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May 26, 2009 at 5:40 PM #406587May 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM #405925
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ParticipantHijack! LoL Bladerunner and Mad Max 2 are in my top-ten all-time favorite films… I guess I say “bring it!” Mad Max 2 has the best narrative voice-over of all movies IMO… It’s so reminiscent of OUR time it makes me tingle!
Carry on with:
May 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM #406171nostradamus
ParticipantHijack! LoL Bladerunner and Mad Max 2 are in my top-ten all-time favorite films… I guess I say “bring it!” Mad Max 2 has the best narrative voice-over of all movies IMO… It’s so reminiscent of OUR time it makes me tingle!
Carry on with:
May 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM #406412nostradamus
ParticipantHijack! LoL Bladerunner and Mad Max 2 are in my top-ten all-time favorite films… I guess I say “bring it!” Mad Max 2 has the best narrative voice-over of all movies IMO… It’s so reminiscent of OUR time it makes me tingle!
Carry on with:
May 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM #406473nostradamus
ParticipantHijack! LoL Bladerunner and Mad Max 2 are in my top-ten all-time favorite films… I guess I say “bring it!” Mad Max 2 has the best narrative voice-over of all movies IMO… It’s so reminiscent of OUR time it makes me tingle!
Carry on with:
May 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM #406622nostradamus
ParticipantHijack! LoL Bladerunner and Mad Max 2 are in my top-ten all-time favorite films… I guess I say “bring it!” Mad Max 2 has the best narrative voice-over of all movies IMO… It’s so reminiscent of OUR time it makes me tingle!
Carry on with:
May 26, 2009 at 6:55 PM #405930patientrenter
Participantnostradamus, I have only ever bought 2 movies for viewing at home – one is Bladerunner.
The truth is that these movies, even one set in the future like Bladerunner, do age. We become used to better and better techniques in special effects, acting, camera work, sound, storywriting… and eventually even our old favorites start to pale a little. But Bladerunner was a great movie, and is still very good.
By the way, the other movie I bought was Life of Brian. I loved it when it first came out, when I was in college. I didn’t see it again until I bought it some time in the last 10 years, and couldn’t believe that the funniest movie I’d ever seen was now flat and a little puerile. I still like a few scenes though, like that one where the (Jewish) Palestinian terrorists get together to discuss what actions to take to protest their oppression at the hands of the (Roman) rulers of Jerusalem, and someone asks “What have the Romans ever done for us?”.
May 26, 2009 at 6:55 PM #406176patientrenter
Participantnostradamus, I have only ever bought 2 movies for viewing at home – one is Bladerunner.
The truth is that these movies, even one set in the future like Bladerunner, do age. We become used to better and better techniques in special effects, acting, camera work, sound, storywriting… and eventually even our old favorites start to pale a little. But Bladerunner was a great movie, and is still very good.
By the way, the other movie I bought was Life of Brian. I loved it when it first came out, when I was in college. I didn’t see it again until I bought it some time in the last 10 years, and couldn’t believe that the funniest movie I’d ever seen was now flat and a little puerile. I still like a few scenes though, like that one where the (Jewish) Palestinian terrorists get together to discuss what actions to take to protest their oppression at the hands of the (Roman) rulers of Jerusalem, and someone asks “What have the Romans ever done for us?”.
May 26, 2009 at 6:55 PM #406417patientrenter
Participantnostradamus, I have only ever bought 2 movies for viewing at home – one is Bladerunner.
The truth is that these movies, even one set in the future like Bladerunner, do age. We become used to better and better techniques in special effects, acting, camera work, sound, storywriting… and eventually even our old favorites start to pale a little. But Bladerunner was a great movie, and is still very good.
By the way, the other movie I bought was Life of Brian. I loved it when it first came out, when I was in college. I didn’t see it again until I bought it some time in the last 10 years, and couldn’t believe that the funniest movie I’d ever seen was now flat and a little puerile. I still like a few scenes though, like that one where the (Jewish) Palestinian terrorists get together to discuss what actions to take to protest their oppression at the hands of the (Roman) rulers of Jerusalem, and someone asks “What have the Romans ever done for us?”.
