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Blade Runner
Not the tag line
Never give a skin job an even break
Short plot summary

Deckard kills illegal aliens (replicants) for a living. Then he falls in love with one, in futuristic drab Los Angeles setting....

What our panel of critics thought

"Hello, slurpy yum yum, what a tasty looking number of replicants. I would like to buy one please to satisfy my insatiable sexual desires mmmmmmh"

"The movie is both beautiful and sordid. Both wondrous and depressing. Insightful and yet offers no answers. Shit, it's the last time I buy my dope from that dealer."

"The director's cut is a cheeky beast, filled with scenes to make you wonder about life the universe and everything before going off to McDonalds for a happy meal."

"I bet McDonalds never did a meal tie-in for this movie."

"If this is the thinking man's Star Wars, which one is Chewbacca?"

"I majored in artificial intelligence and this movie still f-words my brain up."

"Rutger Hauer is pure sex on a dick."

"Daryl Hannah, a kick boxing Goddess before we even knew what that was. Her performance was such an improvement on her effort in Splash. Thankfully, she kept herself away from saltwater this time or her mermaid incapacity could have come back to haunt her. Bravo!"

"You can watch this movie any number of times and on each viewing you get something else out of it. Or is it because they keep bringing out new versions? I can never tell. I am still waiting for the Directors ultimate cut, where the replicants win in the end."

"There is so much about this movie I still yet do not understand - the bit where he zooms in on the picture for instance, where he takes a hard copy, what is that all about?"

"Wonderfully murky and unpredictable."

"Oh the benefit of hindsight be gone! How were we to know that the snakey replicant would end up with such a successful career in tv's LA Law all those years later. As we always say in the theater: It's not where you start it's where you finish! Wonderfully supple kicking, dear."

"Fashion: Who would have ever thought of having a completely see through coat? Well it's in this movie. Ridley Scott you devil for putting a scantily clad woman beneath such a creation. Years before your time!"

"Oh dear, did I see the Atari symbol in this movie? Such lack of forethought Mr Scott they went bust in the 1980's!"

"A veritable cornucopia of seedy sights, of floundering vixens in scantily clad-edness, of wonderfully slow motioned subtle back flips and all the semi-frottage possibilities that offers. One does not need to wonder for too long, because Mr Scott has captured the essence in this movie. However, you can be sure, if there is ever a smelly-vision version of this movie I will run my ass off to get away from it. If there is a movie made to look good but smell bad, it is this one."

"If there is a weather condition for this movie it is rainy. Shot entirely at night, it is a grim reminder that not all science fiction is as sparkling as Star Wars."

"Voight-Kampff, is that a clever play on words, I can't tell."

"Tasty but not edible."

"Hannah gives a whole new meaning to the term two black eyes."

Please tell me the ending or whole plot if necessary

Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a replicant himself. He doesn't know this until he sees a unicorn which reminds him of one of the preprogrammed memories given all replicants to make them think they are real.

Deckard is hired to kill a number of replicants, which he does. One of which he falls in love with - Rachel. Rachel also did not know she was a replicant until Deckard did the iris test (Voight-Kampff) on her.

One of the replicants, Roy, fights back (Rutger Hauer). Whilst he dies in the end, before he does so he gives the famous 'shoulder of Orion speech' (below) which apparently was written a couple of hours beforehand and had audiences passing out due to its beauty (or this could be PR spin, we are not sure).

Quotable quotes (real)

"I want more life, f-worder."

The shoulder of Orion speech: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain... Time to die."

What snack should I eat while watching this movie?

Chocolate moose with a plastic spoon, or soft cheese - if anything crunchy then ensure the subtitles are on to avoid missing the dialogue.

Alternative casting suggestions
Deckard - Adam Sanders
Roy replicant - Steve Austin (WWF)
First replicant to be given the iris test - Stan Laurel
Daryl Hannah's character - Divine/Dame Edna Everage
Suggest marketing tie-in products based on this movie
"I'm with this replicant" t-shirt
Deckard soap on a rope
Roy Replicant action doll (or life size inflatable sex doll - includes pint of Guinness)
Daryl Hannah action doll (or life size inflatable sex doll)
The Daryl Hannah Blade Runner make-up-spray-on-kit for the 4-7yrs age range
On screen bloopers left in? (including continuity errors)

When the snake performer wraps the beast around her shoulders, you can briefly see a Made in Taiwan ticket.

Would this movie win awards for performances of the f-word?

Yes. Expect world class performances of the f-word in this movie. A triumph.

The part where Roy replicant confronts Tyrel (his creator) with the immortal line: "I want more life.... squirrel-dick-f-worder, you f-wording triple f-word faced f-wording f-worder" is very wry.

Other comments
Definite top 100 movie, possible top 20, could be higher.

The movie grows on you after a number of viewings - we believe this is a sign of a great movie, but it could be because we watch a lot of movies in our drug down time.

Not a feel good movie.
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