I thought Blade Runner was boring until I moved to Los Angeles

<p>I first watched&nbsp;<em>Blade Runner</em>&nbsp;on a cold, unremarkable February night in Brooklyn. I believe it was&nbsp;<em>The Final Cut</em>. I was 26 years old. The mid-twenties is when white men who own at least 1 Vampire Weekend album become very passionate about very generic things: craft beers, vinyl records, improv.&nbsp;<em>Blade Runner</em>&nbsp;falls pretty snugly amongst those things. The film itself is far from generic (if you ask me). But it&rsquo;s the fandom surrounding it that can usually elicit an eye roll.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*c-B7btZrhG5EpBAD073njA.jpeg" style="height:321px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Depending on whom you ask,&nbsp;<em>Blade Runner</em>&nbsp;is one of the greatest science fiction films ever made or it&rsquo;s the most overrated and boring. Based (loosely) on the Philip K. Dick novel&nbsp;<em>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?,</em>&nbsp;<em>Blade Runner</em>&nbsp;is set in 2019 and follows Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a hardboiled, cynical detective whose expertise is finding and killing replicants &mdash; android slave labor that look, feel, and sound like human beings; they even have acquired memories programmed into them by The Tyrell Corporation &mdash; their powerful manufacturer.&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@mtfried/i-thought-blade-runner-was-boring-until-i-moved-to-los-angeles-771f72bbbfad"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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