..I hated this movie..

Rating: 1/10 (3 June 2007)

..and didn't even know what a "blade-runner" was/is before I read some of these "philosophical" comments. I remember seeing parts of this movie before, and still can't decide if it is only a "replicant" for a movie.
I agree that Ridley Scott did a fabulous job getting the whole thing together. It lost me the minute I saw all those chimneys belching fire into the sky over the city where I live. My opinion is Philip K. Dick wrote a fantastic script, but I think he needs to see a shrink, along with all those who consider the film to be "genius". So many of the people who wrote comments seem to think it was a huge box-office success at its original release - PBS's host tells the truth: Scott and Harrison Ford ("Rick Decark") hated the stuff he was forced to add to it by the people who REALLY put-up the money.......the loan-sharks, who took-over the rights to it before it was released. Smart folk, they knew it would eventually become fabulously successful and recognized as a masterpiece. I saw the director's cut.
I still don't like it. All that contrived stuff about the value of life (and the way it will be) still doesn't tell a story. The cinematography was brilliant, but I like Los Angeles as it is now, bright and airy. Let's see: this is 2007, and the story takes place in 2019......I guess in 1982, that seemed a long time away.......just give us some of that constant rain, if it's not poison.....
"The Bradbury Building" (today factually as it was originally built) must have been paid a fortune for all the damage they did to it. I saw NO beauty in this film - it doesn't matter how famous most of the actors/actresses became: they deserve the accolades, but THE STORY was a bunch of junk, in my opinion. I don't want to have to "dig" for the story - I want the story told intelligently to me in a plot I can easily understand.
With due respect to all of the millions who love this movie, I can't imagine watching it again. If that is how our world will become, stop it and let me off now.........