On This Day: June 25, 1982 — Blade Runner and The Thing Open
Quick Answer: On June 25, 1982, two science-fiction movies opened on the same day and both bombed: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and John Carpenter’s The Thing. Critics shrugged, audiences stayed away, and Steven Spielberg’s E.T. buried them at the box office. Four decades later, both are considered among the greatest sci-fi films ever made —…