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The Favourites: Christmas Edition
by Mark Verstappen- 1 reply
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The Favourites: Christmas Edition Come and join us on Wednesday 28th of december at 20:00 UK Time on PS4* for The Favorites! Just turn up to the Christmas tree on Legion Square in your favorite reable car where we will hopefully drive in the snow. We will determine who has the best nicest car brought to the meet before we start races where each participant can select their car and track combination they like to race! We will all race the car the player selected against eachother. The person choosing the car will have to own the car and share it unless he picks a stock car to race Pick whichever you think people should get a taste of or should suffer i…
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Tulip Redemption & Tahoma Comeback
by Mark Verstappen- 2 replies
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Tulip Redemption & Tahoma Comeback Come and join us on Wednesday 21st of December at 20:00 UK Time on PS4* to give a nice end the the shortest day of the year! Just turn up to the parking garage of the Rockford Mall wither either vehicles to complete your christmas shopping, enjoy some races & company. NOTE: The 18th is the Final day you can get the Tahoma Coupe FOR FREE. We will find out who has the best American 2 door before we start a playlist to determine who gets to play Santa at the mall! We will be using custom Tulip M-100's & Tahoma Coupe against each other, but dont worry if you dont have either as we can share where needed.…
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Yes, your eyes do not deceive you! For one night and one night only, this unconventional driving challenge returns for the first time in almost 2 years for its 5th installment. Join me as I guide you across the wild and challenging terrain of Los Santos' East Coast, with a route that promises to take you and your vehicle to the extremes! While no vehicles are outright banned (except flying / weaponised ones that are pretty obvious), I'd ask that you take something that is not going to be overpowered - in the spirit of the event and for your own enjoyment! I really hope to see some old faces there as this promises to be a pretty nostalgic one! Event s…
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Wide Beemers
by Mark Verstappen- 2 replies
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Wide Beemers Come and join us on Wednesday 6th of December at 20:00 UK Time on PS4* for Wide Beemers! Just turn up to the upper parking lot of the Banner Hotel on Alta Street with your Sentinel Classic Widebody. We will determine who has the best Sentinel Classic Widebody before we start a playlist to determine the winner of the widebodies! We will be using custom Sentinel Classic Widebodies, but dont worry if you dont have one as I do and am willing to share. 😄 Post below to get involved! Verstappen Mulder Warriors *Subject to change depending on people with available platforms & who will all be there. 🙂
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Mystery Car November 2022
by Mark Verstappen- 2 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 16th of November at 20:00 British time. We will start out in free roam from the Horney's Burgers' parking lot from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it, if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bellend. Post below to get involved with your available…
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Evil Weevil 🎃
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Evil Weevil 🎃 Come and join us on Wednesday 2nd of November at 20:00 UK Time on PS5* for some Weevil racing! Just turn up to the bottom layer of the western parking garage of LSIA in either a Weevil Custom. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist for some fun racing! We will be using custom cars, but dont worry if you dont have one as we will be running the races in GTA mode to be able share cars. Post below to get involved! Verstappen Warriors *Subject to change to PS4 depending on people with available platforms & if Dave will make it. 🙂
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Cinquemila vs Rhinehart
by Mark Verstappen- 1 reply
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Cinquemila vs Rhinehart Come and join us on Wednesday 19th of October at 20:00 UK Time on PS5* for some Sedan racing! Just turn up to the western parking garage of LSIA in either a Cinquemila or Rhinehart. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist for some fun racing! We will be using custom cars but dont worry if you dont have one as I do and am willing to share. 😄 Post below to get involved with your preferred car! Verstappen (Rhinehart) Mulder (Cinquemila) Warriors Dave Alex *Subject to change to PS4 depending on people with available platforms & if Dave will make it. 🙂
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Oktoberfest Wed 5th Oktober.
by SkyeDave- 3 replies
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Is it about beer? Is it about German cars? Is it just because it's an even in October and Dave is struggling for a catchy title? Come along and find out this Wednesday 5th at 8pm UK time. PS5 We will be racing a variety of cars on a variety of tracks. Highlights will include the Hao's works prepared Arbiter GT around American Gran Park, The LM87 around the Nurburgring and the new Kanjo SJ around the Kortz Centre. We'll also pit the acceleration and straight line speed of Hao's Vigero ZX against the handling and cornering prowess of the Buffalo STX round the LS Airport Infield Raceway. All this and more.
