How The Best Sci-Fi Movie Ever Made Was Destroyed By The 80s

Aliens (2), Blade Runner and The Thing are the best three scifi/action/horror movies ever made period.

Great video …. But Porky’s was not a forgotten movie! 😂

I never thought of it as problematic - I've loved it from the very first viewing. I simply thought the public was mistaken.
Loved the sequel, too.

The adaptation with voice-overs in the background is the best. With the saxophone in the background, to me, it's perfect. It's very noir and has that Maltys Falcon feel.“I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments, he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life—anybody's life; my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die. Just awsome shit!!! ”Fun fact: Blade Runner, Outland, Firefly, Event Horizon, Alien, Predator, The Thing, They Live, Soldier, Terminator, and now Warhammer 40k are now generally considered to be part of the same cinematic Universe, different timelines of course.

I am forever a blade runner. I said it was the best and turns out it was voted BEST science fiction movie of last century. I have it in all cuts including the sound track.

I hope you do Strange Days.

Blade Runner is my #1 absolute favorite movie of all time.

The 2007 release is ruined by the disgusting teal-drenched color grading we see here. Heard the 2017 UHD Blu Ray mostly fixes it, though.

Capitalists always fuck over art.

Deckard is not retired. Replicants are made for many tasks including pleasure and combat, not only manual labor. 😅

I saw it in the theatre, upon it's release, and it immediately.... blew me away, and has been my favorite movie ever since. With Blade Runner 2049 at a close second. I own both movies.
I need to rewatch the pair again, it's been a few years.

I haven't set foot in a Theater since the early 90's. I prefer watching films in my own comfort at home. This was the 1st factory tape I bought after getting my 1st VCR just by reading what was on the box. Now VCRs and DVDs are gone. Thanks to PCs and the Internet I have all my Fav movies & TV shows for Years on several 1Tb Ext drives that I plug right into my TV. Dontcha just Love Technology?

Best made? Not even close.

Why bag on Clint ?

The 80s destroyed everything. I blame Reagan.

What got me about Blade Runner, was the utter departure of the movie from the novel.

The movie makes more sense if you read the book.

It’s crazy that ET’s third week blocked Blade Runner. Back then, it wasn’t impossible to watch two movies back to back. And people could still watch the following week or two.

When I watched back then I was thrilled. An exceptional movie! Loved everything about it and still do.

There was a ‘Porky’s Peephole’ collectible?

Blade Runner is one of the best Science Fiction films ever made....period.
The studio did dumb it down with the narration they added, a terrible decision.
Watch the directors cut, it's amazing.
Dumb people never "get" good science fiction.
Why? because they don't understand or appreciate science.

OK, I’m going to come right out and say it: Sean Young was, at the time, the most beautiful actress in Hollywood. I don’t think I ever fully recovered from watching her in BR.

I agree about Rutger Hauer’s performance. I think it was his best role.

I loved it the first time I saw it. Still do.

On your last point, I've seen Porky's multiple times since when it came out. It's a classic, too. Really. No kidding.

I watched Blade Runner on a big screen back in the early '80s and was captivated. This vision of the future had such a 'real' feeling to it, with its bleakness and constant rain. I liked the Film Noir feel, reminiscent of a Philip Marlow story set in the future. The actors were brilliant, and I've been a fan of Rutger Hauer ever since.

The best sci-fi movie ever made was 2001.

Rutger Hauer, at his best.

Porkys!!!!!❤

Yup! Never saw those other turds!

I saw it on its release, I was 25 years old at the time, and was spellbound.
E.T.? Too sentimental. Firefox? Preposterous. Alien? Good but too much gratuitous shock & horror.
Blade Runner was the one, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Vangelis and Harrison Ford's truly golden age: Hans Solo to Indiana to Deckard. And it was so deliciously slow...

I'd seen this at least twice before reading the original novel. The tone of the movie is so wildly different, it's good, but it doesn't carry the '50's dystopia vibe.
And after many years of reflection I conclude that yes, androids do indeed dream - although probably not about fake animals to impress the neighbours.

Quantity doesn’t equal Quality. Especially in art.

Ahem…I liked Firefox the movie AND the video game

I made several attempts to watch Blade Runner. Boring.
Never made it all the way through. A film that is too highbrow for the original audience, aka cluttered mess, is hardly the "best science fiction movie ever made, ranking below Spaceballs, Star Wars 1 2 and 3, Gattica, Event Horizon, Aliens 3, and many of the films of the '50s and '60s.

Missed it at the cinema (I was 10 at the time) it fell off my radar for about 5 years, fell in love the original version on VHS during my film noir phase,. loved the low energy voice over's noir aesthetic. Saw the original in a run down cinema just before the directors cut arrived. A surreal experience fueled by sleep deprivation and cracks of daylight in the roof of the cinema. I prefer the voice over versions they can be ham fisted but so too was the unicorn.

Couldn't Deckard have hunted down ET ?

"...ask them why they don't have a collectible Porky's peephole on their shelf of toys."

Don't be ridiculous, a peephole would be totally out of scale with the rest of my collection. I have the "Pink Pig" Hudson for that movie. 😆

Everybody who can think will vote Bladerunner...

Do “Brazil!”

This narrative is beyond played out. How many more decades are we going to talk about this not being a winner at the box office?

I love this movie. I have all three versions on DVD. I found out that they use this film in film school to show how to make a good film. Thank you.

I already knew back in 1982 that it was a brilliant science fiction movie. But the masses wanted to be fucking monsters in space. Those morons!

The theatrical cut pretty much always misses the mark when it comes to more intellectual movies. They had to do the same to Dune.

And Porky’s success had nothing to do with its acting and storyline and everything to do with a peephole.

You are quite right about the audience mattering. In 1983, at the World Science Fiction Convention, "Blade Runner" won the Hugo award. It was kind of a surprise, even there, since it was up against "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "The Dark Crystal", and "The Road Warrior/Mad Max 2" starring an unknown Australian actor named Mel Gibson. For me, there was no question that it stood head and shoulders above the other film.

I would only have had a hard choice if "The Last Unicorn" had made it onto the final ballot. That is another film you really should do a feature on. It didn't deserve to be a failure.

Let's be clear, Blade Runner does have faults as this video covers really well. The death of one character is much too romantic and pretty, it fails to convey the shame and brutality of Deckard. The sex scene too also fails to this, the sexy saxophone music is just tone deaf. It's a great movie, but it lacks coherence.

How about Hollywood releasing 2 versions in cases like this movie? Director's vision for 1 and producers dumb down for the other. You could choose which to see.

Blade Runner is OK but it's not the first movie I would pick for a SciFi night.

Porky's was hilarious and also dumb.