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

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Robocop 2.

valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 14:25 (fourteen years ago)

I must be one of the few people that does NOT take Deckard=replicant as a given, no matter wtf Ridley Scott thinks is going on and in the face of origami unicorns. Whether or not he is a replicant is less important to me than the fact that it's his interactions with replicants, not people, that allows *him* to develop the empathy that is supposed to mark one as "human."

Flagpost Sitta (Phil D.), Friday, 2 March 2012 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, whether you believe he's a replicant, human, or anything else doesn't really matter, since the main lines of contemplation are based around "what if" scenarios.

valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 15:16 (fourteen years ago)

Man, "They Live" could have been written last year.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 March 2012 15:58 (fourteen years ago)

It's about Obama iirc

valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:24 (fourteen years ago)

Rowdy Obama Piper?

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 March 2012 16:26 (fourteen years ago)

No you put on the glasses and you can detect false birth certificates and non-citizens

valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:27 (fourteen years ago)

I SEE MUSLIM PEOPLE

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:28 (fourteen years ago)

i always wondered tho, if decky is a reppy, what is his backstory exactly? i guess they set him up as a set a thief to catch a thief kinda jobby?

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

and doesnt it dilute the idea that batty is so much more of a 'real person' than deckard is, if that is so?

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

see those are the thoughts you have with the ambiguity. does it dilute the idea? hmm let me write an academic paper here

valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:35 (fourteen years ago)

k im waiting

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:35 (fourteen years ago)

I dunno, I got sort of the same vibe as I later did with "AI," that everything that happened was in some ways designed as a test. Obviously he's a replicant, or at least there's plenty to support that hypothesis; the ambiguity is why they let him go.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 March 2012 16:40 (fourteen years ago)

deckard's replicant ambiguity is probably the least interesting thing about blade runner

flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:44 (fourteen years ago)

i figured he was a creation like 'rachael', but put into life maybe decades before. it's probably the reason he was such a good detective, and may have been made exactly for that. but his own batty-esque story of irrepressible humanity happened years before the movie begins, when he had had enough and quit the force. batty knows what he is and knows how little time he has left, while deckard is in a fog of depression and indecision like every other human. so is he more human or less, for not knowing? idk i could go all day about this.

goole, Friday, 2 March 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

Deckard was created five minutes before the opening of the movie and deposited at the noodle stand

valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

well that's my theory blown

goole, Friday, 2 March 2012 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

I like yr theory goole

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:55 (fourteen years ago)

Not a bad theory, but Deckard is the ultimate unreliable narrator. He may as well have been created five minutes before the movie began.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 March 2012 17:13 (fourteen years ago)

i'm in the process of designing a ronin coffee cup on zazzle fwiw, who wants one

omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:36 (fourteen years ago)

me me

catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

me me meeeeeeeee

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:43 (fourteen years ago)

does it have an lcd screen with BMW's zooming & screeching round and round?

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:44 (fourteen years ago)

What does it say?

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:45 (fourteen years ago)

doesn't say anything, just screws its mouth a little and shrugs noncommitally

Streep? That's where I'm a-striking! (darraghmac), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:47 (fourteen years ago)

i sent y'all a message w/the image

omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:51 (fourteen years ago)

If it were me I'd just have the words, in white! But it's not me.

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:55 (fourteen years ago)

ME OMAR ME

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:03 (fourteen years ago)

i thought about doing it w/just the images actually! too subtle?

omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:04 (fourteen years ago)

check your email slox

omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:04 (fourteen years ago)

omg that's awesome omar

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:06 (fourteen years ago)

i would love to see this

goole, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:09 (fourteen years ago)

sent

omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:10 (fourteen years ago)

still a work in progress, plus i want to do a test run and send a mug to myself for quality control.

omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:10 (fourteen years ago)

killer

goole, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

omar send it to me

max, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

you got it~

omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:15 (fourteen years ago)

it's already my favorite coffee cup in the history of everything

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

omes i think this image should be part of it

http://static2.dmcdn.net/static/video/884/228/29822488:jpeg_preview_medium.jpg?20110322065045

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

(or like a better version of that)

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i was trying to dig up a good coffee spill image, might have to do some digging. we can't rush something like this.

omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

btw i've found the greatest site in the history of man

http://seppänen-et.fi/praedaceous/extra/ronin_coffee_drinking_scenes/

omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:19 (fourteen years ago)

It's like they knew you were coming!

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

I'm in for one of the final version

flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:21 (fourteen years ago)

the internet is wonderful

goole, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:26 (fourteen years ago)

and/or finland

goole, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://seppänen-et.fi/praedaceous/extra/ronin_coffee_drinking_scenes/05_25_51_%28coffee_cup_ambush%29.jpg

goole, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:27 (fourteen years ago)

i love when the camera holds on that cup for a split second, like not in an obvious way but almost letting it linger so it subconsciously registers are crucial.

omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:30 (fourteen years ago)

ya for sure

"someone is gettin' ambushed with this yall"

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:32 (fourteen years ago)

"oh no it's going to get cold, hurry up"

omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:32 (fourteen years ago)


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