BladeRunner RIP OFF


well see it for your self.....
it was beyond borrowing the idea.....
it was a total copy of it.....

objective: to retire cyborgs....
officers trained to bring down cyborgs.....
the main character eating noodle in a noodle house(while its raining??)....
forbiden love between the main character and the female cyborg......
flying billboard......
and many more.....

the only thing different about this movie is the fact that it sucked!!

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a. actually it's called "A Korean Blade Runner"...the makers don't try to hide the fact that they borrowed ideas from the Scott movie
b. it still has fresh ideas
c. it doesn't suck
d. whining is lame

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well the idea wasnt fresh wahtsoever.....
and even if it was a remake....(where did you hear that this movie was "A Korean Blade Runner"...??)
it was very poorly done......
didnt have the dark film noir quality that made bladerunner a scifi classic......
and director min is known for making poor movies with huge budget......

trust me....the movie did suck....

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You can read that on the some versions of the DVD cover for example.
Well Min Byung-Cheon has only directed two movies so far, so you hardly can judge his work yet. I haven't seen his first movie yet, but Natural City was good enough to entertain decently. im not saying its a class movie or something, but its not as horrible as you want it to be. of course the plot is weak at some points, that's true. but most of the movie's shots are beautifully done.
and who ever said that it wants to create a film noir feeling or whatsoever?
if you didnt like the movie, fine. i just dont see a sense in all this flaming...

trust me...it's useless...

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point of this post is to remind everyone that this moive rips off blade runner.......
i was just offended to see how similar this movie was to blade runner......
and no one in korea seem to be aware of this so....i though it was a neat thing to point out.......

if you liked this movie.....i guess that is the way it is.......

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trust me....the movie did suck....

Awesome. I'm glad you've made up my mind for me.

Care to tell me whether I want tuna salad or summer sausage for lunch?

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jacky56 you dont even know what went on behind the film, you can't start assuming that korea's avg consumers didnt know that they had any reference from blade runner. They did know! And yes i bought the movie and on the cover it says "A Korean Blade Runner!" Whether you like it or not, whatever, no one here cares what the *beep* you think.

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In that case bladerunner is a rip off of "Do androids dream of electric sheep" the novel.

It's an interpretation of a story you nonce.

It happens all the time, the same stories get re-used everywhere. Most of the time whatever you are watching is simply another story rejigged, no matter how original you think it is.

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Director told that this movie was homage to Blade Runnder.
Everyone pretty much knew that in Korea. It did not do well in box office.
A lot of people expected something beyond blade runner. He was sort of short on that. However, it is amazing he could pull it off with that budget.
It was his second feature film.

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That's exactly what I think. He only had a budget of like 6.5 Million US dollar. It's pretty amazing what you can make out of it. And Min has definitely a sense for nice images. God, I love that movie :)

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whooot! BladeRunner ripped offed another film about Humans who have a limmited time span and cops have to kill em right????

The best way to look at this film is that humans are becoming more like robots than the old tired view than robots are trying to be human which can never really happen. In this respect the film has something profound and realistic to say. Look out for my review on Future Movies coming soon.

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Blade Runner was based off the book, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" that came out in 1968

http://dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=keysersoze1984

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Seriously you need to shut the hell up.
I suppose none of you guys remember how bad critics got Blade Runner in 82, from ALMOST everyone, public and critics.
And now everybody's calling it a classic.
What I'm saying is give this film a little time before burying it, cause it may well be a future classic.
Remember BA, but also Reservoir Dogs, Evil Dead, Clockwork Orange, Blue Velvet, The Thing etc etc....

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OMG! Say it ain't so!!!

So bloody what? Hollywood has been copying and ripping off (sorry, "remaking") Asian/European movies for years. About time someone started doing it the other way around as well.

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i found it more exciting than blade runner. granted, it has had a lot of time for the cybernetic field to develop and real-life technology made the battle scenes a lot better than what could have been done long ago. however, its a modest film, and doesn't try to pretend its some kind of amazing complex entity (like BR did). also, a lack of villians who entirely ruin this menacing factor by howling like a damn dog also works in the favor of natural city.

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So, an inferior storyline, inferior dialogue, inferior character development and inferior direction doesn't put you off at all?

Rutger's improv monologue at the end of Blade Runner has more charisma and emotion than the whole of Natural City does. I wouldn't mind if the story was similar but there was some development, but what I do mind is when they take a perfectly good movie and then remove everything that was good about it and then spread whatever the heck is left over 114 minutes.

