10 "Important" Movies Nobody Actually Likes
3. Bladerunner
While the screams of pain can be heard from all twenty people in the universe who revere this film like it is a religion, it is time to finally put that myth to bed. For the only reason this film gets any credit is because people don't want to look like they don't understand the film's supposed 'mastery', when in fact it just doesn't exist. This is clearly Harrison Ford's worst big budget film, with the reason it is a box office bomb clear to see.
Bladerunner is the definition of a film stuck up its own backside. Look at the motif of eyes, the way we see the world all relevant to where we're watching from. Vomit! Wasn't Rutger Hauer's final speech amazing, so poetic and so meaningful. And he improvised the whole thing! Unfortunately the improvisation made him sound like a philosophy professor who was trying to dumb things down for his 7 year old kid.
In fairness to the late great Rutger Hauer, his performance is very strong, but the remaining actors play their characters as if under duress, with zero charisma or interest to be had with any of them. The messaging is so unsubtle and just doesn't resonate with wider audiences the way some wish it did.
At the end of the day, there is a reason that this film and its sequel were both box office bombs.