boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (07/16/84)
>> ...and one movie (Bladerunner) that was good SF but a mediocre movie. > Whoa, back off. Bladerunner is one of the best movies ever made period, > IF you ignore the voice-over. The Hollywood movie execs killed it by > turning adding the voice-over and turning it into a stupid 1940's style > detective movie.... > > Ray Chen Whoa, back off. How about us guys that *like* 1940's style detective movies?? I, and some friends, thought that part of what made BLADE RUNNER work was that its *film noire* style. I didn't find any problem, per se, with the voice-over being in the film. The only problem was in Ford's delivery of said voice-over. Besides, it wasn't the "Hollywood movie execs" that put the voice-over into the film [talk about conspiracy paranoia]. The fault, if you view it as such, rests in the hands of the scriptwriters and the director. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA