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Futurama!
After his Alien success and it was a 1979 revelation in movie special effects, Ridley Scott turns it up another notch to show us what 2019 LA might look like. The art direction is spectacular all right. The concept, which influenced every sci-fi after: mix futuristic fantasy with retro 1930's Fascist architecture, and turn on the strobe lights and fog machine. Give the actors a bag lady wardrobe and a flying car with DeLorean gull wing doors: That's the future kids, well, sort off. The 1979 take on future communications, a phone booth with a TV screen, ha ha - no cell phones envisioned. <
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>Harrison Ford could give a Sam Spade Futurama performance back then. Today he sleepwalks through his lines. I have never seen a cocky actor disintegrate over time as Ford has declined. After all, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, or Jimmy Stewart played all their parts with gusto into their 70's. Ford was good in one decade. <
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>What ever happened to Sean Young? What a knock-out with a sultry voice!

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>BLADE RUNNER has been a film that has suffered over the years. Misinterpreted and critically attacked at the time of its initial release, it cultivated something of a cult following throughout the 1980s, which culminated in a complete critical about turn when the Directors Cut emerged in 1992. Opinion on the film is now the polar opposite to what it was in the early 1980's. Lauded by academics and film students, many books and articles have dissected the film from all angles, but mostly as the ultimate embodiment of a post-modern culture. The problem with this, is that a lot BLADE RUNNER'S magic has been lost in reams and reams of literature that have reduced the film to an academic exercise in cultural studies. <
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>I think too be fair BLADE RUNNER exists in between these two polar oppositions. It is neither the masterpiece so many claim it too be, nor the unmitigated disaster many critics thought on its original release. Where BLADE RUNNER really succeeds is in its grimy and grungy realisation of a future Los Angeles, a space overrun by people of all ethnic groups, a frightening dystopia where one is not even sure if the person next to you in the crowded street is human. This is a vision of the future that Kubrick had hinted at in 2001, one totally reliant on technology, apathetic, lazy and bored, simply going through the motions. A world in which the class divide is even harsher than ever, as the rich enjoy life on the outer worlds, with the lower classes and criminals left to rot under the torrential and permanent acid rain. The narrative mysteries are intriguing enough, as is the eternal question as to Deckard's true origins, but I have always found BLADE RUNNER to be most enjoyed as a purely visual experience. Like 2001 it is a film of spectacle, which begins to falter when it is embroiled in narrative exposition. This is the simplest of films and one which embodies the ideology of cinema from the silent era, the wonder of illusion. <
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>Unfortunately Warner's DVD is dreadful, with no special features to speak of, not even a single trailer. I understand that this film was released at the infancy of DVD, but there is no excuse for having not released a special edition since. The star rating is purely for the film.