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The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

402 points · 196 comments · ExMachina73

  1. julienchastang · · focus · HN ↗
    The complete opening sequence of Blade Runner is "fucking amazing". The entire movie is "fucking amazing". It is a beautiful, visually stunning masterpiece that I will never tire to look at complimented with a Vangelis soundtrack that ranks as one of the best in all of cinema. And a performance by Rutger Hauer that is pure artistic mastery. And has a woman ever looked as seductive as Sean Young smoking a cigarette as she's being interviewed by Harrison Ford at Tyrell Corp? Speaking of the opening sequence, even that computer animated Ladd Company tree is cool and which I have only seen one other time in "Outland", I think. The music that plays as that tree is being rendered seems to announce you are about to witness something extraordinary.
    1. beej71 · · focus · HN ↗
      Asterisk the director's cut is amazing.
      1. nullc · · focus · HN ↗
        Good luck even finding the non-directors cut.

        I liked the film noir voice-over.

        1. foobar1962 · · focus · HN ↗
          > I liked the film noir voice-over.

          I remember the voice over the first time I saw the movie, possibly in a cinema. I liked it, and was surprised with the general level of dislike it has received. The film was meant to be a mid-20th-century film-noir detective drama.

          1. mixmastamyk · · focus · HN ↗
            Is it transcribed anywhere?
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