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These Go To Eleven: The 10 Best Films Of The Eighties

Join us in our decade-based film retrospective, as we delve backwards all the way from 2009 to 1910. Most decade-based best movie lists grant you a whooping 50-100 entries, which makes perfect sense given all the years you have to take into consideration. But what if you were defining a decade in just ten films? Which movies would you recommend to somebody who might only watch a handful from a given decade? This week, we look back at the Eighties.

4. Blade Runner (1982) (Dir. Ridley Scott)

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For Blade Runner, British director Ridley Scott insisted on perfection, much to the disillusion and suffering of his American film crew. Over thirty years later, though, nobody could claim that it wasn’t worth it: Blade Runner has emerged as the quintessential  sci-fi flick, the high-bar of the genre that other movies clam to imitate. Stunning in its visual scope, Blade Runner takes the subject matter from a Philip K. Dick story and injects it with gritty realism, as Harrison Ford’s broken cop Rick Deckard attempts to track down and terminate replicants (artificial human beings). Scott’s futuristic Los Angles is of cinema’s great dystopias, a blend of noir and cyberpunk aesthetics, but Blade Runner really works because of its story: what makes us human, and what does it all mean?, a question with an answer that fans of the movie are still trying to figure out.

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