Winston wrote: ↑November 20th, 2021, 10:30 pm
Space Invaders wrote: ↑November 20th, 2021, 11:55 am
I appreciate you posting these Youtube clips. All fantastic, memorable, and very nostalgic. Sad, too.
Well I'm glad we agree on some things at least. And you have good taste in films. What did you think of the Blue Thunder theme I posted above?
Btw remember that scene in Blade Runner where Deckard shoots that replicant woman several times in slow motion as she's running through the glass? That was rad. Very iconic. Also when he shoots the replicant woman at the end doing cartwheels.
Why couldn't the government just let the replicants live a normal life and not terminate them? What was the reason? I forget.
Here's an iconic and touching line from Deckard after the last replicant saves Deckard's life and dies afterward.
"I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life; my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die."
You can see it at the end of this montage video.
Notice how at the end Deckard and Rachel ride off into the sunlight as the dark city transforms to light. It's the same ending as Dark City and Tron Legacy. It seems to symbolized the sacred masculine and sacred feminine being united in an alchemical wedding, like in Gnostic theology.
I don't recall the Blue Thunder theme but I remember the movie and the short lived TV show very well. Roy Scheider was excellent in everything he was in. Airwolf, Knight Rider, Streethawk, MacGyver Fall Guy, A-Team were also also iconic "cool guys playing with cool gadgets" 80s TV shows. Remember the intros to those TV shows? Great music and narration.
Who could forget gorgeous Joanna Cassidy and Daryl Hannah? Costumes and makeup just added to their allure. It was sad to see them killed. In those days, Hollywood made movies where you actually LIKED the bad guys too. In today's movies, you hope the shark eats everybody.
You know, there was never any reason given for why the replicants needed to be terminated. That's a good point you make. I don't remember the line you quoted from the film but it's definitely a good one. As good as the "Tears in the rain" line that everyone knows.
I haven't watched Dark City or Tron Legacy. Of course I have seen Tron, another great 80s SF flick. I read that Jeff Bridges is fighting cancer now. Too bad, I hope he makes it. Great looking guy and a terrific actor.