Never really understood what was going on in this film. From what I know it’s about some guy whose retired but comes out of retirement to catch these things known as ‘replicants’ which are illegal to create. Basically the ‘replicants’ are clones of humans but they don’t live forever, I guess this is because they could become dangerous and start destroying stuff so they have a fixed lifespan to counter that potential danger. I thought this was a more new film from the 21st century, I didn’t think it was from the 1980’s at all, I guess its just the new digital age we live in able to re-master everything to look new.
It’s one of those movies I’d never go to see if I’m honest, but it’s the same with games, there’s certain ones I’d never touch. Everyone would probably say that how could I not like a film like this being a Game Art student. Its science fiction set in the future with robots etc. Well set in the future with all kinds of technological robots and stuff, sounds a lot like Halo is? You know all those wars going and fighting going on and blah blah blah... Its funny how when I look at the poster for the movie I think of that kid of thing and would automatically think “this isn’t for me” and “I won’t enjoy this”. And didn’t really, we can’t like every film we see and the same is for games.
I think that there’s too many game and movies that are similar, not saying they are bad but it’s like just repeating an idea that’s already been done over and over in different variations of it, I don’t want to see it over and over again one is enough for me, and that’s what I’m like with films and games now-a-days, I watch or play a game and don’t come back to watch or play it again or at least for a few years. Maybe getting a bit off topic here but that’s just the way it is, if I was around in the 1980’s when this movie was out ad I was offered to go see it, I would decline straight away, but it’s like living in the modern age of gaming, if someone offered to buy me Call of Duty or Halo or whatever, I’d decline straight away, if the ask me why I’d probably say that I’ve already played Grand Theft Auto and it’s basically the same thing and enough for me.
Everything I feel is just a repeat of Pac-Man which is funny because we discussed this not long ago how a game like Halo is basically a modified version of Pac-Man. Another important factor in this film is that it’s one of them dark gloomy looking films throughout, which I’m not a fan off at all. They are some certain instances when I don’t mind these kinds of setting but in film definitely not, in game a bit more likely because in game you control what’s going on, and interactivity is what makes gaming better for me rather than just having to sitting there for ages watching a film. I know I ramble on about this a lot but that’s just me really.
We did talk about the elements of environments within games not long ago, I sort of said that everything in a game or movie or whatever is created to try and make an impact on the person viewing or playing, for me though, as soon as I see the front cover a game, I’ll automatically think this is or isn’t something I’d play, I really shouldn’t judge books by covers as they say but for me that’s just the way it’s gone and is now, just like with this movie.
The ending to the movie is something of which I don’t forget but it's about as much as I can remember, I think it all comes down to the main character having to kill the last remaining replicate and it’s so close to killing the main character but doesn’t! The main character is hanging off a ledge and the robot thing doesn’t kill him! WHY?! They never take the chance, they always mess around and then they are the ones who are killed. The same thing is games though, can’t say I’ve seen this done a few times, but for me games have an excuse to end good, because you’ve actually got someone playing through the game and they aren’t going to be rewarded at the end if the character gets killed are they? But in films... well you can’t exactly be rewarded for sitting there and watching can you? Maybe that’s why they invented interactive DVD’s to compete with gaming more, you know if you beat a quiz and it shows you extra scenes? It’s just doesn’t work for me though. I find that maybe games and films take stuff from each other and that some games are inspired by movies and vice versa, they all can have different directions and everyone has different likes and dislikes, it’s just what you like really. We talked about clichés not long ago and I thought that maybe this movie and ending to it was a lot like seeing manga on Deviant Art really...
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