Both film released on June 25th, 1982. Both were box office failures. Why? One too weird and one too scary?

https://gizmodo.com/blade-runner-thing-ridley-scott-john-carpenter-sci-fi-h-1849106223

Or could be their trailers? They don't make anyone run to the cinema to watch these..





I saw both on videotape. Blade Runner was boring. Now I appreciate it more especially after seeing the 6 other versions.

The Thing made me want to vomit when I saw it. I have since come to love its ambiguous story and ending.

I saw The Thing in the theater that summer. I was 14. It had some great moments. Never saw Blade Runner.

Never? You need to see all 7 version once.

Interesting thing is that The Thing was hated on release.

Now revered as a classic and one of my favourite films. It oozes atmosphere. Brilliant.

Blade Runner was radically ahead of its time. Most audiences at the time just didn't know how to take it.

Don't really know why "The Thing" failed at the box office except that it didn't have any major stars on the cast. Kurt Russell was not yet an A list celeb when this came out.

Saw The Thing about '83, '84ish. Absolutely loved it, always have. Bladerunner i never really appreciated until about 5 or 6 years ago, i must have needed the right frame of mind to watch it.

7 ? I can't see that happening. Sci - Fi does not interest me.

I also saw both on release, being not only a sci-fi fan but interested in the practical effects part of it all too. The Thing just went under the radar as an over-the-top horror film. Didn't get any interest outside of horror & sci-fi fans, maybe due partially to the unusual male-only cast.

Blade Runner, despised on release by critics. Of course, you can't find any critics now who will admit to being anything other than recognising of its importance

Like a lot of other movies, these two became classics and favourites upon the rise of the home video which was occurring at that time.

My parents where visiting friends, and just wanted to get me and the other boy out of their hair. They gave us money for the movie, The Thing just happened to be playing.

And it still is
LA doesn't really look anything like it.
Neither do we have attack ships at the Shoulders of Orion, or could watch C-beams near the Tannhauser Gate - even worse, we don't even know yet where the latter would be
And worst, no Rachael, Pris or Zhora Salome in sight

But according to the film, all that should have happened by 2019

There also should have been a major global nuclear war which wiped out almost all animal life on the planet as well as causing constant acid rain so I guess we got lucky in those areas!

On a related note,

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/joe-turkel-dead-the-shining-bartender-1235307950/amp/

More memory lanes trips for y'all wiser members

Alien 1979 43 anniversary was in May (release 5/25/1979)

if you haven't seen Alien 1979, this video has spoiler



Aliens 1986 36 anniversary was 3 days ago (release 7/18/1986)

https://www.tiktok.com/@kevingillespie52/video/7121821069010423046

Fan Edit trailer



Terminator 2 31 anniversary was 2+ weeks ago (release 7/5/1991)

https://collider.com/t2-subverts-terminator-expectations/

Fan Edit trailer, I like how they it doesn't doesn't show the new Terminator or show



and finally, Predator 1987 is 35 years old (release 6/12/1987)

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/predator-arnold-schwarzenegger-35-year-anniversary

Fan Edit trailer

If someone hasn't seen "Alien" by now they are not going to see it.

I contacted Bradbury Building management in mid-2019 to suggest that they host a presentation of Blade Runner in November, 2019, but they said they couldn't get the rights to show it.

That definitely qualifies you as a hardcore fan!

I never saw Blade Runner during its original theatrical run in 1982 but I did see "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" in the movie theater when it was released in 1992 for the 10th anniversary.

I saw "Blade Runner" many times on television throughout the 80s. Absolute classic. Loved it then same as now. Folks back then simply missed out. I never understood why it wasn't more popular--likely because the pacing was so slow? That's about the best I can come up with, however film from the 70s was quite slow paced so "Blade Runner" never felt out of place.

The original had Harrison Ford's voice-over, and I think that may have impacted people's opinion. I remember first seeing it, and thought it looked good, but the voice-over made it feel a little gimmicky. I remember calling it "Replicants Don't Wear Plaid," as a reference to a Steve Martin film that came out about the same time (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid) that was modeled after the 40s detective stories.

Then I saw the Director's Cut in an art house theater and thought, "wow, that was a big improvement!" I think it's after that that it took on a cult status. I wonder, though, if I would have fully understood everything happening in the Director's Cut without having seen the original with the narration.

That indeed is the catch 22 with Deckard’s voice over. The droning gets annoying after a while but a lot of interesting backstory is also provided.

I prefer the version with voiceover--gives the film a very novelesque feel.

I wonder how many people who have seen the movie but not read the short story had any clue about why all the animals in the movie were artificial? Absolutely no explanation was given in the movie with or without Deckard's voice-over.

34 years ago, exactly today, 7/22/1988

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...Hards-Nakatomi-Plaza-34-years-later.html

Original

Christmas

30th Anniversary

Best Of (Spoiler)

The only Die Hard I saw in the movie theater was the third one with Jeremy Irons and Samuel Jackson.

Back on Alien 1979.

Cats (the small ones humans keep in their homes) are the world's top predators. There have no equal, not on land, in the air or in the oceans.

SO Alien will not have worked.

How are you defining top predator?
There are other animals with higher % of successful hunting attempts. Others may argue that man is the top predator.

against what ? cattle and domesticated animals.
good luck mr top predator if you find yourself in the "nature" with only your wits about and no gun, and even with gun you are still at disavantage as many animals can take a few shots and gore you before they die.
or you are unlucky to be bitten by a venomous snake,spider, nasty ants,the wrong fly decides to bite you.

https://scitechdaily.com/house-cats-have-a-much-larger-impact-on-wildlife-than-wild-predators/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...life-animals-predator-prey-a9394791.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/18/8209...impact-on-local-wildlife-than-wild-preda

https://allthatsinteresting.com/killer-housecats

https://www.litter-robot.com/blog/why-felines-are-apex-predators/

https://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/2015/04/24/killer-cat-bird-predator/26297179/

Humans today are useless hunters without weapons and machines.

