Any word if Boxleitner is reprising Tron at all? Seems kinda silly if there's not at least a torch-passing (i.e., Alan has left/died, thus so has Tron).

I have a rule about any of the Bridges, they just make anything tey appear in better, kind of like Roger Ebert's Harry Dean Staton rule. So will two Jeff Bridges makes this doublely better

This could be awesome.

So, his dick will play a featured role in this....?

Wha?

Not THAT kind of plaster cast?

never mind.

MT

In that very same summer, THE THING bombed, too. And don't you dare to call that one mediocre, too. I dare you! I double dare you, mofo! Say mediocre one more goddamn time!

In 2007, the American Film Institute listed it as the 97th greatest film of all time.

In 2008, Blade Runner was voted the sixth best science fiction film ever made as part of the AFI's 10 Top 10.

Blade Runner is currently ranked the third best film of all time by The Screen Directory.

One of Time's 100 All-Time best movies.

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography, 1982

Three BAFTA film awards (best cinematography, costume design, art design), 1983

Hugo Award- Best Dramatic Presentaion, 1983

It has been nominated for the following awards: Two Academy Award nominations(1983)

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Visual Effects

Golden Globe nomination for best original score

Five other BAFTA nominations

There is a reason this film has a large following, and this did not develop long after the film's release. From the post of awards above, you will note that the movie was appreciated in 1982/1983.

The film was, frankly, ahead of its time, and its vision, prescience and groundbreaking effects and futurism still hold up today, and are still appreciated by many.

And the line about the intellectual subtexts being imagined by its audience- hogwash. The screenplay was adapted from a short story by Phillip K. Dick, who is no intellectual slouch. The subtexts are quite obvious for educated and observant, not the least of which are the themes of man's struggle with his own mortality, and the exploration of what it means to be human. It's all right there on the screen, my friends.

So please tell us some more about your delusions regarding this film being boring, simple-minded, etc. The minority opinion deserves to be heard, no matter how uniformed.

And also, go fuck yourselves.

Just kidding.

And please, enlighten us with your opinion: what are your favorite films in the sci-fi genere- you know, the soulful, offensive ones preferred by true intellectuals like?

Apparently AFI is full of pseudo-intellects by the way, as out of the thousands and thousands of films (in any genere) they chose to put Blade Runner in the top 100. Guess they bought the hype too.

Please, go back and watch The Last Starfighter or Cloverfield again, and spare us your ill-conceived, erroneous, non-intellectual rantings about a film that you are obviously to ADHD-afflicted to appreciate.

That has to be one of the most amazing movie moments ever committed to celluloid.

Blade Runner has quite a bit more to say than "Bad guys die at hands of cop." I've never heard the movie reduced to such a simplistic idea, even by its harshest critics.

Consider Dekard's character arc, he sees replicants as soul-less machines at the outset. They are basically slaves (and you can take that for the subtext it implies). What he hasn't appreciated (but is starting to) is that HE is the soul-less one, despite his being a human. Through his interaction with Rachael and the other replicants he sees that they have humanity as well...

"I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die."

That, Messiah, is a real character arc, layered, complex and subtle in its progress. If you can't appreciate that, I can't make it any clearer.

The unicorn scene that appeared in the director's cut was meant to suggest that Deckard was a rep (it's a dream Deckard has, implanted like Rachael's childhood memories). Gaff leaves an origami unicorn outside Deckards apartment. The significance: he presumably was privy to Deckard's memories as part of his job, and he wanted to convey to Deckard his true identity. Also, he believes both Deckard and Rachael have incep dates approaching, therefore, why not let them go?

Still think the movie is shallow?

Dr Tyrell polarizing his office window to control the Sun implies the god-like powers of the Tyrell Corporation.Blade Runner delves into the implications of technology on the environment and society by reaching to the past, using literature, religious symbolism, classical dramatic themes, and film noir. This tension, among past, present, and future is seen in the retrofitted future of Blade Runner, which is high-tech and gleaming in places but elsewhere decayed and old. Interviewing Ridley Scott in 2002, reporter Lynn Barber in The Observer described the film as: "extremely dark, both literally and metaphorically, with an oddly masochistic feel". Director Scott said he "liked the idea of exploring pain" in the wake of his brother's skin cancer death. "When he was ill, I used to go and visit him in London, and that was really traumatic for me."[8]

A perceptively high level of paranoia exists in the cinematic manifestation of corporate power, omnipresent police, probing lights, and in the power over the individual – especially represented by genetic programming of replicants. Control over the environment is large scale, hand in hand with the absence of any natural life, and with artificial animals substituting for the extinct originals. This oppressive backdrop clarifies why people are migrating to off-world colonies.[51] The film also makes extensive use of eyes for a variety of themes and manipulated images to call into question reality and our ability to accurately perceive and remember it.[52][53][54]

These thematic elements provide an atmosphere of uncertainty for Blade Runner's central theme of examining humanity. In order to discover replicants, an empathy test is used with a number of questions focused on the treatment of animals, thus making it the essential indicator of someone's "humanity". The replicants are juxtaposed with human characters who lack empathy, while the replicants appear to show compassion and concern for one another at the same time as the mass of humanity on the streets is cold and impersonal.

'Careful man, there's a lightcycle here!'

Hopefully the final render will be better.

I sense there are individuals here that would prefer the "Theme From CHiPs", however...sheesh.

Now in the Final cut, Ridly Scott actually went on the record that Deckard was the final Replicant. In addition this was the point of putting in the Unicorn Dream Sequence Which tied it to Gaff's Oragami of a Unicorn, and his final line, which told the Audience that he knew Deckards Secret.