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was the original blade runner the most overrated movie of all time

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yeah thats a good way of putting it but i never actually lik...
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  01/05/25
Im gay apropos of nothing
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its even worse when you think of 75yo harrison ford with his...
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  01/05/25
Lmao at this planet
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
Actually 100% cr
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Tyty
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lol
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;-)
Silver church blood rage
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It bombed at the box office and received mixed reviews at be...
fluffy floppy twinkling uncleanness
  01/05/25
(Ridley Scott tp)
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The movie people describe when they talk about Blade Runner ...
haunting ebony masturbator
  01/05/25
Now THAT’s what I call scholarship, tyft
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
The thing for me with Blade Runner is that the iconic parts ...
haunting ebony masturbator
  01/05/25
TWIST: Tony Scott was/is a more heartfelt director than Ridl...
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
I think that's actually TCR
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All Christopher Nolan movies except the Dark Knight are the ...
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  01/05/25
Intriguing poast-moniker synergy in the context of this thre...
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
wow
haunting ebony masturbator
  01/05/25
;-)
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
They are overrated but they're also still very good Nolan...
haunting ebony masturbator
  01/05/25
I’ve liked all of Nolans movies but have never seen Op...
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
i thought it was pretty good robert downey jr is excellen...
haunting ebony masturbator
  01/05/25
TYVM for reminding me that XO RDJ is in it… which pro...
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
158
haunting ebony masturbator
  01/05/25
Ty. 🐶
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
The Dark Knight is egregiously overrated both IRL and on xo....
motley pozpig temple
  01/06/25
Bro not flame I love TDK (takes me back to a 180 carefree ti...
Silver church blood rage
  01/06/25
never got the hype
Yellow set
  01/05/25
It was the first big cyberpunk cultural production at a time...
haunting ebony masturbator
  01/05/25
Both of the parentheticals in your poast really made me thin...
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
I once told this app chick Blade Runner is my fav movie and ...
Razzle-dazzle Heaven
  01/05/25
(Alex Turner tp, probably)
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
https://youtu.be/uTQQoavUudQ
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
the Alex Turner from Ahmedabad, actually
Razzle-dazzle Heaven
  01/05/25
1800000000000000000000000000000
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
Naw Bladerunner is a classic
Sable Vibrant Party Of The First Part
  01/05/25
CR.
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
it's a pretty good movie. considering that it performed poor...
Glittery Maroon Theater Son Of Senegal
  01/05/25
Dare I say: tp?
Silver church blood rage
  01/05/25
you have to give it the benefit of context. its reputation f...
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  01/06/25
It's an important and influential movie, to be sure. And it ...
haunting ebony masturbator
  01/06/25
TYVM for prompting a Michel GondryVerse marathon, btw - spea...
Silver church blood rage
  01/06/25
it’s supposed to be a classic detective/noir movie in ...
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  01/06/25
Seconded only to The Deer Hunter
grizzly boyish piazza weed whacker
  01/06/25
no it's a masterpiece that was far ahead of its time
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  01/06/25
Similar to this website in that regard?
Silver church blood rage
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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:46 PM
Author: Self-absorbed community account



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521540)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:47 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

It’s somehow overrated, underrated, and properly rated all in one IMO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521542)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:47 PM
Author: Naked whorehouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521544)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:47 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521545)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:48 PM
Author: Razzmatazz ape



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521547)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:51 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521557)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:50 PM
Author: Self-absorbed community account

yeah thats a good way of putting it but i never actually liked it. "tears in rain" was one of the gayest things ive ever seen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521555)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:51 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

Im gay apropos of nothing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521558)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: elite parlor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521565)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521567)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:56 PM
Author: Self-absorbed community account

its even worse when you think of 75yo harrison ford with his earring

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521587)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:57 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

Lmao at this planet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521591)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:52 PM
Author: elite parlor

Actually 100% cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521563)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

Tyty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521570)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: haunting ebony masturbator



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521568)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521571)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:59 PM
Author: soul-stirring station doctorate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521602)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:00 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521604)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 2:50 PM
Author: Indecent Wonderful Preventive Strike

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48524255)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 3:25 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

;-)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48524383)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: fluffy floppy twinkling uncleanness

