When it comes to the best science fiction films of all time, no one can beat Blade Runner. Ridley Scott’s sci-fi hit has a brilliant neo-noir atmosphere with brilliant cyberpunk images and a story that will keep you thinking for a long time.
At the time, however, Blade Runner was a box office flop and was sometimes heavily criticized. Scott himself recently watched his sci-fi film again and one clear message to all critics pronounced.
Ridley Scott smashes criticism of Blade Runner with a clear message
With a budget of nearly $30 million, the sci-fi blockbuster grossed after its theatrical release in 1982, according to Box Office Mojo only $41 million worldwide a. This made Blade Runner a flop.
According to Cinema Blend, Scott spoke to Total Film Magazine about the criticism Blade Runner received at the time:
I hadn’t seen Blade Runner in 20 years. Really. But I just watched it. And he’s not slow. The information you get is so original and interesting, it’s about biological creations and off-world mining, which was considered silly at the time. I say, ‘F— yourselves.’
The director no longer has to defend his sci-fi film so drastically these days. Blade Runner has long been a genre classic, from which not only the images but also the themes surrounding it Relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence are timeless or even more relevant than ever.
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