One of the things that will be in the Buddha Lunchbox will be movies you should be watching because when you watch them they give you nose bleeds from your brain exploding inside your head to an over load of rad magnificence.
The first movie in the Lunchbox is Blade Runner, now for some of you overly knowledgeable film weirdos that I associate with this is a no brainer, but if you haven't seen it, you should know that in the Christian faith you can't get into heaven until you do. But it's not like its painful. It's an amazingly beautiful neo noir where everything is rain, neon lights, weird guns, badass thirties style roughed up for the future, serrated writing, and uber hot robot/clone broads.
Another piece of evidence that CGI instantly dates it self and looks like garbage because this movie was made in '82 and visually stomps things like Transformers because matting, costume, make-up, and just all around astoundingly slick set & visual design will always, always win. That and it does not involve the Shia LaBouf "comedy" hour.
The plot and theme also play with some of the darker aspects of human connection and technology addiction without ever becoming preachy, heavy handed, or super lame. I used to fall asleep to this movie until I started waking up screaming during the final part due to nightmares about Rutger Hauer. But that is only because Rutger Hauer can actually jump between dreams and hunt you down.
I give the FINAL CUT of this movie 363,857,909,871 stars in our galaxy out of 363,857,909,872, all of them except Alpha Centuri, fuck you Alpha Centuri.
Fun Fact: This is a great movie to slowly ease pretty or artsy girls who hate scifi into possibly liking Sci fi, which you love and have been hiding from her for the first several months of your relationship.
haha way to stick it to alpha central! i will have to see this, i really loved the book.
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