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   Sentinel to StainlessSteelRat   
   Re: Why do you like Blade Runner?   
   06 Apr 08 18:09:57   
   
   From: darth.vader@empire.gov   
      
   "StainlessSteelRat"  schreef in bericht   
   news:65sanmF2h5hb0U1@mid.individual.net...   
   > Sentinel wrote:   
   >>> A friend asked me this, and it floored me!  Does anyone have a   
   >>> answer to this question, that isn't a novel?   
   >>   
   >> A simple question, yet there's no simple answer to it.   
   >>   
   >> To me BR is the perfect movie. Everything about it is screams   
   >> brilliance: the cast, the sets - the whole visual power of this   
   >> movie, at that - the soundtrack, the subject matter, the atmosphere   
   >> BR creates for me...   
   >   
   > I resemble that. I think I've given similar answers when similar questions   
   > have been asked in the past, albeit I can't quite remember. It just gets   
   > everything so right.   
   >   
   > I'm trying to remember what I wrote here after watching the FC, perhaps it   
   > was something to the effect that the film transcends the usual, it has a   
   > viscerality (probably not a word) that is very rare in film.   
   >   
   >> I've watched the movie well over 160 times so far, and I hope to   
   >> watch it a 160 times more. A movie like this never gets old. Not even   
   >> after 26 years.   
   >   
   > Have you really counted? He asks curiously.   
      
   Not really; it's more of a rough "guesstimate", if you will.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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