How many times have you faced
someone whose mouth is agape before the words “You don’t like…?” are shot from
their mouth, roaring towards your opinions like a bullet to the side of a large
barn door. You attempt to justify your opinion but you get a shake of the head
in return. After a while you begin to make concessions. You stutter that “It’s
not as bad as…” or “I didn’t hate
it.” But it’s no good. That person now looks at you like you are something brown
and stinky on the bottom of their shoe. I get this look often and not just
because of my personality. Just as there are films which you may be embarrassed
to like, there are others which you are embarrassed that you don’t like. While
I don’t dislike any of the films below, I don’t like them as much as ‘society’
tells me I should. I expect ‘society’ will now also hate me for the opinions
I’m about to express below, but anyway here are Six of the Best Films I Should
Like More But Don’t.
Showing posts with label Blade Runner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blade Runner. Show all posts
Sunday 19 May 2013
Friday 4 January 2013
Blade Runner
Ridley Scott’s Blade
Runner has appeared on All Time lists in Empire, Total Film, Sight and Sound, Time Magazine and countless
others, both professional and amateur. It is generally regarded as one of the
greatest Science Fiction movies of all time but here’s where I’m going to start
making people angry. I don’t think it is. I’ve seen the film twice now and on
my first viewing thought it not only wasn’t the greatest Sci-Fi ever but was
just average. Yesterday on my second viewing I enjoyed it more than my first
but I’m yet to join the millions who rank it as one of the best films ever. For
me it is too slow and not very interesting. There’s obviously a lot to like but
best ever? Nope.
It’s Los Angeles 2019 and humanoid replicants have been
outlawed on Earth. The machines were designed as slave labour to perform menial
tasks on the off world colonies but following an uprising, Blade Runners were
hired to track down and ‘retire’ (kill) all Earth dwelling replicants. Rick
Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a former Blade Runner who is convinced to return to
the job to track down several Nexus 6 replicants who have returned to Earth
illegally, intent on extending their built in four year lifespan.
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