A classic SF movie. Kind of early CyberPunk. Based on a PKD novel. Cops and robots. Surely everybody knows this movie! - imdb:title/0083658 - http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/blader.txt (the full script) It is the beginning of the "It is the future, hence it is dark and always rains" style of sci-fi. It works visually and at the time was unique. Since then it has become one of the cyberpunk cliches. Possibly inspired by some previous cinematic sci-fi cliches in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, which seems to have been the source of innumerable copycats, right down to 'MinorityReport'. There is a lot of discussion about the alternate endings in the Theatrical release and in the directors cut. _Especially as the Rutger Hauer character in the sequence where he 'dies' looks like he has a *serious* messiah complex..._ - "It's a shame she won't last forever. But then again, who does?" Also, - "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long; and you have burned so very, very brightly..." Just about the classic line from this movie. Blade Runner was originally the title of a medical thriller, written in the mid-1970s. The owners of the rights to 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' bought it the rights to said thriller, purely to provide themselves with a slightly more marketable title. So somewhere there's a sub-Crichton kicking themselves repeatedly.... I remember punching my mother while I watched this movie. CategorySFMovie