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I'm pretty sure my recent rewatch was the director's cut. The theatrical release must have been indecipherable. I hear what you're saying about the cyberpunk aesthetic - the visuals were the best thing about this movie. I would thoroughly recommend scifi buffs reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick - it's an excellent (and not overly long) dystopian novella that has so many layers and themes (that Blade Runner largely omitted).
I know we're dunking on a beloved classic, but it would be fair to state this even more harshly.
I felt like there's really barely even a scrap of
Do Androids Dream of Electric SheepinBladeRunner.I think BladeRunner is cool, and I'm thankful BladeRunner 2049 actually at least has some ideas from the book.
But I can't help but regret that BladeRunner has kept us from ever getting a proper
Electric Sheepmovie.Honestly, I really just want more people to get all the amazing Turtle-on-its-back jokes done with Bender in Futurama.
Edit: And how does a movie skip over the
Huge Spoiler for the Book - Don't click if you haven't read it yet.
The electric spider?!That would have made a fantastic movie ending to roll credits on.
I think the best way to experience a blend between the two is either the graphic novel of "Do Androids Dream [...]" or the Blade Runner PC adventure game, which fleshes out the story.
Oooh, there's an Androids graphic novel?!
There is!