Blade Runner 2049

I first saw Blade Runner many years ago on a video format known as CED (Capacitance Electronic Discs). CED was basically an analog version of laser discs. At the time, in the mid eighties, CED was marketed as being one of the most advanced forms of home video. And then CED eventually went the way of the dodo bird and betamax video tapes.

But Blade Runner, despite being a bomb at the box office, endured (I now own it on a special edition DVD set) to the point where it's considered a cult classic (and I couldn't agree more). It was a frightening look at a very dark future where technology kept advancing by leaps and bounds, and brought us new problems, like replicants--artificial human beings, "more human than human," as Tyrell proudly states in the film.

The trailer above is for the BR sequel, which is something I'd never thought we'd get. But it's also something I'm looking forward to. The original Blade Runner took place in 2019, a time that's less than two years away from us, now. In many ways our society reflects BR, and in many ways it doesn't--that we don't follow this movie in real life is a part of its brilliance, for Blade Runner serves as a dire warning of what will happen if we ever lose our humanity.