Then a really sweet, heart-warming short film comes along…
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July 10, 2007 · 1 Comment
It’s my second week at the Red Deer Regional Hospital and it’s going better than last week, where all we did was read manuals on safety and WHMIS. Today, I got started in Micro planting all sorts of specimens: stools, throats, etc. Most people wouldn’t find that interesting but it was something. A start. A stepping stone to much cooler things.
so I rented Blade Runner the other day.
The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically manufactured beings called replicants, visually indistinguishable from adult humans, are used for dangerous and degrading work in Earth’s “off-world colonies”. After replicants became illegal on Earth, specialist police units — called “blade runners” — were trained to hunt down and “retire” (kill) escaped replicants on Earth. The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of replicants hiding in Los Angeles and a semi-retired blade runner, Rick Deckard (Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment.
I’ve been wanting to see this movie for 15 years. no jokes. I remember seeing trailers for this movie as a kid, I just never got around to seeing it. And my first impression is not that good. I was expecting soo much more. The protagonist, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), is too much of a…wimp. He had to be saved numerous times from danger by his own enemies! And the action is sub-par as well. The one thing I liked about the film is the vision of the future we’re presented with. It can actually happen. And in that sense, this film was way ahead of its own time.
Maybe I’ll give it a second watch…
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Tagged: Bladerunner
post-Shortbus
November 12, 2006 · 1 Comment
best.movie.ever. Ok, maybe not the best ever, but I really liked this film. It’s one of the most honest, poignant, heartwarming movies I’ve seen in a long time. go see it!
Shortbus
October 22, 2006 · Leave a Comment
I am soo excited to see this movie. John Cameron Mitchell did an amazing job with Hedwig and the angry inch, and from what i can tell from this trailer, it looks like he did it again.
