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tcr!
· Oct 4, 2017 at 1:16 pm
I watched Blade Runner for the first time this week. Since I have apparently been living in a cave for the past few decades, I thought that Blade Runner was kind of like Tron but with more Harrison Ford, and less neon, and maybe a few more tricky questions about What Is The Nature Of Man.
That is the movie I was expecting.
That is not the movie I saw.
I mostly enjoyed this writeup from a person who’d never see Blade Runner. Mostly.
You should go read what Sarah Gailey wrote before reading what I wrote below.
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So what I didn’t like is how she used the words human and murder. Over and over again. To drill home how cruel Deckard’s character was. How almost inhumane and devoid of caring after shooting Pris in the back. The author all but begged for me to feel my own empathy for the “slaves.”
But the thing is they weren’t slaves. Not in the human sense anyway. They were robots who lived beyond their slated life span and came to Earth after an off-world bloodbath. These guys were far more dangerous than your average Jetson Rosie. All the Nexus 6s that Deckard needed to retire were combat models. More or less.
Watch them in the movie. They’re not fragile and frail slaves just wanting to escape the plantation and “live.” They’ll snap you in two. Without skipping a beat.
I did enjoy the article though, very well written. And it also made me wonder when artificial life begins to have its own rights.
#movies #bladerunner
tcr!
· Sep 15, 2017 at 1:25 pm
Since the dawn of Hollywood, no movie star has seemed to need stardom—or movies—less than Harrison Ford. Chris Heath crisscrosses the country with the 75-year-old legend to find out why indifference has made all the difference in the world.
It’s well worth the 15-20 minutes it’ll take you to read it. Written interviews are so much better than video interviews. He doesn’t come off as nearly as crass. But maybe he’s not crass at all. Maybe he’s just unreflective.
My favorite quip:
Do you care what people think about you?
“Only if I’m with them at the time.”
❤️ #harrisonford
tcr!
· Mar 8, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Almost ten years after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull hit theaters and after years of promises and rumors and dead-ends, it’s official: Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones, the two-fisted archaeologist with a thing for punching Nazis and recovering ancient artifacts, is returning for a fifth film due out in a little over two years.
According to an official statement on the Walt Disney Company’s website, the untitled fifth Indiana Jones movie will arrive on July 19, 2019 and the whole gang is getting back together. Harrison Ford will return as Indy, Steven Spielberg will step behind the camera once more, and Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall will produce. Here’s what you need to know from that statement:
Indiana Jones will return to the big screen on July 19, 2019, for a fifth epic adventure in the blockbuster series. Steven Spielberg, who directed all four previous films, will helm the as-yet-untitled project with star Harrison Ford reprising his iconic role. Franchise veterans Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall will produce.
I’m pleased that Harrison Ford is coming back and this didn’t turn into a reboot with Bradley Cooper.
With that said, Harrison is 74. I also kinda hope they call it something as simple Indiana Jones 5.
#movies #indianajones
tcr!
· Jul 18, 2016 at 7:28 am
In 1982, in a small Quebec town, Canada, Denis Villeneuve (Sicario) went to see Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford and directed by Ridley Scott. Little did he know that the dystopian sci-fi classic â about one man (Ford) tracking down rogue replicants â was going to change his destiny.
Only one image and it’s not bad. See also Blade Runner | Typeset In The Future.
#movies #bladerunner
tcr!
· Apr 5, 2016 at 12:18 pm
From the corridors of Washington D.C. to the grimy, neon-drenched streets of an apocalyptic Los Angeles, House of Cards stalwart Robin Wright has boarded Denis Villeneuve’s long-in-development sequel Blade Runner 2.
Warner Bros. made the announcement via press release earlier today, though they didn’t disclose the role Wright will be assuming. All we know for sure at this early stage is that the 2018 feature will take place “several decades after the 1982 original, with Harrison Ford reprising his iconic role as Rick Deckard.”
#movies #bladerunner #robinwright
tcr!
· Mar 6, 2015 at 2:49 pm
Harrison Ford’s family says the actor is “battered, but OK” after crash landing a single-engine vintage plane onto a Venice golf course shortly after takeoff Thursday.
Ford, an experienced pilot, was hospitalized and expected to undergo surgery for some injuries. His family said he is in stable condition.
#meanwhile
tcr!
· Mar 1, 2015 at 4:04 pm
“Prisoners” director Denis Villeneuve is in negotiations to direct Harrison Ford in the “Blade Runner” sequel for Alcon Entertainment.
The announcement was made on Thursday.
Written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, the “Blade Runner” sequel will take place several decades after the 1982 original.
Ford recently said the second installment’s script was the “best thing he’s ever read.” He will reprise his role as Rick Deckard in the film, which originally took place in a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles.
Further plot details are known.
Ridley Scott will produce the sci-fi thriller alongside Alcon’s Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.
“We are honored that Harrison is joining us on this journey with Denis Villeneuve, who is a singular talent, as we experienced personally on ‘Prisoners,’” Kosove and Johnson said in a joint statement. “Hampton and Michael, with Ridley Scott, have crafted a uniquely potent and faithful sequel to one of the most universally celebrated films of all time, and we couldn’t be more thrilled with this amazing, creative team.”
Cool that it’s several decades later so Ford should look the part. And hopefully the plot will be better than Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And pretty cool that Ridley Scott is producing.
I hadn’t heard about Prisoners but might put it on my list now.
#bladerunner #movies
tcr!
· Mar 26, 2014 at 10:46 am
Our ever reliable sources (same folks who told us about Rocket Raccoon) are informing us that while Harrison Ford might still play Indiana Jones in the next film of the franchise, the window of making that happen is getting smaller and smaller.
There is a date and if Indiana Jones 5 is not moving forward by then, the studios are 100% prepared to recast a younger Dr. Jones and ready up a new trilogy.
[…]
Don’t think of it as a reboot but just recasting the same way the James Bond (Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig) movies have been doing for the better part of five decades.
And who just might be one of the actors that the studio is looking at ? The word is that they are looking at several but Bradley Cooper is at the top of the list.
[…] Cooper is one of the biggest male stars in Hollywood right now without a major franchise […] and he could do the part justice […]
While I am usually against rebooting franchises just for the sake of doing it, in my opinion, Indiana Jones is long overdue for a reboot. Or, should I say, a simple recasting (and definitely not a remake of an existing film; I think anyone who attempts to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark who aren’t a group of little kids deserve to fail.) Indy was conceived by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg as the American James Bond, and 007 has been played by six actors now over the course of fifty years […] It’s time this generation had their own version of the estimable Dr. Henry Jones Jr. to call its own.
Just let Dr. Jones rest in peace, he doesn’t need to go the way of Bond. We don’t need another sequel or reboot or revamp. It’ll kill the magic and spoil the legacy.
This generation doesn’t need a version to call their own, they need their own hero.
The Indiana franchise is huge but must everything be milked to the point of zero credibility?
I sound like a crotchety old man.
#indianajones #movies
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