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First, it's bizarre.   Bizarre in a fantastic fuck-your-genres way.  Some thousands of years in the future, soon after the conclusion of serious galaxywide warring, people discovered that terrible atrocities had been committed upon a fragile alien race on the planet Damiem.  The beautiful and sentient aliens, when tortured, exude a substance that ( Read more... )

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The plot was seriously porn-esque.  Sex figured largely in "Press Enter" and "The Persistence of Vision," but it contributed to the characters and themes.  Here, sex just shows up randomly with porn-bop beats.

The setting read like a description of an engineering diagram, as in "twelve cables twenty kilometers in diameter rose from the ground at ( Read more... )

It's a good thing I've never seen this movie in the theater because I can't keep my bitching on the inside. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a profound and miraculous book, if deeply fucked up. The first time I saw Bladerunner, I was furious at Ridley Scott's bastardization. The only connection to the book is that there's this guy Deckard ( Read more... )