what is so good about Blade Runner?

[Monteblanco]

Reasonable said:

True.  True.  I just hate the whole 'explain this' mentality.  The whole point of a film like Blade Runner - or the novel on which it is based - is you experience it for yourself.  The whole idea of a neat pamplet explaining it all is just horrible for me.  Put some leg work in and think for yourself is my motto.

That being said, the setting, exploration of what it means to be human - and by extension inhuman - plus in Roy Batty one of the coolest characters commited to film, coupled with what is still arguably the most convincing portrayal of a futuristic city make for something special if you watch this is on a very big screen.

Every frame of the film is astonishing in its depth of information and clarity of composition.  If only more SF films like this existed vs tripe like Transformers (although the first one was actually okay, but the second seriously nuked the fridge while screwing the pooch at the same time).

All this and a stunning fresh view of the future, as it was the first to mix the old and the new, the west and the east. It is definitely the most influential movie of the 80s.

In the end, Reasonable is right. It is a movie about humanity. What is to be human in a dehumanized society, which is an extreme version of ours own.