Re:“Blade Runner” has its own look, and a place in film hist...
by deltaonefour on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @11:07AM
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Agreed. But also no denying the fact Blade Runner had horrible pacing.
Pacing is hard to get right in a movie. It is a separate pillar of measurement for a movie. A movie can rate 10 out of 10 for setting and character development and 3 for pacing. Blade runner is such a movie.
In general Ridley Scott isn't very good at making well paced movies. Pacing for him comes as a bit of a lucky draw. Gladiator is one of his movies that had incredible pacing, but in my opinion that was mostly luck as most of his movies don't have good pacing.
But it is exactly the cult movie that everybody keeps talking about. Maybe it wasn't a blockbuster because of the reasons you give, but it had an iconic look that has influenced every SciFi movie since, and it takes its time to tell an interesting, complex story, where you can't really be sure who the good and bad guys really are.
It's popular exactly because it's different. It was and still is immensely influential. But it's absolutely true that it's not standard middle-of-the-road blockbuster material.