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| woscar99 |
| I was just wondering if any of you guys have seen this movie and can tell me how good is it... |
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| Enigmatic XTC |
| quote: | Originally posted by woscar99
I was just wondering if any of you guys have seen this movie and can tell me how good is it... |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Excellent movie. Possibly one of the best drug movies of all time (and I really don't even dig drug movies that much). It shows both sides of the story and does so with excellent film-making.
10/10 |
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| Frenchie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Excellent movie. Possibly one of the best drug movies of all time (and I really don't even dig drug movies that much). It shows both sides of the story and does so with excellent film-making.
10/10 |
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| Theresa |
| Really good movie. Animation is incredible, the story is interesting (it has a neat twist to it,) and you have to kind of think about wtf is going on to get it. I liked it :D |
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| L.E.N. |
| Might have to go buy this tomorrow... |
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| kiev_42 |
to tell you the truth I never enjoyed that movie. First of all you cant compare it to the book, which seems it wasnt made to be a film. The story was kind of fragmented and overcomplicated in the film, and not that interesting. It seemed like it was totally building up to something which never happened.
also quick question: why the did they have to spend all that money creating those suits rather than just simply wearing masks? |
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| L.E.N. |
| Lots of books are better than the movie. Its hard to cram all the detail into 2 hours. It sucks but its common. Often reading the book leads to a letdown when you watch the movie. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by kiev_42
to tell you the truth I never enjoyed that movie. First of all you cant compare it to the book, which seems it wasnt made to be a film. The story was kind of fragmented and overcomplicated in the film, and not that interesting. It seemed like it was totally building up to something which never happened.
also quick question: why the did they have to spend all that money creating those suits rather than just simply wearing masks? |
Well the story was fragmented - to represent the altered state of mind of people who have addictions to... mind-altering substances. :stongue:
It was like that on purpose.
I'm not exactly sure on this, but it seems to me as though the suits were *intentionally* odd pieces of equipment used as an excessive means by the government on the war on drugs. The key word being "excess". One of the major points of the movie was that each side of the drug war employed its own excesses - junkies being lunatic addicts - government agencies being overcomplicated bureaucracies bent on serving "the greater good" by squandering the tax dollars of the very people they were seeking to imprison. Perhaps I am oversimplifying it though - I'm not sure. It almost seems as though they mentioned something earlier on about how the effects of substance-D create a sort of neural aphasia which would lead to erratic facial recognition in the first place, therefore protecting the identity of the agents from both the people they were attempting to infiltrate as well as the agency that they reported to.
I'm sorry you don't like complex stories though - this one definitely has a lot of that in it. I think that if you are willing to watch it a few times (no shame in that, I have to watch many movies 3 or more times to actually get the gist of things) then you will be rewarded with the realization of the intricacies in the story. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by L.E.N.
Lots of books are better than the movie. Its hard to cram all the detail into 2 hours. It sucks but its common. Often reading the book leads to a letdown when you watch the movie. |
Interestingly enough (ok, maybe just to me) I found the actual film Blade Runner to be a far superior work than that of Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the story by which Blade Runner was based upon. |
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| D-res |
| I'll agree that it's hit or miss. It's not very action packed to say the least. It's a sit back, relax type of movie with a lot of dialogue. You have to watch it a few times to really get it and appreciate it to its fullest. |
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