It bombed at the box office and received mixed reviews at best. Not really overrated.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521573)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

(Ridley Scott tp)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521576)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:55 PM
Author: haunting ebony masturbator

The movie people describe when they talk about Blade Runner sounds 180 but bears little resemblance to the movie I've actually seen

I do wonder if part of it is that it became so influential that coming to it after the fact makes it feel less potent and maybe but OTOH The Road Warrior was also ridiculously heavily imitated and diluted and it still packs a punch (more than Fury Road IMO, although Fury Road is a great watch too)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521581)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:57 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

Now THAT’s what I call scholarship, tyft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521589)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:02 PM
Author: haunting ebony masturbator

The thing for me with Blade Runner is that the iconic parts people talk about--the weird robot toys, the tears in rain speech, "wake up! time to die!", the opening vouight-kampf (sp?) test scene--are all really great and deservedly iconic.

But the rest of the movie around it is just sort of undifferentiated mush. And it's mush that looks cool, and style goes a long way for me (I love Italian horror, for goodness sake--and that crap is all style)--but there's no 'there' there.

Which is funny because that's also how I feel about Scott's other SF masterpiece, Alien--I don't actually like it very much. And it's the same thing--the production design and science fiction aesthetic is really good and was super influential, and again the famous parts of the movie are actually as great as everyone makes them out to be--but most of the movie is a sort of indifferent, unmotivated blur to me. Which sucks, because I'm a huge horror-mo, and Alien is one of the few horror movies (vis-a-vis other genres) to ascend to canonical status even among non-horror fans, but it just leaves me cold. Whereas Aliens kicks ass. Maybe I'm a Philistine--it's quite possible, even probable--but I just do not like Alien very much.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521617)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

TWIST: Tony Scott was/is a more heartfelt director than Ridley Scott

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521644)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:12 PM
Author: haunting ebony masturbator

I think that's actually TCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521667)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:14 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521679)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:58 PM
Author: elite parlor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521595)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 5:58 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:03 PM
Author: Fishy impertinent foreskin

All Christopher Nolan movies except the Dark Knight are the most overrated ones

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521631)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:10 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

Intriguing poast-moniker synergy in the context of this thread…

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521657)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:12 PM
Author: haunting ebony masturbator

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521668)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:14 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

;-)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521680)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:12 PM
Author: haunting ebony masturbator

They are overrated but they're also still very good

Nolan is probably the only really big-budget filmmaker who's trying to do anything with his big blockbusters that's at all artistic or thought-provoking (maybe Fincher, to a lesser extent, but Fincher isn't working at the level of spectacle like Nolan). And I don't think any of his work is particularly artistic or thought-provoking, but at least there's an effort. Certainly his movies are all very well made, and generally genuinely exciting and engaging. He's a good filmmaker, maybe even a great one.

So for the people who mainly watch capeshit and similar big things, Nolan is probably the highest quality stuff they're consuming. It's like if you went your whole life with Busch Light and Natural Ice and suddenly you had, IDK, a Stella Artois or something. It's not really much more sophisticated, but there is tangible quality, and it's marketed and packaged well, and so you'll overrate it. Doesn't make it bad. But it should just be part of the overall diet.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521665)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:19 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

I’ve liked all of Nolans movies but have never seen Oppenheimer and have no interest in seeing it for whatever reason (Roland Joffe and Paul Newman already made the perfect movie on that subject IMO, but I digress): what would you advise? Worth putting on in the background while browsing ZoZo one of these days? Or is there something to my golden retriever-ish instincts on the subject

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521698)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:23 PM
Author: haunting ebony masturbator

i thought it was pretty good

robert downey jr is excellent

it's long and self indulgent but i thought it was entertaining

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521722)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:26 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

TYVM for reminding me that XO RDJ is in it… which prompts one more question if you don’t mind: what would you rate this music video on a scale from 120 to 180?

https://youtu.be/ufbexgPyeJQ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521729)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: haunting ebony masturbator

158

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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:49 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

Ty. 🐶

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521856)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: motley pozpig temple

The Dark Knight is egregiously overrated both IRL and on xo. Batman Begins was way more interesting IMO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48524269)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 3:31 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

