The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

Run! or my mom will shoot!

Carry On Blade Running

Cannonblade Run

Would watch

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WINNER

when the sequel gets made that has to be thread title pleeeeeze

Since it has a female protagonist, obviously the title will be:

Blade Runneress

Or:

BLadee Runner

was trying to think of a decent sequel to a classic, that came a decade or so after. there's not many is there?

texasville?

mm haven't seen that, i think it went straight-to-video over here iirc.

romero's day of the dead i guess. but that's more of a series than a one-off sequel of course.

Freddy Vs. Jason came out 13 years after the previous Nightmare on Elm Street movie (though only 2 years after the previous Friday the 13th one), and it's better than almost any other NoES or Ft13th movie.

Some people seem to think Before Sunset is even better than Before Sunrise, I'd say they're equally good. It's also one of the few movies where the long cap between the original and the sequel is succesfully incorporated in the plot. (It would've been a totally different movie if it was made only 3 or 4 years after the original.)

Oh, and I also remember liking The Color of Money, though admittedly I haven't seen The Hustler (which came out 25 years before the sequel).

Anyway, if this new Blade Runner will be a proper sequel and not a remake, I wonder if it'll be the longest pause ever between a movie and its sequel? By the time it hits the screens, there'll be something like 35 years between the two movies.

Haha, apparently not! Internet tells me the longest sequel gap is 64 years, between Bambi (1942) and Bambi II (2006). Though admittedly with animated movies it's much easier to make sequels decades after the original.

Oh, and speaking of: Toy Story 3 came out 11 years after Toy Story 2, and it's the best movie of the three.

And with live-action movies the longest gap appears to be between The Naked Civil Servant and An Englishman in New York, which is 34 years. (John Hurt plays the lead in both.)

was gonna say Psycho 2 but turns out that was only 23 years after the first one! #mindmash.

there's also that manoel de oliveira belle de jour psuedo-sequel, belle toujours, which came about around 2009, 32 year after buñuel's film.

55 years between Gone With The Wind and the Scarlett TV mini-series.

(thought "decent sequel" is questionable)

lol @ Bladeerunner I am using that one Tuomas thx

You guys all remember this series right?

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I think Jeter wrote two more after that one.

he was authorized by he dick estate to write those as well. I assume they are awful. I know he has a cult following but the one book of his I read (wolf flow) sucked balls.

Jeter's Dr. Adder was pretty good, I seem to remember.

Jeter alternates between hackery and genius. I don't know anybody that's read Dr. Adder or Glass Hammer and not been impressed.

He Said You Blade Runner, She Said You Blade Runner, a mixed-up romantic comedy from Ridley Scott.

Naked co-ed Beach Blade Runner

or perhaps the video-game-inspired Blade Gunner?

Who Is Harry Bryant and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

5 Now Runner 5

He's Just Not That Into Retiring You

Let Me Tell You All About My Mother

Tyrell Perry Corporation's Diary of a Mad White Unicorn

Let Me Tell You All About My Mother

nice

Bladerunner 2: The Things He's Seen

(about the Tannhäuser Gate c-beams and the burning attack ships off Orion's shoulder and stuff - maybe the fires of Orc too)

― StanM, Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:56 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is basically what prometheus is, good call

i like that those lines are evocative of stuff we haven't actually seen, that's kind of the point.

oh well.

that's what I'm saying

the faltermeyer gate is blade runner's "space jockey"

"life is like a box of chocolates. time to die."
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, April 17, 2006 4:27 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwSylz8C0YM

But anyway, Sebastian's little people really freaked my shit.

We watched this last night -- I'd never seen the Final Version, and my girlfriend had never seen it at all. Enjoyed it as always, and the Final Version probably actually is the best cut -- though tbh pretty much everything I love about Blade Runner was right there in the original theatrical version. All the tweaks have made it a better movie, but even in its compromised form it was a classic. The thing I tend to forget between viewings is how slow and quiet so much of it is. And also how far it goes into bonkers dream logic during the final chase.

Something about PKD in general, probably having to do with the way he writes (not that i've ever though about it in depth) is that at a certain point you're willing to follow the story where it goes without a thought to rationality. the surreal/fantastic in his work often has a very cumulative effect -- you start off with something that seems to follow the natural laws of physics/space/time and end up somewhere very distant through that. it's a good technique, i think. little things that seem weird at first make it easier to handle the REAL WEIRD stuff that comes later on.

probably how utterly normal his characters react to utterly abnormal events?

^^^ his characters are always archetypes that are working through really relatable emotional states - the alpha male is a blinkered asshole, the protagonist is a neurotic mass of resentments/self loathing, the femme fatale with the heart of ice, the naif innocent that's wise beyond his/her years etc. these figures are constants throughout his books, it's the bizarre scenery surrounding them that changes.

the protagonist is a neurotic mass of resentments/self loathing

why PKD's books are relatable in a nutshell

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this movie gets worse with every screening

we must use Vangelis