Friday, August 27, 2004

"It's Too Bad She Won't Live! But Then Again, Who Does?"

CNN.com reports that a survey of 60 top scientists named the Ridley Scott classic Blade Runner the top sci-fi film of all time. I can't really argue, except that(I'd put their 2nd choice, 2001, on top. Blade Runner gets major points for its groundbreaking and much imitated vision of the future as bleak and overly commercialized. And then there's the concepts of what it means to be human (or not) that run throughout the film. Although it may not have been completely faithful to the Dick short story on which it was based, on its own merits it is a brilliant film. Seek out the director's cut if you haven't seen it yet.

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