Blade Runner (1982)
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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Good story, Not enough for a whole film
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
"Blade Runner is designed to make you think bigger, about the nature of life itself-whether you're human, or something more."Whether you are human or something more (Just like Deckerd, who is a replicant.)
Watching a man (Harrison Ford) investigate the whereabouts of robots in a snail-paced and lethargic fashion in director Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in 2018 is almost a torturous experience not because of how it is ahead of itself in retrofitting futurism in its hollow plot borrowed from a hollow story with, at best, two key takeaways but because of the emotionless narrative that puts emphasis only on the production setup and not on the proceedings which are as dull as the overall tepid writing and wooden performances. TN.
One of the best sci-fi romance stories ever made. Do not miss this one.
This is easily one of the most overrated sci fi flicks ever. I challenge anyone to read the screenplay the whole way through without falling asleep. Yes, it's very visual and Vangelis did a good, appropriate (not amazing) soundtrack to give it that dark depressing "dystopia" bit....OK, fine...but that's it. No characters of even the tiniest interest to either love OR hate, a laughably bumbling love angle, and almost zero action except for one brief flurry around half-way through and another at the end. Speaking of which, a totally stupid ending...not Roy saving Decker, that was a great idea (and where it should have ended), but then Decker and Rachel hooking up and going....? where? And do we care? No. This movie was loaded with over-the-top pretentiousness and about zero believability, even given the premise. I saw it in the 80s and went "eh." I just saw it now for the first time since then, as I was interested in the new one and wanted this as a base, but found it's even worse than I remember. Read the review titled "So very very boring"....a bit harsh but sums it up fairly well (and is more entertaining than this entire film).