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

[smithma7 at gmail.com (Mike Smith)]

Sciroccos?

Back on topic: Let's not forget the building made from a Millenium
Falcon model left over from Star Wars. Flying Cars! As a nod to the
MF, there's a Bladerunner flying police car in Episode I. I think it's
I.

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On 9/27/07, Geordy Rostad <geordy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Reminds me of something else with "cult status"...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
>
>
> > (Replies edited for content and reordered to fit your
> > screen.)
> >
> > --- 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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