is that you antoine?

Beg your pardon sir ? @ el jeffe

thanks for the recommendation antoine......

did you know that form follows function? it's true

glad u liked it replicant...

man am i getting old or what?

copy that beta, I'm troubled 1982 films are now considered "old", my AARP card has not arrived yet so I must still be viewed as "kinda" young

VADO ..whos that chick ?..your dream date ?

she was in the movie "splash". You should rent it, it's great.

I was 2 when that movie came out. I did like that movie though. Pretty much timeless, like Alien. Ridley Scott is good. Although there were times when it was very 80's. The music actually made me laugh most times. And the acting was often silly. But right, sets, art direction etc, awesome. Looked more real than anything Lucas makes. I hate Lucas. HACK

Blade Runner (the director's cut, mind you) is probably my all-time favorite movie... The music, the story, and especially the art direction are all incredible.

In addition to the fascinating portrayal of 21st-Century urban streetscapes, at least two architectural landmarks play a prominent role in the movie: A Frank Lloyd Wright house (I forget the name) is Deckard's residence, and the historic Bradbury Building is the setting for the climatic fight/chase between Deckard and Roy Batty.

i thought Blade Runner was mainstream knowledge;

now, THX1138 was recently re-released on DVD; great film...

and i am not a fan of Lucas' either...THX1138 was one of his first films, and in my opinion, by far the best film he's ever done;

Oh my god, where's my walker. I need it to toddle across the room and get my bifocals so I can finish hand-drafting this design for my retirement home.

Blade Runner is, um, a pretty important movie in terms of contemporary visual culture - I'd venture it's more than just a "cult classic". But that's my Alzheimer's-demented opinion talking, of course.

seriously, have you been in a coma not to have even heard of bladerunner?

are you the same guy who just recently realized that you're one of abra's fave archinecters?

are you a unicorn?

very funny snowi

...Im not really a movie person ..more a music lover.......and besides the movie came out when i was 3 yrs old ok.

so i think I may be excused for that.


by the way

1) I have a DVD ( a live concert recording ) of the black sabbath /ozzy osbourne concert where ozzy osbourne gives the bass drum to the audience, while they crap, piss and vomit in it and he bathes in that mixture on stage ,before biting the head of a dead bat.

2)..I have "the wall" by Pink floyd.(not the music album ..im talking of the banned movie ..mind you )......and i got it when i was 10yrs. all the way ,far back in the 80's when it was not easily available.


I bet you dont have either !
ha !

woooo - just got back from my gerontologist.
did i miss anything?
back in my day dystopia was a dream; dysfunctional was a TRS-80.

the Wall? the movie right? with Bob Geldof? full of animation and bombs, and other crazy shit? nope, never saw it. it was banned? where? when? i think saw that pic in like 81 or 83....

hey nevermore, there was this movie from the late 60's, it featured live music, mud, people naked, brown acid, wavy gravy, some black guy who played the guitar left handed at the end, and ooo, ooo, sha-na-na was in it, what was the name of that film again?

christ - i just found out paul mccartney was in a band before wings!
i think this stuff is rotting my brain...

i've fallen and i can't get up!

Arer you joking? The Wall was among the first videotapes (and then among the first DVD's) I ever purchased. It can be found in any video store.

Ozzy bathing in vomit and biting the head off a live bat? Why would I want to own such footage?

Wow! Even I feel old!!!

I remember seeing Blade Runner in theaters. One of my fav films and the soundtrack is fantastic.

The Wall was great...at least what I can remember

This thread reminds me of when my cousin, now 26, told my grandma all about this new dance thing called "Swing dancing". I think she fell out of her chair laughing.

yea trace...The Wall was excellent..i loveee the part when he shaves off his eyebrows.

Trivia note: The original members of Pink Floyd were all architecture students before they got into the music business.

does blade-runner have anything to do with speedskating? perhaps the sudden interest is related to the upcoming winter olympics.

yea regent school of architecture england...but gilmour is a structural engineer..one of their first experimental band names was "t-set ".

