He really hates these replicants!

April 15, 2020 7:03 PM

I spent twenty minutes watching this bonkers metatextual reinterpretation of Blade Runner, "The Lost Cut" so now you have to too.
posted by cortex (52 comments total)

Harry Caul is definitely not a pleasure model.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 7:06 PM on April 15, 2020 [3 favorites]

depends on ur pleasure na
posted by Foci for Analysis at 7:23 PM on April 15, 2020 [2 favorites]

There is nothing like the opening scene of Blade Runner that exists to make me go to a certain cozy place in the science fiction part of my psyche. Nothing.

Although jumping ahead randomly to 7:36 certainly made me rethink some things.

I'm enjoying this so far.
posted by SpacemanStix at 7:27 PM on April 15, 2020 [5 favorites]

“I offered to help you. You refused to take our money. Then I said, ‘Well, I guess you're really up shit creek.’ Owww! Jesus Christ!”
posted by ob1quixote at 8:09 PM on April 15, 2020 [1 favorite]

I cracked up at the unicorn dream.
posted by mbrubeck at 8:13 PM on April 15, 2020 [2 favorites]

Harry Caul is definitely not a pleasure model.
.... jumping ahead randomly to 7:36

Now, now, why can't we have our radical gay space communist dystopia?
posted by sillyman at 8:27 PM on April 15, 2020 [5 favorites]

so now you have to too.

I most certainly do not. I could dial up blissful ignorance or meditative calm.

Would you rather I dial intensely piqued? Because I will.

That's right, walk away and try and fix your broken sheep again. I should have listened to my mother.
posted by loquacious at 8:35 PM on April 15, 2020 [10 favorites]

Yeah the clip from the Last Unicorn killed me. This seems a fine use of pandemic energy.
posted by janell at 8:36 PM on April 15, 2020 [3 favorites]

Harry Caul is definitely not a pleasure model.

Not a basic pleasure model.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 8:45 PM on April 15, 2020 [4 favorites]

I was unprepared for the brilliance of this.
posted by hippybear at 8:55 PM on April 15, 2020 [4 favorites]

That was worth it.
posted by valkane at 9:19 PM on April 15, 2020

Either I've been using tags wrong my entire life or cortex has.
posted by dobbs at 9:22 PM on April 15, 2020 [8 favorites]

I guess all the Kevin Bacon scenes got left on the cutting room floor....
posted by OHenryPacey at 9:28 PM on April 15, 2020

Either I've been using tags wrong my entire life or cortex has.

"Jake Belushi"

Also starring Rick Ford, Harry Hackman, Navin Martin, Abby McDormand, and Leia Fisher
posted by a car full of lions at 10:21 PM on April 15, 2020 [3 favorites]

I miss Leia Fisher. RIP.
posted by hippybear at 10:35 PM on April 15, 2020 [3 favorites]

I love the subtle links between these movies. Very degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon and so very meta in that own way.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 10:52 PM on April 15, 2020

Needs more buttholes...
posted by Windopaene at 11:00 PM on April 15, 2020 [3 favorites]

I suspect a large amount of marijuana was involved in the conceiving of this project, and the execution of this project, but perhaps not so much in the storyboarding of this project.

Or perhaps that too.
posted by hippybear at 11:00 PM on April 15, 2020

Hippybear, you say that like its a bad thing...
posted by Windopaene at 11:15 PM on April 15, 2020 [2 favorites]

It's more coherent than Blade Runner 2049
posted by lefty lucky cat at 11:30 PM on April 15, 2020 [14 favorites]

I watched The Conversation only recently, otherwise I might not have understood this.

I don't understand this.
posted by axiom at 3:06 AM on April 16, 2020 [6 favorites]

*checks to see if this was by the Auralnauts* Hey, this isn't the Auralnauts! This is off brand remixing!
posted by Molesome at 3:34 AM on April 16, 2020

Dialing my mood organ to cautiously intrigued
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:37 AM on April 16, 2020 [6 favorites]

Either I've been using tags wrong my entire life or cortex has.

Forget it, Jake. It's Urine Town.
posted by thelonius at 3:41 AM on April 16, 2020 [3 favorites]

Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll... uh... well, you'll say "hello" to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you. He won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say, "Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you"... I mean I'm... no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man! I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas...
posted by Chuffy at 3:55 AM on April 16, 2020 [2 favorites]

dobbs: "Either I've been using tags wrong my entire life or cortex has."

