Nothing like the real thing, baby!

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2012)

Having watched the flaming bag of dog poop that is the remake, I feel a need to praise the original for what it got right.
First, the movie is wonderful in that you are not sure if it is all a dream or not all the way up until the very end of the film. this is VERY much in the spirit of Philip K. Dick, who originally wrote the film.
Second, this movie was made with real people on real sets. There wasn't the abuse of the overuse of CGI and Green Screens we see today that frankly come off more and more as a blur where storytelling is lost. True, there was a lot of miniatures and special makeup effects, but that's what made it epic.
THird, the characters. Arnold, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironsides, Ronny Cox, Rachel Ticotin- all made their characters intense and real, as opposed to zombies standing in front of a green screen.