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I AM NOT READY FOR THE FUTURE

Started by Q. G. Pennyworth, July 06, 2015, 11:50:37 PM

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LMNO

I now have that warm, fuzzy, "I hate you with the heat of a thousand suns" feeling about you right now.

Faust

Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on July 16, 2015, 04:07:49 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on July 16, 2015, 04:05:35 AM
Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on July 16, 2015, 03:59:01 AM
Quote from: Faust on July 15, 2015, 11:57:13 AM

Deckard: You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on it's back. The tortoise lays on it's back, it's belly baking in the hot sun, beating it's legs trying to turn it'self over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?


What the everloving shit?!

Who is this Deckard person?  A quick google of the name didn't lead me to anything I would immediately connect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Deckard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner

Those are the questions a Blade Runner asks replicants to see if they are replicants.


Oh, okay.

Just read Wiki on that.  What a weird story.  Sounds pretty good though.

Blade runner is good film. You should watch it.
Sleepless nights at the chateau

rong

Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on July 16, 2015, 04:22:28 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on July 16, 2015, 04:20:42 AM
Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on July 16, 2015, 03:59:01 AM
Quote from: Faust on July 15, 2015, 11:57:13 AM

Deckard: You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on it's back. The tortoise lays on it's back, it's belly baking in the hot sun, beating it's legs trying to turn it'self over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?


What the everloving shit?!

Who is this Deckard person?  A quick google of the name didn't lead me to anything I would immediately connect.
Rick Deckard, using the Kobayashi Maru to find out if Harry Potter is the Kwisatz Haderach.

Was he?
He used to be in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. The baritone was this guy named Kip Diskin, big fat guy, I mean, like, orca fat
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Doktor Howl

Quote from: Faust on July 19, 2015, 11:49:35 AM
Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on July 16, 2015, 04:07:49 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on July 16, 2015, 04:05:35 AM
Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on July 16, 2015, 03:59:01 AM
Quote from: Faust on July 15, 2015, 11:57:13 AM

Deckard: You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on it's back. The tortoise lays on it's back, it's belly baking in the hot sun, beating it's legs trying to turn it'self over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?


What the everloving shit?!

Who is this Deckard person?  A quick google of the name didn't lead me to anything I would immediately connect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Deckard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner

Those are the questions a Blade Runner asks replicants to see if they are replicants.


Oh, okay.

Just read Wiki on that.  What a weird story.  Sounds pretty good though.

Blade runner is good film. You should watch it.

It was cold poop on toast.  It was that bad.
Molon Lube

Faust

No. No! it isn't true. La La La not listening *throws self out window*
Sleepless nights at the chateau

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Faust on July 19, 2015, 06:25:42 PM
No. No! it isn't true. La La La not listening *throws self out window*

How come they only send one cop when a killing machine goes bananas?

Why do they make the killing machines indistinguishable from people?

Why the transparent attempt to be mysterious at the end?

That movie made me feel bad.  It made me feel like my kids became Sheriff Arpiao fans.
Molon Lube

LMNO


Doktor Howl

Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on July 19, 2015, 06:30:26 PM
At least there was toast.

The toast was the action scenes.  I could almost forget that the plot was so wretched.
Molon Lube

Faust

Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 19, 2015, 06:29:44 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 19, 2015, 06:25:42 PM
No. No! it isn't true. La La La not listening *throws self out window*

How come they only send one cop when a killing machine goes bananas?

Why do they make the killing machines indistinguishable from people?

Why the transparent attempt to be mysterious at the end?

That movie made me feel bad.  It made me feel like my kids became Sheriff Arpiao fans.

The first one doesn't make any sense, he was a bounty hunter and they could have shown multiple others hired to do the same.

The second one was they were supposed to be miners or something, but yeah a tattoo or anything would have broken down the premise.

The end has a couple of versions, Theres one thats explicit, and theres the one that does the mysterious thing but isn't really ambiguous because one possibility is impossible.

