Blade Runner -- The Final Cut
Last night I watched Blade Runner: Final Cut, which Ridley Scott calls his favorite version. The film looks amazing, just brilliantly grunky.
There are, however, a few things that should be addressed about the content of the movie. It takes place in the year 2019, a mere twelve -- no eleven -- years hence. Some things about the near future that should be noted:
- There are flying cars. Naturally. Not a lot of them but there are old flying cars. We will have to hurry to get old flying cars in the next eleven years. By 'we' I mean 'somebody'.
- I have to believe that robo-babes in Daryl Hannah form are the cause of society's fall. Nobody goes to work anymore.
- Sean Young will still be a, er, robotic actress.
- Not only do we have interstellar colonization but space-based wars as well. I don't think the space shuttle will be up for those tasks. Maybe Richard Branson builds the first space warship? Bill Gates could but I don't think he would.
- Apparently flat-screen tv's go out of style in favor of tiny CRT screens.
- Cell phones and pagers seem to have been outlawed.
Hey, I can't fault Mr. Scott for not actually seeing fifty years into the tech future from the barbaric hinterlands of the early 1980's. I do find it amusing that Hollywood future tech is often only mildly advanced from the current state of the art.