Was Blade Runner actually a good movie?

[Local Trouble]

[Immortan Jonesy]

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[SM]

I think it's a brilliant film and looks gorgeous. The sequel is way more accessible, though.

It's also interesting how accurate BR actually was with predictions.

Which ones?

[SiL]

The film was set in 2019, none of it was accurate.

[Stitch]

I think it's a brilliant film and looks gorgeous. The sequel is way more accessible, though.

It's also interesting how accurate BR actually was with predictions.

Which ones?

The general design of cities, the fact that we have massive light up adverts in our faces constantly, the way that people in power are constantly trying to limit the lives of people without power, the flying cars...

[BlueMarsalis79]

Not much turned out particularly accurate... Except what already existed, that being postcolonial affects on class, the Replicants basically being the subaltern.

And it getting more extreme over time.

[SiL]

I think it's a brilliant film and looks gorgeous. The sequel is way more accessible, though.

It's also interesting how accurate BR actually was with predictions.

Which ones?

The general design of cities, the fact that we have massive light up adverts in our faces constantly, the way that people in power are constantly trying to limit the lives of people without power, the flying cars...

All of those things existed before the movie except the flying cars, which we still aren't using as every day vehicles.

[SM]

It lied.  To our faces.

Blade Runner has robots and off world colonies and we have rockets that blow up a lot and Grok.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Actually we do have underclasses that we exploit and scapegoat, that are excluded from conversations that concern them (happens in Rachel's very first scene), and dictate their right to medicine (Roy Batty).

And the promise of off world colonies we never get to see.

[SM]

We've always had slaves - literal or figurative.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Except what already existed

And the highlighted specificities.

[Stitch]

Dammit, I had a whole response to this post and somehow it didn't get posted.

Basically, I wonder every now and then whether the world we currently live in would be classed as a cyberpunk dystopia if someone in the past was looking at it. We have massive megacorporations who seem to be beyond the law, cities made of glass that go way up into the sky, and a class divide that seems to be getting bigger and bigger.

Wasn't thinking of stuff like cityspeak and spinners, but how sci-fi stories tend to be an allegory for contemporary times, but that current times don't necessarily seem that different.

There was a lot of words and stuff, and it sounded better than this.

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯]

I think it's a brilliant film and looks gorgeous. The sequel is way more accessible, though.

It's also interesting how accurate BR actually was with predictions.

Which ones?

Climate Change
Video Calls
Smart Homes
Virtual Assistants
Smart Keys
Forensic Software
Computational Photography
Large scale electronic/digital billboards
AI
Voice Activated Technology


It is actually a good movie, you should give it a watch sometime.

[SiL]

I mean it's ok.

[BigDaddyJohn]

the flying cars

Where  ? When ? I want one !