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Originally Posted by Rochard
This is exactly what it is.
When the original Blade Runner came out in the 1980s it was ground breaking. A police officer who hunts down robots in a flying car? That was awesome back then.
I didn't see the original when I was a kid, but I watched it before I went to see the new Blade Runner. You have to understand the point of view from when it first hit the movies. It's just like Miami Vice (and I am a huge Miami Vice fan btw) - When you watch it now it's dated, the acting is horrible, the plots were crappy.... But at the time it was ground breaking.
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This, also read the philip k dick novel and remember what life was like before cell phones and the internet.
Movies sucked. This was a great movie with what they had.
Do you watch black and white movies and piss and moan about the lack of color the whole time? When you read Shakespeare, assuming you do, do you say, "Why don't he use modern words, innit?" If not, then perhaps you can contextualize your experience.
You're an intelligent person, you know that sometimes groundbreaking things seen dated when judged against current offerings, but we can still get the important part of the experience, which could perhaps be, "what would life be like for a created being?". This question applies to us possibly as well, and is now very popular for TV and movies. This movie was the first to play with that question so adroitly, as I see it.