Movies

[irishjayhawk]

Yeah, so I saw a lot of movies this weekend.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Mediocre, at best. Slow and dragged on. Shorten it to 2 hours and it's golden. It's not, so it fails.

Michael Clayton - Amazing. Everything about it is awesome. However, it's VERY complex and mind bending. You have to think, so be prepared. I still feel like I'm missing key details of exactly what happened. Gotta see it again.

Across the Universe - Perfect is one word that comes to mind. It just works. And, contrary to many people I bet, the movie is best viewed sober. Trust me.

[KCChiefsMan]

Originally Posted by chasedude

So you're seeing this for the first time since it's release over 27 years ago?

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great. Blade Runner is an excellent movie and it's special effects were awesome for the time.

he's being an ass. He thinks that people shouldn't discuss movies that they have seen recently in the movies thread. If it's not new, it's not relevant. He should just create a "New Movies, just out in theater" thread.

[Pioli Zombie]

Originally Posted by chasedude

They'll let anyone into Mexico. It's when you need the Passport or ID to get out.

Aaah. Thank you. That was driving me crazy the other night.
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[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Originally Posted by Jenson71

Tonight I watched a movie called Blade Runner. Not sure if anyone's heard of it, but you might want to check it out.

So Blade Runner is about humanity and life and death. Already it deserves attention. The replicants, we are told, are less than human: they don't have empathy. At least that's what the corporate designer wants us to think. He is god, he is the decider.

But he's wrong. The replicants do have human emotions. They love, they want, and they cherish life. This desire, becoming a demand, for more leads a rebel replicant to violence and murder. He is played like a psychotic madman, but at the end, you feel bad for him. You empathize with him. I don't want to die so soon either, Roy. Especially neither do people with cancer or other terminal diseases. Wouldn't 150 years be nice?

Treating the replicants as slaves is as morally wrong as treating black people as slaves. So we say they are less than human, but why? Because they are made from humans? Are not other humans made from humans? Because they have no soul? From a Christian perspective, this is intriguing. We can consider this, though perhaps theologians and philosophers would help us greatly here. Oh well, we will give it our best. It is not the material that determines a spiritual soul made in the image of God and connected to Him. It is not the millions of atoms that compose our bodies. There are perhaps other life forms other than human that God granted spiritual souls on other planets in other solar systems in other galaxies in other clusters in other superclusters. As human beings, that we have a spiritual soul given by God to us is a belief from revelation. We don't know about what else, but we must consider that God is not limited to 'souling' us homosapiens alone.

My point is this: if we come into contact with other creatures, even those we make and consider artificial, and they exhibit displays of human like self-awareness and emotion, we must give it the benefit of the doubt that we are encountering a precious life we similar human dignity and that it would be wrong to deny them this. If our AI robot starts saying "I deserve better than this!" I think we need to listen up.

Blade Runner tackles this. And it does so in a fantastic way. Its vision is remarkable. The music, which offers us this calm amidst the storm, reminds me of Taxi Driver's. It allows the audience to breathe and sort this information out.

And Harrison Ford is just great in this. I couldn't believe it. He transcends his "action star" persona by miles.

Yaaaaaaaaaay Jenson.

Nerd cred++

Also, I love the soundtrack to this movie. It is sheer brilliance.

Blade Runner Blues.

PS - TELL HIM I'M EATING!!!!

[Fairplay]

Originally Posted by Jenson71

Tonight I watched a movie called Blade Runner. Not sure if anyone's heard of it, but you might want to check it out.

I have the movie i will just have to dust off the VHF cover to see if it works.

[Pioli Zombie]

Hot Dog: The Movie

An american classic.

"What the fruck is a chinese downhill?"
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[Raised On Riots]

Originally Posted by Pioli Zombie

Al Pacino as Big Boy or Jack Nicholson as The Joker?
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Are you ****ing kidding me?

Originally Posted by Pioli Zombie

Hot Dog: The Movie

An american classic.

"What the fruck is a chinese downhill?"
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Hamburger: The Movie

Another American Classic.

"Do you want to sit around all day jerkin' your gherkin"?

[Jenson71]

Originally Posted by chasedude

So you're seeing this for the first time since it's release over 27 years ago?

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great. Blade Runner is an excellent movie and it's special effects were awesome for the time.

No, I'm seeing it for the first time ever.

I should have mentioned that I watched the Director's Cut, not the original theatrical version, and not the actual director's cut: The Final Cut.

[Raised On Riots]

Originally Posted by Jenson71

No, I'm seeing it for the first time ever.

I should have mentioned that I watched the Director's Cut, not the original theatrical version, and not the actual director's cut: The Final Cut.

Good move, Jensen.

[L.A. Chieffan]

wtf? not sure if anybodys heard of bladerunner?

living under a ruck much?

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by L.A.Chieffan

wtf? not sure if anybodys heard of bladerunner?

living under a ruck much?

Check with DaFace. Your sarcasm meter is on the fritz.

[L.A. Chieffan]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

Check with DaFace. Your sarcasm meter is on the fritz.

why write a six paragraph sarcastic post. if youre gonna be sarcastic at least be lazy like me

[frazod]

Blade Runner came out before Jenson was born. Whether he's kidding or not, it's not unreasonable to assume he's never seen a movie that old. I certainly haven't seen all the classics from 1960.

[L.A. Chieffan]

Originally Posted by frazod

Blade Runner came out before Jenson was born. Whether he's kidding or not, it's not unreasonable to assume he's never seen a movie that old. I certainly haven't seen all the classics from 1960.

i didnt see it, like really sit down and analyze it till a few years ago. however i did know it was one of the most popular scifi movies ever made before that

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by L.A.Chieffan

why write a six paragraph sarcastic post. if youre gonna be sarcastic at least be lazy like me

The whole thing I don't believe was sarcastic, simply the note about people not having heard about it.

[L.A. Chieffan]

i should be the last one to mistake stupid posts for sarcastic ones so i apologize to jenson if he was indeed being tounge in the ol' cheek.

if not, then hes a moran