Actually, that’s a really bad title for this post. I’ve been enjoying my last days before school starts, by not doing much. I’ve been AFK for a while, hanging out with friends, doing the usual. Right now it’s pretty nice out, 65 degrees and windy, feels nice (I’m writing this at 2am, lol). None of you guys care about that, though, since you are all antisocial losers. So let’s talk movies. I’ve been watching a whole bunch because I recently got a netflix account.

I’ll start with Blade Runner. I did not see the original; the version I got was the final cut, I have no idea if this makes any difference or not (Someone please tell me if it does). A little background: The movie takes place 2019 (LOL, It was written in the 80’s, ok?) In Los Angeles. Though it looks nothing like Los Angeles today, everything is in Chinese, majority of people are asian, the streets are overcrowded and polluted and generally the atmosphere of this movie was amazing, but dark. You could really see the advancements on technology, and their dependence on it. You also learn that everybody (with money) immigrated from earth after a dubbed “World War III”. The world looked generally shitty, almost post apocalyptic. It’s hard to explain with words. Humans created Androids/Robots that mimicked humans, called replicants. They were equal in intelligence to the engineers the created them, and obviously had better strength and agility than humans. They were used for off-world slave labor, and eventually they rebelled. They were banned from ever returning to earth on punishment of death, called a retirement. The police that hunt these replicants are called Blade Runners.

Now while this story is interesting and in-depth enough, and the atmosphere is great: The delivery is horrible. The movie follows a Blade Runner named Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) as he is called in and told to track five replicants, they all had specific tasks but I only remember the two main ones: the combat model and the pleasure model. The movie starts with a man interviewing a replicant, with a illogical empathy test. Replicants eyes do weird shit when they take this test, which is how they find them. Afer the replicant is found out he shoots the tester in the face, and runs off. Lot’s of cuts, and the directing made this movie real slow, I ended up talking to my parents (Who were watching it with me) about how different everything was, and how people thought of this shit back then, and why we didn’t have flying cars yet. Many other random things too. The slow pace really threw my family off-track, so we didn’t really know what was going on for about 10 minutes. Plus it was like 12am and we were tired. There was many unneeded scenes, the only action was him shooting the replicants (except towards the end), no romance at all, and thin dialogue (When dialouge happens, it’s pretty good though). There was a few humorous scenes, like when he parked his car and a few kids walked over and started taking parts off of his car, and he speeds off. That added to the atmosphere too. If you can somehow make it to the end, it has a great twist. Overall it was a pretty bad movie, directing wise. Could of been good, but it wasn’t. Don’t watch unless you’re really interested in the story, bored, and have nothing else to do. 3/10. (If you want to see more of the atmosphere, just click this, and you’ll get an idea)

The next movie I saw was called They Live, it was directed by John Carpenter, and sounded good. It was one of the worst movies i’ve ever seen, so i’m not going to waste my time reviewing it. It has the funniest fight scene ever though.

As you can see from my netflix screenshot, I also saw Equilibrium. I heard this movie was really great, and well done from many people. I thought it was pretty good, but it was just so unrealistic and didn’t focus enough on the underground/resistance part of the film. I didn’t feel connected to any characters except the dog they were about to kill (;-;) either. Basically the movie is a mix of 1984, The Matrix and maybe some other dystopian films. This world, also takes place after a Third World War, except humanity decided they could no longer fight eachother. The only cure (obviously), was to stop all human emotions, which is done by injecting this drug into your neck. The world is ruled by the Tetragrammaton Council which is lead by a Big Brother like figure called “Father”. They want to create identical lives for every human being and they use their massive police force to enforce it. All forms of art, books, painting, tables, etc.. are banned by them. If you are caught with them you are incinerated, which is equivalent to being burned alive. They also burn all forms of art they find. Despite the councils attempts though, a underground civilization exists, which is also a resistance movement hence “The Underground”. The movie follows “Christian Bale” (I cannot remember protagonists name) the highest ranking Cleric in the police forces. Early on you see him unrealistically killing 10-12 resistance members matrix style, and burn artwork. His partner is found to be reading a book, and he stopped taking his drugs. He is incinerated. The Cleric decides to not take his drugs. That’s the base of it, he fools the police forces, gets thrown into the underground, and attempts to assassinate father. The combat was kinda ridiculous, but the story was alright. I would go more in-depth like I did with Blade Runner, but it’s kinda late. 6/10.

Aside from movies, I’ve been watching Battlestar Galactica, and to anyone who likes Sci-Fi/Drama TV shows, I highly recommend it to you. Great, great show. I only got about 4 episodes left though. :(

I guess this post is about movies, I’m too tired to write more. I’m off to bed.

StzA out.

P.S: If someone offers you drugs in the hallway at highschool, say no. It’s probably laced.