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[Image]From AICN, It’s June 25th, 2007. Exactly 25 years ago…today…a film called BLADE RUNNER showed us the world of 2019. A world where “Spinner” vehicles lifted skyward from streets to skim the aerial traffic ways of Los Angeles. A time when constructed life forms…who were “more human than human”…bore the brunt of the danger during mankind’s off world colonization movement. A place that was peculiarly beautiful, even at its ugliest.

2019.

That’s only twelve years away now. There are no flying cars and there probably won’t be anytime soon (although we’re getting closer). We’re not building people yet - we won’t be for some time, if ever. The notion of offworld colonization within the lifetime of anyone reading these words FEELS more and more improbable as the years go by. And, perhaps most disappointingly, cinema’s “worlds of tomorrow” have become decreasingly fantastical. With a few exceptions, the “future” brought to us by movies these days seems far less fantastical than it used to – there’s less mystery awaiting us, less majesty to behold. It’s rarely awe-inspiring, and is often disappointingly similar to the world we already know…too similar to be much fun. Increasingly, Science Fiction cinema lacks wonder.

I’ve been unable to locate the first trailer I recall seeing for BLADE RUNNER – I’m not sure it’s actually available on the Net. But it went something like this: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33141