Fri Dec 17, 2004 12:44 pm by ridleynoir
Both "Blade Runner" and "5th Eliment" were directly influenced by Heavy Metal magazine(Metal Hurlant in France) especially Moebius....(see Future Noir pg.74 and BFI Modern Classics pg.18 ). Moebius(Jean Geraud) also did the space suit designs for "Alien". I believe Luc Besson wanted to do something even more like the magazine than BR itself. He recreated the feel of that magazine very well and I believe went away from the BR style clones that we usually see. I therefore refute any idea that 5th Eliment was basicly a BR copy since it's connection is mostly just Heavy Metal magazine and Moebius in which 5th eliment was truer to. I also very much enjoyed 5th eliment but in a totally different way than BR. One of the things that I see alot on message boards that annoys me are those sweeping statements like "that movie completely sucked"...and "worst movie ever". Every body is entitled to their opinion, and in my opinion chances are if you make a statement like that you have not opened yourself up to the full experience of the movie(or what ever)and have only seen it on a superficial level. If I stopped at my first impression of Blade Runner I would not be here today for sure.
