Blade Runner [Director's Cut]

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Summary: Great Movie, but VERY POOR DVD Master
Review: I love the movie "Blade Runner" and was looking forward to enjoying it in the extra fidelity of DVD. I was shocked as the opening credits jiggled and bled. It was as if someone were sitting in front of a high-speed dub of a VHS tape with a hand-held camera recording this.

This is not the only DVD product I have viewed where the video quality was no better than VHS tape. The industry is really screwing up by releasing substandard quality recordings.

I hear the Stanley Kubrick collection is an abomination. Why is the industry abusing the consumers like this!!!?

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Summary: This movie was good in it's time.
Review: I watched this movie about a month ago. I thought it was really slow at getting to the plot and it drug out between the action. I think it could have been an excellent movie if it would have got my attention faster. It was worth seeing Harrison Ford in an early movie but that was basically it.

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Summary: Despite futuristic frills, Blade Runner's an empty bag
Review: Blade Runner is a textbook example of style over substance as its obsession with futureshock quickly underminds the movie. It's obivious that Ridley Scott channeled the lion's share of the money toward creating the dismal, urban sprawl of twenty-first century L.A.--a backdrop that,while impressive, suffocates any character development. The few characters we're introuduced to spout stilted, riddle-like dialogue that sounds like it came out of a famous quotations book. Harrison Ford, as 'blade runner'Rick Decker, is supposed to be a throwback to the film noir anti-heroes of the 1940's. But he lacks the charisma of Boggie and isn't given Raymond Chandler's or James M. Cain's snappy dialogue to work with. Instead, Ford looks as overwrought as the L.A. cityscape. The android heavies are an intersting lot, but serve mainly as cannon fodder. Sadly, the dearth of characters leaves us no one to root for or against. Some would argue that's the whole point of Blade Runner. Even if it is, it could have been done better with more emphasis on character development and less on futuristic frills.

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Summary: An intelligent and classic movie. Vision beyond its time
Review: What you will see is not a mindless car chasing scene but a beautiful presentation of flying through megacity of future in an air car. A vision beyond it's time. That is the impression you will got in the begining of the movie. Above all this is not the kind of check your brain by the door kind of sci-fi, but an intelligent movie that explore the meaning of life, literally. The dark mood created by image of smoggy sky, rainy cityscape and heavy music by Vangilis that dominate the whole story but it is so appropriated that the impact lingering for days. A truely classic film that deserve more.

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Summary: A very real possibility...
Review: Harrison Ford is one of my favorite actors, that being the original reason I first watched, and pirated a VHS copy of the original 'Blade Runner'. I later purchased the 'Directors Cut', much to my disappointment. The original version combines a sci-fi film with a dark, `50s style adventure. The narrative of the original version being not only informative but most entertaining. Too bad copies of the original version are not available for sale on DVD. Bill Blackburn

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Summary: Perhaps the greatest Sci-Fi film of all time
Review: Immaculate adaptation of Dick's novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." Best role ever for Rutger...entire cast and crew perform remarkable and sensitive work. My first memory of Harrison Ford as a fine actor. Rachel (Sean Young), sweet and amenable. Ed James Olmos...haunting and crafty. The production, costumes, set design, stirring art work with Music (Director's Cut) by Vangelis is "Top of the Mark"! Movement and flow of this monumental and sensitive production was almost flawless.

Ridley Scott's 1982 gem has stood the test of time and overshadows some of the great Sci-Fi productions of this century, including Dune, Alien, The Fifth Element, and the legendary inaugural Tom Cruise film, Legend, which was also directed by Ridley Scott, I believe.

Those who rush to buy up the Director's Cut (DVD) will have a treasure to last a lifetime. The greatness of this film is diminished only by my fairly faint attempt at describing this wonderful work of Science Fiction art.

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Summary: I have seen things you would not believe
Review: The movie edition that came out in 1982 followed a flim noir tradtion. Most action occured at night in rain, a flawed woman was in jeopardy, and powerful forces are arrayed against the burnt out hero that must rise above himself to meet the situation in which he finds himself. I loved the 1982 version with the voice over. That is film noir technique. Film legend indicates that Scott fought the studio to kill the voice over. He has succeeded. That version is no longer available anywhere, even on VHS. I recently paid a heavy price to get a used VHS version that is not "director's cut." With DVD technology you should be able to have both versions on the one you buy. That way Scott's vision is preserved, while the film many of us believe is the best version, and the one we saw in '82, is available for viewing. Scott is one of my favorite directors and I understand his opposition to the earlier version. Still, the film has major changes with the later revision that were not in the first version. Also, added footage do not add to the story line. In particular the dream sequence with the unicorn seems to go nowhere. The change of the ending does not bother me, but it is a major change to the movie. Ok, so Leonard Maltin says there are several versions out there. How about one that is not the director's cut?

