Review: 'Blade Runner'

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21 points·gibsonf1··6 comments

"... detailing a grim, overcrowded future ..."

This is one of my pet peeves. BR's future isn't particularly overcrowded; J. F. Sebastian has the whole damn Bradbury building to himself. As he says: "there's plenty of space for everyone".

The L.A. of BR is a dense urban environment, but, if anything, it feels like a city being slowly abandoned, not overcrowded.

I suspect the hotkeys for 'overcrowded' and 'dystopian' are just close to each other. Anyway. I'm sure y'all have some LALR grammars to discuss, or something.

people are not the only things that can make a space crowded, and the author is perhaps referring to this.

"Advisory: This film contained adult language, nudity, violence and gore, plus one tortoise lying on its back, with its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs to turn over, but it can't. And you're not helping. Why is that?"

Awesome.

I've been a big fan of the book 'I am Legend' by Robert Matheson. I'm hoping the studios give the director of the film the same freedoms Ridley Scott now enjoys. Yet as much as I like Will Smith somehow I think this casting decision is ominous.

to me it's not so much the casting but the misuse of CG... the monsters just don't look scary or convincing as much as videogame fake... the movie looked a lot freakier when you couldn't actually see the monsters; it became a joke once they were in full view

assuming that this was the director's decision, i'm not so sure he's a very good one

Ominous of selling out to the mainstream? Will Smith can do everything, he's the most popular man in Hollywood as far as mainstream appeal.

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