May 26, 2009 at 6:55 PM #406478patientrenter
Participantnostradamus, I have only ever bought 2 movies for viewing at home – one is Bladerunner.
The truth is that these movies, even one set in the future like Bladerunner, do age. We become used to better and better techniques in special effects, acting, camera work, sound, storywriting… and eventually even our old favorites start to pale a little. But Bladerunner was a great movie, and is still very good.
By the way, the other movie I bought was Life of Brian. I loved it when it first came out, when I was in college. I didn’t see it again until I bought it some time in the last 10 years, and couldn’t believe that the funniest movie I’d ever seen was now flat and a little puerile. I still like a few scenes though, like that one where the (Jewish) Palestinian terrorists get together to discuss what actions to take to protest their oppression at the hands of the (Roman) rulers of Jerusalem, and someone asks “What have the Romans ever done for us?”.
May 26, 2009 at 6:55 PM #406627patientrenter
Participantnostradamus, I have only ever bought 2 movies for viewing at home – one is Bladerunner.
The truth is that these movies, even one set in the future like Bladerunner, do age. We become used to better and better techniques in special effects, acting, camera work, sound, storywriting… and eventually even our old favorites start to pale a little. But Bladerunner was a great movie, and is still very good.
By the way, the other movie I bought was Life of Brian. I loved it when it first came out, when I was in college. I didn’t see it again until I bought it some time in the last 10 years, and couldn’t believe that the funniest movie I’d ever seen was now flat and a little puerile. I still like a few scenes though, like that one where the (Jewish) Palestinian terrorists get together to discuss what actions to take to protest their oppression at the hands of the (Roman) rulers of Jerusalem, and someone asks “What have the Romans ever done for us?”.
May 26, 2009 at 7:54 PM #405951nostradamus
ParticipantLOL. I’ve bought something like 400 movies (at least that’s how many I still have in my collection, they tend to “walk away”) and Blade Runner (director’s cut) as well as all the Mad Max films are of course part of my collection. Blade Runner was based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Which is timeless… Hard to believe it was written in 1968. I am one who (like many) will almost always prefer the book to the movie.
Another potential-future movie I love is A Clockwork Orange. The movie is dated but the book just blows it away… I do see the self-entitled people of today turning into ultra-violent Alexes!
May 26, 2009 at 7:54 PM #406196nostradamus
ParticipantLOL. I’ve bought something like 400 movies (at least that’s how many I still have in my collection, they tend to “walk away”) and Blade Runner (director’s cut) as well as all the Mad Max films are of course part of my collection. Blade Runner was based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Which is timeless… Hard to believe it was written in 1968. I am one who (like many) will almost always prefer the book to the movie.
Another potential-future movie I love is A Clockwork Orange. The movie is dated but the book just blows it away… I do see the self-entitled people of today turning into ultra-violent Alexes!
May 26, 2009 at 7:54 PM #406437nostradamus
ParticipantLOL. I’ve bought something like 400 movies (at least that’s how many I still have in my collection, they tend to “walk away”) and Blade Runner (director’s cut) as well as all the Mad Max films are of course part of my collection. Blade Runner was based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Which is timeless… Hard to believe it was written in 1968. I am one who (like many) will almost always prefer the book to the movie.
Another potential-future movie I love is A Clockwork Orange. The movie is dated but the book just blows it away… I do see the self-entitled people of today turning into ultra-violent Alexes!
May 26, 2009 at 7:54 PM #406498nostradamus
ParticipantLOL. I’ve bought something like 400 movies (at least that’s how many I still have in my collection, they tend to “walk away”) and Blade Runner (director’s cut) as well as all the Mad Max films are of course part of my collection. Blade Runner was based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Which is timeless… Hard to believe it was written in 1968. I am one who (like many) will almost always prefer the book to the movie.
Another potential-future movie I love is A Clockwork Orange. The movie is dated but the book just blows it away… I do see the self-entitled people of today turning into ultra-violent Alexes!
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