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ZX!
by Mark Verstappen- 1 reply
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ZX! Come and join us on Wednesday 28th of September at 20:00 UK Time on PS5* for ZX! Just turn up to the parking lot of Mirror Park Tavern with your Vigero ZX. We will determine who has the best ZX before we start a playlist to determine the tamer of the Torero ZX! We are planning on racing with HSW turned off although we might change this somewhere during the night depending on what people would like. We will be using custom Vigero ZX's but dont worry if you dont have one as I do and am willing to share. 😄 Post below to get involved! Verstappen Mulder *Subject to change to PS4 depending on people with available platforms…
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Survive the Hunt 5
by Mark Verstappen- 2 replies
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Survive the Hunt 5 Come and join us in Survive the Hunt, where the aim is to... Well... Survive the hunt! On Wednesday 21st of September 20:00 UK time on PS5 or PS4 depending where the most players are. Starting from the parking lot next to the the Xero Gas warehouse near LSIA. What is Survive The Hunt? Essentially, Survive The Hunt is a freeroam game mode where one player is "hunted" by 8+ other players. There is no radar, HUD or name-tags in order to make this a bit more interesting. While there is no set tactic, the most popular and effective one is for the hunted player to "blend in" with the game AI - either on foot or in a car. This means obeying traffic…
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Cayo Perico Series
by Mark Verstappen- 2 replies
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Cayo Perico Series Come and join us on Wednesday 24th of August at 20:00 UK Time for Cayo Perico Series! Just turn up to the LSIA Cayo Perico terminal with vehicle you'd like to race the move on Cayo Perico. We will determine who has the nicest vehicle before we start the races! We will be using custom Any vehicle of your choice. But dont worry if you dont have one thats chosen as we can share at the start. Post below to get involved! Preferably with your available platforms. Verstappen (PS4 & PS5) Warriors (PS4 & PS5) Mulder (PS4 & PS5)
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XO!
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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XO! Come and join us on Wednesday 17th of August at 20:00 UK Time for XO! Just turn up to the parking lot of Premium deluxe Motorsport with your Torero XO. We will determine who has the best XO before we start a playlist to determine the toreador of the Torero XO! We will be using custom Torero XO's but dont worry if you dont have one as I do and am willing to share. 😄 Post below to get involved! Preferably with your available platforms. Verstappen (PS4 & PS5) Warriors (PS4 & PS5) Mulder (PS4 & PS5)
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Criminal Enterprises Racing
by Mark Verstappen- 4 replies
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Criminal Enterprises Racing Come and join us on Wednesday the 3rd of August at 20:00 UK Time for Criminal Enterprises Racing! Just turn up to the parking lot of the Golf Club in your favorite released newly release or updated car. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine the best Criminal Racer! We will race the currently released cars from the Criminal enterprises Update (or updated cars). Each race will feature only one of the cars so we can all try them out equally. Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the eligible cars, we can spawn cars in for you where needed. Post Malone to get involved!…
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Dinky Winky! (PS4)
by Mark Verstappen- 2 replies
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Dinky Winky! Come and join us on Wednesday 6th of July at 20:00 UK Time on PS4 for Dinky Winky! Just turn up to the beach in East Los Santos under the highway Bridge with your Winky. We will determine who has the best Winky before we start a playlist to determine the Winky King! We will be using custom Winky's but dont worry if you dont have one as I do and am willing to share. 😄 This may also involve races which are not regular circuit races. Post below to get involved! Verstappen Warriors Mulder
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Mystery Car June 2022 (PS4)
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 15th of June at 20:00 British time. We will start out in free roam at the Burger Shot parking lot from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bellend. Post below to get involved! Verstappen Mulde…
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Rigged Random Car Extravaganza: Rockstar Games Special!
