I wrote a thesis about it and before I wrote it I didn't like the movie but after I found out all the context I started liking it. Or at least respecting it. I still like Blade Runner 2049 more. But it's just because original BR is 50 years old. In that time it was visionary and it was reacting to the society and their fears back then. That's also why the new BR looks so much different, because it wasn't trying to replicate the old movie but create a new one, which reacts to this era.
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Reply to I recently saw Blade Runner (1982) and really did not get the appeal. Why is this movie so iconic? by Joseph_Santos_Cruzz
I wrote a thesis about it and before I wrote it I didn't like the movie but after I found out all the context I started liking it. Or at least respecting it. I still like Blade Runner 2049 more. But it's just because original BR is 50 years old. In that time it was visionary and it was reacting to the society and their fears back then. That's also why the new BR looks so much different, because it wasn't trying to replicate the old movie but create a new one, which reacts to this era.