[Carriage Hill]

'Blade Runner' original was one of my favorites; didn't see 'Running Man'. Article draws some prescient comparisons to today and our immediate future.

[Lazamataz]

They managed to squeeze some enviro-weenie pap into the article.

[rightwingcrazy]

“‘Blade Runner’ was meant to be a warning about how our climate was changing, how our pollution was destroying the world, how industry is taking over the environment,”

And here I thought it was meant to provoke thought about what it means to be human. Silly me.

[Flick Lives]

Ok. It's 2019, where are those cool flying cars we've been promised!

[for-q-clinton]

This article is stupid. It claims the forest fires in California are caused by pollution.

[Rashputin]

Blade Runner is based on the book, Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep and it's clear the dolt writing this article didn't bother to read the book.

[blueunicorn6]

Never let a Replicant put in your contact lenses.

“Not with the thumbs!”

[Da Coyote]

Heh, we should always remember that reporters are reporters because even “science for poets” was beyond their ability.

[yesthatjallen]

Wikipedia:

The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by nuclear global war.

They're naturally trying to re-construct a narrative about this film being prophetic.

Nuclear war was going to produce a "nuclear winter" not man-made global warming.

BR didn't predict man-made global warming.

[Big Red Badger]

Running Man is a 7 to
Blade Runner’s 10.

[CopperTop]

"..'Blade Runner' original was one of my favorites; didn't see 'Running Man'.."

Classic Aaaaaahnold one liners and heavy cheese. But still, set yer brain on the end table and enjoy.
The game show portion fits nicely with the current crap that passes for "entertainment" on TV.

As for Blade Runner, we got the sexbots and flying cars still in the cooker but coming along. Advertising everywhere (even the damn gas pumps!)in multi-cultural cities.

**sigh** Might as well toss "Idiocracy" on this lil pile of celluloid prophets as well. d;^)

[occamrzr06]

They’re just movies!

Get a life and learn something without a soda and bag of popcorn on your lap.

[avenir]

It predicted the rise of violent feminazis...

[RedMonqey]

Both are a wild stretch. Easily, a lot of movies can be described as “prophetic”

However, I’m not looking forward to “The Day After”

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

I watched “Demolition Man” the other night. It got a lot right.

[GreenLanternCorps]

“The next kill will be made by... Ben Richards!”

[Vince Ferrer]

As its setting, Blade Runner existed in a United States after a nuclear war, where most areas were uninhabitable. This is why the hovering billboards were advertising the "off world colonies." The colonies were not poisoned with radiation. But it was not the focus of the film, it was just a setting to make it different from the present.

As many others have written, the theme of the movie is the question of what makes us human. How close can an artificial being get to being human and still be considered artificial? Neither the film nor the book were trying to predict certain technologies.