Blade Runner [Director's Cut]

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Summary: BLADE RUNNER.
Review: I first heard about this movie in 1999, I rented it and I loved it, then I bought it (at +$.., I feel so stupid for paying so much). I love this movie, the story is great, it has a moody dark atmosphere, the acting is great, the music, everything is very, very good. I started looking for it's gross and for it's awards and nominations, the movie bombed and it was the only nomination it received at the Oscars was like special effects, AND DIDN'T WON! Yes, it wasn't the director's cut, but it was still powerful, I kind of liked Mr.Ford's voice-over, it explained about the combination of street languages, at the end.....SPOILER.....when Roy Batty dies he talks about existence, how much time we have to live, etc. They should have left some parts of the voice-over and cut the rest. I also disliked now with the director's cut that Deckard isn't human, the audience must have someone to identify with, and he was it. This movie should have been at least nominated for best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay and even a supporting actor nomination for Ruther H.

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Summary: Poor DVD - Great film
Review: The film is just GREAT! One of my best 3 movies of all times. But, opposite to most people, I think the original version (not the Director's cut) is the best. The DVD has almost no extras, and for a film that had raised so many talking, it's a shame! All I want is a double DVD set containing both versions, with all the possible extras, something like what have been done in the Alien Box.

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Summary: This movie is just atrocious.
Review: I've read so many good reviews and bad reviews of this Ridley Scott Film Noir/Science Fiction thriller that I became confused as to how good it really is. Well I finally bought it and watched it. Want the truth? It is a slow, unnecessarily complex movie about androids and humans. It is cold, violent, and none-to-bright either. However, the movie's architectural designs and the fact that it was based on a Philip K. Dick novel certainly make it interesting...but it just isn't that good. Cast (especially Ford) excells. Director's Cut does nothing to improve it either.

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Summary: Beautiful Cinematography
Review: An amazing sci-fi movie that demonstrates alot of depth not only through its storyline, but also through its images. Ridley Scott's use of "selective focus" is amazing during one of the most powerful scenes in the movie - a scene between Rutger Hauer and the actor who played his maker. Superb!

As well, the special effects put alot of todays CG animated movies to shame. Model effects are still great when done properly, and dare I say, they still sometimes pale CG in quality.

Overall, Ridley has created a rich world, as he normally loves to do. We see this as well in Gladiator, though that one was not quite as good as this...

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Summary: A great sci-fi film!!!
Review: Bladerunner: The Directors Cut can lay claim to this. It is has the brilliant visuals which you'd normally expect from director Ridley Scott combined with an excellent soundtrack by Vangelis. Good script, acting and special effects.

This 'Cut' of the film is more in the way of what the director intended it to be as opposed to what the executives/studios wanted. The narration and 'happy ending' that spoilt the original release have thankfully been removed. This makes for a more intelligent and thought provoking film.

This DVD release is good. Picture quality is fine, but could be better. Audio - Dolby Digital 2.0 - does the job. It does lack the extras that you'd expect from many new releases these days, but with a film this good extras aren't that important.

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Summary: Dark Sci-Fi Adventure
Review: Dark science fiction adventure set in the year 2019 about a special police-operations officer who hunts down five artificial humans in Los Angeles. Harrison Ford stars in the main role as Deckard, a "Bladerunner" policeman who specializes in hunting down "Replicants." The Replicants are artificial humans manufactured by the Tyrell Corporation, used for hazardous duties in off-world exploration in place of humans. Replicants have become violently dangerous due to their self-realization of their situation, resulting in bloody rebellions against their human owners. As a result, they're declared illegal on Earth, under penalty of death. Bladerunner is about the particular case of five who return after escaping from an off-world colony, and try to penetrate the Tyrell Corporation for unknown reasons. Deckard is retired, having lost taste for his work, and is forced by the Bladerunner unit to take the assignment of running down the five escaped replicants.

Released in 1982, the movie boasts impressive visual effects that hold up quite well with today's productions that enjoy digital animation. The model effects create a massive Los Angeles metropolis of super skyscrapers, millions of lights, neon signs, floating blimps, and flying cars crisscrossing the impressive skyline. Ridley Scott created an eye-catching atmosphere by looking back 40 years in history to determine the look of architecture and clothing. The outcome is a timeless appearance that is not mottled with '80's techno-punk. While being futuristic, it maintains a classic detective-story flavor.

The movie received mixed reviews after it first opened, probably due to audiences' expectations of another 'Stars Wars' action adventure with Harrison Ford. Instead they got a deep and dark story of a man [Deckard] hunting down artificial humans who are looking for an answer to their existence. Midway through the story, Deckard himself begins to develop emotions for the replicants' plight. Rutger Hauer, a Dutch actor who was at the height of his career in the U.S., stars as the replicants' leader Roy Batty, and turns in an exceptional performance. Eleven years later, the Director's version was released in theaters and is one of the few movies to have enjoyed such a success, differing from the original 1982 release by excluding Harrison Ford's narrative and a 'happy ending' sequence, and the addition of an unusual unicorn scene. Curiously there are no extra features such as deleted scenes or the trailer, which is particularly interesting since it shows scenes never used in the final release.

Bladerunner is one of the better movies in the science fiction category, both in content and visual creation. A 'must own' for Sci-Fi fans.

