97. Blade Runner (1982)

Running Time: 117 Minutes
Director: Ridley Scott
Date Watched: 09/17/2010 Medium: DVD

Summary (from Amazon.com): "Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st Century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. "

Molly: (0.5 out of 5 stars): "Nick wouldn't let me give 0 stars to a movie, so I gave it 0.5. It deserves less. This was a horrible movie, a total waste of time, and not remotely interesting. I don't get why it was included on anyone's top list of anything, unless it was the top stupidest movies of all time. I like science fiction and thought the storyline (when reading about it before watching) had promise. But it failed to deliver in a big way. Blegh."

Nick (1 out of 5 stars): "I can understand the significance of the film, given the detail of the future world it created; however, I don't understand the appeal of this movie today. The story seemed incomplete, the characters were not developed well, and by the end of the movie, I couldn't have cared less about what happened to any of the characters."

Random Movie Facts (from IMDb.com):

• Titles considered for the film include 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 'Android', 'Mechanismo', 'Dangerous Days', and finally 'Blade Runner'. After the film had changed its name from 'Dangerous Days' to 'Blade Runner', Ridley Scott decided he didn't like the new name, and tried to call the film 'Gotham City', but Bob Kane (comic book creator of Batman) wouldn't sell the rights to the name, so it returned to being called 'Blade Runner'.
  
• The ending title sequence in the theatrical cut of the film contains unused footage from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). These were extra shots of the main title sequence, although none of the shots contain the road that was seen in The Shining.
• Ridley Scott told NPR's All Things Considered that he originally wanted Deckard to wear a 1940s-style hat throughout the film, but Scott decided against that once he saw Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones costume (including the brown fedora) for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which was shot directly before Blade Runner (1982).