Swedish artist Anders Ramsell created 12,597 watercolor paintings to craft a 35 minute long "paraphrasing" of Ridley Scott's 1982 cult-classic science fiction film Blade Runner. It's like watching the movie in a dream.
Blade Runner's already pretty damn noir, from the colour palette to the pacing. So a trailer pitching the movie as an actual 1940's black and white drama just makes sense, ok?
Artist and toy wizard Scott Petterson makes custom action figures. Big ones, with real clothes, and faces that look just like some of your favourite TV and movie stars, from stuff like Bladerunner, The Walking Dead and Dirty Harry. Oh, and Johnny Cash.
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Every once in a while, a movie comes along that changes everything. A film that rewrites the rules and influences a generation of film-makers. But all too often, the people who imitate these ground-breaking movies miss the point. Here are 10 science fiction and fantasy movies from which everybody copied the wrong…
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Maybe it's just the soft spot I'll always have for Westwood's underrated Blade Runner adventure game, but I immediately loved this new video from the 8-bit cinema purveyors at CineFix.
Blade Runner director Ridley Scott will be overseeing 12 new sci-fi shorts for YouTube mega-channel Machinima.
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Joanna Cassidy had a small role in Ridley Scott's classic Blade Runner. She was the mostly-naked robot lady with the snake. Well, according to Cassidy, the role was meant to be a little bigger, with the original script calling for a scene in which she did an exotic "reptile dance."
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Eric has compared the dangerous smog in Beijing to Silent Hill. Fair based on the pics available yesterday, sure, but new images show things look far worse, especially when the sun starts to go down.
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There might be reasons why Westerners do this with chopsticks: maybe they are worried about splinters or maybe it's something else. Maybe…
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Swedish reader Anders Ramsell has uploaded this clip that recreates the opening sequence of classic sci-fi flick Blade Runner as an animation. That uses over 3000 paintings.
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While we've known for a while that Ridley Scott was working on a new Blade Runner movie, the project got a lot more exciting today with word that he'll be joined on the project by Hampton Fancher - who wrote the 1982 original - and that this will be a sequel.
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If you thought cosplayer Omi Gibson could only do amazing Metal Gear cosplays, then you haven't seen her Cloe Walsh from No More Heroes 2 cosplay. Or her Faith from Mirror's Edge cosplay. Or her Jill Valentine cosplay.
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Phew. All this video game stuff, especially Battlefield 3 stuff, is wearing me out. Time to take a few minutes to chill, relax, watch a soothing movie where footage of modern-day Tokyo is played to the accompaniment of the Blade Runner soundtrack.
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"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result," wrote Winston Churchill, in The Story of the Malakand Field Force in 1898.
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Science fiction and fantasy films of the 1980s were filled with a ton of memorable, iconic, and patently ridiculous music. Here are 30+ of the decade's finest (and most painful) movie tunes for your listening pleasure.
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We've seen an homage to Owen and Beru Lars, now reader Zack F. has found Deckard's gun in Blade Runner - called "That Gun" in-game - in Fallout: New Vegas. The sidearm has a street value of 900 caps.
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Here's a story close to our hearts. Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has revealed that his studio recently wanted to develop a Blade Runner game. A game that, sadly, never saw the light of day.
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A recent competition tasked the members of the Game Artist Forums with creating scenes from famous movies using Unreal Engine 3.0 and CryEngine 2. The results are dreamy.
