From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!miker@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Blade Runner Article-I.D.: nsc.215 Posted: Tue Aug 3 10:51:49 1982 Received: Sun Aug 8 07:49:11 1982 Go See It! Don't listen to the know it all critics and unthinking mob! Blade Runner is a movie about a man tired of action, haunt- ed by unanswerable questions but also his duty. A man who has been followed by gore all his life and can't justify it any more. Your narration would sound "wooden" too. No, Star Wars or STII it's not, but it's not worse either; it's different. I agree with a past comment. This is the first seri- ous sience fiction movie. Having just seen Blade Runner, I don't feel that it was much more serious than many other movies. In fact, the only original idea was the LA-of-the- future setting, which I thought was well done. The hero was a basic Raymond Chandler type, but I don't think Harrison Ford carried it off too well. When he was continually beaten to a pulp, he looked like a wimp. I think Jack Nicholson in 'Chinatown' did a much better job on this kind of character. For a while it looked like an interesting subplot was developing with Rachael, but as soon as it got started it dropped out of sight (perhaps they thought the movie was too long and cut it). The final battle royal owed a lot to Hitchcock, but failed to learn the secret of his technique-- you get more suspense by implying danger than by showing it. The basic idea of the movie--a Raymond Chandler mystery set in the future with a Hitchcock chase scene at the end--was quite reasonable, but it didn't seem that they had the technique to pull it off. It could have been a much better movie with just a little more effort.