In my new digs, I bought a 42’ plasma screen television. Since you obviously know how much I love movies, you have to realize this gave me a cinematic orgasm the moment I put Blade Runner (The Director’s Cut) in.
I mentioned it earlier in a post about Philip K. Dick and it’s stuck in my head ever since. Well, I revisited this movie and stared awestruck for over two hours. First of all, the story is an amazing blend of science fiction and crime noir. I’m not going to recount the movie because if you haven’t’ seen it yet (it came out in 1982) then you are cinematically deficient and I can’t waste any more time on you.
What I will spend time blabbing about is how impressive this movie looked. The special effects were impressive back in ’82 and they are still impressive today. I’ve watched a lot of newer science fictions movies over the past year that are relying heavily on digital (a.k.a. computer) effects. Hell, even action movies are relying on them. Unfortunately, digital effects look fake next to real life people and places. There’s no way to get around that. You can suspend disbelief for a bit, but in the end you always know that Jar Jar Binks is fake.
But not with Blade Runner. The future looks impressive because it looks real. It looks like this place could exist. Duh, I know it doesn’t, but it looks like it could. That’s the point.
During the entire movie I was in awe of how it looked. The story was heightened because of it. If you haven’t watched it lately, I suggest going back and taking a look at it again. And if you can do it on a big screen television, by all means do it.
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