Blade Runner at 25, Why the F/X Still Matter 454
mattnyc99 writes "Today marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's dark vision of the future that changed the future of filmmaking and still stands up today, argues Adam Savage of The MythBusters (and the F/X crews of The Matrix and Star Wars). Between the "lived-in science fiction," pre-CGI master models, futuristic cityscapes and tricked-out cars, don't you agree? And after we got the first official glimpse of him from Indiana Jones 4 this weekend, isn't Harrison Ford still the man?"
Dystopian future (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, shit! Put a spoiler alert above that!
For a 50 year old guy... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh...what? Damn!
Re:Just remove the wires, OK? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just remove the wires, OK? (Score:5, Funny)
On today's Mythbusters... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just remove the wires, OK? (Score:5, Funny)
Dr. Jones (Score:5, Funny)
Indiana Jones: Depends....
Re:Just remove the wires, OK? (Score:5, Funny)
Poor, Harrison.
Re:CGI is nice, but let's not forget ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Maybe? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:CGI is nice, but let's not forget ... (Score:5, Funny)
And its strange English-to-Chinese-to-English subtitle:
"Do Not Want".
Re:On today's Mythbusters... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:i love blade runner (Score:4, Funny)
Contact is definitely first in my list, because of the "my daddy is an alien" and "your mind can't bear how we actually look" cop-out ending.
You gotta be very brave to masterfully build suspence for hours in this otherwise great movie, and end with daddy talking condescendingly to the main protagonist "honey, you're too stupid to even have a look at me".
I mean, what the hell could they be? Really ugly fat green gelatinous blob monster? Seen that [darkhorse.com]. Gaseous purple clouds? Seen that, too (although the comic version [wikimedia.org] looks kinda different).
I mean WHAT, what the hell did it look like? Maybe they all looked like middle-aged average dads and this is why all the lies. Outer space jerks.
Re:Stupid movie then and now. (Score:5, Funny)
And what would you like for your tenth birthday?
Re:Why Special Edition Recuts are Bad (Score:3, Funny)
You kiddin' me? Decker always shot first.
Any sort of “Special Edition” release is only going to emphasize that point; he had a job to do, and it meant shooting at something. (Coincidentally, it looks/feels/acts human in every way, even down to the blood.)
If this were truly to fall in the footsteps of “Lucas-ized” video releases, then...
*Pray* that I am mistaken about any of these changes coming to pass. <knock, knock>
No, he isnt 'still the man' (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just remove the wires, OK? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Stupid movie then and now. (Score:3, Funny)
Gentlemen, if he is, I think we may have just found the man who keeps giving Keanu Reeves new roles.
Re:it would have been way better (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Maybe? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dystopian future (Score:2, Funny)
Re:But Is Deckard A Replicant? Or Not? (Score:2, Funny)
In truly great sci-fi, there is no spoon.
Re:On today's Mythbusters... (Score:3, Funny)
Plausible, but only if it involves a photo shoot of Kari Bryon.
Re:i love blade runner (Score:3, Funny)
A really nice echo of that theme was in the Venture Brothers episode "Twenty Years to Midnight". That was probably one of the best episodes of one of the best cartoons for geeks.
spoiler:
"Jonas": Alright, fine! You wanna see?! Here! ["Jonas" starts to rip open his face; we only see everyone's looks of horror and a bright light from "Jonas"'s direction] There! That would have been better?! If I had shown up like that out of nowhere?! Look at you. You practically crapped your pants! [points at Ned] Except him. He crapped his pants!
Re:Just remove the wires, OK? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:[OT] Re:didn't know what a steier .222 looked l (Score:1, Funny)
> and Jenny Agutter at that! Rowrr. At age 12
Age 10 here. She was my first "crank", if ya know what I mean. A huge, warm place in my heart.
That Logan got to live in a world where you could walk up to a woman and say, "let's have sex", and she probably would, shee-it. That didn't help any.
Re:Less than 12 parsecs (Score:1, Funny)
Apart from anything else 12 parsecs is a hell of a distance for a black hole, or cluster of holes, to have an appreciable impact.
What were they? Half a dozen galactic cores or something?
Using occams razor I deduce that the simplest explanation is this: "George lucas is not a genius".