Holy shit, het gebeurd niet vaak dat er een top tien online verschijnt waarin bijna al mijn favoriete films zitten. Maar op deze lijst kan je tien films zien die beter dan het boek zouden zijn. Mijn favoriet is nog altijd de originele release van Blade Runner (1982) en niet de half gare directors cut.

8) Blade Runner

Science fiction author Philip K. Dick had plenty of interesting ideas both before and after he went batshit crazy. Despite its cumbersome title, his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? puts forth many troubling questions in a future where mankind lives in bleak, grimy little cities. The "androids" of the story are biologically made and physically indistinguishable from humans, but they're still non-persons who are executed if they're caught on Earth. And in a book where most of the human characters are numb emotional zombies, the alleged robots seem a lot more sympathetic.

Why the Movie's Better: Intriguing as Dick's novel is, it didn't have the richly detailed setting or the vast impact of Blade Runner. Ridley Scott's movie went through a bunch of director's cuts and re-edits, but the film still offers a fascinatingly downtrodden look at the future, pioneering the whole cyberpunk movement that inspired everything from Ghost in the Shell to an underrated David Bowie album. Oh, and Blade Runner also brought us one of the most memorable death scenes in the history of science fiction films, shown above. That helps.