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Is it just me or is there an itch that you get every now and then that can ONLY be scratched by watching Blade Runner? (lemmy.world)
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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I wish I had that way of thinking. Sadly i barely rewatch anything. Not that there aren't movies I love, especially Bladerunner. It's just that I can't get out of the mindset that theres so many other movies to watch or see and its probably best to invest that time into discovering something new. Also yes, it doesn't have to be something new just new to me.

I guess the only movie I remember rewatching over and over was Jurassic Park. I was probably like 12 and i remember watching it like once a day for that entire summer break and it was fantastic.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 8 points 14 hours ago

I get the same itch for Aliens

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I have a few movies like that, but blade runner is definitely one of them. Another somewhat similar, yet also completely different film for me is Gattaca.

I think both for similar reasons, that I can't quite put my finger on

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

Damn. Now I’m going to have to watch Gattaca again.

Fun story. The first time I ever saw Gattaca was in my high school ceramics class. There wasn’t time to run the kiln before the school year ended and there were no requirements for the teacher for the last week of school, and it was an alternative (bad kid) school so he knew we were cool, so he just put Gattaca on to watch because it was one of his favorite movies, then it became one of my favorite movies. That dude was rad.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

For me BladeRunner (Final Cut) is joined with Sicario, Heat (1995), Léon (Version Intégrale), and No Country for Old Men

Indomitable people facing nightmares with guns.

All are part of my "men with guns" film festival.

[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago

I’m not going to lie, I read your title as ‘Blade’ and not ‘Blade Runner’ and came to the comments to agree.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I do watch Alien for what I think might be similar reasons.

The set design and world building in those movies is unreal. The big chunky buttons, the clack and whirs of the computer drives spinning up, the analog screens, the hard molded plastic feel of everything...

[–] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 14 hours ago

I find myself watching Blade Runner every few years and each time I end up finding new details about the film I hadn't noticed before. The last time through I took a bunch of screenshots and sketched them in oil pastel. Also for whatever reason watching it usually kicks off a months long obsession with the cyberpunk genre as a whole.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

Some other movies that also help that itch for me are; Dredd(12), Mario Bros(93), Mute(18), Ghost in the Shell(95),

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, although for me it's 2049 rather than the original.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

2049 is fucking amazing. It was a razor’s edge they were walking choosing to even do that movie, if they had gotten even a bit wrong it could have ruined everything, but they did it right and it’s just as good as the original, which is a high as fuck bar to reach.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Since you seem like a good person to ask, which version of the movie do you watch when you're craving a watch?

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

The directors cut gets the job done, but final cut is my go to.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 hours ago

Not Op but the Final cut is generally the one i watch. I also own the director cut though.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

IDK I feel like I never really enjoyed Blade Runner as much as I should have. Like so much Sci-Fi, it's pure setting. They did a 10/10 job on the setting. But the actual plot is pretty meh, I don't really care if he's a robot or not.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Don’t take this the wrong way, but learn how to watch a movie you stupid fucking piece of shit.

Really, though, yeah, it’s very much a setting and world building kind of story before it even tries to be anything else. I love it all around, but I can definitely see where you’re coming from. A good lot of sci-fi is more focused on setting, theming, and world building more than any kind of independent story within it, unless it’s something that gets a lot of continuity to build a story and characters in the framework of the world that can be more of a focus than the world itself, like Star Wars or Star Trek. 2049, I think, did a better job at making a character story since the original did so much to establish the world it was happening in, but I also just get a hard on for world building.

[–] cabillaud@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

For me the huge problem whith Blade Runner is Vangelis's music. Other than that I really like this movie.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

You mispelled "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension".

[–] remon@ani.social 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Well, I've never watched it so I'd say no.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

Bless your heart.