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Summary: A masterpiece !
Review: Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott and based on Philip K. Dick's famous novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?", is a Sci-fi slash Noir film about a cop named Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, in a decrepit 2019 Los Angeles whose job it is to retire five genetically engineered syborgues, known as "Replicants". In 1982, the director, Ridley Scott, found himself at the center of a storm around his production of Blade Runner. After clashes with studio executives over the film's complex content and downbeat finale, Scott added a voiceover narration and a more positive ending. But "Blade Runner" fell victim to negative reviews and a poor box office. It wasn't until the early 1990s that the director's cut, the final version, was finally released on videocassette, and the film was recognized as a science-fiction masterpiece...

Born in England in 1937, Ridley Scott were one of the most promising directors of the late 1970s with films like "The Duellists" (1977) that won the Jury Prize for Best First Feature at the Cannes Film Festival and, above all, "Alien" (1979), the first episode of the famous tetralogy. Directing "Blade Runner" in 1982, he certainly realised his career masterpiece. About twenty years later, we can affirm he is a great and an eclectic director who has tackled many kinds of film as the historical epic ("Gladiator" / 2000 / five Academy Awards, one of whom was the best director award for Scott), the historic film ("1492 : Conquest of Paradise" / 1992), the road movie ("Thelma & Louise" / 1991) or also the science-fiction film ("Blade Runner" / "Alien"). Blade Runner's actors and actresses are also pretty good ones especially Harrison Ford. This one acted in about 50 movies : among them, the most famous are "Star Wars" (1977), the "Indiana Jones" (1981, 1984 and 1989), "Witness" (1985), "Mosquito Coast" (1986) or also "The Fugitive" (1993). Though they are not pretty famous, the actor Rutger Hauer who acted the leader of the five replicants and the actresses Sean Young who acted an android and Daryl Hannah, a replicant, are also exceptionnal in this movie.

I suggest you a short summary of Blade Runner : in a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a "Blade Runner", a cop who specialises in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when five replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth. Man's obsession with creating a being equal to himself has back-fired.

In order to conclude, I will try to make a review of this marvellous masterpiece named "Blade Runner". On top of being well-directed and well-adapted from this great book of Dick, this movie can enjoy a splendid original soundtrack by the famous composer Vangelis, who also arranged the soundtracks of "the Chariots of Fire" (he won an Oscar) and "1492", that consists mainly in jazz and blues illustrating perfectly the dark atmosphere of Scott's movie. Concerning the dialogues, the lasts lines of the replicant Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) are engraved on my memory forever :

"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave. I've seen things... you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams... glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost... in time... like tears... in the rain."

Moreover, the special effects are exceptionnal especially in the opening credits : the best sci-fi scene I have ever seen (tied with the ending of "Blade Runner") ! The texts, the apocalyptic pan of Los Angeles then the interrogation ... I think that I was very clear about this film. Watch it ! Everybody can watch it because it questions what it is to be human and why life is so precious.

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Summary: Stunning - The Best Sci-Fi Film Ever Made
Review: Directed by Ridley Scott, possibly the best director in Hollywood, Blade Runner: The Director's cut is an outstanding medley of action, noir, sci-fi, and suspense. Robots have been taken to a new level - Nexus 6 Generation Robots called "replicants", which outmatch humans in strength and ability and equal in intelligence, but lack one human quality - emotions. They were used for "slave labor" to work in places too hazardous for humans. However, replicants after a few years begin to develop their own emotions, which causes them to rebel against their masters. Special cops, called blade runners, were assigned to exterminate criminal replicants. Eventually replicants were declared illegal on earth, and were banished to a shuttle in space. LA, 2017. Rick Deckard, (Harrison Ford) a retired blade runner, is forced to "retire" five replicants that have escaped from the shuttle, but winds up falling for one, Rachael. (Sean Young) Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) leads the other three replicants to find their creator, Eldon Tyrell, to expand their short four-year life span. Incredible action scenes, dark, brooding noir, creeping suspense, and excellent sci-fi, Blade Runner: The Director's Cut will please fans of any of these genres. The Director's Cut offers production notes, subtitles, added character developement, the original ending, a unicorn dream sequence, and the deletion of unnecessary scenes and the annoying voice-overs. Plus, it is digitally restored to excellent picture and sound quality. Some "sensitive" viewers might find the plot and noir atmosphere cold, but action, noir, sci-fi, and suspense fans will enjoy it very much. With stunning special effects, incredible cinematography, compelling plot, and rich, incredible characterizations (esp. Rutger Hauer), I strongly recommend Blade Runner: The Director's Cut to action/sci-fi fans.

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Summary: One of the greatist Sci-fi Classics of all time.
Review: In 1982, Ridley Scott gave us a vision of the future that we never can't get rid it in our minds. Deckard ( Harrison Ford) is a dectective who is after Replikant Cyborg Criminals who want to be human and they must be exterminated. Excellent film! filled with romance, action, suspense and will leave you breathless. neverthless, it's a must have for Sci-fi Fans. Recommended films to go with this: The Fifth Element, The Matrix, Total Recall, Brazil, Heavy Metal, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and The Terminator saga.

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Summary: Need The Voice-Over
Review: Warning...without the voice over this is just another jumbled sci-fi feature...Harrison Ford's narrative gives more insight into the film and the other characters...The ending is just that an ending...you have to use your imagination...besides all the above the special effects are tremendous in giving us a very unflattering view of the "future". Harrison Ford is good as usual but Rutger Hauer steals all the scenes he is in...he was perfectly cast and it must have been written with him in mind. Please Please Please will someone release on DVD the original theatrical release with the voice overs!