This one lacks the

M.
Emmet
Walsh

tags.
posted by chavenet at 4:18 AM on April 16, 2020

(a-and the repurposing of Frances McDormand's "Fargo" hat into a space traveler's helmet at the very end is *chef's kiss*)
posted by chavenet at 4:19 AM on April 16, 2020 [1 favorite]

Carrie Fisher's spliced together lines in this were more narratively cohesive than the ones in The Rise of Skywalker.
posted by xigxag at 5:11 AM on April 16, 2020 [3 favorites]

Starting to wonder if there's a movie where Harrison didn't shoot first
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 5:23 AM on April 16, 2020 [2 favorites]

Starting to wonder if there's a movie where Harrison didn't shoot first

Regarding Henry
posted by thelonius at 5:55 AM on April 16, 2020 [9 favorites]

Regarding Henry and the Lost City of Atlantis
posted by thedward at 7:54 AM on April 16, 2020 [1 favorite]

Well, that's ten minutes of my life I want back.
posted by Thorzdad at 8:55 AM on April 16, 2020

Well, that's ten minutes of my life I want back.

So you liked half of it?
posted by rock swoon has no past at 9:11 AM on April 16, 2020 [4 favorites]

I will always love that dank, tracery, stairwell, and the spotlights, well and the attack ships off the shoulder of Orion soliloquy. This was less moist in places.
posted by Oyéah at 10:15 AM on April 16, 2020

The creator of this has definitely seen Blade Runner (and other movies too!).
posted by mazola at 11:12 AM on April 16, 2020

Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him.

Whenever I take a little time off and set an out-of-office email reply, I have to exert Will to not have it conclude "You are an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill".
posted by thelonius at 11:24 AM on April 16, 2020 [3 favorites]

Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were going all the way.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 1:02 PM on April 16, 2020 [3 favorites]

This was unexpectedly great.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 1:02 PM on April 16, 2020

Well, that's ten minutes of my life I want back.

It’s “I want those ten minutes back, fucker.”
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 3:08 PM on April 16, 2020 [4 favorites]

all
these
moments

lost in time

i'm a ramblin' guy
posted by zippy at 7:17 PM on April 16, 2020

I notice he included (at 6:50) the BR scene with the gang of oddly dressed little people wandering around in the sector closed to ground traffic. In my head, I've always believed that those are the eponymous characters from Time Bandits, stopping briefly in 2019 LA for some kind of heist. I was hoping he'd tie that movie in too. Alas, no.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 9:54 PM on April 16, 2020 [2 favorites]

"I've done questionable things."

(Original video creator here. Thanks for watching. I think.)
posted by leonchase at 3:48 AM on April 17, 2020 [22 favorites]

Hey, welcome to MetaFilter! I really loved your video much earlier in this thread!
posted by hippybear at 4:00 AM on April 17, 2020

Ha! Hi, Leon. I really genuinely loved it, to be clear. Glad to see you here.
posted by cortex at 7:10 AM on April 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

Ha! Hi, Leon. I really genuinely loved it, to be clear. Glad to see you here.

Thanks for posting. I'm just thrilled that anybody is watching this insane thing.
posted by leonchase at 1:07 PM on April 17, 2020 [5 favorites]

Thank you Cortex for posting this, but thank you so much more leonchase for making this. I love it so much.
posted by Elmore at 6:17 PM on April 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

Thanks for posting. I'm just thrilled that anybody is watching this insane thing.

I enjoyed the shit out of this. Thanks.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 8:36 PM on April 17, 2020

liminally surreal

and I mean that in the best possible way
posted by goinWhereTheClimateSuitsMyClothes at 11:04 PM on April 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

This was bonkers good, like describing my dream the next day and it kinda actually cohers (do cinema?) into something resembling a bunch of other things that I may or may not have consumed visually or just randomly thought about in the context of whatever I was drinking but also memory and stuff.
I mean, I like this, and thank you leon. Oh I agree.
posted by winesong at 3:30 PM on April 18, 2020

He really hates these replicants!

Are you a replican or a replicant?
posted by kirkaracha at 5:33 PM on April 18, 2020 [2 favorites]

Not Ridley Scott, but have you seen this lost film of Howard Hawks?

Lord of the Rings
posted by xtian at 5:49 PM on April 23, 2020

This is by far the most accurate depiction I have ever seen of what it’s like to be dreaming, as things are simultaneously one thing but also definitely another
posted by DoctorFedora at 4:53 AM on April 24, 2020