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Summary: AWESOME!!!
Review: This is the best movie I have ever seen. I must have watched it twenty times. And I say that Harrison Ford plays his most challenging role and succeeds with an unblemished performance. In this film he portrays a callous bounty hunter hired to execute rogue androids called replicants, except he falls in love with one of them and breaks out of his emotional denial. What is typical of action movies is that you can easily distinguish the bad guys from the good guys. In this movie right off the bat you side with Harrison Ford. But as the movie progresses, you begin to feel compassion for the androids who have been created for slave labor with a four year life span after which they self-destruct. Granted they do not understand civilized human behavior and relationships; they have developed their "own emotional responses." And you also see their abberant behavior when Roy Batty crushes his creator's face and breaks Dekkard's fingers. The conflict between Roy and Dekkard is interesting, because both characters have very apparent weaknesses, unlike the protagonists and antagonists in modern movies. Dekkard is physically weaker than the replicants and also an emotional time bomb. Roy is physically stronger but quickly progressing towards death. So at the end when Dekkard is at first hunting down then running away from his opponent, it is hard to side with one person. So the ending is very appropriate and relieving. I just have to say that Harrison Ford plays his role really well, and plays the coolest action figure ever, in my opinion. One last thing. The movie very successfully immerses you in the future, although bleak and haunting. The sights, sounds, and music are unforgettable.

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Summary: The Best Movie Ever Made!
Review: I believe that Blade Runner is easily the best film ever made. It was originally a novel called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" written by Phillp K. Dick in 1968. Blade Runner was released theathrically in 1982, it only made around $19 Million, and costed more then $31 to make. After all those years, Blade Runner the directors cut was released in 1992. Blade Runner eventually became a sci-fi classic after all that time, and is still not reconized by many people. Upon mulitple viewings Blade Runner has proven to be the biggest sci-fi acheivement in Sci-Fi history of this century. Ridley Scott is was the genius behind this film, for once I actually liked a movie better then it's novel. The novel "DaDoES" was also great, but it was very different from the movie, it takes place in a different time, 2021 AD to be exact. Every moment in this film is just great, the speech was brillant. The acting was superb, especailly Ruther Hauer, who did an outstanding job. Lots of other sci-fi films come close, such as 2001, Alien, Ghost In The Shell, Akira, Metropolis, Star Wars, The Matrix, but Blade Runner has proven to the best. The music used in Blade Runner was easily the best I've heard in a movie. I don't know where to begin telling you how great it was. Every scene in Blade Runner just had amazing music, and it wasn't the same one used over and over (aka. Star Wars, Ghost In The Shell). The intro track is really good, it gives Los Angeles 2019 a great feel, it's also used in the scene where Deckard and Gaff are going to the Tyrell Corporation. Then the music in the scene where Deckard and Gaff fly to the Police Headquarters is amazing! It's less then two mins. but still it was *really* good. Another good track was Blade Runner Blues, which was used in the scene where Pris first comes in the movie, that's probebly the best music though out the movie. Memories of Green was really really good!! It was used at the scene where Deckard picks up Rachael's picture that she throws on the floor after finding out that she is a replicant herself. I enjoyed the track Love Theme which was played in Deckard's apartment after Leon attacks Deckard in the ally. End Titles was just amazing, it was the track played at the end of the movie, during the credits. I also enjoyed On Trail of A Nexus 6, which plays in the background when Deckard is chasing Leon. A track that didn't make it to the cd, was the one which plays when Deckard is about to perform a Voight-Kampff test on Rachael, that's too bad since that music sounded great.

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Summary: We now know if androids dream of electric sheeps...
Review: Ridley Scotts' cut was a prime cut compared to the original release which was top sirloin. And so far no other sci-fi movie have matched the effects that Blade Runner had on this generation of Sci-Fi fans, replicants or unicorns dreamers...