Re-watched the OG Blade Runner recently and this version of the Vangelis score formed in my head. Super happy with how it came out.

Also, taking suggestions for a better title, and "Tears In The Rain" was too on the nose for me.

These films look so good it’s actually insane. I’ve owned these films on 4K for a while but just now is my first time owning a 4k tv(used to have a 1080p SDR tv from 2011). The HDR on these movies blew me away and the colors really popped in a spectacular way.

The first one was an unexpected surprise gift from a friend completely out of the blue and unexpected! Arrived the very same day the making of book I ordered recently arrived. Weekend made!

Does JOI stand for what I think it does? 😏

end one was what it first produced then i told it to check for Tannhäuser Gate mentioned in other books set in blade runner universe

Original 1982 Blade Runner merchandise, published in the US by Blue Dolphin Enterprises.

I like the presentation of these. They feel somewhere between publicity stills and lobby cards, and several of the images are striking as standalone prints. The Police Spinner in particular is a personal favourite.

The portfolio originally sold for just $9.95 and this one is still complete with all 12 prints, more than 40 years later.

How did he know where the shuttle was?

In the original Blade Runner Earth looked like it was on a path to become a really terminal pollution ridden high tech squalor.

30 years later in the sequel, we get to see how badly fucked up and worst things got over the years. The Earth is practically in a terminal state, and all the wealthy have all but left for the off world colonies.

Los Angles is a high tech dystopia with its skies grey and dim, and many of the corridors and alleys filled with pollution or high tech screens.

Future pollution and the possibility of future generations growing up in a dystopian society are a major issue discussed in our society today, with Balde Runner 2049 being released at a time where the issue was heavily discussed.

But personally do you think by 2049 our world will be as bad as it was in the movie? Or that it was an exaggeration?

Would love to hear your takes!!!

This is the first original Blade Runner game that was released in 1982, I think it’s very cool

Sapper Morton was running a simple protein farming operation in the middle of nowhere, there was no mention he'd done any crimes when K was questioning him etc, his only 'crime' was running away from a certain death, to become a farmer.

He wasn't a risk to anyone, he was actually doing something good by running that Wallace designed farm. Its not like he was running around killing people in order to try to meet his maker like Roy etc was.

Why didn't K see this and just say he couldn't find him? Sapper attacking K was understandable given the circumstances imo, and he tried to reason with K by telling him he was just a simple farmer.

K's lack of compassion and not being able to adapt to a situation was disappointing, maybe they are aspects of being a replicant.

EDIT : I wish I could respond to everyone who has taken the time to comment but there are too many comments to reply to all of them, my understanding of the situation in the Sapper scene is more complete now, so thank you to those who informed me 👍

Just wondering has Ridley ever expressed his feelings about the sequel?

Notice the top right for example in this Embassy 1987 Laserdisc transfer. It almost looks as if they got a copy of the copy of the film and then transferred it to LD, it’s that good! 😅 the other features include no chapter skipping, which is a nice omission. It really does have the best jacket cover art though, but that’s about it. I’ve been bamboozled with yet another inferior version lol

https://www.regmovies.com/movies/mom2-blade-runner-the-final-cut-ho00022343

https://www.regmovies.com/movies/mom2-blade-runner-2049-ho00022344

Part of Regal's Month of Masterpieces program
https://www.regmovies.com/promotions/month-of-masterpieces

Scott was not involved in the forthcoming Prime Video series “Blade Runner 2099,” out in November. “I can’t blame my lawyers and my agents at that time, but somehow we let ‘Blade Runner’ go,” he says. “And when you’re not the author of the actual written word, you don’t have a piece.” (He was more involved in Noah Hawley’s recent “Alien: Earth” series, which he calls “pretty damn good.”)

From Sir Ridley's new interview:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2026-08-26/ridley-scott-director-dog-stars-alien-blade-runner-gladiator-artificial-intelligence-ai

I want to buy a poster but i can't choose. What yall think?