[net.movies] Bladerunner and The Bradbury

mclure@SRI-UNIX@sri-unix (07/18/82)

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Did anyone notice that the hotel in Bladerunner where Ford nails some
replicants is the same one in which the Outer Limits episode 'Demon
With a Glass Hand' (by Harlan Ellison) was also filmed where Trent (Bob
Culp) battles with the aliens?  It's called the Bradbury and is
actually located in Los Angeles as in the movie.  I wonder if Ridley
Scott saw the Outer Limits episode.

Another micro-review of Bladerunner: great production values and
effects by Trumbull, awful dialogue and meager acting; however, it is a
refreshing change from the syrupy universes in the Spielberg/Lucas
movies.