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    Image of Sugar Boots Sugar Boots
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
    I love PKD and with all of the crap movies that have been made from his books (I'm talking to you Affleck), it is a pleasure to be reminded how great a film can be.
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    txtphile promoted this comment Sugar Boots was starred Sugar Boots was unstarred
    Image of disatess disatess
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
    My Dad took me to see the film in theatres back in 1982, I was so in awe of the film . When Roy Batty was chasing Deckard , it gave me a sense of true horror .
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
    Putting on the 20/20 hindsight goggles, do we agree Dick is correct? He sounds like a flugelhorn for a PR machine, but the hyperbole is just eagerness and enthusiasm.
    I think Dick was right to a degree. We are measuring other sci-fi products to the Blade Runner and PKD standard.
    That, and if I have to say it again, pick up the damn remastered soundtrack by Vangelis. That album is a masterpiece in and of itself, and is still inspiring tech/downtempo/glitch music.
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    10/13/09

    @gods-n-clods: I agree, click back to the main page, scroll down to the morning spoilers, and look at the "sci/fi" we are presented with today, garbage if you ask me. PKD represents a different kind of science fiction, the kind not to be taken lightly.
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    gods-n-clods promoted this comment burlybax was starred burlybax was unstarred
    Image of disatess disatess
    10/13/09

    @gods-n-clods: hear hear.
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    Image of LovelyHue LovelyHue
    10/13/09

    @disatess: I think he was right to an extent. Blade Runner defines the pop culture conception of science fiction. However, I think that there were probably amazing science fiction novels and short stories being written and perhaps published at this time - I find it hard to believe that the genre was ever "dead" or "dying".

    People are always writing interesting stuff. It just doesn't always get a lot of attention.
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    gods-n-clods promoted this comment LovelyHue was starred LovelyHue was unstarred
    Image of disatess disatess
    10/14/09

    @LovelyHue: there was a point before star wars , sci-fi movies seem to be a great joke and not taken seriously ,which almost made it die out or be come stale .
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
    Thanks for showing the image of the letter instead of a transcription. It's interesting to see the typo corrections in the second paragraph.
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    Image of txtphile txtphile
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
    PS: Do not take this letter as implicit permission to rape my bibliography. For example, I would hate to see Paycheck turned into a mindless action movie. Seriously, I will haunt you, Hollywood.
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    Image of soulfinger soulfinger
    10/13/09

    @txtphile: If ever there was a PKD-based film I would love to see re-made, it's Paycheck. Seriously Woo and Affleck f-ing ruined this film that had such a great premise.
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    txtphile promoted this comment soulfinger was starred soulfinger was unstarred
    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
    He needs a new toner cartridge for his printer.
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    Dr Emilio Lizardo was starred Dr Emilio Lizardo was unstarred
    Image of disatess disatess
    10/13/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: ........funny
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
    and he was dead 5 months later...
    an amazing letter...all he got wrong was the commercial success part..but then, so did everyone else.
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    Image of Batmanuel Batmanuel
    10/13/09

    @goldfarb:

    I wouldn't call it a commercial failure. A box office failure, yes. After you consider all the video, DVDs, Director's Cut DVDs, Special Edition DVDs, Final Cut DVDs, and Blu-Ray editions sold, I'm sure someone has made money off of this movie.
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    goldfarb promoted this comment Batmanuel was starred Batmanuel was unstarred
    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    10/13/09

    @Batmanuel: it didn't make back it's budget at the box office = commercial failure
    that it, much later, was big on VHS and later DVD doesn't change that.
    and while it's aesthetic/design/cultural etc influence can go without saying, it had a negative impact on sci-fi film at the time because of that commercial failure.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/14/09

    @goldfarb: it costed 28 million ,it made back 32 million at the box office . Not a profitable success .
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
    Thanks for that. Now I need to go get the Blu-Ray.
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    Image of rebelminion rebelminion
    10/13/09

    @reddingofish: Oooo... yeah. Have they fully remastered it for Blu-Ray?
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    lostarchitect promoted this comment rebelminion was starred rebelminion was unstarred
    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    10/13/09

    @rebelminion: Hell yes, and it looks GREAT. Well, it was actually remastered and recut for theatrical release as "The Final Cut". I see small details in this version that I never saw before. It is well worth picking up.
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
    Right on!
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    Ruthless, If you let me promoted this comment burlybax was starred burlybax was unstarred
    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
    This is great to see. I love that movie, and it may well have started my sci-fi fascination when I was a kid. I'm glad that PKD thought it was great, too.
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    Image of Rocketknight Rocketknight
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dick Believed Blade Runner Would Revive a Dying Genre
    I'm getting kind of misty-eyed. It's good to know that something he felt so strongly about came about to be true.
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    Image of TheGreenRanger TheGreenRanger
    10/12/09

    In reply to Pris From Blade Runner Versus Jason Voorhees... In Space!
    god this movie looks awful
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/12/09

    In reply to Pris From Blade Runner Versus Jason Voorhees... In Space!
    ... this reminds me of Hellraiser IV: Bloodline. Hellraiser... IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

    Hey, that new movie pitch is... FOUR sentences. Jeebus.
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    Edited by crashedpc - Haifisch at 10/12/09 9:43 PM crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of starjade starjade
    10/12/09

    In reply to Pris From Blade Runner Versus Jason Voorhees... In Space!
    Best line of this movie: "What's happening?" "Jason f*cking Vorhees is happening!"
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    Trystero promoted this comment starjade was starred starjade was unstarred
    Image of roninpenguin roninpenguin
    10/12/09

    @starjade: No the best line is "Its Okay, he just wanted his Machete back!"
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    Trystero promoted this comment roninpenguin was starred roninpenguin was unstarred
    Image of starjade starjade
    10/13/09

    @roninpenguin: ooh, yes....also a great line!
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    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    10/12/09

    In reply to Pris From Blade Runner Versus Jason Voorhees... In Space!
    How could you not mention that Kay-em is played by Lisa Ryder who played Beka Valentine on Andromeda? The movie also stars Andromeda herself Lexa Doig.
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    Edited by Ghost_in_the_Machine at 10/12/09 5:52 PM Ghost_in_the_Machine was starred Ghost_in_the_Machine was unstarred
    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/12/09

    @Ghost_in_the_Machine: Oh yeah, good point...
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    10/12/09

    @Ghost_in_the_Machine:
    The really amusing part? The roles were a complete 180 from their Andromeda roles.

    Lisa was playing a badass android, and Lexa was playing the pragmatic reluctant leader.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    10/12/09

    @Ghost_in_the_Machine: Yeah, it seems they were both recruited.

    "Hey, during the coming hiatus, who on this set wants to star in the next Jason movie?"
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    Image of frederic frederic
    10/12/09

    @Cash907Censored: correct, this is exactly what I was going to write. It's scifi noteworthy that the two females leads from Andromeda are there, with their roles reversed. :)

    I really like the android here, with the 'barbie' body. This is something I wanted to see portrayed in film or TV. The female androids are usually normal, physically functional, women with obedient personality, rather than the manufactured approximation body I think they would probably be.
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    Ghost_in_the_Machine promoted this comment frederic was starred frederic was unstarred
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