Blade Runner Movie Execs Called It "Deadly Dull"

Today, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is considered a sci-fi classic, but back in 1982 the executives who funded it, Tandem Productions' Jerry Perenchio, Bud Yorkin, and Robin French considered it "deadly dull" and "gets worse every screening."

Via Slashfilm and reddit


Hilarious! "More tits" and DEFINITELY more Vangelis music. Those guys really had their priorities straight. Death by committee. It's a wonder film execs don't ruin most movies...oh wait.
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I'm not going to agree with many of their specific points, but it is a very boring film. I've watched it five or six times trying to figure out why it's considered a classic -- don't get it. I'm sincerely happy for those who enjoy it, but I can't imagine being on the edge of my seat through any part of it.
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Is it mandatory to like it? Because it is classic? Classic?
Big deal.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Yep... Terry said it all.

Did everybody here read Ulysses by James Joyce?
It's a classic and inaugurated a new era.
I did read it 4 times and have to read more times. This is me.
I hate saying to anybody: "You have to read. You have to read the classics. At least the classics!" and all the variants of this dictatorship.

People have to read for pleasure.
I'm a literature teacher, btw.
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