Blade Runner (1982)

It isn’t often that when a film is completely different from a book that it gets a lot of praise from its fans. Yes you’ll still get the ones who are die-hard book fans and will complain about it not being 100% book accurate all the way through (looking at you Percy Jackson fans and not in a good way either because of all the bullying you caused some friends of mine online) but even they sometimes have to reluctantly acknowledge the fact that something is a success.

I’m usually part of the group of people who’ll accept it if well-written and because sometimes some books such as ‘Ready Player One’ wouldn’t work well as a on-screen adaptation even as a TV series. Que in futuristic sci-fi ‘Blade Runner’ about retired cop Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) being pulled out retirement who has to hunt down a rogue cyborg (Rutger Hauer) who is a deadly next-gen cyborg.

The closest thing I’ve seen to ‘Blade Runner’ prior to watching it is a excellent anime from 1987 called ‘Bubblegum Crisis’ as the second half of the first season was basically ‘Blade Runner: The Anime’ as well as ‘Blade Runner’ being the backdrop for the Spice Girls’ ‘Spice Up Your Life’ music video back in 1997.

I’m reading the book so far and have watched the film and from what I’ve been seeing and reading, I actually preferred the film version more than the book. This is one of the few times in which I’d accept a mostly different take on a book in comparison to its source material, especially when it’s well written and acted.