# Blade Runner (The Original) Sucks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-the-original-sucks/810815 "2018-03-19T08:01:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-the-original-sucks/810815/62 "2018-03-23T15:27:59Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I watched BR as recently as late last year. (I always watch the original version.) It’s still as awesome as it was new, and the flaws that bug me are still there, too. On the whole the good parts outweigh the bad. Same here (with directors cut instead of original version). Saw it at a theater even - they had a ‘classic sci-fi film’ Thursday with a film professor introducing the movie and then Q&A after. Me and my buddy brought our SOs who had never seen the film and they both enjoyed it quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-the-original-sucks/810815/63 "2018-03-23T18:00:37Z")
In all fairness, Blade Runner didn’t do very well in the box office and wasn’t well received originally. > [@filmore](#): > > _Blade Runner_ needs to be seen in the context of movies when it was released. At the time, the background world was incredibly rich on a level not typically seen. But now, every movie has whatever world it needs created through sets or CGI. You don’t even notice it anymore. So if you’re not impressed by the environment of _Blade Runner_, you probably won’t be impressed by the movie… I still find the world of Blade Runner richer and fuller than many of the CGI-scapes that proliferate modern cinema. It’s a world that actually looks “lived in”. Most CGI future-cities look like levels for a videogame. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-the-original-sucks/810815/64 "2018-03-23T22:59:31Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > …the conclusion meaningless. Why do conclusions have to be meaningful? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-the-original-sucks/810815/65 "2018-03-24T00:38:50Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Why do conclusions have to be meaningful? I certainly prefer that they do. But in this case it’s the part that everybody seems to love so much, and yet as far as I can tell it renders the entire movie moot. I am talking about when Rutger Hauer talks bollocks about what he’s seen, or whatever-the-fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-the-original-sucks/810815/66 "2018-03-24T03:46:52Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I certainly prefer that they do. But in this case it’s the part that everybody seems to love so much, and yet as far as I can tell it renders the entire movie moot. I am talking about when Rutger Hauer talks bollocks about what he’s seen, or whatever-the-fuck. That doesn’t make the movie moot; it makes the movie tragic. Deckard being a replicant would render the movie moot. By the way. the guys at redlettermedia [discussed BR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adjfTktpIzg) a while back. Their take is amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-the-original-sucks/810815/67 "2018-03-28T23:11:50Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Leon _had_ a job at Tyrell Corp, in any case. I assume putting a few bullets in Holden led to a less-than-stellar monthly review. IIRC, it was Rachel who, somehow impersonating a Tyrell Corp executive or claiming some special rights as a relative of the corporation’s founder/owner, delivered a rather scathing performance review directly to Leon. If she’s doing my reviews, I’d rather just be given a pink slip and a cardboard box for my personal effects. :eek: –G! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-the-original-sucks/810815.md?page=3)