10 Movies Nobody Saw In Cinemas (But Everyone Watches On TV)
8. Blade Runner
Blade Runner is one of the absolute greatest sci-fi movies of all time. In fact, to some, Ridley Scott's 1982 effort is one of the greatest movies of all time, period.
The point being, Blade Runner is a classic film that a whole lot of people have a whole lot of love for. Aesthetically, the movie is a thing of sheer beauty, and the story at the centre of the film is something that many still debate to this day - nearly 40 years since Blade Runner first hit the silver screen!
Going back 40 years, though, and Blade Runner didn't particularly set the world alight when it was first unleashed on multiplexes.
A solid $41 million return on its $30 million budget wasn't exactly awful, but Warner Bros. had major hopes that the film would amass gigantic revenue. One significant factor in Blade Runner not hitting the heights that Warners had hoped for, mind, was the sheer competition that the movie opened up alongside - with Blade Runner hitting cinemas at the same time as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Thing, and Conan the Barbarian.
It likely also didn't help that different cuts of Blade Runner were shown at different venues, causing confusion for those looking to discuss the film with friends and family.
Of course, the sheer magnetism of Blade Runner resulted in the film being a can't-miss each time its been shown on TV in the years after its initial release - and even now, there's that sense of intrigue as to just which cut of Scott's '82 offering you're going to get.