BEST “GENRE” FILMS OF ALL TIME (PT 5)
2. BLADE RUNNER: Ok, let’s “Man in the High Castle” things for a moment and pretend that Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford never got together to make this puppy . . . With nothing to otherwise inspire him, Masumane Shirow either becomes an erotic artist (think Sorayama version 2.0) or gets arrested for kiddie porn and so never creates Dominion Tank Police, Appleseed or Ghost in the Shell, so no one in Japan ever gets the idea to do Bubblegum Crisis or Akira or anything like them and anime dies on the vine after Robotech and the rest of its Robert (Starship Troopers) A. Heinlein inspired stuff plays out, and so of course there’s no longer a tie for the number four spot on this list, because the Washowski brothers wind up working at a comic book store managed by this dork named William Gibson who definitely never writes a novel called Neuromancer that spawns the entire cyberpunk sub-genre. What I’m saying here is that you could make a pretty good case for this being the most influential film of the latter half of the cinema century (only Pulp Fiction could potentially challenge its top spot). Responsible for nothing less than the most popular public conception of our future “where things stay pretty much the same.” A visionary masterpiece in no uncertain terms.
That's funny, I was just thinking about Total Recall on the commute home this morning. That treacherous "Man I got five kids to feed guy".
Rutger Hauser was supposed to play Robocop, but he was to big—the robot suit would have looked too bulky.
I don't actually have anything useful to say about Blade Runner. Was the guy a robot (android, whatever) in the end?
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