Happy birthday to you

[mersipan]

Happy 25, Blade Runner.

Still gritty and dark and cool after all these years.

Comments

[albedo777]

I have actually never seen Blade Runner :(

[yuggoth]

Make sure to see the director's cut, not the original version.

[mersipan]

I'm not sure I've seen the director's cut either....or have I? Is that the one we watched? I'm so confused.

[yuggoth]

You've almost certainly seen the director's cut, because that's the one everyone sees - the original version wasn't very good, which I think is part of the reason why it tanked at the box office. The original has Harrison Ford babbling in a half-dead voice during all of the really cool flying car scenes, and it never brings up any of the cool "is he actually a replicant?" questions. The director's cut is actually a few minutes shorter, but way cooler.

[castallia]

I'm a huge fan of this movie; the scenery was fantastic and I loved how it combined science fiction with noir. :)

[mersipan]

Definitely. I wish there were more sci-fi/noir mix-ups like that :) Watching The Maltese Falcon and The 5th Element back to back almost cuts it but not quite ;)

[hakuzo]

Yeah! I'm a big Blade Runner fan... William Gibson too. Great stuff, and very relevant to out times, actually.

[mersipan]

Yep, classic stuff :)

I love that icon.