Living in Gin, most of them studied architecture. I don't think Sid Barrett did, but certainly Roger, Rick and Nick Mason.

Where's my Pink Floyd??? I hope it isn't too late!!!

are prodigy also ex-architects ?

simples I thought THX1138 was Lucas's thesis film. It is great and far ahead of its time... and I hate Lucas.

The one thing I found interesting about Blade Runner is to see LA as a REAL city, rather than the suburbansprawly thing it became.

That's what I've always found ironic about Blade Runner: It's supposedly a bleak view of the future of the city, but it actually looks a hell of a lot more vibrant and interesting than today's suburban sprawl.

hmmm, 1982 is now the new old. i think i was having my first drink round then. mad dog anyone?

j

.godfather has 3 parts..u should see the third..that came in 1990.

if you haven't seen it, you should check it out. i think it's the best !!!!

i keep hearing about something called 'star wars' - what the hell kind of name is that. i hate movies, they're so OLD and really OLD


aside: did you know that r2 d2 was relabelled 'arthurito' (lit. little arthur) for latin markets??


times like this i remember when SNL was amazing...

...because part III isn't that old

living in gin..i have this feeling.
do u think it may have been "inspired" by orwell's 1984

michael cimino, director of 'the deer hunter' has a degree in architecture. he's, like, really old

It was actually inspired by Citizen Kane and Metropolis, but you wouldn't be familiar with those...

Living in Gin it is kind of funny, Maybe someone should do research on when the city became "evil" and bleak in film. I can think of movies like metropolis, soilent green, etc....
When will movies start turning the 'burb into the bleak future?

no i havent seen those movies.Ill try and get them

snowi....i once saw a really old movie called "sound of music"..it was like really old with all old nuns and an old nurse and all old austrian generals and a lot of very olden style children in lot of olden mountains and very old castles.

seen that movie..it was like very old ?

Living in gin.

i would think that Minority report is nearer to orwell 1984

I think cities being portrayed as "evil" in film goes back about as long as film itself... The American and British anti-urban mentality was firmly in place by the advent of the motion picture.

In the original release of Blade Runner (not the director's cut), the feel-good ending of the movie is when Deckard and his love interest escape the city for pristine wilderness.

In Dark City (another excellent movie), the film concludes with the protagonist and his love interest heading off to a mythical "Shell Beach" of his own making outside the city.

The movie Brazil also has a similar theme, although I haven't seen that one in a while.

I'll try and think of some movies where suburbia is portrayed as the evil place... Right now Pleasantville and Stepford Wives are the only ones that come to mind, and in those, the "city" is completely off the radar screen.

I thought about "A Boy and his Dog" it is a small (70's?) SciFi movie about post-apocalyptic america. People on the surface strife as peole under ground create disneyfied suburbs from hell.
I liked the movie a lot, but dont know if I would call it "great".

the 'happy ending' to brazil involves the heros in a cottage surrounded by acres of green (possibly a picket fence as well).

thankfully gilliam has integrity and fought that like hell.

evil suburbia - edward scissorhands.

is this now serious sub-thread about city and dysfunction/evil/hell not going to pick up on godard's alphaville or orson welles' the trial?

guys I saw this movie once-->

its goes like this ,in the 1960's cuban missile crisis era..an american paranoid couple ( who fear a russian cuban missile attack ) build a bunker in their basement with enough supplies to last them decades.

then one fateful day..a car crashes in their backyard something......they think the nuclear holocaust has arrived and hide underground in their bunker and dont come up till the 1990's , when their son decides to go "up" to the real world and try to "salvage" some supplies

finally , the end of the movie is that a govt agency discovers them thru their enlightened son and rehabilitates the aged couple in a 60's designed american old age retirement town.

( after telling them the story that america defeated the communist forces in world war 3 and this was one of the few places untouched by the war )

it was hilarious and pretty satirical at the same time..had well known actors too..forget the name..anyone knows abt this movie.?