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Come and join us on Wednesday 20th of October at 8 PM British time for the Rigged Random Car Extravaganza: Rockstar Games Special! After accidentally driving the forgotten Seven-70 last week I thought it was only fitting (and time) to see what wacky, fast, slow, stupid cars the game will give us again. After a meet up in free roam at the tennis courts on Vespucci Beach we will launch into a playlist of races where you will only know what car we will be racing each race when we get to the car selection screen. Each class is determined by a random number generator. After this when we are in the car selection screen i will press the 'random car' button and we will…
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Big Paulie's Budget Car Night!
by SkyeDave- 4 replies
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Tired of all this chat of Liberty City coming to GTA online? Big Paulie is and he says, if you can't come to Liberty City, he's gonna bring Liberty City to you! Come join as at the LS docks this Wednesday where we'll meet a familiar face fresh off the boat from Liberty City who has brought some of the cars from GTA IV over for us to race in LS. We'll be racing OG classics such as the Dukes, Vigero, Primo, Blista Compact, Stallion, Futo, Sabre Turbo, Ruiner, Ingot, Stratum, Intruder, Habanero, Patriot, Oracle XS, and Rhapsody as well as others that I've forgotten and you can remind me about. Hopefully Paulie is going …
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Peashooter! 🟢
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Peashooter! 🟢 Come and join us on Wednesday 18th of May at 20:00 UK Time on PS4 for Peashooter! Just turn up to the parking lot north of the gas station in Mirror Park. We will be racing Ardents as you before not used to be able to race them. R* only allows stock ones but that means no-one has to buy anything! 🥳 For this event the person in each race to finish lowest in an Ardent will have to drive a stock Turismo Classic. If you win in the Turismo Classic you switch back to the Ardent. This may also involve races which are not regular circuit races. Post below to get involved! Verstappen Dave Warriors Mulder
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The Paleto Bay Tourist Board Presents.....
by SkyeDave- 4 replies
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Come join us this Wednesday 11th May at 8PM uk time on PS4 for the 30th Annual Paleto Festival. It's not just about the the Monster Trucks! We'll be racing Go karts, motorbikes, R/C cars, jet skis, as well as the usual tuners, sports, muscles and classics all in and around the streets, forest and cove of Paleto Bay.
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Sharknose! 🦈
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Sharknose! 🦈 Come and join us on Wednesday 4th of May at 20:00 UK Time on PS4 for Sharknose! Just turn up to the parking lot behind the Chinese restaurant near the Vespucci Helipad in a Zion Classic. We will determine who has the best taste in cars before we start a playlist in Zion Classics to determine who is the Sharknose King! We will be using custom Zion Classics but dont worry if you dont have one as I do and am willing to share. 😄 This may also involve races which are not regular circuit races. Post below to get involved! Verstappen Mulder Catman Warriors
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Something with Compacts! Wed 27th.
by SkyeDave- 5 replies
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Come join us this Wednesday 27th April 8pm uk time when we'll be doing something imaginative with the compact class. I was holding off because I thought there was some kind of update today but it's turned out to not be very much so I figure we can just race from the oft forgotten compact class round the tight and twisty stuff.
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Survive the Hunt 4
by Mark Verstappen- 2 replies
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Survive the Hunt 4 Come and join us in Survive the Hunt, where the aim is to... Well... survive the hunt! Wednesday 20th of April 20:00 UK time starting from the bottom layer of the eastern LSIA Parking garage. What is Survive The Hunt? Essentially, Survive The Hunt is a freeroam game mode where one player is "hunted" by 8+ other players. There is no radar, HUD or name-tags in order to make this a bit more interesting. While there is no set tactic, the most popular and effective one is for the hunted player to "blend in" with the game AI - either on foot or in a car. This means obeying traffic laws, following the road at an AI-ish pace, stopping at traffic lig…
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Audience Participation Playlist, Wed 13th PS4
by SkyeDave- 8 replies
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The Wednesday 8PM we'll run an mixed playlist where we take it turns to choose which car and class we race on some of our favourite tracks. We'll run GTA race or stock cars so no matter if you don't own anything specific. (I don't own anything except a Zion because I transferred to PS5).
