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how was your first time ...

... watching BR?


i was too young when it hit the theaters. (only know it from small tv-screen)
when i got 18 i went to the video rental store and BR was the first
cassette i lent. (my brother had told me it was great scifi and i only knew star wars till then).
i remember putting the cassette in the vcr and beeing like stunned when i saw the landscape of ridleyville and heard the vangelis-score.
i thought this would gonna happen everytime when i get a scifi-cassette from the store ... and got very disappointed in the future (i didn't know that i got the best one right from the start).

a few weeks later alien and legend ran on tv and i had high expectations on it ... and wasn't disappointed at all.
that was the year i became a real huge ridley-scott-admirer.

yours Blix 'Mortal world turned to ice... Here be goblin paradise! '

See here.

Sorry Richard, i knew that such a topic must already exist but didn't manage to find it. (so the ice was already broken ;O))

You lost your virginity to Blade Runner?

It was sort of artistic metaphor.

I WISH I would have really lost my viginity to BR!

I think Rachael was a virgin until she lost it to a drunken Blade Runner.

(I vote for starting a topic on "Erotic aspects in BR"!)

I was twelve when the movie hit the theatres. I remember seeing the add for the movie in the newspapers and saying I have to see this. I saw it with my father for my birthday and the movie has stuck with me ever since. It has remained my favorite movie of all time and I still watch it and am amazed to this day. It is a classic and shall remain so as far as I am concerned!

a long time ago i went to the local pc games store.
i picked up Blade Runner & Myst. The asked the guy there which one i should take. " have you ever watched BR the movie?" i said no so he told me rather to take myst. I thought he was hiding something so i took BR instead.

To put it simply, Best game i ever played.... almost cried when i finished it though! But then i found the original movie on laser-disk. damn, i treasure it with my life!

BLADE RUNNER FOREVER

I saw on the big screen in 82 as a kid with my whole family, can't remember how they got me into a R movie? It scared the hell out of me, nobody said a word about it afterwards coz we didn't know what to expect and the guess intensity was just too shocking. Obviously a movie well ahead of it's time, I only began to appreciate it several years later and today my sister and I can talk about it for hours on end. I'm sure I've seen it hundreds of times now, both original and directors cut. With bio and computer technology advancing the way it is today BR is looking more and more like an accurate blueprint of what the future holds for us...

I was in High School and my family was pretty broke, but I scrounged enough cash together to go see it. I'd just turned 16 the previous year and so R-rated movies were new to me. The town where I lived at the time was a still only at 11,000 pop. A farming and potato community in the high desert of Oregon.

Believe it or not the in the town where I was living they had a movie theater that had been built in 1937. It was this huge art deco structure that was in dire need of repair. The theater showed only double-features, but any movies that were considered "too strange" didn't hang around long. And any movies we got always seemed to be a month or more later than everywhere elsse....

But 1981 and 1982 were good years for flicks. Dragon Slayer, Excalibur, and Conan the Barbarian, Empire Strikes Back. All good flicks! I was able to see "Blade Runner" as the second showing along side "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (the movie version before it was converted to TV).

While "Buck" struck me as crappy, "Blade Runner" was a work of art. It burned itself into my memory and has been with me ever since. It was "cyberpunk" before "cyberpunk" was coined by William Gibson.

It was simply astonishing!

I can see that. The effects were created by the master as opposed to the pupil. (Dykstra learned from Trumbull)



Hmm. I was reading William Gibson years before BR came out. Johnny Mnemonic I think was the first story I read by him.