Blade Runner (1982) - #97
This continues my journey through the AFI top 100. For those who care, #100 Ben Hur is on my desk, still awaiting me to take the 3 1/2 hours to watch it, and #99 Toy Story was intentionally skipped.
I watched Blade Runner on DVD at home yesterday evening. It was the first time I had ever seen the film, and I had no spoiler information.
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott depicting semi-retired blade runner Deckard (Harrison Ford) taking on the assignment to kill four escaped replicants (artificial human-like machines).
I was expecting to see a top science fiction film, something that potentially inspired the Matrix. Instead, I was treated to the slowest movie I’ve ever seen. Despite all the depth fans of this film claim it has, it completely escaped me. Here’s what I got out of it:
1) Drecker has been dragged into service for one last mission
2) Drecker kills some robots whom demonstrate various levels of human likeness
3) Drecker falls in love with one robot whom initially didn’t realize she was in fact a robot. It didn’t hurt that she was hot.
4) Drecker finishes the mission, and runs off with his new fugitive love machine.
The one thing I did enjoy was the depiction of 2019 Los Angeles. Considering it is a mere 11+ years away, I can already tell there is some serious errors. Between the flying cars, the off world colonization that is so vast it leaves LA into a wasteland, and the austere nature of the world depicted, it was by far the most interesting part of the film.
This is the first film that I’ve watched in the top 100 that I’ve been disappointed in, and I question its inclusion in the list. I give it a 1 1/2 out of 5.
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