#18 Blade Runner by Ridley Scott

Over the many years of film there have been a great number of movies about the future. Some have been fun, cheerful and full of fantasy, others have been gritty and bleak; some have been good, and others have been awful. Without argument, however, Blade Runner is the peak of these films. It is truly visionary in its dark view of the future of humanity, it is full of fantastic elements and yet grounded in a believable and human story and setting. We see Harrison Ford in a role that leaves him more vulnerable than his heroic identities of Dr. Jones or Han Solo; we see Dennis Hopper playing a maniac who in the end winds up being the victim of a cruel fate, and we see ourselves calling into question what is just, what is love, and ulimately what is life?