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561: Blade Runner

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Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Ridley Scott's 1982 cyberpunk classic came into being as a total flop, yet managed to claw its way into our collective psyches as the definitive portrayal of a dark future that would shape all sci-fi (and reality) to follow. Over the past 40 years and multiple revisions, this former cult favorite has become a respected part of the canon, but does it truly deserve its lofty status? On this episode, join Bob Mackey, Stuart Gipp, Kevin Bunch, and Henry Gilbert as the crew dons their snazzy raincoats to explore the very wet and very influential world of Blade Runner. Turtles will be flipped!

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0:00.0

This week on RetroNots, we don't know DICK.

0:24.9

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of RetroNots in the far-off year of 2019.

0:30.0

Holographic and Ed Armas wives are still 26 years away, but we're all hanging in there.

0:35.0

And this time, we're going to be talking about a Blade Runner,

0:39.0

the 1982 movie that's all about turtle flipping and it went on to shape the world in sci-fi forever.

0:44.0

And of course, I am your host for this one, Bob Skinjob Mackey.

0:48.0

And before I go any further, who is here with me today?

0:51.0

Let's go in alphabetical order around the virtual room here.

0:55.0

So I'll let you folks figure that out. It's 9am right now for me, so I don't really know the alphabet very well.

0:59.0

Hey, you think I'd be here if I could afford a real snake? It's Andrew Gilbert.

1:03.0

Kevin Bunch, noted Andy. Hi, I'm Stuart Jip and I was looking forward to making the first DICK joke,

1:09.0

but boom, there we go, right in the intro. I got nothing folks. That's all I had.

1:13.0

It hit me the second I started doing these notes, so I apologize. We're off to a great start here.

1:18.0

But yes, we today are going to be talking about the first Blade Runner movie.

1:22.0

I'm sure we'll be touching upon the second one because I just watched that last night for the first time.

1:28.0

And maybe very briefly touching upon some of the games, but honestly, the world of Blade Runner games is not super interesting because we have one game technically based on the soundtrack

1:38.0

because they couldn't get the rights of the movie. Very funny.

1:41.0

We have the Westwood point of click adventure game, which honestly could be an episode.

1:45.0

And I still really want to play that game. And then the third game is a somewhat recent game,

1:51.0

but it's for a discontinued Google VR platform that I think can no longer be accessed.

1:56.0

So the world of Blade Runner games is not that deep, but hey, the movie itself in what it touched is very much could be an entire podcast series.

2:05.0

But we're going to limit it to one podcast here. Before I go any further, let's talk about our experience with Blade Runner.

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