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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder
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Mar 30, 2007 - 01:46pm PT
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Bling Cosby
Social climber
Beverly Hills
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Mar 30, 2007 - 01:48pm PT
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" Loved Blade Runner. My next favorite would probably by Dark City"
Dark City is a GREAT movie!!!
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The Rebel L Gang
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Mar 30, 2007 - 01:52pm PT
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OK--keeping with the dark theme, name this movie:
"Jesus walks into a motel. He slaps down 3 nails and asks: Can you put me up for the night?"
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Mar 30, 2007 - 01:54pm PT
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L, there were so many awesome things about that movie. That's what made it so good. I own it, one of those flicks you can watch over and over.
It was also cool how you didn't really know if Duvall and Caine's stories were tall tales or true...
How about them all in overalls planting in the garden and evrything comes up corn eventually.
Or after Duavall woops on the youth he takes them home and 'schools' them and eventually they all wind up with rifles looking for the lion. Funny.
Or Duvall and Caine buying a seconhand lion and wanting to shoot it in the crate...and the kids reaction.
I always like Duvall, great actor. Kind of a strange role for Caine, but he did a great job. Made the character perfect.
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L
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The Rebel L Gang
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Mar 30, 2007 - 01:57pm PT
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Bluering--Do you have the DVD? Have you looked at the outtakes and multiple endings? OMG! Hysterical!
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wootles
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Gamma Quadrant
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Mar 30, 2007 - 01:57pm PT
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L, I saw Secondhand Lions a couple of months ago. Great film. Aside from some great lines I loved the fight scene.
Blade Runner is of course one of my favorites, being partial to good sci-fi.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder
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Mar 30, 2007 - 01:58pm PT
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detail
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klinefelter
Boulder climber
Bishop, CA
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Mar 30, 2007 - 02:05pm PT
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'All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in the rain. Time to die'
Those lines were unscripted, added by Rutger Hauer during the shoot. Brilliant improvisation, and cheers to Ridley for keeping it in the film.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder
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Mar 30, 2007 - 02:10pm PT
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RE: above
sometime check out the collected short stories of Katherine Ann Porter - stunning, very few write better.
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Brian
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Cali
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Mar 30, 2007 - 02:11pm PT
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Tyrell: I'm surprised you didn't come here sooner.
Roy: It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.
Tyrell: And what can he do for you?
Roy: Can the maker repair what he makes.
Tyrell: Would you like to be modified?
Roy: Stay here. -- I had in mind something a little more radical.
Tyrell: What-- What seems to be the problem?
Roy: Death.
Tyrell: Death. Well, I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction, you--
Roy: I want more life, f*#ker.
I agree with John by the way. The original release is better than the director's cut.
Brian
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wootles
climber
Gamma Quadrant
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Mar 30, 2007 - 02:17pm PT
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WHOAH COOL!! I just watched a trailer for Next. Looks awesome! Is it out yet? I don't have television so I don't get to see movie ads.
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L
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The Rebel L Gang
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Mar 30, 2007 - 02:19pm PT
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Klinefelter--Don't know if it was in Ship of Fools or not. I was thinking of Brandon Lee in The Crow. Just before he kicks some major booty.
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L
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The Rebel L Gang
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Mar 30, 2007 - 02:28pm PT
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Yeah Dingus--That's what we were talking about. The original had that scenic drive and Ford's VO about no termination date for the girl.
The Director's cut didn't have it, and it wasn't that good.
I guess we all like a happy ending.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
one pass away from the big ditch
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Mar 30, 2007 - 02:37pm PT
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Anyone read Stanislaw Lem The Futurological Congress?
trip out book
chemical society is right
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Brian
climber
Cali
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Mar 30, 2007 - 02:44pm PT
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Part of the ambiguity of the ending has to do with Decker himself.
In the director's cut (maybe in the original too, I can't recall) there is a scene where Decker is dreaming of a unicorn.
When he leaves his flat at the end, before the escape, the orgami figure he picks up is a unicorn (not a horse).
The implication is that Decker himself is a replicant. The other cop knows his dreams because the dreams have been implanted, just as the girl's memories of the spiders were implanted. Thus the comment about not knowing how much time one has.
There are hints earlier as well, when Decker is asked (and he does not answer) if he has ever been given the replicant test.
Truly a brilliant movie.
Brian
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 30, 2007 - 02:54pm PT
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largo, i hope you don't take this the wrong way, but for me some of your most soulful and memorable writing has been the eulogies you've created for those who've gone on before us. when you wrote of billy westbay boldly and fearlessly casting off -- "time to die" -- well, it was just perfect and beautiful and utterly fitting. you really are one helluva writer.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Mar 30, 2007 - 03:09pm PT
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You all got me thinking big time about this wonderful film.
You can find just about anything on the "Internets":
http://www.bladezone.com/forum.html
Apparently, the HD - DVD will be multiple disks with all versions of the story along with extras.
Then the Final Cut version is supposed to be released in the theaters! Apparently, when I saw the original in '82 in Washington DC, at the time the movie bombed, but has become a cult classic since. I loved it, and went out and bought the soundtrack on LP immediately, and still have it.
So I guess what ever version you like, you get!
Good news. Can't wait.
http://bladezone.com/
Now, how long have we waited for Dr. Jones (IJ4)? The hell they put us through . . . Man, they got it down to a fine science don't they?
Great cinema is a drug for our imagination and emotions.
Edit: And not to mention an escape . . .
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L
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The Rebel L Gang
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Mar 30, 2007 - 03:19pm PT
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Holy Replicants Batman!
Brian! I never understood the MAJOR significance of the origami unicorn! I thought it was just Decker realizing the other cop had been there and let the girl live!
But if Decker was a replicant...why was he so puny??? I mean, Roy was making mincemeat of him. All the other reps were super strong, too, or so it seemed. They had to be for the outer space tours. Why was Decker the 98 pound weakling?
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Mar 30, 2007 - 03:27pm PT
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If I remember right, even in the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" it was ambigious. Some are speculating that Ridley Scott might answer that for once and all in the final version for theater release.
I kind of like it ambigious . . . leaves you hanging wanting more.
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