Blade Runner

[Buster's Uncle]

Precisely.

Does anyone think the movie would have been good w/o the Vagelis score?  We're hardly talking about rather flawed awesome that wouldn't have worked without Freddy Mercury, a' la Flash Gordon and Highlander, but The BR score was just utter (layered, nuanced, storytelling, moody) perfection and a plain ol' great listen.

[Mylochka]

I do still love the Vangelis score. There's a lot of other synthesizer-heavy soundtracks from the '80s that sounded cool at the time but decayed into hopeless cheese-y-ness over the years.  However, the cheapness and artificiality that the years have added to the score's techno elements is appropriate to the cheap and tawdry future presented and only serve to enhance the music's overall poignancy, I think.

[Geo]

That's a lot of high talk into just 2 sentences. 

[Mylochka]

I can talk fancy reeel gud!

[Rusty Edge]

I can talk fancy reeel gud!

Now I'm curious. Do you speak with a Carolina accent and Texan metaphors?

[Mylochka]

Sure as shootin', honey!

[Buster's Uncle]

She's lying -mostly.

I've often been told by non-NC natives that I have less of an accent than usual.  That may be due to our parents being from different ends of the state with very different accents - I naturally can't hear our native western NC foot-of-the mountains accent, but Daddy's side has this nasal drawl thing.  So I can't tell you if she has less accent, too, as I don't hear one.

We (and Buster's Daddy) share our mother's side of the family's love of odd turns of phrase and made-up words.  Grampa was a treasure chest of funny and quaint turns of phrase that sounded like authentic mountain dialect and jokes, but I never heard any other mountain folk use, so I think he made a lot of it up himself.  He sounded a lot like Hank Hill, BTW.

I was once standing next to him in his basement when he turned on the five-watt light, looked up and said "I reckon I'd have to light a match to see if this was on."

So we are atypical North Carolinians, and while Texas quaintness bears some cultural similarity, its a different (western as in cowboy) culture with far greater emphasis on grandiosity.  Our style is more in the sarcasm and whimsy line, and we are amused by frequently talkin' wrong on purpose.  You will recognize this as characteristic of many of my posts for as long as you've known me.

(If you're curious about MY accent, google ModCast 41 - I guested, and talked silly crap for an hour.)

[Rusty Edge]

Reminds me of my wife's family, who are Germans from the Ellis island era. They have distant relatives in the old country, and they can converse when they visit, or were stationed there in the cold war, etc.
That said, some things which they regard as German are family expressions. For example, when disagreeing with somebody, instead of saying " you're wrong ! "  or "you're crazy! " they use a German phrase which translates as " you're constipated!"

[Geo]

Sure as shootin', honey!

Do I sense a Mexian standoff a comin'? 

That said, some things which they regard as German are family expressions. For example, when disagreeing with somebody, instead of saying " you're wrong ! "  or "you're crazy! " they use a German phrase which translates as " you're constipated!"

Perhaps that was the literal translation, but probably meant something like "you're full of it!". 

[Buster's Uncle]

Words mean what we agree them to mean (basic communications theory, communications being what I have a degree, and Mylochka a PhD in).

[Mylochka]

Sure as shootin', honey!

Do I sense a Mexian standoff a comin'? 

If I have any hopes of establishing any tru Texan street cred, I gotta find me some more of them smilies with guns in 'em....

[Mylochka]

To get back to Blade Runner -- 

I had a conversation with someone on Friday.  He brought up Blade Runner as an example of something that he hated at first but grew to love.  I had the same experience.  I first watched it, not on the big screen, but on my very, very, very small tv screen in around 1986.  I had a vcr and ...well, not to say I had anything to do with making illegal copies  ... Let's just say  I ended up watching several movies multiple times.  The first time I watched Blade Runner, I didn't like it at all.  It just seemed like a typical Hollywood run-and-gun chase movie.  Harrison Ford, whom I was crushing on like crazy at the time, looked not just bad, but positively ill throughout most of the movie. By the 5th time I watched the movie, though, it had become one of my all-time favorites.  It took repeated viewings to really start to pick up on all the detail in the picture -- to start letting the themes work their way into my skull.

Did anyone else have a similar hate-to-love experience? 

Did anyone actually see it in the theater?

[Geo]

Not with that movie.

I was still too young to see it in theater, or else it never came out on my side of the puddle.
Also, the movie came out before Ford became one of my favorite actors.

[Buster's Uncle]

At the time, I really enjoyed seeing Han Solo getting beat down so hard, over and over...

[Rusty Edge]

Sure, I saw it in the theater. I guess I was looking forward to another science fiction movie from the director of Alien, with an appearance by Han Solo. I was expecting dark.

It stands out in my mind for it's production design. It re-designed Los Angeles. I liked it from the beginning, in a Civ kind of way, for it's depth of details, and my mind returns to it again and again for the same reason.

I've got 3 dogs to walk today, perhaps I'll get back to you on this...