Scott Nehring’s Carnival of Cinema is now open for business. Yours truly is included.
I must get back to posting so Scott will stop nagging me. Sorry about the absence. The new TV season has me momentarily distracted…
Cheers…
These are the posts for the month of September in the year 2006 of the common era.
Scott Nehring’s Carnival of Cinema is now open for business. Yours truly is included.
I must get back to posting so Scott will stop nagging me. Sorry about the absence. The new TV season has me momentarily distracted…
Cheers…
Original Theatrical Cut:
’92 “Director’s” Cut:
Final Cut:
Replicants are like any other machine – they’re either a benefit or a hazard. If they’re a benefit, it’s not my problem.
Blade Runner is the exception that proves the rule that filmmakers should not be allowed to revisit their earlier work, like George Lucas did with Star Wars. Unlike Lucas’s popcorn trilogy, Ridley Scott‘s visionary adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electic Sheep has always seemed like it really was only partially finished.
The filmmakers behind Poseidon said they didn’t want to do a simple remake of The Poseidon Adventure, that they wanted to do something different. If by “different” they meant that they were disposing of a coherent story line and any characters we could actually care about, then they succeeded beyond all expectations.
