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Re:“Blade Runner” has its own look, and a place in film hist... by cpach on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:50AM (#31907644)
It’s not easy for me to think of a scifi movie that I like more than Blade Runner, or Alien/Aliens. The cinematic craft they show is, IMHO, simply stunning.

I enjoy the pace of Blade Runner. Many movies today are just too busy and pointlessly hysterical.

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Re:“Blade Runner” has its own look, and a place in film hist... by zajio1am on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @10:05AM (#31907819)
> I enjoy the pace of Blade Runner. Many movies today are just too busy and pointlessly hysterical.

Agree, Blade Runner has perfect pacing for me. It is not action movie, but i do not expect nor want it to be one. Compared to other classic sci-fi movies like 2001: Space Odyssey, or Tarkovsky's Solaris or Stalker, these are slow-pacing movies.

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Re:“Blade Runner” has its own look, and a place in film hist... by deltaonezero on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @11:30AM (#31908998)
I like blade runner, but I'm one of the people who finds the pacing horrible and I think most people in the general audience agree with me. Blade runner definitely is not blockbuster for this reason.

I sometimes meet people like you and the parent who actually like the pacing of BR and I totally get it. It's like reading a deep novel.

Though I wonder, are you guys able to empathize with why pacing is actually important to the general audience? Was something like Game of Thrones (probably one of the most masterfully paced pieces of cinema) just too "busy?"

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