>Yes they absolutely are. They even put references of it into them.

Either this is mind bogglingly stupid ("one thing one time reference Blade Runner, therefore all uses of cyberpunk specifically reference Blade Runner") or you think when I said cyberpunk I meant Cyberpunk 2077 (which is also stupid, but not mind bogglingly so).

> You'll find some quotes in there of all the people whom were inspired by Syd Mead's work, the chief designer of the visual style in bladerunner. Many of whom work on the content you brainlessly consume now.

Which again doesn't establish anything relevant. And can't.

>It's a shame you're so ignorant.

It's a shame you can't read or deploy logic or spell.

>there's nothing "specific" to bladerunner?

Firstly, it's spelt Blade Runner.

Secondly, that's not what I said. But I shouldn't be surprised that you're confused because you can't spell the name of the movie.

There is nothing specific to Blade Runner in cyberpunk.

People aren't referencing Blade Runner when they create cyberpunk fiction/art... they're referencing cyberpunk. Any connection to Blade Runner was lost a long, long time ago.

>This has to be the dumbest thing I've read on reddit in months.

Clearly you don't read your own comments.

>A science fiction film just became one of the highest grossing films ever.

A film which is an entirely different kind of science fiction.

So, your argument for why the film Blade Runner is iconic is that the aesthetic which has been aped endlessly and applied to wildly different science fiction is iconic? Do you see the problem here? There's nothing specific to Blade Runner and your best argument for its being iconic is that its designs were capable of being abstracted out of the movie.

But the bigger problem with the argument is that I have defined "iconic" in terms of mainstream crossover, whereas you're just telling me that Blade Runner's influence is limited to the science fiction ghetto. You know, the very people I repeatedly pointed out do like Blade Runner to the exclusion of everyone else.

I guess it's because people like you write stuff like, I dunno, this:

>I don't understand why you post negative comments of an iconic film. What's the point? You can't be so naive that you think someone is going to change your mind, lol.

You may recognise that paragraph as what you wrote that prompted the OP to get "defensive".

A very loud minority.

Any film older than, say, ten years that people are still talking about is either a traditional cult film or it's developed cult characteristics (i.e. it's part of the canon of a population subgroup, usually subgroups that have too much cultural capital to be branded cult even though they are).

Blade Runner just happens to be a film that resonates with a subgroup that overlaps with people who use sites like Reddit or TVTropes. But also, Blade Runner has always been a cult film. It bombed and its legacy sequel bombed. The majority of people don't get Blade Runner... it just so happens to be a literal silent majority.

In other words, what I'm saying is the film isn't actually iconic and instead that its fans are disproportionately present in key online movie spaces.

NCIS?

The characters constantly make jokes about how no-one knows what NCIS is or how they spelt CSI wrong... hang on a minute.

Lies, she's married to David Mitchell. I have video evidence!

Compelling.

Also, how does everyone in this thread misspell Nicholas H O U L T?

Apparently the movie is a commentary on movies,

The foodie is the worst person because they're representative of a film fan who obsesses so much about the technical aspects of film and consequently misses the fucking point of the movie... it's a whole made for a purpose.

Essentially the film is saying "why do you know these things if you aren't using that knowledge?"

>So, why focus on these people, who by and large are just regular people trying to enjoy their dinner?

This character is in the film and she >!survives!<.

Was he the first non-canonical action hero? By which I mean was he the first action hero who didn't look like the image "action hero" and/or movie star conjured up? I've certainly heard that thesis before.

Repetition of stuff you already know.