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i really liked blade runner when i first saw it---for some reason, it hasn't aged as i would have expected--i'm not sure why that is, but i equate it with the horn patches that steely dan arrangements feature in many many songs, which once sounded kinda cool and now sound cheesy. i don't know why there'd be a world-historical shift in relation to dx-7 patches, but there is one.
the sets are astonishing.
i do think it's been talked to death in some sectors--if you haven't been subjected to that, then i would definitely recommend watching it.
btw--i think the best sci-fi film is tarkovsky's solaris. that remains stunning. the sets are fabulous--cheesy mosfilm work, but done in a really inventive way.
then there's the driving sequence, which i still think is the finest single merging of visuals and sound i've seen so far.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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