing ever

yeah i dont know what to tell you, i like careless whisper and baker street too

I can't even fathom how a person could not enjoy the Blade Runner soundtrack

and what's up with deckard forcing himself on rachel? no means no man!

this is my fave track from the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF2JJjr4qvg

ok edward 3, you're in the desert, you see a tortoise on its back...

let me tell you about my mother

also never noticed how terrible the music in blade runner is

This is why I have somewhere around four or five fan-made Blade Runner music compilations that try to grab all the music bits that weren't released on a soundtrack

Wait no, the opposite of terrible

btw blade runner end credits theme is the best thing of all time

yeah blade runner OST is terrible, like 100% awful, in a world where awful is great and die hard isn't all that~

http://hollywoodhatesme.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/bizarro.jpg

and what's up with deckard forcing himself on rachel? no means no man!

Is this a joke? Cause I still don't get that part. I'm sure this means I've missed the point of the movie somehow.

I'm not joking! that scene is kind of troubling. "seduction" scenes where guys push women around always creep me out.

maybe it's just supposed to prove that robots are better than ppl, roy and pris seem to have a pretty healthy relationship

dude I have bad news about that "robots are better than people" assumption with those two pairings

WAS GON SAY

there is a law on ILX that all film discussions sooner or later center on blade runner

*recoiling in horror* Edward III I renounce all knowledge of you...

http://oreald.com/pictures/w/d/0002067.jpg

http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Genl%20Images/Images/Portrait_Images/Edward-III.jpg

o cool let's debate whether deckard's a replicant

did anyone hear that? sounded like the ghostly voice of someone who was always wrong about Blade Runner. Huh, must have been the wind.

we already referred to the final cut as the definitive edition upthread, it has the text that flashes "DECKARD IS A REPLICANT" at the end

in the novel Dick flags him as probably a replicant about 50 pages in, it's not even a big SURPRISE or anything

in the novel he ends up not being a replicant though, he just thinks he might be for a while

iirc the point is far from clear?

maybe, it's been at least 10 years since I last read it. I vaguely remember him passing some kind of test proving he's human.

i wanna read it again now. anyway i definitely remember the ambiguity being a minor thread rather than a big central theme