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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1262346" data-attributes="member: 7394">Sacrilege! Heretic! Someone get the tar and feathers!Seriously, I think you really need to put that film in context in order to appreciate it. First of all it was a loose interpretation (Dare I say reimagining? It even had Edward James Olmose in it. Curious.) of Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. This was really the first and best representation of the cyberpunk genre on the big screen. It was also the first time that we see the vision of this Japanese future that was prevalent in Scifi during the '80s and occasionally resurfaces. Aside from that, it asks fundamental questions about the nature of life, the possibility of biotechnological life, and the rights that such life would have. In addition to that, there's the subtle questions of whether or not Deckard was really a replicant and whether replicants would even know whether or not they themselves are. Its a fascinating look at a future that could be.Rather than being near the bottom, this one rates near the top as an intellectual film that you simply can't sit through and watch if you want to enjoy all the layers of meaning stacked within. Its a film that begs to be deconstructed, thought about, and discussed in order to get the real enjoyment out of it. If you just watch it for what's on the surface, you're bound to be disappointed and you'll miss the true meaning of the movie.</blockquote>