First of all, you need to teleport to 1982. There’s no internet. There’s no cell phones. There’s barely even cable TV. No flat-screen TVs. Very, very limited CGI. Practical, not special, effects.
Harrison Ford had just had his roles as Indiana Jones and Han Solo. Ridley Scott had just finished “Alien”; “Blade Runner” would be his 3rd film ever.
Then, you have to watch it in a theater with a big (big!) screen and a terrific sound system turned up.
Preferably a night viewing. Bonus if it’s raining cats & dogs like it was when I watched it.
I promise you it came across as one of the most intelligent futuristic sci-fi programs and damn scary with the implications of the future it envisioned, which was dark, void of humanity, wholly capitalized, and barren of anything endearing. The visuals, the music, the plot….just stunning.
And my god — Sean Young AND Daryl Hannah. M. Emmett Walsh AND Rutger Hauer. Has there ever been better casting?
It was depressing, fantastic, sad, thrilling, and just WOW!
I emerged from the theater (into the rain). I knew right then I had seen a classic.
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