Archive for September 14th, 2006

Blade Runner (1982)

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Replicants are like any other machine - they’re either a benefit or a hazard. If they’re a benefit, it’s not my problem.

Blade Runner is the exception that proves the rule that filmmakers should not be allowed to revisit their earlier work, like George Lucas did with Star Wars. Unlike Lucas’s popcorn trilogy, Ridley Scott’s visionary adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electic Sheep has always seemed like it really was only partially finished.

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