Blade Runner
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Ridley Scott
USA 1982
117 min.
First off, let’s admit that Blade Runner is a hash: Its metaphysical mysteries actually just don’t make any sense, Harrison Ford gives a wooden performance that wishes it knew Bogart’s address, and director Ridley Scott indulges in every dreadful stylistic flourish he can think up. (The white dove is really, really not a good idea.)

Yet there’s a reason why fans obsessively return to this movie, and it’s not just because it predicts everything from Halliburton to WALL*E with foresight that is almost 20:20.

At its best, Blade Runner feels like it’s tapping into a future mythology that we know even though we’ve never heard it: The eye gougings, the chess games, the avenging android demigods carry a prospective familiarity, as if the movie had programmed our dreams. Also it really makes you want a bowl of noodles.