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The Fastest Car
by Mark Verstappen- 2 replies
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The Fastest Car Come and join us on Wednesday 6th of April at 20:00 UK Time on PS4 for 'The Fastest Car'! Just turn up to the parking lot in the middle of the Vinewood Racetrack in any car. We will determine who has the best taste in cars before we start a playlist in what everyone thought was the fastest car in 2013 to determine who is the Adder King! We will be using stock Adders for this so you dont need to prepare a car. Post below to get involved! Verstappen Mulder Warriors
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Coupé Kings
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Coupé Kings Come and join us on Wednesday 30th of March at 20:00 UK Time on PS4 for Coupé Kings! Just turn up to the parking lot of the small str*p mall two blocks east of the Rockford Mall in any Coupé. We will determine who has the best taste in cars before we start a playlist to determine who is the Coupé King! This is the list of all Coupés currently ingame. Previon Zion Zion Cabrio Felon Exemplar Jackal Sentinel XS Cognescenti Cabrio F620 Felon GT Sentinel Oracle Oracle XS Windsor Windsor Drop Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the Coupés, we can spawn them in for you. But it would be nice if poss…
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236Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #173 (Apr 21-27) South dir. Chantal Akerman/1999/1h11m This documentary sees Chantal Akerman travel to Jasper, Texas in the aftermath of the brutal lynching of a black man, James Byrd Jr., who was dragged behind a truck for several miles, an act so brutally violent that he was decapitated during it. This is not a crime documentary that seeks to explore what happened, but rather a portrait of a town and the people who live there and how they are trying to process what happened shot in Akerman's distinctive style. Like a typical documentary there are talking heads interviews with people close to Byrd Jr., but Akerman's use of long takes and silences allows us to really absorb what they're saying. These static shots are juxtaposed with extended tracking shots where Akerman drives through the community, filming people going about their lives with this tragedy still hanging over them. This is something she did in News From Home in New York, but the context here makes it feel like a funeral procession. The most effective of these shots is the very last one, the view looking out of the back of a truck as it drives down the road where Byrd Jr. was murdered. It just keeps going and going and forces us to imagine the unimaginable torture he went through. Incredibly powerful filmmaking 9/10 Lime's Film of the Week! The Meetings of Anna dir. Chantal Akerman/1978/2h8m Akerman's follow up to her revolutionary Jeanne Dielman, The Meetings of Anna is a deeply personal semi-autobiographical film about a female director, Anna (Aurore Clement), traveling around Europe promoting her latest film. This is a melancholic film about isolation and even when Anna is talking to other people there is a disconnection there that always makes her feel alone. Like Jeanne Dielman this is heavy with repetition and routine, with each different hotel room blending into the next, each conversation being interchangeable with any of the others. This culminates with the ending where Anna returns to a home just as anonymous as any of the other rooms she has inhabited and, lying expressionless in bed, she listens to messages on her answerphone. People are reaching out to her, but she doesn't return the call. Akerman's style really lends itself to this story, with the carefully composed shots feeling almost like a prison trapping her. The feeling also comes through in Clement's performance. Her detachment from other people growing over the course of the film, that is apart from the scene with her mother (Lea Massari) in which she is able to revert to an almost childlike state of vulnerability. 8.5/10 The Black Hole dir. Phillip Sansom, Olly Williams/2008/3m This comedic short film stars Napoleon Ryan as an office worker putting in some overtime when he prints out a black hole (though technically it acts more like a portal than a black hole, as that would immediately destroy the planet). At first he uses it for trivial things like free snacks from the vending machine, but his greed leads him to a darkly comic end. It's very simple with an obvious message, but I thought that the ending moves it up a notch, making it feel like a mini episode of The Twilight Zone. 6/10 The Platform 2 dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia/2024/1h41m This is a prequel to what I thought was a fairly decent dystopian thriller set in a prison where the cells are stacked on top of each other with an open hole in the middle. Every day a platform loaded with food is lowered down cell by cell, with nothing being left for the prisoners at the bottom. This adds nothing to the concept with totally forgettable characters who I didn't care about. There are a few scenes of quite grisly violence but again, it's nothing that the first film didn't do better. I did enjoy the small appearance from Trimagasi (Zorion Eguileor), one of the main characters from the original film, memorable because he actually had some character. 