A unique city

With Blade Runner, I can see how critics and fans can refer to it as a "revolutionary" movie, or a movie that is completely different from the rest as far as sci-fi goes. One of the things I noticed most prominently that you typically don't see is the setting of the film. In most sci-fi films, the far-flung future is a clean, organized metropolis of sorts, where everything is either Apple Store white or Chrome. Giant, HD tvs dot the landscape, and everything is beautiful. In Blade Runner, the city is...dirty. The main setting is an underbelly of sorts, filled with all kinds of immigrants and locals, from various walks of life; this isn't even touching on the Replicants that are so important to the actual film. The city isn't clean and wonderful, it's dirty, filthy even. The problems of the city aren't hidden under a layer of beautiful quasi-utopia, but are visible from the get go; it's always bright and loud, the buildings look as if they have been standing for centuries (as opposed to being brand spanking new), and the crime of the city is running wild through the streets. I prefer realistic settings like these, as a real futuristic city would most likely look similar to the slums of Blade Runner; the city's role as a setting stood out to me through the entire film.