Ridley Scott to direct new Blade Runner entry

[Mr. Spencer]

She has a face like a clinically depressed pug.

[Wrathborne]

Yeah, Worthington was good in the film.

I'll give you that, though I'm still not a fan of Michelle Rodriguez no matter how many times she looks like she's taking a shit.

That's because she has a meaty pork roast of a face.

[Mr. Spencer]

If you hate Quaritch, you're a furry sympathiser.

[Inferno04]

I myself loved Grace, if only because she's played by Sigourney Weaver. >)

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But evenso, her death still couldn't get me to hate Quaritch, I'm with Spencer on this one.

[Mr. Spencer]

Yeah, Worthington was good in the film.

I'll give you that, though I'm still not a fan of Michelle Rodriguez no matter how many times she looks like she's taking a shit.

[Wrathborne]

Best performance int he film is still Sam Worthington as Jake Sully. I dont think I've seen a natural performance like this in such a long time.

I'm surprised at how good a performance from Michelle Rodriguez Cameron got, because shes such a flat boring actress who does nothing but glare and pout at the camera in every other film shes in.

[Mr. Spencer]

Just finished rewatching Avatar.

Christ, Quaritch is my favourite character. Love the RDA and well, most of the humans. I say 'most' as a few of them betrayed their own race. Trudy was annoying, though I've yet to meet a character played by that actress who I actually like. Who puts 'war paint' on their own helicopter?

As for the Na'vi...



Fuckin' savages.

[jimmyjoejangles]

avatar was cheesy commie crap and wicked predictable! What was going on with gravity on that planet? Also they were always going around mind controlling shit with their weird hair things. WE get it James Cameron humans are evil and we ruin everything. The movie sucked and was mad unoriginal, and it didn't look that great.

[rehunk88]

I always find it amusing (and slightly vexing) when people start bringing out the "moderator" card in a discussion/debate as if they are not entitled to get involved. He has been polite and he is entitled to discuss this topic as much as anyone else as long as no one is breaking forum rules.

I loved Avatar, and I also really enjoyed Blade Runner. I didn't get it on the first watch, but it's something I've really been wanting to watch and I loved how similar it was to Mass Effect.

I dident bring out the moderator card i just told the truth.
really.

[Mr. Spencer]

i dont compare it to anything it was the moderator that involved avatar and twilight not me XD

Anyway, you're avoiding the subject. I've told you why Blade Runner doesn't need action sequences.

[Alexia_Ashford]

I always find it amusing (and slightly vexing) when people start bringing out the "moderator" card in a discussion/debate as if they are not entitled to get involved. He has been polite and he is entitled to discuss this topic as much as anyone else as long as no one is breaking forum rules.

I loved Avatar, and I also really enjoyed Blade Runner. I didn't get it on the first watch, but it's something I've really been wanting to watch and I loved how similar it was to Mass Effect.

[rehunk88]

i dont compare it to anything it was the moderator that involved avatar and twilight not me XD

[Mr. Spencer]

if you look in my comments i said i had seen the directors cut or what i called it ...extended directors cut, because i have no idea what its actuelly called.

so yes i have seen it.... if i dident see it i would never comment on it.

1991 Director's Cut or the 2007 Final Cut? Either way, saying the film needed more action is an outdated opinion. If you had said that in 1982 you would have had more support but these days it just doesn't fly. Also, did you compare it to Avatar? Jesus christ, Avatar was horrendous.

[rehunk88]

avatar already forgotten ? i think your dreaming.

[Inferno04]

It's a trope called Seinfield is UnFunny. The concept of people complaining about something as being cliche or overdone when it was the FIRST or one of the first to do it, FFVII gets hit with this a lot for example, people complain about it hacing an angsty hero when really, it was one of the first major RPGs to have a loser as our hero, someone living in another's shadow and who has well, issues. Now I love this game and do see its flaws, but Cloud is not one of them.

Same goes for Bladerunner, I hear boring, I hear slow, but do you realize that it essentially took 1940s Noir, and did something new to it? One of the first examples of cyberpunk in film, and as Spencer said, the inspiration for many things. It's supposed to be dark, tense, and in the same vein that the games I mention above used later, a pathetic excuse for our hero. I think that's the greatest part of all is looking at the characters. You say boring and bad but it was essentially, a Noir film in the 80s, a decade ruled by cheesy and hilarious action films. The dark aspects of it were not overdone until far later when movies took the cyberpunk concept, kicked in the balls, then proceeded to overuse it.(Oh hai Matrix)

Taxi Driver defined Anti-Hero but Bladerunner defines Villain as Protagonist. Do both movies have their flaws, absolutely, I chalk both movies to having small pacing issues and in the case of BR, not letting us into the world more. I would've loved to see more of the broken down dark world and why it got to be that way.

It's aboslutely still talked about today, and Avatar is already forgotten. You can't have a cliche without something new these days, which Titanic actually did, which is why of Cameron's big budget non-action focus films, Titanic is the one that will be remembered more. Even still, T2 is one of Cameron's films that will still be talked about more than Avatar.

You know what the funny thing is? You could say Avatar has a bit of post-cyberpunk in it as well, with the trees of Pandora acting as computers and the Na'vi 'connecting' to them. If not that, than look at Earth and the human technology. Overcrowded, dark, filthy looking, lots of advertisements. Wouldn't that be a bit or irony if BR inspired it? >)