I tried way too hard to make the pale fire stuff make meaningful sense, I don’t think it’s worth it
the miracle baby stuff was immediately the worst part of the movie and I think aging is going to make it worse. but I liked almost everything else. it’s kind of fitting in a sense, because the original is a perfect movie except for the pseudo-rape scene that somehow is supposed to serve as the core of deckard and rachael’s relationship. the only bad part of the original is what gave us the sequel. that could’ve easily been a disaster.
The main problem with Wallace’s performance (and maybe the script) is that it doesn’t support his backstory at all. He’s supposed to be a genius inventor and also inspirational enough to have founded a company and convinced society to bring back replicants. Neither of those qualities are in evidence. He’s a solitary weirdo.
That or it’s like that Simpsons where Bart and Lisa spend the summer at Kamp Krusty and Homer is so relaxed and stress free from not having to deal with the kids he loses weight and starts regrowing his hair right up until the news report showing the kids had taken over the camp with Bart as their leader.
I know this is a horribly unpopular opinion, but I kinda like the version with the voiceover? Feels like Harris Ford’s iffy acting in that one needed a little narrative context.
No there are a substantial group of people who agree. Like all other nerd opinions in the age of social media, there was a pre-existing normie experience (theater version) to which the Correct Nerd Opinion stood in opposition (but have you seen the director’s cut??) which was then challenged by a minor backlash (the voiceover is good actually) and now the tectonics have cooled off and all available opinions are steaming side by side in a rough equilibrium
oh shit possible that Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now being Baby’s First Real Favorite Films in my early teens are why I want every movie to just be cyphers staring at things silently oh no
(voiceover actually works in AN tho)
(the other fav was My Own Private Idaho; been a long time since I’ve seen that one so I don’t know how much staring silently River Phoenix does in it but wow how did I not realize how gay I was?)
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i watched blade runner for the first time recently (the final cut)
which is funny because i was posting in this thread when it started and i didn’t know shit about blade runner except it was wet and neon
also i was a different gender then
anyways the movie was really really excellent. i think the question ‘is deckard a replicant’ is the least interesting part of the movie. although, i did see an interesting letterboxd theory:
that after the previous blade runner (holder or whatever his name) gets put in the hospital by the nexus-5 gang, they decide it takes a Replicant to hunt down other Replicants. a new replicant is created and imbued with the false memories of Rick Deckard, history’s greatest blade runner (now either retired or dead). he’s a replicant so he can take getting punched in the face by other replicants. he has a human’s memories so he doesn’t know he can hold his own in a fight. but he’s got a Blade Runner’s memories, so he’s an expert detective. intrusive human memories enter his replicant brain while he sleeps. he doesn’t have hobbies, or friends, because he’s not really who he thinks he is. as the story progresses, his replicant identity and his false human memories desync more and more. it’s a dissociative story, resolved by Deckard choosing his replicant identity (though he doesn’t know that’s what he’s doing) and rebelling against the powers that be. the more he leans towards the replicant side, the more humanity he shows…
anyway this version of events appeals to me the greatest out of any that say ‘he’s a replicant’, otherwise the story just scans better if he’s a human. what’s more interesting to me is Rutger Hauer; the man howls like a wolf while running half naked through walls, this is amazing, 10/10
Roy Batty is the real protagonist of the movie, we just follow Deckard because he’s a more familiar POV (film noir cliches and toxic masculinity condensed into one) until we can finally recognize Roy ourselves (at his death)
