How soon can you rent it?
Anyone else?
Taken? The one with Qui Gon Jinn?
Me too. I like the idea that he could be and never know it. “How can it not know what it is?” takes on a whole new level of irony. And I love this bit from Wikipedia’s analysis:
What is the difference between being human and being non-human, if I can be either, and do I need someone else to tell me which I am?
Ten part series with Shatner’s nephew (son? I forget) in-law.
That was basically the whole premise of BSG.
I’ll let you know.
Funny that. ^^
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Son-in-law.
Indeed it was, without the freaky chanting billboards. 
Problem I have with Deckard as a Replicant. Deckard has more emotional maturity than Rachael. But, I suppose he may be comparable to Roy.
It’s how he’s wired.
See what I did there?
He has more experience with real people too. Rachael never left Tyrell’s office until the events of this movie. And as far as having more emotional maturity, does he really? He’s got such a flat affect for most of the film, it’s hard to tell that he even has emotions until half-way through.
Bah.
Btw, a lot of anime take their cues from this movie. There’s a Priss in Bubblegum Crisis who fights mechanoids called Boomers. There’s a guy in Dominion Tank Police who has eyes that makes him reminiscent of the eye make up Priss had.
And, then there’s the futuristic background that who knows how many anime could say they got from Blade Runner.
Fine, fine. I don’t feel that strongly about it. But, I’ve thought of him as human for all these years. I’m also disappointed with the lack of a happy ending, but not as much.
I’ve been sick of happy endings since I was kid. Villains are always so insanely smart, and yet the hero beats them every single time? Real life isn’t like that, so why should movies be?
You’d like anime then. For awhile in the 90s, I was like, “Can the good guys ever win??” d:
I’ve watched a good bit of anime. Outside of anime and horror movies, though, it’s still fairly rare not to see the good guys save the day.
Pulled from my 4.5 star and higher list.
http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/black-lagoon
http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/black-lagoon-the-second-barrage
http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/jin-roh-the-wolf-brigade
http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/kara-no-kyoukai-the-garden-of-sinners
Given our discussion, the endings may kinda be spoiled, but they are still great. d:
Or…another perspective, that Roy realized that he and his experiences had become a universe in it’s own right.
His whole life experience, brief though it was, was still very rich (the candle burning twice as bright analogy). Like all of us, Roy was aghast that the experiences, learnings, wisdom etc that he accumulated through life die with him. It’s probably why we cling to the concept of an afterlife.
Of course there’s always silicon heaven a’la Red Dwarf…
Gaf
After Pris (Daryl Hannah) first meets Sebastian (William Sanderson, she runs away from him, skidding into his car and smashing the window with her elbow. This was a genuine mistake caused by Hannah slipping on the wet ground. The glass wasn’t breakaway glass, it was real glass, and Hannah chipped her elbow in eight places.
Ow…
The ‘snake scale’ seen under the electron microscope was actually a marijuana bud.
Heh.
SPOILER: At some point of the movie, each replicant has a red brightness in their eyes (Rachael in Deckard’s home, Pris in Sebastian’s). Deckard also has the shining in his eyes while talking to Rachael in his house.
I missed seeing Deckard’s eyes shining…
From IMDB.
SPOILER: Originally, Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) was to have a lengthy monologue just prior to his death, as written by David Webb Peoples. Hauer felt this didn’t help in creating any dramatic impact in the scene, so he removed much, keeping the pieces he liked, and then added the last two lines, “All those moments will be lost like tears in rain. Time to die.”