A wafer thin plot + good visual effects does not equal a good movie in my book.

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As long it's a good story, there's no problem with that... and this is coming from a huge Blade Runner fan.

"A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes" Howard Hawks

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I think it's interesting becuase it took the end of the American release of Blade Runner and ran with the idea, a man who's job it is to hunt down cyborgs in a large city of the future, and falls in love with one and runs away with it. The end of Blade Runner was him going down the elevator, about to go away with her. I think it's an interesting idea. And I'm also a huge BR fan, and I have no problem. It's not the same story by any stretch, just alot of similiarities and a completely different style and substance. Chill out man!

"You are the Duke of New York! You are A # 1!"

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yeah this movie borrows alot of sci-fi ideas. But so what? personally i could always watch flicks about cyborgs, androids, robots becoming more human, humans falling in love with robots. i love these themes and want to see as much as possible.

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I just saw it, and I am a huge blade runner fan, getting the remastered edition soon and planning on getting the final cut box next year, and I have read the book it was based on and I have both Future Noire and the Cinefex special issue on my bookshelf, BUT!

while this movie borrows a lot of scenes and part of the storyline I think that this Bladerunner rippoff thing is way out of proportion. For me this movie has actually more in common in sense of style with Ghost in the Shell (I realise that GitS is quite derived from Bladerunner itself I know).

bottom line: I like this film, it's no bladerunner sure. But does it have to?

And noone is flaming bladerunner for "ripping off" fritz lang's Metropolis wich has a giant city, a cyborg girl, a forbidden love, and the policestation that is eerily similar to the New Tower of Babel and all that do they?

Lighten up dude... you want to flame? there are lots of bad films you can smash just pick one for the right reason will you?

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Natural City is in the cyberpunk genre. Many novels, illustated stories, and anime have dealt with these themes. There should be more cyberpunk movies made, and if people wish to use Blade Runner as a visual template...then so be it.

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The question is...does this movie site blade runner as its source?

A lot of people claim that Hollywood steals stuff from Asian movies, especially in case of horror movies. Im sure there are times when Hollywood just blatantly stills from foreign movies, but if i remember correctly alot of times they site their source.

Did natural city do that? if it did, I'll withdraw my rip off claim. i would still have to say that it is a pretty crummy re imagination of blade runner, but I wouldn't go as far as calling it a ripoff accusation.

As ive said years ago on my first post....too many similarities to be a coincident.

I understand some people here are trying to cut this movie a break, but try and understand that i am just pointing out what is too obvious to be ignored.

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dude, just give it up PLEASE...

as mentioned at least 3 times before in this post:
- the director said its an hommage to blade runner, and yes ppl in korea knew about that
- and some dvd versions have the line "a korean blade runner" on its front box.

a movie that steals or borrows ideas from other films doesnt get better or worse just because it cites its sources. total bs argumentation...seriously

philip dick probably took the idea for the novel from langs book/movie metropolis, the book eventually was used by scott for a movie, min copied ideas from BR for his film...blablabla life goes on

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Blade Runner rips off Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep!

But seriously, the OP is a jackass, stateing this movie sucked like it's a fact.
I enjoyed this movie, it didn't suck for me, i loved the music and the visuals, yes it was very Blade Runner-esque, but that is NOT a bad thing.
Get over yourself and stop thinking you OPINION is FACT.
Moron.

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But We Asians steal music from western people. Nearly every western song has an asian version of it, but wif diff lyrics. Western people INVENTED movie making so I guess they have the right to steal from anyone they want, IMO. hahahahah

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objective: to retire cyborgs....
[Somebody has to]

officers trained to bring down cyborgs.....
[Would circus clowns do it?]

the main character eating noodle in a noodle house(while its raining??)....
[It was raining and noodles come from Asia]

forbiden love between the main character and the female cyborg......
[Replace 'cyborg' with 'doll' and you have a pretty common theme that predates a film made in 1982]

flying billboard......
[Flying billboards fly]

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Maybe not _circus_ clowns, but rodeo clowns could do the job.

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It also borrows stuff from Ghost in the Shell, like transferring the conscious mind to another body, and aks questions about what makes a human human. I still like it though, because NC isn't a mindless action movie and R is kind of a corrupt cop who will do anything to save his cyborg girlfriend, like betraying his former friend and colleagues, and kidnapping an innocent girl. The love story got a little sappy at times though. Oh, I also think Cyon's hot, lol!

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