Blade Runner's future still feels futuristic even today - while many sci-fi films of that era don't. I think it's largely due to the brilliant production design and cinematography. Just about every creative department over-achieved spectacularly. I saw it in 70mm when it came out it and it absolutely blew my teenaged mind. Even as a hardcore sci-fi fan, I'd never seen anything like BR's vision of an eclectic urban dystopia.

Today, it's hard to appreciate just how much of a visual sledgehammer Blade Runner was in 1982. The film doesn't look all that shocking from modern perspectives but that's only because BR so strongly influenced almost every other vision of the future that came after. It simply defined what compelling visions of the future should look like. It's hard to put your head back into a world where nothing had ever looked like that.

If you haven't seen the restored version that film archivist Charles de Lauzirika did, do yourself a favor and watch the 4K HDR10 version (released in 2017). He spent years painstakingly rescanning the original camera negatives (something rarely done for remasters) and the result is a revelation.