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The Duellists 1977
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This is my favorite film I’ve seen since downloading this app, and one of my new favorites of all time. Seriously, it’s like it was crafted to appeal to me specifically. I liked Blade Runner and The Martian, and I’ve yet to see Alien, but I already know I’ll never see a Ridley Scott movie better than this.
Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel play two French officers during the Napoleonic Wars: Armand d’Hubert and Gabriel Feraud. After Feraud seriously wounds…
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Blade Runner 1982
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The thing that stood out to me most on first viewing is the sort of stylistic fluidity within the sci-fi genre. It starts off with a similar feel to a 60s action flick/police procedural. In fact Harrison Ford is an action hero in much the same vein as Steve McQueen or Charles Bronson: effortlessly cool, but without the humor or theatricality that came to define later giants of the genre. He’s not sympathetic like Bruce Willis, he’s not funny like…
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