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Hey Tracy
Hey girl! you see me? Makeba30 (talk) 00:14, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm so confused. Makeba30 (talk) 00:28, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi Tracy and Makeba
Below are some additions of my content and edits I've made to the existing "critical reception" piece. Perhaps each of us can rework are material in here from now.

Critical reception
Blade Runner was released in theaters on June 25, 1982, and grossed well, earning $6.1 million over its opening weekend.

Blade Runner received two nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best visual effects and best art direction, but lost to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Gandhi (film), respectively.

(I THINK SOME OF YOUR CONTENT MIGHT BOLSTER OR TRUMP THIS EXISTING BLURB?) Film critics were polarized as some felt the story had taken a back seat to special effects and that it was not the action/adventure the studio had advertised. Others acclaimed its complexity and predicted it would stand the test of time. (UTC)

Among the negative criticism upon Blade Runner's initial release, Sheila Benson from the Los Angeles Times called it "Blade Crawler", and Pat Berman in The State and Columbia Record described it as "science fiction pornography". Pauline Kael praised Blade Runner as worthy of a place in film history for its distinctive sci-fi vision, yet citing the films lack of development in "human terms."

In the decades since Blade Runner's original release, the film has assumed the role of a science fiction classic. Roger Ebert praised the visuals of both the original Blade Runner and the Director's Cut versions and recommended it for that reason; however, he found the human story clichéd and a little thin. In 2007, upon release of The Final Cut, Ebert somewhat revised his original opinion of the film and added it to his list of Great Movies, while noting that his lack of satisfaction may have been due to "...a failure of my own taste and imagination..." Blade Runner holds an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a website that rates movies based on published reviews by film and tv critics, averaging a score of 8.5 out of 10 from 103 reviews. The site's main consensus reads "Misunderstood when it first hit theaters, the influence of Ridley Scott's mysterious, neo-noir Blade Runner has deepened with time. A visually remarkable, achingly human sci-fi masterpiece." Denis Villeneuve, who is to direct the Blade Runner sequel, cites the movie as a huge influence for him and many others. Ccooneycuny (talk) 19:28, 12 October 2015 (UTC)