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Give him 7 to 10 years. It bounced right off me as a kid too. It's one of my desert island films now.

That's the caveat of groundbreaking works. They may hold up over time and still be strong works. But the things they did that were new and jaw-dropping end up riffed upon and will no longer be as surprising to new audiences.

Enjoy this awesome cinemagraph from that opening scene (not my work):

“Los Angeles, November 2019” Blade Runner (1982) IWDRM https://iwdrm.tumblr.com/post/2927811283

The Kinks, Michael Jackson’s music sound “ok” and familiar today. That’s the price of success and being “trend setting”.

I was very unimpressed when I watched it as a kid, blown away when I was older.