Philosophical, futuristic, stylish, just plain awesome: Blade Runner!

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 2001)

The views in Blade Runner, from the beginning, are just amazing...that's all i know how to put it. It's not flashy and screaming for attention like today's science fiction movies.
If futurism was art, Blade Runner's subtle futuristic details (including such things from architecture to the gleaming sky) would be more Ancient Egypt or Renaissance than 3-year-old with neon finger paint for recent Sci-Fi films. Not meant to be so scathing of today's films, but when I first saw Blade Runner I was awed. It was so stylish, so smooth, so elegant. Maybe I'm looking at it from an odd perspective, but I found the entire movie, Ridley Scott's amazing use of light (or should I say usually lack of), and all the carefully placed metaphors to just be incredible. Looking back at Star Wars, it definitely lacks (in all aspects) and just can't compare. If a movie was all looks and no content, it would be flat and not be able to support its own weight and it only crumble!! it would just get bad reviews =)] However, Ridley Scott drew on inspiration from 2 well-known books (the title book-"Blade Runner", and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"). While relying more on the concepts of "Do Androids", Ridley still changed the plot greatly while managing to come out with a big "thinker" movie. The producers attempted to change his final product but now (19 years later) usually you can get it in the True original form, the Director's cut. One of my favorite scenes, the unicorn scene where Deckard has a dream of a unicorn while playing the piano in a daze, is one of my favorite scenes and is cut out of the "edited" version. This scene could be interpreted as important to understanding stuff in the movie, but I'm gonna make you watch it to figure out why!
Maybe the greatest thing about Blade Runner is the philosophy aspect of it. Without giving away crucial parts of the film, the best scenes were the ones involving the "Replicants" (androids) where one's mirroring emotions of sympathy and anger push back and forth at seeing these killing machines defend their humanity and right to live before their human counterparts. I also found the humans' seemingly lack of understanding of the very things they created intriguing as well. All these things the movie dealt with; but to understand better you must watch the movie.
Blade Runner is an amazing movie, and I would say Harrison Ford's best science fiction movie ; ). If anyone has not seen this movie they need to get to a movie store and rent it now because it is one of the greatest movies ever. Philosophical, futuristic, stylish, just plain awesome: Blade Runner!