Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott [1982])

*May contain spoilers.*

So we’re doing thins backwards tonight. First will be the movie review, then the story will be posted later.

Okay, so this movie reminded me a lot of other Sci-Fi things. The opening words made me think Battlestar Galactica, the design of the important buildings and computer systems in the car reminded me of Tron, and the city’s design - with the multi-levels and flying cars - made me remember the city in the ‘new’ Star Wars 2 movie. So the whole movie was like a mash up between several others.

My sister said that it’s a great book, maybe I’ll read it one day.

The topic is cyberpunk. The word to me means the type of characters who are good guys but look bad. It has a look of dirt and grind, and that is how the movie was.

A good choice.

(As a side note: the last ‘Next 6’ that was alive and trying to kill the main character kind of reminded me of the main vampire teen from Lost Boys. And the one for the very beginning reminded me for the Ministry of Magic guy that Ron impersonates in the seventh movie of Harry Potter.)

The last few minutes were. . . odd. They seemed to be fighting forever. I remember thinking three things while watching this part. 1)This fight is really long. 2) If his fingers were really broken then he wouldn’t be moving them like that no matter how much tolerance and adrenalin he has. 3) The ‘bad guy’ is actually going to win?

I admit I kind of wanted to see that happen. I mean, it not like he was really a bad person, just confused. And he wasn’t going to live long past the fight anyway so it did no harm. But alas, he went good and saved that man he was so willingly ready to kill thirty seconds ago. I would like to see the bad guys win for once. I mean, if not, then you should never sigh up to be a villein since you always lose.

Well, there is my impression of the movie. The section is okay. I like some of the movies that at least I would consider cyberpunk so I think it’s good.

First Contact by Murray Leinster and Sci-fi in general

What was awesome about this week was that it was really short. Only 22 pages!

I know that I probably should have read another short story, but after spending nearly 2 weeks on Warbreaker I was ready to just get this weeks reading done with.

I story was interesting. A kind of surveillance-men-frist-in-history-to-meet-aliens kind of story. The conflicts were understandable, the outcome logical. I seemed to me to be like something that might happen with Star Trek. 

I have always enjoyed Sci-fi. My dad loved to watch Star Trek so it was always on and when something is always on you tend to sit down too. When it comes to Star Trek there is dispute in my house. I like Next Generation, my mom likes Enterprise, and my dad likes the original series - or at least I think it’s him, if not then it’s someone else.

And don’t even get me started with Star Wars. To my brother Star Wars is his Lord of the Rings, and you hopefully understand how much I love that series. 

Don’t ask why I like them - I hate that question. I’ll say that I like the characters (who doesn’t think Picard is the best captain) or I like the story, or the real life symbolism. But if you ask me to explain why I like those then I won’t answer.

I could however tell you how much I love the Star Trek movie that was released 2 years ago. I must have watched it at least 12 times by now, literally.

Anyway, now I have to go watch Serenity as the required movie for the week. I’ll try but I also know that this is a movie that is suppose to conclude the series Firefly which my siblings have all seen, but not me. Personally I think that we should watch the Star Trek movie since though it has the same characters, it’s a parallel universe so you don’t have to know the series in order to enjoy it.

But, hey, I’m not the teacher so I’ll try. Though be forewarned that if I I’m really lost after 30 minutes I’m going to abandon it and rant about the Star Trek movie instead.