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Originally Posted by thebluerider
I've never truly understood all the Blade Runner love. That movie just makes me want to go to sleep.
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I totally get what you're saying. It took me a while to appreciate some of what BLADE RUNNER does. Aside from being highly emulated, it's a beauty to watch and delves into deep territory. The nature of humanity is explored.
It's so multi-textured. Sometimes I like to view it with Deckard, being a Replicant, gettting road-tested as the very first perfect artificial human being. Everyone is in on it except for Deckard and us. Meanwhile, some real-life conflicts wage on around him as he investigates what is essentially his own nature.
What I liked best about the film is that I drew something different from the film each time. It's very dynamic in that way. Heck, you can make the argument he's completely human the entire time and still have some kernel of truth.
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I know it's anime, but Ghost in the Shell is a great sci-fi movie as well.
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I would rate AKIRA higher than GHOST, but much of my opinion is informed by the respective mangas. AKIRA was a behemoth in terms of science fiction concept whereas I felt GHOST was more about Masamune Shirow's extensive foray into the marriage of society and technology. Still, with the Puppet-Master we do enter the realm of life and whence it begins its existence. For my tastes, director Mamoru Oshii made it too philosophical and self-important. He took all the fun away, and that goes doubly so for the sequel. Fantastic art, corpulent pacing.