4/10 Three short films from Georges Méliès: A Terrible Night 1896/1m The Vanishing Lady 1896/1m The One-Man Band 1900/2m These three shorts from Georges Méliès really highlight his earlier career as a stage magician whilst also showcasing his evolving cinematic techniques. A Terrible Night is the simplest of the three where a sleeping man is harassed by a giant spider. There's really nothing of note here other than the fact that this is the first creature-feature. The other two are much more interesting and entertaining. The Vanishing Lady gives a macabre twist to a classic trick where he makes a woman disappear beneath a sheet, but not before she is transformed into a skeleton. The final film is the most playful and experimental and it sees Méliès using what were at the time cutting edge editing tricks to duplicate himself several times over, creating the titular one-man band. These films, while charming, all feel like Méliès honing his techniques in preparation for his magical longer films starting with 1902's A Trip To The Moon. I'll give these a combined score of 6/10 Inside Out dir. Pete Docter/2015/1h35m Going through all of the Pixar films in order I've finally come to the point where I've not seen hardly any of them going forward, having gotten burnt out by all of the sequels. I knew nothing about Inside Out going in and I can't believe it's taken me ten years to watch this, it's fantastic. It tells the story of 11 year old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) who has just moved to a new city with her parents, leaving behind all of her friends and everything she loves, stirring up her emotions. These emotions are personified and live inside her head, with Joy (Amy Poehler) doing everything she can to keep Riley happy. But lately it seems like Sadness (Phyllis Smith) keeps making things worse. When the two are accidentally expelled from HQ they have to work together to make it back and save Riley's mental health. This is a brilliantly simple concept well executed with a strong message that's not just for the younger viewers. The fact that it can be unhealthy to want to be happy all of the time and that you need a healthy mix of emotions, even negative ones, for good mental health. This is also a really funny film, with the juxtaposition between Joy and Sadness's personalities making them a great double act. There's also good support from Lewis Black, Bill Hader, and Mindy Kaling as Anger, Fear and Disgust. The instantly recognisable voice of Richard Kind also appears, playing Riley's forgotten imaginary friend Bing b*ng who ended up as my favourite character. I wasn't really looking forward to this run of Pixar films, but if they're even half as good as this I'll be satisfied. 9/10- 2
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236Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Bladerunner (1982) dir Ridley Scott For me, this is one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time. It's a film that has be re-released at least twice. I have seen the original theatrical release, the 1992 Director's Cut, and the 2007 Final Cut. The 1992 version, I think, set the trend for other director's to release Director's cuts of their films. It's certainly the first one I ever saw. However, despite the name, Ridley Scott did not have complete control over that version. He did over the 2007 one, and it's that one that I am reviewing. I could not remember the differences to the 1992 one without looking them up, but both of the later ones get rid of a voice over (a bit like a 1940s detective film) and different ending that got added to the original after feedback from test audiences (I think). It's based on the Philip K. d*ck novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”. The basics of the plot is the same as the book, but the specific story is very different in places. I would recommend the book to anyone who is a fan of serious sci-fi, but it's the sort of book you need to really concentrate on. It was written in 1968 and set in 2019 when that seemed a long way in the future. The world the story is set in is way more advanced than we are now. Harrison Ford plays Deckard, a retired LA cop, a Bladerunner, who specialises in tracking down and terminating rogue androids, called replicants. These are indistinguishable from real humans to all but the experts. Even people like Dekard can only tell for sure by lengthy interrogation of suspected replicants that is designed to show up lack of emotions that real humans have. Replicants are banned from Earth, only supposed to be used on off-world space colonies. Any that do get found on Earth can be killed on the spot. Deckard is brought back by his boss Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh) and his assistant Gaff (Edward James Olmos) because a group of replicants hijacked a ship that was later found abandoned on Earth. They are believed to be in LA seeking their creator, Mr. Tyrell (Joe Turkel). The replicants, at least those that have not already been eliminated, are lead by Batty (Rutger Hauer) and others are played by Daryl Hannah, Brion Jones and Joanna Cassidy. William Sanderson plays Sebastian, a lonely man with a premature ageing disease who makes his on androids (not realistic or dangerous enough to be classed as replicants) and Sean Young plays Tyrell's PA Rachel. The cast are, overall, good, but Rutger Hauer gives the best performance I ever saw of him as Batty varies from charming, to psychopathic, to child-like fearful naïvety. There is a big plot element to do with Deckard and Rachel that I won't spoil, and various things thrown in that have kept some fans speculating as to the true nature of the various characters. If you know the film you will probably know what I am referring to here. I will say that I don't see in the film all the things that some claim to clearly see, but I see enough to agree with the consensus. Also some of the theories about that do not apply to all versions of the film. The sets and cinematography are stunning. It still looks to me well ahead of its time, as does Ridely Scott's Alien, so to me it shows what great film makers could achieve well before they had access to sort of CGI and AI tech available today. It also has a pretty good modern score from Vangelis. The best scene is the penultimate one, just with Batty and Deckard and includes the famous “tears in the rain” monologue that, apart from a few hundred years of technological development, would not have been out of place in a Shakespeare play. 10 / 10 The theatrical version I would only give an 8 to because, although I have only ever seen it once, I do remember the voice-over annoying me and the altered ending, a little bit added on, pointlessly changes the story.- 2
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