November 2019…
Sign me up for one of those Off World Colonies please.
This is the title card at the beginning of the movie (after the intro blurb) about the Tyrrell Corporation and the incident with some genetically engineered humanoids from the off-world colonies.
So, it would be a good time to sit back and watch your copy, for perspective. The HAL 9000 was brought online decades ago, and that thing that happened at Jupiter (or was it Saturn) was almost two decades ago.
My how time flies.
Get me a new game for my Atari, and some TDK tapes for my cassette recorder.
Quite an experience to live in the future, isn’t it?
Now it has a reply.
What’s a tortoise?
Sign me up for a Replicant. Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, or Joanna Cassidy, I’m not picky.
And an owl.
[Moderating]
Merged threads.
The Great Debate: was it Quimby’s or eschereal’s thread that was the replicant thread? (Or both?)
Merging instead of retirement. What has become of the standards of our Blade Modders? I need the old Dex back.
Now I gotta get back to replacing the cooling unit some kids stole off of my flying car.
We have achieved parity with the world of the original BladeRunner in at least one respect.
When the film came out, the magazine Cinefantastique devoted a special issue to the film and its immense effort in world-building. There are a lot of details you’d never notice on a casual viewing – they’re so hidden in the background. A lot of films do this, of course, but Bladerunner was trying to create an entire future city and society. One of the details was the magazine racks. Of course, most newsstands are now a mere distant memory, but you can still find racks of magazines at the remaining big booksellers like Barnes and Noble and Books-A-Million, and college bookstores (many of which are run by B&N these days)
The magazines were a.) very esoteric; and b.) very expensive. I seem to recall a cover price of $12. Back then a typical magazine cost about $1.50. Cinefantastique, as a special-interest magazine, sold for $3.95, which was kinda steep. Smithsonian runs $8 now. Playboy is now $25 an issue. Heck, Mad magazine is now $6 an issue. “Cheap,” indeed. (in 1982 it was a buck)
Something I just realized today: If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, then Blade Runner is a Halloween movie.
I’ve posted things you people wouldn’t believe…
Seriously, people think I’m just bullshitting, like, all the time.
It might look right now like the world hasn’t turned out like it was depicted in Blade Runner but we still have the rest of the month and I feel there’s still a good chance.
claps
If I’d been drinking whiskey from a nice square glass when I read this, it would have spurted out my nose.
Yeah, like you could afford an owl.
What‽ What idiots pay that?
Not a real one, obviously.
People who reeeallly want to read the articles.
You think he’d be posting in a place like this if he could afford a real owl?
Pan Am hasn’t been resurrected (unlike Atari which keeps getting briefly re-resurrected). But I still walk over to the pay videophone when I need to make a call in a bar.
Sometime in the next month or so, I have to rebuild a shower stall. I’m thinking vaguely about incorporating some kind of hot-air drying system like Cassidy used in the film for her hair.