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There was a short audio blurb about Blade Runner on NPR this morning. It concerned the film poll that BR recently won. You can listen at this link:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3874387

It's a shame the movie is still overlooked by so many people - in my experience, anyway.

Especially by young people. Just yesterday I was reading a 'Matrix' debate and which were the movies that influenced it. A lot of people responded to this and dropped movie titles like 'Dark City', 'Ghost in a Shell', 'Akira', 'Terminator', 'The 13th Floor', etc.

Now that's all fine with me but what somehow bothered me was that "many" posters felt that 'Dark City' was some kind of superior "Godfather". They went on and on about how brilliant and underrated it is and how it deserves so much more attention.

I'm sorry, but 'Dark City' owes almost everything to 'Blade Runner' and yet, during the whole discussion, nobody even thought of mentioning Ridley's Scott's film.
Ah well, I guess some people can also get a little upset because they think or feel 'Blade Runner' copied 'Metropolis', while many BR fans probably never saw 'Metropolis'.

Almost nobody knows about Blade Runner, in my experience. Thing is it's not Star Wars or The Matrix. Mention those and people will recognize it. Mention Blade Runner and you'll just get curious faces and "What the hell is that?". It's unfortunate that it is not more popular in some ways. Oh and I am a young person, 18 years old.