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sad.man.loves.vgc on 03 October 2010
Reasonable said:

You tell me... and if you can't watch it until you can.

What is it with all the 'what is so good... can someone explain this..." threads I keep seeing all over the gaming/film boards at the moment?

Work it out yourself - that's the point.

Yeah, I know, snarky.  But true.


lol, I know I hate those threads myself and I said that in my own thread too. We can still discuss the movie though :)



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dallas on 03 October 2010

It's kinda like the X-men............ know how the X-men are people that never felt that they fit in with normal society?  here you have an android pretending to be part of society when he's really just an animitronic bucket of parts.  The struggle to be part of something and identity is often deeper than trying to kill off that alien or communicate with a UFO, for example.



MDMAniac on 04 October 2010

Because it's pure essence of sci-fi?



MDMAniac on 04 October 2010

sad.man.loves.vgc said:

American beauty , The human stain, momento , district nine, the first and only the first terminator, the green mile, pulp fiction, jurrasic park, the prestige, pan's labyrinth, oldboy , the war at home, clueless, hitch , shrek, the dark knight, inception, watchmen ... the list goes on

 

EDIT: I know many agree that the movie is a masterpiece and I did admit that the thread is kind of pointless lol


Wait a sec, so you loved American Beauty, yet failed to like Blade Runner? Ok.

The rest of you list is pretty coherent, though.  And the fact that you rate District Nine over Blade Runner speaks for itself.



JazzyJeez on 04 October 2010
dallas said:

It's kinda like the X-men............ know how the X-men are people that never felt that they fit in with normal society?  here you have an android pretending to be part of society when he's really just an animitronic bucket of parts.  The struggle to be part of something and identity is often deeper than trying to kill off that alien or communicate with a UFO, for example.


The DC of Blade Runner with the inclusion of the unicorn dream implies that decker is a replicant but doesn't out an out say he is, its left upto the viewer to interpret that, the short story actually gives more indication that decker is human.

@OP Blade Runner is a sci-fi classic, still being talked about nearly 30yrs later and has had massive influence on the depiction of the future in movies and stories.



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rocketpig on 04 October 2010
KylieDog said:
AbbathTheGrim said:

The movie is an almost perfect visual presentation of this Post-Modern times. The way you can interpret various scenes to the way we humans live our life today gives the movie depth.


On the flip side, the movie leaves so much to interpret that is has no solid footing and thus a poor movie.

Since when is leaving interpretation up to the viewer a bad thing?




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rocketpig on 04 October 2010
MDMAniac said:

sad.man.loves.vgc said:

American beauty , The human stain, momento , district nine, the first and only the first terminator, the green mile, pulp fiction, jurrasic park, the prestige, pan's labyrinth, oldboy , the war at home, clueless, hitch , shrek, the dark knight, inception, watchmen ... the list goes on

 

EDIT: I know many agree that the movie is a masterpiece and I did admit that the thread is kind of pointless lol


Wait a sec, so you loved American Beauty, yet failed to like Blade Runner? Ok.

The rest of you list is pretty coherent, though.  And the fact that you rate District Nine over Blade Runner speaks for itself.

In all fairness, District Nine was a pretty solid movie (and much better than Avatar).

Still, it's no Blade Runner. It's not even in the same class.




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okr on 04 October 2010
rocketpig said:
KylieDog said:
AbbathTheGrim said:

The movie is an almost perfect visual presentation of this Post-Modern times. The way you can interpret various scenes to the way we humans live our life today gives the movie depth.


On the flip side, the movie leaves so much to interpret that is has no solid footing and thus a poor movie.

Since when is leaving interpretation up to the viewer a bad thing?

i think it started in the 80s.

OT: Set design/art direction, story, atmosphere, soundtrack (the only good soundtrack Vangelis has ever created), cultural influence.



zuvuyeay on 04 October 2010
okr said:
rocketpig said:
KylieDog said:
AbbathTheGrim said:

The movie is an almost perfect visual presentation of this Post-Modern times. The way you can interpret various scenes to the way we humans live our life today gives the movie depth.


On the flip side, the movie leaves so much to interpret that is has no solid footing and thus a poor movie.

Since when is leaving interpretation up to the viewer a bad thing?

i think it started in the 80s.

OT: Set design/art direction, story, atmosphere, soundtrack (the only good soundtrack Vangelis has ever created), cultural influence.

Chariots of fire is a classic and still parodied to this day



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okr on 04 October 2010
zuvuyeay said:
okr said:
rocketpig said:
KylieDog said:
AbbathTheGrim said:

The movie is an almost perfect visual presentation of this Post-Modern times. The way you can interpret various scenes to the way we humans live our life today gives the movie depth.


On the flip side, the movie leaves so much to interpret that is has no solid footing and thus a poor movie.

Since when is leaving interpretation up to the viewer a bad thing?

i think it started in the 80s.

OT: Set design/art direction, story, atmosphere, soundtrack (the only good soundtrack Vangelis has ever created), cultural influence.

Chariots of fire is a classic and still parodied to this day

I hate the soundtracks for Chariots of Fire and 1492: Conquest of Paradise (Vangelis' two biggest successes) with a passion.