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Blade Runner (1982)
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh Daryl Hannah

In the film there are many movies that, for whatever reason, were not received as deserved by critics and / or the public when it premieres, but history has finished putting in place. Then there are those movies that also received lukewarm, with the passage of time, has finally become icons without knowing very well for what reason, although in these cases usually guess a "black hand" as a marketing move and manipulation of masses of Joseph Goebbels you laugh.

I admit that Blade Runner has never been my cup of tea. When the movie was released in 1982, and despite being by then a budding cinéfago, I did not go with my brother (big fan of science fiction) to see in the cinema experience by the way, and as if it were a warning to me, came out pretty disappointed. In the '90s, however, things had changed and Blade Runner had become a cult phenomenon, not the masses, and to the expectation raised by the premiere of "director's cut" I decided at last to see her. And I very nearly fell asleep, something that has happened to me only hours watching Before Night Falls and The Two Towers, and see that I've swallowed infumables clunkers in the cinema ...

The passing years have followed, and in 2008 the phenomenon Blade Runner has become a full-fledged sacacuartos, as evidenced by the successive "director's cut" brought to the fore by Ridley Scott under any excuse to hide their true and evil intentions, acting in the style of George Lucas: squeeze the goose that lays the golden eggs at the expense of the millions who idolize pajilleros tape all over the world. Mindful of that, however clever one is created, life is not perceived as at 17 to 34 years, I recently decided to grant him a new opportunity to film. Total, which in my local library I was lucky to find available what Mr. Scott calls grandly as the "final assembly" (allow me to laugh) and I took it home, through the cap and for two weeks half weeks instead of the usual, as the building was closed for renovations. Expected to know whether there was "something" that prevented me from understanding the movie and judge it as it deserves, as claimed by many of my acquaintances and friends.

If there is one word to describe this is Blade Runner "suckling pig." Because he is. Certainly, as a good thriller with shades of noir, is expected to have a slow rate, but this truly is too much. A good genre film scene has to be responsible for giving rate (and where appropriate pass) to a story anchored by a solid script, capable of maintaining at all times tense audience, waiting for any surprise. In Blade Runner is all a plot contrivance to hide tiresome, boring and predictable, in which the action scenes almost seem to be "filler" because apart from being poorly resolved in more than one occasion, just add anything interesting to the plot other than the fact of giving the viewer a slap in the face, as if to warn him that "hey man, hustler, finally something happens," and that "morale, and there is less to an end this pain in the ass" Harrison Ford ever dispatched to shift Replicant. Even the final showdown is spared: there are chapters that convey more tension Heidi that end, and details that could bring real juice to settle the interest of the plot (such as whether or not Deckard is a Replicant ) are sadly wasted. Although by then we are so boring that we almost care less that the protagonist is human, alien or member of the PP. The only thing that really pays off is the technical piece, and in particular the outstanding work of the best special effects technician in the field has given the whole history of cinema: Douglas Trumbull. His work is in large part, responsible for the unique and unforgettable beauty of the film.

'm Very sorry for my acquaintances and friends, I do not understand the reason for such idolatry around what not unlike a bodriete. No wonder the public in 1982, certainly more demanding and much better range than the current film, give him back, nor does it surprise me desperate changes made by the producer to try to save the furniture with which approaching (pre-release passes were nothing short of disastrous.) My lack of sync with the film is absolute and is not a simple matter of taste, because to me this kind of film I really like, and the feeling of "great idea fatally wasted" no longer go to my head. Like many other media phenomena of our time (Dragon Ball TV, The torpor of the Rings literature ...) Blade Runner is an over-inflated balloon, and hides behind more "snake-charming" than anything else. It reminds me a bit to the story of Emperor's New Clothes, where only a few people without fear of going against the masses grazed dare to see the forest beyond the trees. I, of course, if I have to choose I prefer something like Starship Troopers (DVD extras which are juicy sea of course), a film much more honest in their claims, much more entertaining and a reading between the lines full of bad baba. Blade Runner is clear that a bore I think clearly very overrated, but it is far from a truncated, even with its flaws. We must not deny its merits (which of course has them) and his enormous influence on modern cinema. It just happens that one thing is that, and quite another to attempt to whitewash a wall with the film becoming straw . But opinions asses and everyone likes, hear.

And now lapídenme mercilessly come.