If I should die in a wombat zone

In 1982, Blade Runner gave us dystopian future long before dystopian future scifi became commonplace, used as backdrop to make us ponder what it means to be human. It was a bold, arthouse style film with a questionably sympathetic protagonist and a surprisingly sympathetic villain, sporting a slow moving plot that wasn't really the point, dressed in amazing special effects that still hold up surprisingly well today. It's one of my favorite films of all time and I always shudder in our present era of re-treads when Hollywood revisits and revises the worlds of these classics. I am pleased to say that my worries in this case were unfounded. Blade Runner 2049 does an excellent (and highly disturbing, which is part of what makes it so excellent) job of continuing the "what does it mean to be human" theme, updated for our present era.  I loved the "retro-futurism" ... this 2049 clearly grew out of a 2019 that was envisioned in the 1980s. No internet, no cell ph...