OT: New edit of Blade Runner Released in NY and LA

[geordy at hotmail.com (Geordy Rostad)]

Reminds me of something else with "cult status"...

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From: "T Berk" <bayareaberk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: OT: New edit of Blade Runner Released in NY and LA


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> --- Jeff Toomasson <area53@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 9/27/07, Chris Bennett
>> <scirocco16vr32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Does anyone care?
>> >> Do I care if anyone cares?
>> >>
>> > On the big screen?  On DVD?  DETAILS MAN!!!
> <snip>
>> > I have the original soundtrack on vinyl!
>> >
>
> I too have the vinyl Vangelis soundtrack. :])
>
> Here is a run down on the Final Cut:
> <http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/br2007/announce.html>
>
> And here is a link to the original film:
> <http://imdb.com/title/tt0083658/>
>
>> Can somebody (share) w/ me what the fascination is
>> w/ this movie. I watched it once and was
> unimpressed.
>> I even watched a second and third time to try to
>> ascertain what it was about this movie that drew
>> such a following...and nothing...
>
> OK, 1st off if you didn't see it way back when it'll
> be hard to see what all the hubbub is about.
> (Heightened expectations after the fact can set you up
> for a let down.)
>
> When this film 1st came out (in 1982!) we hadn't yet
> really gotten used to computer generated special
> effects we see today, the big 'matte' shots and the
> closer up views melded together to allow a pretty good
> feeling of immersion, necessary to have that
> 'suspension of disbelief' in a fictional universe.
>
> In the original there is a (to some controversial)
> voice over by Harrison Ford; this lent a bit of the
> old Noir detective film to the futuristic setting,
> there were human looking robots walking the surface of
> the planet, there were Flying Cars for Chimney's
> sake!, and don't forget we got:
>
> Harrison Ford
> Rutger Hauer
> Sean Young
> Edward James Olmos
> M. Emmet Walsh
> Daryl Hannah
> William Sanderson
> Joe Turkel and
> Joanna Cassidy
>
> Not to mention a grip of other character actors and
> 'little people' to flesh out the background.
>
> Speaking of background did you notice it was dirty? I
> mean gritty, grimy, slimy, nasty L.A. underbelly the
> whole town over. The sky never got blue and the air
> was visible at short range and people just went on
> living in it like people will do. This was both
> depressing and suitably realistic to people in 1982
> still remembering such days in the decade preceding.
> Amongst all this was an improbable number of love
> stories played out; Frankenstein's Monster
> (Pygmalion), Romeo & Juliet, Cain & Able, etc, etc.
>
> And they had Flying Cars!
>
> This has gotten longer than I had intended and without
> being planned it's all the map and disjointed but Cult
> Status has been bestowed on it and that means it
> doesn't have to be 'GOOD All Over!', it just has to
> touch you somehow.
>
>
> TBerk
> "you have to help us JR, you're our best and only
> freind..."
>
>
>
>
>
> 
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