Oh, I know about the impacts of domestic cats on wildlife (I am quite heavily into wildlife conservation) but I don't agree with "world's top predators. There have no equal, not on land, in the air or in the oceans" which is why I asked how you were defining that (& your links, 3 of which are for the same study, still don't really answer).

It's the ability to make & use tools that has got man to where he is (& also may be the death of it).

A lot of NFB's posts remind me of those sensationalized Youtube video titles you see all the time.

Alien was too scary and disgusting to see twice - and the cat agreed

NFB, thanks for the amusing pictorial addition to a pretty dull topic.

I am a minority here but when I think of Blade Runner I think of Elvis, both highly overrated.

Disagree with the former but agree with the latter. Elvis just happened to be at the right place at the right time.

This is 40 years old: release 5-14-1982.





I've yet to watch it. + to my need to watch list https://www.amazon.com/Conan-Barbarian-Arnold-Schwarzenegger/dp/B0026IYLS6



This is 40 on 10-22-2022.

The original Conan has an absolutely brilliant score by Basil Poleidouris. It's one of my all time favorite film scores.

The score was great but Sandahl Bergman is who I remember the most from that movie.


Wheels

Edit:
Found the soundtrack on YouTube.on Music Z's channel

Conan The Barbarian - (Soundtrack)

Oh man. Most everyone in Conan no longer living. One of them die in auto accident at only 31

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0703211/bio

At least we still have Arnold and James Earl Jones still among us!

Saw this on Tik Tok

https://www.tiktok.com/@therealfactsverse/video/7149192337351200046

Watching it now https://www.amazon.com/Conan-Barbarian-Arnold-Schwarzenegger/dp/B0026IYLS6

Good movie which is surpassed by the film score. Basil Poleidouris turned in a tour de force.

43 years ago 5/21/1980

https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/052123-1200

YT video with spoilers



original 1979 trailer narrated by Han Solo

YT comment

I saw it in the movie theater during its original run and I remember that day very well. I was 7 years old.

You are lucky and blessed.

I remember on the drive back from the theater after seeing The Empire Strikes Back saying, repeatedly, "Man, that was a good movie!" I was 17.

IMHO, ESB is the best Star Wars movie from the entire saga (original trilogy + prequels + all the Disney movies). Among the Disney films, I think "Rogue One" is by far the best.

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What's sad is we haven't had anything Star Wars or ESB big in a couple of decades to release, maybe longer. There have been some big movies, for sure, but nothing as culture shifting for an entire generation. Star Wars literally redefined my childhood. Without, would there have been Gi Joe, Transformers, etc., the way we had them? I don't know. But I sure would love to see a film IP as groundbreaking and impressive come along again, that family members of all ages can enjoy.

ESB still holds up, and stands the test of time. NFB, I suggest you google for the despecialized version of "Empire Strikes Back," download and watch. This way you can enjoy the theatrical release in original, unaltered form.

Since 2000 I can't think of ANY films that come close to the "culture shifting" that you mentioned. Not even Avatar managed to do that and it made 2 billion world wide.

The LOTR series was pretty significant, and helped reinvigorate the medieval fantasy genre, influencing the look of many games like the subsequent Elder Scrolls, and helping spur series like The Witcher and Game of Thrones.

However we'll never see another series as culturally significant as Star Wars because movies themselves are no longer as culturally significant as they once were.

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It was inevitable really. All art forms have their peak and then decline from there. It's just a matter of how quickly that decline progresses and how much.

IMO visual storytelling that's not at least partially interactive is bound to fade out just as radio dramas did.

And opera is going down the same route at least in the US. Once the core audience (upper income people over the age of 60) dies off, I predict that many opera houses will close or will be converted into showing Broadway-style musicals.

I remember the original Star Wars coming out. I was 9. It is the first blockbuster movie I think I saw, at the cinema. I had the soundtrack on vinyl (double album). I guess my Mom thought I would like it. Anything to keep me from those evil Kiss records
I remember the Jaws sensation, but I don't think I saw it until it was on TV.

I don't think opera will go away. The wealthy and high class will continue to partake. Theater has survived for hundreds of years, so I don't think it will vanish. We might move to "holo theater" or something of the sort, but I think the venue will continue.

Great sci-fi will continue, but the big problem is the world has been in a constant state of decline since the 1980s ended, our last golden age, at least in the free(and even communist) world.

It's still hard to believe at times that "Aliens" is now 37 years old. That movie has aged extremely well.

Aliens is one of the greatest cinematic accomplishments in history.

Agreed. Alien and Aliens are timeless classics worth watching over and over again. The rest of the Alien franchise varies from average (worth watching a couple of times) to totally forgettable and not worth watching a second time.

I was 26. I went to see it twice. Once with my father. And then with my then wife. My father and I didn't see eye to eye on much but science fiction was one thing we both agreed on.

34 years ago June 23

https://www.fandom.com/articles/batman-1989-tim-burton-michael-keaton-impact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Bc69q9hXk

I did not see it at cinema. It's one of first movies we watch on our first DVD player in 1998 and it was my first time seeing it. I think the other movie Dad got with our first DVD player was Twister.

How old were you in 1989? That might explain why.

Aliens deleted scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N0jaxb94Fc

Michael Keaton is the best cinema Batman by far. Nobody else comes close.

He makes an excellent Bruce Wayne but IMHO Christian Bale was more convincing as Batman.

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