Blade Runner

[Buster's Uncle]

Do please.  The movie presents a rich milieu, and interesting and deep world.  That is easily half its appeal, I think.

[Mylochka]

Yes, I think that's what keeps bringing me back to this movie again and again.  There is so much detail that it's almost impossible to assimilate it all in a single viewing.  I remember being struck by the lighted umbrellas... a tiny detail,really, but yeah, some day some where there will be lighted umbrellas...

[Rusty Edge]

Lighted umbrellas- http://www.amazon.com/BLADE-RUNNER-color-Umbrella-Colors/dp/B0049VCLE4/ref=pd_sim_sbs_a_5

I kind of liked the orange blender-boiler. Now if it were me, I'd use lemons or limes. I enjoy a hot lemonade to soothe my throat and open my sinuses.

[Buster's Uncle]

I could go for that right now, if only it was caffeinated...

[Mylochka]

Lighted umbrellas- http://www.amazon.com/BLADE-RUNNER-color-Umbrella-Colors/dp/B0049VCLE4/ref=pd_sim_sbs_a_5

I kind of liked the orange blender-boiler. Now if it were me, I'd use lemons or limes. I enjoy a hot lemonade to soothe my throat and open my sinuses.

Dang!  I want that... I also would like to live in a place where it rains more than once or twice a year so I could actually use it...

[Geo]

I also would like to live in a place where it rains more than once or twice a year so I could actually use it...

 Seattle? 

[Buster's Uncle]

Cue Here Come the Brides joke...

[Lord Avalon]

I saw Blade Runner in the theater, and I really liked it.  I liked the mood it set - the noir feel in a futuristic setting - the bigot Captain Bryant pulling Deckard out of retirement to retire some skinjobs, the tall buildings, the aircars (dammit, it's the 21st century, where are the fracking aircars?!?!), the street - which had its own patois.  As far as the rain goes, I imagine it might be acidic - you probably wouldn't want to get it on you.

Later, I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.  I haven't reread it in a while, but I think it's one of those rare instances where I liked the movie more than the book.

[Sigma]

I saw Blade Runner in the theater, and I really liked it.  I liked the mood it set - the noir feel in a futuristic setting - the bigot Captain Bryant pulling Deckard out of retirement to retire some skinjobs, the tall buildings, the aircars (dammit, it's the 21st century, where are the fracking aircars?!?!), the street - which had its own patois.  As far as the rain goes, I imagine it might be acidic - you probably wouldn't want to get it on you.

Later, I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.  I haven't reread it in a while, but I think it's one of those rare instances where I liked the movie more than the book.

Phillip K. Dick actually agrees with you. He saw Blade Runner a few months before he died and said it was a triumph.

[Buster's Uncle]

I think this is a case where one has to regard it as not a movie of the book, but one 'inspired by'...

[Sigma]

I don't think that's really the case. Both books are fundamentally about the same thing-- the distinction between organic and synthetic, genuine and artificial, as well as whether it really makes a difference or not. Both works also hit most of the same plot beats, but they differ hugely in the details.

[Buster's Uncle]

No fun in quibbling over the definition...




Thesis:  Sean Young was butt nekkid in No Way Out, (a great movie, BTW), but not half so sexy as clothed in BR. 

Thoughts?

[Mylochka]

I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" years before the movie and didn't really like it.  I don't remember enough of the book to even say why I didn't like it.  I was in high school, so perhaps there were nuances that went over my head.  Watching Philip K. Dick talk about the book in the Blade Runner documentaries makes me want to go back and give the book another chance.

(On the weather like Seattle front, It rained this morning, so I owe N. Texas an apology for complaining... Go a couple dry months in triple digits and I get all sensitive... geez...)

[Maniac]

I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" years before the movie and didn't really like it.  I don't remember enough of the book to even say why I didn't like it.

Because the main character is a boring loser? Because one can't identify with a character who's depressed because his lack of a sheep will make him look bad in his neighbour's eyes? *rolleyes*

[Buster's Uncle]

I haven't read the book at all, but that description doesn't tend to drive me away - sounds very human...