My Bladerunner Rant

OMG, SPOILERZ!!!!!! (haha)

OK, so I saw Bladerunner for the first time last night (it's being shown in theaters in select cities) and I have to say, I was not all that impressed.

Well, see, here's the thing. If I had seen it when it came out (and had been old enough) I'm sure I WOULD have been impressed. The themes and the cool "futuristic" setting etc. But as I didn't see it until now, I've already seen/read many stories with this whole "robots realise they're being treated slave-ish or whatever and revolt" thing. It's a cool idea, but it's not new to me anymore. And THIS particular movie tells its story EXTREMELY slow. Holy crap, I had to fight to keep my eyes open!! And also, with today's CGI and movie technology...I've seen cooler shit, so this wasn't that amazing to me. And the WORST part was the ridiculously cheesy background music (or rather, noises)!! Especially the "love" scene!!

That doesn't mean I think it's crap, really. I appreciate that most of the stuff I'VE seen has probably been influenced by this and that it was pretty amazing for it's time. AND it's not like I didn't like ANYTHING in the movie. There were some decent fights/chases (though even those seemed a bit long) and there were SOME things about this future world that I thought was cool ('specially the noodle bars on the street! Yum!) and I LOVED that guy's walking/talking toys!! I just...well, I guess it was hyped up too much for me and I was let down. I really don't think I'd ever sit down to watch it again...unless I wanted to fall asleep... :-P

Oh yeah, and then, I was told by co-workers that somewhere along the line we're supposed to figure out that Han Solo (heh) is a Replicant himself! Where the hell was I? I didn't get that. Maybe I'm just stupid. Or artistically challenged. But I think that's a pretty big point and if that's the case it should have been more clearly spelled out.

::sigh:: Oh well...I just I really wanted to love it!!!

The End.