1/29/2008

Movies on Pay per View

Movies and shit

OK, so I seen the new and improved directors cut of Blade Runner: "Blade Wanderer"" would be more accurate. The undisciplined and meandering "director's cut" has no focus and reveals the story to be ordinary at best. I have yet to see a "director's cut" that was better than the one the suits forced upon the genius director so the movie might actually attract an audience and make money. In this case Ridley Scott fell in love with every "money shot" and abandoned any pretext of making a movie an audience might actually like.

Eastern Promises: OMFG, this is a real honest to God gangster movie and because real gangsters are in reality vicious psychopaths, sociopaths, and unfeeling primordial beasts of prey this well made movie is really tough to take. No Tony Sopranos, John Garfields, Bogart gangsters with a heart, these are simply beasts. The movie focuses on the released Russian prison gang members that are now running rampant in New York and Los Angeles. I love gore and violence but I guess I love obviously pretend gore and violence. And the fight to the death at the end is just as real as real can be, the best movie fight ever, but I was hiding my eyes. Good? Yes, but as hard to watch as your baby being killed.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am a fan of the original version of Blade Runner. The second version was so so, and I'm not going to bother with the third. Is it possible to get a DVD version of the original?

Howard said...

Original is available in LA at Rocket Video on La Brea, just north of Beverly, but I understand that the print has decayed. A third Blade??? Spare me