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From: lwe3207@acf4.UUCP (Lars Warren Ericson)
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Subject: Re: bladerunner
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Date: Sat, 18-May-85 02:39:00 EDT
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Bladerunner would probably have been a lot more commercially successful
if they left out about 2 seconds of finger-breaking at the end.  Grossed
me out, more than the rest of the guts and gore, because it was sufficiently
nonstandard and personal to penetrate my TV-induced desensitization to
the effects of bullets and falls.  The rest of the film was beautiful,
especially the effect of the LA set in the beginning.  Could have used
more plot and less visuals, however, as the theme music and swooping around
got a bit repetitive.  I think without the gross-out I would have remembered
more of the nicer details of the rest of the film, and I probably would
have seen it several more times (saw it 2-3 times).

Of course, I am always amused by deft characterizations of computer
scientists.  The robot maker (the little guy, not one who played the head of
IBM) in Bladerunner and Chandra in 2010 are both excellent in that regard.

Lars Ericson
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