Bladerunner is an all time great. I bought the dvd to give it to my sons. They liked it, too.
A more recent sci-fi movie I love, is Gattaca.

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Yes, I got the director's cut. My sons are film buffs, they go for the best stuff. Rutger Hauer is great. I thought, it's a pity, that Sean Young's career never took properly off.
Gattaca has been available on dvd for quite a few years now.

You've got a good taste, Davina. Blade Runner is my favorite sci-fi movie among John Carpenter's "The Thing", "The Empire Strikes Back", "Alien". I love the synth soundtrack by Vangelis, the dark, rainy setpieces, the cinematography, the bigger themes it tackles upon and the ambiguity of the movie. I've seen Blade Runner many times and with each viewing I find some new detail I hadn't noticed before. I think the performances are great, and unlike many critics say, I don't think the characters are thinly written. For instance Roy Batty is one of the most interesting and mystical bad guys in the history of film, in my opinion. He's a killer, yet you feel for him throughout the movie. He's like an evil philosopher, sort of what Sherlock Holmes would be if he was an replicant and had turned to the dark side. The final scene on the roof is hauntingly beautiful and ambiguous. Like many I believe, I prefer the final cut version of this movie. The happy ending where they drive into the sunset and the whole voice-over thing, I don't like one bit. I can't believe this movie is already almost as old as I am. A true masterpiece. In science fiction and any genre in general.

I wrote a couple of songs in the ambient/electro genre a few years ago that I later realised sounded A LOT like Vangelis' music in Blade Runner. If someone's interested, I can send them a link to a song or two.

Last edited by IdigN1 (June 13, 2012 10:18 pm)

Rachel's theme is a favourite of mine.

As for which version is better...I don't know...I like the narration element of the original for a whole bunch of reasons and I enjoy the alterations and additions to the director's cut.

If I could blend them together I think I'd be happiest.

-m0r

No I welcome differing opinions and certainly think you are right about the final scene on the rooftop.

Had I been Ridley Scott I would have purposefully left the rooftop, and every scene thereafter, without narration as to allow fully underline the whole point of the story to the audience.

To me the film noir elements, the time when Philip K Dick wrote the piece from which the screenplay was inspired and Harrison Ford's voice all add to the richness of it.

Warren Ellis has recently helped edit a comic book adaptation of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' if you can grab it, do!

-m0r

A present. Though with it now pouring with rain again outside this won't be cheering me up. It is, however, brilliant. See the Dutch can produce more than tulips, clogs, windmills and 'cafes'. This is an example of 'Dutch Courage' maybe?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOphFl88U-g

For some reason this is only coming up with the Soundcloud introductory page and not your track.

It's probably this stupid I-pad! I'll try on. 'proper' pc later.