PS – the Kalbi and Bulgogi Barbecue at “Wonjo” restaurant are amazing if you want to add dinner to your visit.

Blade Runner is my mom’s favorite movie; I grew up watching it with her.  It’s part of the scenery of many many poignant places in my memory.  Thanks for sharing yours, and for refreshing mine.

What happens to us is an upwelling of raw emotion. It’s sadness at loss, anger at the feeling that we’ve been somehow betrayed, joy of discovering something priceless, it’s just raw.

It’s the juice.

The realm has fastened facade, overburden on our hearts, minds and souls.
My friend Mike, a nuclear engineer in a former life, hosted a lunch table opportunity in a break to share movies of influence. One after the other, boom, Our bodies shifting in nods of agreement…

Blade runner… Tears in the rain.

Men care deeply about everything.
It’s not just this race we run scurrying over the tops of each other to prove we are more worthy in knot., we are blamed for our difficulties around an almost no way out solution, but we didn’t make it up… We were born into it and we mimic often hopeless, sans relief
Sheesh it’s brutal. We’re numb in defense. Tiered in the reign of each waking day
The elevator had one ending going down… But there was another ending up…
I prefer the hope I felt from the cut shown at the theatre, now 30 years past.

Into the light of the dark long night…

Fly, mother flocker, fly

Let doves fly and water shed down
Care for this day here,
knowing hope rises warm
It’s best we share our own tears,
in realms, coined, with re-leaf

present time is now…

Think better thoughts
Drink more water.
Breathe deeply.
from here, beings loved
we are there…

honored
martinr

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101561/

Mos Def and Talib Kweli sampled it in the intro here (with video!):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlCJbFGOeRo

I was a film nut from the moment we got a Betamax at 9 or so, but when I watched Blade Runner on TV at age 13, it was like a dormant part of my brain had been activated and started seeing the beauty in darkness, decay and random accretion. I saw it on TV and unfortunately didn’t record it (and being in Africa, pre-internet, it wasn’t available anywhere), but then 2 years later the director’s cut came out and I got to see it on the big screen, which made me realise just how important higher definition widescreen and decent sound were.  A local university theatre, who had a tiny cinema in a converted storage room, played it at a discount every week for ages, and I think I saw it nearly every time.

I can’t watch it too often now, because life has got somewhat bleaker in outlook with age and these days I need more lighter-toned escapism, but it’s still my favourite film and the Blu-ray was the first I ever bought.

Having been deep-fried in SF since elementary school I understood it immediately, and felt dumb for having held out.

Now the film is acknowledged as a classic. Victory.

Subject to a few “suggestions” (read conditions) – like major advertisers will PAY to have a neon sign in the movie, etc., etc.

LOL

Ex CFO, Shaw’s Studios

It is quite perfect, and deeply moving.

It is a signpost in time – without it, the world would be a much different place. And a poorer one, I think. It is the beginning of the end of the optimistic future, where we finally realized that everything would not be good forever. And for those of us who were children of those times, that is our expectation – of decay, and of failure, and of faded grandeur caked with grime.

Although we are not there yet, we may soon be. And without films like this, we would have rushed headlong into that dystopia.

It is also the reason you’ll likely see a lot of film noir over the next decade, as people of my generation finally get to start making their own movies.

wikipedia says this about the Bradbury building

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradbury_Building

“……Most notably, the building is the setting for both the climactic rooftop scene of the 1982 cult classic Blade Runner, as well as the set of the character J. F. Sebastian’s apartment in which much of the film’s story unfolds.”