It was not a sci-fi movie that generated a lot of word of mouth, and back then, word of mouth was how a movie generated interest. My old old man liked sci-fi and he took us to see Star Wars and Close Encounters at the Drive-In. Blade Runner didn't generate that kind of hype, because it wasn't a movie for the more casual viewer. We didn't go see Blade Runner at the theater, and the 1st time I saw it was on cable.
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Initial reactions among film critics were mixed. Some wrote that the plot took a back seat to the film's special effects, and did not fit the studio's marketing as an action/adventure movie. Others acclaimed its complexity and predicted it would stand the test of time.[100] Negative criticism in the United States cited its slow pace.[101] 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".[102] Pauline Kael praised Blade Runner as worthy of a place in film history for its distinctive sci-fi vision, yet criticized the film's lack of development in "human terms"
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