Blade Runner Reboot

I can understand liking or not liking the book or the movie, as there are personal preference things involved. You might not like the feel of one or the other, the storytelling style doesn't mesh with you, etc.

However, even though movies and books are different mediums and are on slightly different playing fields, I think you can evaluate the two fairly with principles most would use to judge an effective story. I.E., I would say the movie is far better than the book, as it's far more consistent in tone and the feeling it evokes, and it has a better focus on its core ideas.

I can see where the movie grew out of the book, and I can see the interesting ideas at play in the book, but in all fairness to the book, it lacks the focus of the movie. The wordplay of the book is not as strong as the cinematography and tone of the movie (and is far more dated, for all people seem to think you could make the movie look better with today's tech). Characters and events and ideas are rather inconsistent and not seen through very well, either. Interestingly, if I hadn't seen the movie, I would not have appreciated some of the ideas that were tossed about in the book as much.

You could also say that some things in the movie are inconsistent, and that's fair enough. Still, the movie is more focused overall than the book. You couldn't have the movie without the book, I daresay, and there are a lot more ideas working about in the book, but that doesn't make it outweigh the movie's greater strengths.

More on track with the "reboot" idea, the people playing with the idea of a Blade Runner movie would be better served in making a sequel. Blade Runner is not dated for its ideas or its "look" (the little bit of floating cars is minimal and does not look bad), and is hardly in need of a redo. II don't expect Hollywood to try and make something new when they could just rehash it, but I wish they would here.

Man, just thinking about what they could redo visually... I can see Hollywood producers opting for CGI heavy chase scenes in cars flying about, just so they could justify redoing the movie. The original feels very gritty and real, and doesn't rely on a lot of CGI eye candy to do its storytelling. A remake or reboot would be utterly pointless, unless they want to try other stories in the same world. That COULD be interesting.

Wasn't Soldier supposed to be a sequal (or as I believe they called it a sidequal) to Blade Runner?