Even today, the future never looked so good!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2001)

Blade Runner is my favorite movie. Every version. the 1982 Warner Brother edited release, the 1987 Los Angeles film critics award release, with the extra scenes of brutal violence and of course the beautiful Director's cut.
I remember being very young when i saw it for the first time and i could hardly understand it and the passing being so slow that i barely enjoyed it... BUT......BUT... the visuals where so astounding that i could not get my eyes off it. I had to finish this strange, twisted, gothic, Langian, Neo-Noir film. The cinematography can not get better than this. periods of silence seem to have lives of there own. the sounds actually makes you feel like you are in post World war III LA.
Ridley Scott shows his art direction skills in creating the atmosphere that is even today better than most CGI backgrounds. The skill put in creating all the sets and models must have been a grand undertaking in the early 80's.
Harrison Ford plays a quite human character, part of a special police unit called BLADE RUNNERS who must "retire" humanoids called Replicants. Just that play on words "RETIRE" sends chills down my back. Thinking that killing sentience can be given such a corporate label.
Douglas Thurmbal makes outstanding visual effects that where revolutionary in 82 and can still seem seamless today.
Every person who participated in this film should be patted on the back for making a movie that bombed at the Box-offices in 82 because it was light years of it time and only today we seem capable of having the sensibilities to understand it.