Topic: Blade Runner Best Sci-fi film ever made..... say EggHeads

[Soreyes]

Top scientist say that Blade Runner is the best Sci-fi film ever made. check it out http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040825/lf_afp/afplifestyle_film_040825224353

IMO The Best Sci-Fi Film ever made is 2001 A Space Odyssey

[Gambler]

I've never seen Blade Runner so I can't comment on that.  But I can say that while 2001 may have some decent special effects.  It's BORING!  The first time I saw it I sat in anticipation, waiting for something cool, exciting, wonderful, deserving of all the adulation I had read about it.  When the credits ran I just sat there and said to myself.  WTF did I just waste two hours of my life on this drivel.

Maybe the anticipation and hype made me expect more than is there.  But I'm gonna have to give the movie

[Soreyes]

Hmmmmmm  I can understand where your coming from there Gambler.  I think why 2001 stays with me as the best, is the first time my friends and I saw the move. Just as the move started we all partook of some "Mind Expanding Stimulants" ......... What a Rush

[Gambler]

Ah, that I can understand.  My brother, a friend and I went and saw Halloween II drunk off our asses.  It was the funniest movie ever.  I think.

[Ravok]

 IN my humble opinion Its certanally one of the verry best, at least in the top3

 If you havent seen it i strongly recomend it.

[kmelew]

Top scientist say that Blade Runner is the best Sci-fi film ever made. check it out http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040825/lf_afp/afplifestyle_film_040825224353

IMO The Best Sci-Fi Film ever made is 2001 A Space Odyssey

Blade Runner had some of the most powerful imagery I've ever seen in any movie.  It's vision of a future city has often been imitated, but never surpassed.  Something amusing:  look at the visual readouts of the police car that Deckard gets into at the beginning of the movie--they are the same visual readouts of the Nostromo from Scott's classic, Alien.

As for 2001, Kubrick was certainly a perfectionist.  He hired aerospace engineers to design his spacecraft and equipment as approximate what would be reasonably available in the year 2001.  One piece of trivia:  the spacecraft seen orbiting the earth at the beginning of the Space Station sequence are actually orbital nuclear weapons platforms.  Kubrick did not want to make too obvious, though, and invite comparison to his previous movie Dr. Strangelove.  Another piece of trivia:  Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke originally had the Discovery heading for Saturn.  But budget constraints, and the fact that the special effects team couldn't make a realistic enough model of Saturn for Kubrick, forced the Discovery to stop at Jupiter.

If you love 2001, you owe it to yourself to check out these forums.  Among other things, this person makes extremely accurate models of 2001 spacecraft, including an 11'-long model of the Discovery for a recent Kubrick exhibition in Germany.

[Abfalter]

Top scientist say that Blade Runner is the best Sci-fi film ever made. check it out http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040825/lf_afp/afplifestyle_film_040825224353

IMO The Best Sci-Fi Film ever made is 2001 A Space Odyssey

Blade Runner had some of the most powerful imagery I've ever seen in any movie.  It's vision of a future city has often been imitated, but never surpassed.  Something amusing:  look at the visual readouts of the police car that Deckard gets into at the beginning of the movie--they are the same visual readouts of the Nostromo from Scott's classic, Alien.

As for 2001, Kubrick was certainly a perfectionist.  He hired aerospace engineers to design his spacecraft and equipment as approximate what would be reasonably available in the year 2001.  One piece of trivia:  the spacecraft seen orbiting the earth at the beginning of the Space Station sequence are actually orbital nuclear weapons platforms.  Kubrick did not want to make too obvious, though, and invite comparison to his previous movie Dr. Strangelove.  Another piece of trivia:  Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke originally had the Discovery heading for Saturn.  But budget constraints, and the fact that the special effects team couldn't make a realistic enough model of Saturn for Kubrick, forced the Discovery to stop at Jupiter.

If you love 2001, you owe it to yourself to check out these forums.  Among other things, this person makes extremely accurate models of 2001 spacecraft, including an 11'-long model of the Discovery for a recent Kubrick exhibition in Germany.

Blade Runner was absolutely visionary, in terms of style.  Without Blade Runner there would not have been the Alien or Matrix movies, for instance...

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

 
I _LOVE_ Blade Runner!  And while I do think it moves a bit slow at times, it's probably my favorite Sci-Fi movie.  (Preferably the Director's Cut version....)

Like tears in the rain....

And the number of replicants doesn't add up, no matter how you slice it.


2001, on the other hand, is almost unbearably slow, but I thought the follow-up, 2010, was an excellent movie in it's own right.

[kmelew]

2001, on the other hand, is almost unbearably slow, but I thought the follow-up, 2010, was an excellent movie in it's own right.

After 2001 Kubrick ordered all models and sets destroyed, presumably so that they wouldn't be reused in future low-budget sci-fi movies.

All the Discovery models and sets used in 2010 had to be recreated from scratch using nothing more than 2001 as a reference!

[S'Raek]

I _LOVE_ Blade Runner!  And while I do think it moves a bit slow at times, it's probably my favorite Sci-Fi movie.  (Preferably the Director's Cut version....)

Like tears in the rain....

And the number of replicants doesn't add up, no matter how you slice it.


2001, on the other hand, is almost unbearably slow, but I thought the follow-up, 2010, was an excellent movie in it's own right.

Even if you count Deckard as a replicant?

[Chris SI]

I hate to say it, but Blade Runner bored me quite a lot.

It had some nice moments, but I felt the pacing was off.

[Dash Jones]

I saw 2001 only a few years ago...I saw it in the dark near midnight for the first time on TV.  I found it terrifying!  Of course I was much younger then...but watch that movie in the dark sometime all alone...it's a heck of a lot more terrifying than the slasher movies...but it's more of a psychological terror than physical or anything you see directly on screen.

[S'Raek]

Oh, and I do think Blade Runner is one of the best movies ever.  I don't really have one favorite movie, I like too many.  But I have Blade Runner on DVD and watch it all the time.  The director's cut is nice, not so much happy endings here. 

[Sirgod]

IN my humble opinion Its certanally one of the verry best, at least in the top3

 If you havent seen it i strongly recomend it.

I concure there with Ravok.

Gambler, I really think Yould like It if you get the chanceto watch It. It'll be on Spike this weekend I believe, Fire up the Tivo.

Stephen

[Gambler]

We've actually owned it on DVD for quite a few months now.  I've just never gotten around to watching it.  Maybe because my wife insists that I'll love it.  Kind of like American Beauty.  I've been a recalcitrant boob and refused to watch it as well because she wants me to.

[Harlax]

I'm surprised no one has commented on the complete absence of Star Trek from the list...

Or do they have a separate category for "Space Opera"?

I'm old enough to remember the mid second season promotional spot for TOS with Shatner touting the number of scientists and engineers who watch Star Trek.