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MemberOvomorphMay-31-2012 12:25 PMA quote form a review:
" The other actors do what they can faced by the swirling, well drilled logistics of the piece. There's not enough writing for the proper characterisation, not enough plot development for the mind as well as the senses to bite on. But for sheer theatricality, if one can apply that word to the cinema with out insulting it, it is difficult to beat - even without that substance which might just have put it up there with the great movies of the genre."
Derrick Malcom, the Guardian.
his review of Alien, 1979.........
Sound familar to what we are hearing fom the critics now? Go see the film, dont let the critics, fans included, spoil it for you.
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artyoh
MemberOvomorphMay-31-2012 5:08 PMpffft...I'd be more concerned if [i]all[/i] the critics were raving about it. Now[i] that[/i] would be worrisome.
So pumped for next Thursday night.
Juxtapose
MemberOvomorphMay-31-2012 12:36 PM....even the people who did not like it want's to see it again...that's a good sign and currently @ rotten tomatoes the movie is at 88%...with 17 reviews...2 rotten...15 nice and ripe!
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MemberOvomorphMay-31-2012 12:45 PMAnother review:
" Science-fiction devotees may find it to be a wonderfully meticulous movie and marvel at the comprehensiveness of its vision. Even thos without a tatse for gadgetry cannot fail to appreciate the degree of effort that has gone into constructing a film so ambitious and idiosyncratic. The special effects are superb. And its also a mess, almost nothing is explained coherently, the plot has great lapses form the changeable nature of one key charcter to the frequent disappearances of another. Mr Scott who made his mark in Alien by showing a creature bursting forth from the body of one of its victoms, tries hard to hit the same mark here. The end of the film is both gruesome and sentimental. Mr Scott cant have it both ways, anymore than he can expect overdecoration to carry a film that has neither strong characters nor a strong story."
Is that how you would review Blade Runner? because that is how Janet Maslin from the New York times felt back on June 25th/ 1982
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