Blade Runner 2

Bruce Willis is actually not interested in movies at all. He watches barely any TV and does not attend screenings outside those of his own movies.

Harrison Ford, I don't know. Blade Runner is one of those movies where it's well known that he was put off by his opposing lead. He couldn't stand her. And yet it turned out to be a brilliant movie.
 
Blade Runner has always been on my "Classic Movies that I absolutely must see" list, but I've never got around to watching it.

My Friend told me that it was a style over substance movie, it was well filmed and very atmospheric, but the script was shitty.
 
The movie is as deep as you wish to make it, AlphaPro. It touches a lot of philosophic subject matter and hints at a lot of things, but you are able to ignore it if you wish and view the movie purely as a detective movie if you want.
I guess that's what your friend did.

I'm a big fan, and must've seen the movie close to 20 times in 4 different versions. Yet, I can still find new stuff every time I watch it again. It's a movie with so many layers & references that you can keep discovering new things over & over again.
 
now that I am thinking about it, something that I would really love to see would be a well done movie about the replicant Roy Batty, and maybe his crew, the things they did and saw. I guess it could have a lot of potential.
 
AlphaPromethean said:
My Friend told me that it was a style over substance movie, it was well filmed and very atmospheric, but the script was shitty.
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When it first came out it was panned by critics using that exact reasoning. Time has proven them wrong, and many of them have admitted as much over the years.

It's one of those movies that has to be seen more than once over a long period of time to be fully appreciated.

BTW, be sure to watch the director's cut version without the voiceover narration.

EDIT:

Here's the Siskel & Ebert review from the time of the original release in 1982:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVHjv5iBveA

Sound familiar?
 
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