Movie of the Year: 1982 – Blade Runner
Movie of the Year: 1982
Blade Runner
Does Blade Runner have what it takes to be 1982’s Movie of the Year?
Is Blade Runner the best movie ever made? Perhaps. It is certainly one that we are very excited to talk about. Is it the most important movie ever made? Again, maybe. These are really the kinds of questions we address in the show itself, so if you are asking them, you should just be listening. But maybe it’s still downloading and you need something to read, so here goes. Yes, we will get into who is–and who is not–a replicant. We have figured it out and we will pass on the information to you, complete with a visual clue to look for.
Ridley Scott is the director of this one, and he is royalty around the Pop Filter studios. He is apparently not in the Pop Filter Hall of Fame, which is hard to believe because his movies come up just about every season. But what is he the master of? What are his major strengths? We get in there and talk it out.
Also, we talk about the world building that went into Blade Runner and the absolute crime of the theatrical release’s Harrison Ford voice over. Unfortunately, we also have to talk about one of the weirder sex scenes in movie history. What does this scene mean? What’s going on here? Maybe 1982 is just a very weird time, much like every other time to so far show up on the timeline.
All that and we talk about the music of 1982, which was also kind of weird!
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