The plot comes secondary to the look and feel though, which is a detractor, but it is a gorgeous film.
Sleepless nights at the chateau

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Faust on July 19, 2015, 06:48:52 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 19, 2015, 06:29:44 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 19, 2015, 06:25:42 PM
No. No! it isn't true. La La La not listening *throws self out window*

How come they only send one cop when a killing machine goes bananas?

Why do they make the killing machines indistinguishable from people?

Why the transparent attempt to be mysterious at the end?

That movie made me feel bad.  It made me feel like my kids became Sheriff Arpiao fans.

The first one doesn't make any sense, he was a bounty hunter and they could have shown multiple others hired to do the same.

The second one was they were supposed to be miners or something, but yeah a tattoo or anything would have broken down the premise.

The end has a couple of versions, Theres one thats explicit, and theres the one that does the mysterious thing but isn't really ambiguous because one possibility is impossible.

The plot comes secondary to the look and feel though, which is a detractor, but it is a gorgeous film.

I'm weird when it comes to science fiction.  I can swallow shit like FTL drives, because that's just "the horse in the western", so to speak.

But one book I was reading was looking really, really good for a chapter or two, then there was a scene with cat in a spacesuit.  The book bounced off the wall, and landed in my garbage can, nothing but net.

An FTL drive, I can accept.  Getting a cat into a spacesuit?  NEVER GONNA HAPPEN.

Blade runner was like that.  No attempt to suspend disbelief was actually made.  It was like someone made Hawk the Slayer with a straight face.
Molon Lube

Faust

Yeah it's very much a case "Here's what we are doing, accept it or you're not going to like this." The fifth element did that too but because it's a comedy instead of homage to noir, it gets away with it more.

I'm the same but generally for the portrayal of the characters. For example Interstellar pissed me off, not because of the stupid plot devices at the end, but because everyone in the film was dour ad absurdum, killed my suspension of disbelief. It wouldn't have taken much. Michael Cain cracking a little gallows humour would have made the wooden crying for two minutes scene work.
Sleepless nights at the chateau

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Faust on July 19, 2015, 07:19:27 PM
Yeah it's very much a case "Here's what we are doing, accept it or you're not going to like this." The fifth element did that too but because it's a comedy instead of homage to noir, it gets away with it more.

I'm the same but generally for the portrayal of the characters. For example Interstellar pissed me off, not because of the stupid plot devices at the end, but because everyone in the film was dour ad absurdum, killed my suspension of disbelief. It wouldn't have taken much. Michael Cain cracking a little gallows humour would have made the wooden crying for two minutes scene work.

I haven't seen Interstellar.  It was described to me as "Contact" meets "2001, A Space Oddessy", and I couldn't bear the thought.
Molon Lube

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They made a huge deal about hiring a nobel prize winning physicist to consult on the physics then had a fucking breaking wave bearing down on them on a planet covered entirely in water. I was this close to standing up and screaming "What's it fucking breaking on?" in the middle of the cinema

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Doktor Howl

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 19, 2015, 07:30:28 PM


They made a huge deal about hiring a nobel prize winning physicist to consult on the physics then had a fucking breaking wave bearing down on them on a planet covered entirely in water. I was this close to standing up and screaming "What's it fucking breaking on?" in the middle of the cinema

It was breaking on the money you spent on your movie ticket.
Molon Lube

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Blade Runner is one of the best movies ever made. Probably THE best sci-fi movie. There. I said it.

There's not many movies I can still find new things to enjoy in after more than a dozen viewings. I did find a whole bunch of new stuff when I went to see it at the cinema (all of the humans in the movie are disfigured or ugly in some way, except Dekard; all of the replicants are beautiful and perfect). It is a movie that asks you to suspend disbelief, but in terms of building a world through locations, set and costume, it is a masterclass in sci-fi. It just places more emphasis on the 'fi' than most.
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