Last night my wife was battling a nasty head cold (and sadly still is, as I write this post). We’d just had dinner (at-home prepared kung pao chicken & rice) and I was feeling a bit antsy for entertainment. My wife and I have a ridiculous-sized collection of movies on DVD and blu ray to…
Tag: #BladeRunner
Retro-futures: reimagining the future from the past up…
Having recently been awed by the superior sequel “Blade Runner 2049” I was intrigued that the future depicted in the film’s 2049 was not a future based from our current 2017. BR2049 shows a 2049 projected from the 2019 we saw in the original “Blade Runner” of 1982. A future complete with ads from now defunct…
A sequel that’s more “Blade Runner” than “Blade Runner”…
Okay, I’ll be honest; this was an idea that I didn’t think would work. In fact, I made a case for why it wouldn’t work on this blog only a few months ago. As a devoted fan of Sir Ridley Scott’s original (arguably his finest-made film), I just didn’t see a need for a sequel…
Visions of Futures Past…
We’re a few years shy of two decades into the 21st century, and I’m a graying, spectacled, middle-aged geek who’s now living in the “future”of his childhood. And so far it’s not quite the future I imagined in my youth. Parts of it still amaze me, but the bulk of it is very underwhelming and more…
The Blade Runner Sequel: “a benefit or a hazard”?
Have to preface this entry by saying that I am a Blade Runner fan(atic). Saw the original on home video in the ’80s, and like many others, it grew on me, slowly but surely. Much later on, I read the Philip K. Dick source novel as well (“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”). I…