Bro not flame I love TDK (takes me back to a 180 carefree time in my life, also just a great movie IMO) but I completely agree that it’s nothing in comparison to Batman Begins and also TDKRises I think, but to be fair I’m in love with Anne Hathaway circa that movie and the way it ends feels very Heavenly… can’t remember much else from it so I wouldn’t trust my scholarly credentials one way or another 😁

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48524394)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:10 PM
Author: Yellow set

never got the hype

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521661)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:15 PM
Author: haunting ebony masturbator

It was the first big cyberpunk cultural production at a time when that was coming into vogue (in some ways, Alien was sort of proto-cyberpunk, with the 'lived future' aesthetic, the biomechanical stuff, and the vaguely political/dystopic themes).

I really wish I loved it as much as everyone else does, because I like Philip K Dick (and dick in general--I'm gay), and I think science fiction and cyberpunk and such is cool, but it's just sort of 'okay, I guess.'



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521683)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:20 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

Both of the parentheticals in your poast really made me think, Ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521702)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:30 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle Heaven

I once told this app chick Blade Runner is my fav movie and she called me an aspie and stopped replying.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521743)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:30 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

(Alex Turner tp, probably)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521747)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:32 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

https://youtu.be/uTQQoavUudQ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521754)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:32 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle Heaven

the Alex Turner from Ahmedabad, actually

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521755)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:33 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

1800000000000000000000000000000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521759)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:41 PM
Author: Sable Vibrant Party Of The First Part

Naw Bladerunner is a classic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521804)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:50 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

CR.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521863)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: Glittery Maroon Theater Son Of Senegal

it's a pretty good movie. considering that it performed poorly and received generally bad reviews, i'd say it was underrated.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48521993)



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Date: January 5th, 2025 7:59 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

Dare I say:

tp?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48522064)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 2:52 AM
Author: Sinister Shrine Mother

you have to give it the benefit of context. its reputation flows from initially bombing because the filmmaking and tone were so out of the ordinary and yes, ahead of its time. regular people who wanted to see star wars again hadn't seen anything like that and were like WTF when they walked out of the theater. there has been so much shit in pop culture that is knocked off or influenced by the visuals and ideas in that movie that it's hard to conceive of how weird and idiosyncratic it was to popcorn movie audiences in 1982. ridley scott was wild when he was young and creatively dynamic.

popular disdain notwithstanding, the style and themes of this movie were massively influential for years so it's no hyperbole to say it had some visionary quality that resonated with people who make movies. with that in mind, you can easily analogize it to a band that maybe you don't really enjoy or 'get,' but is nonetheless hugely accomplished and blazed some new trail that inspired others. the old thing about the velvet underground being 'a band that not many people heard, but everyone who heard them started a band' is the classic example of this. it speaks to lasting significance and few films achieve that.

so of course it gets overrated to some degree because it has been greedily sucked off by pop culture nerds for credibility and it just becomes an easier reference point as time goes on because it remains in the popular consciousness. that's just what happens to certain creative works that are prominent or foundational in their genres. but its reputation is hardly undeserved.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48522802)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 9:31 AM
Author: haunting ebony masturbator

It's an important and influential movie, to be sure. And it certainly isn't a *bad* movie.

But it is a very hollow movie. Bits and pieces of it are GOAT POTUS science fiction filmmaking (and are great filmmaking in general), but there's just nothing binding it together.

I should probably give it a rewatch--I only saw it once, years ago. Some movies (The Big Lebowski, Be Kind Rewind) didn't work for me on first viewing but on revisiting I recognized the greatness. I might have gone in expecting more of an action movie than I got.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48523179)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

TYVM for prompting a Michel GondryVerse marathon, btw - speaking of Proustian journeys to the simpler past…

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48524403)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: Sinister Shrine Mother

it’s supposed to be a classic detective/noir movie in the sci fi setting. there’s probably way more action in it than necessary or what was in the script because it was a big budget studio movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48525345)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 3:09 AM
Author: grizzly boyish piazza weed whacker

Seconded only to The Deer Hunter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48522808)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: thriller becky principal's office

no it's a masterpiece that was far ahead of its time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48524404)



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Date: January 6th, 2025 3:35 PM
Author: Silver church blood rage

Similar to this website in that regard?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659565&forum_id=2:#48524407)