A lot of people don't realize that Blade Runner was pretty much a flop at the box office when it came out in 1982, and it didn't get very good reviews.
Somehow, and I don't know how, my friends and I missed going to see it at the theater. Most likely it was because of a number of other really good movies that were out around the same time:
Conan, Poltergeist, Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn, Firefox, The Thing, Tron and a few others we saw in the theater.
I really wish that I had seen it in the theater. The first time I saw it on TV I only caught part of it and it was on an old CRT, and it still blew me away.
The first time I saw it on my HDTV? Massively blown away.
I have a 40" HDTV, and I'd really like to jump that up to a 60 or 72", primarily just to watch Blade Runner.