Is Bladerunner the greatest science fiction film of all time?"

Initially, I tired to think of my other favorites - some of which I enjoy more than Bladerunner - in terms of "greatest", and they fail the comparison. Star Wars - great, but it’s a farther away and a more black and white future. Rebels GOOD, Empire BAD! It makes no predictions. Robocop - great fun, some interesting moral 'lessons', but still several notches below Bladerunner in terms of how well imagined it is (and Robocop came much later, so a good deal of it’s predictive observation just builds on Bladerunner’s foundation). Terminator - higher on my list of favorites, but not as "great" for all the reasons above, and more. Bladerunner talks about what it is to be human. What it means to be marginalized and without rights. It looks at cities and where they are going and displays all the grit and apathy of a race too tightly packed together to care about the person an elbow away. We don’t have rights for, and can’t get along with, all our natural people - imagine how we’d treat ...  more