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Summary: A classic sci-fi flick with one major flaw
Review: The director's cut of Blade Runner is clearly the better of the two releases. While I find Harrison Ford's performance simply adequate, the supporting cast, especially Rutger Hauer as the leader of the replicants, do a bang-up job. My biggest gripe with the DVD version is that it's not in letterbox format. It seems like a complete blunder to me. Anyway it's still worth checking out.
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Summary: Great flick, but....where's the happy ending?
Review: Sorry guys, but I really liked the original happy ending sequence.I found the whole ¨starting over¨ theme refreshing. Sort of a ¨back to nature¨call.Too bad they changed it.
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Summary: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."
Review: Great movie. Not only for its visual effects, but also it's story line. There is so much symbolism and in depth analytical items in which to bring forth from watching this film. A true masterpiece and one which I can always enjoy, I absolutely love it. My favorite scene is near the end when Deckert is being chased. It is magnificent! Truly, whether you have heard it was bad or good, you should go watch it. To just get the knowledge of this film in incredible.
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Summary: Versions, Versions, Versions
Review: Honestly, your perception of the movie depends on which version you view. I, wanting to see the film, purchased the VHS Director's Cut version recently. To say the very least, I was impressed. Scott's dystopian vision of future Los Angeles would have George Orwell standing up and clapping in applause. If you are watching the director's cut, pay special attention to the unicorn dream sequence, and Gaff's origami figures. However, if you are watching the original (which I prefer), Ford's voiceover (while monotone) explains crucial details to the plot.
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Summary: Where's Criterion when you need them?
Review: Okay okay, probably not worthy of the Criterion repertoire; I just want to do this movie some justice. I'll spare you the diatribe on the un-likeness to Philip K. Dick's book that this movie is (i hate it when people do that!). But don't get me started on the technical merits of the DVD itself. The fact that this DVD is averaging four stars breathes life into the rumor that this disc is the most widely purchased DVD out there. Eeesh! Yet the cult fans and true movie buffs seem to prefer the theatrical release (narration et al.) or better yet the Embassy release (uncut version before it hit the theatres). But perhaps it's the little kitten inside my head saying that. Sometimes, directors shouldn't have so much power. Director's cuts are supposed to be better! The non-existent narration by Deckard kills the whole 'hard boiled' countenance the movie should have in my opinion. Annnnnd, I kind of liked the upbeat ending: will she live? ...happily everafter? This in attempt to contrast the ultraviolent Embassy release.I only bought this disc because, yes, I'm a sheep. And I like the story so much I'm willing to overlook such blatant "philistinian" editing. And yes, three stars IS generous. I know!
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Summary: Essential SF Title
Review: Blade Runner is, overall, one of science fiction's finest films. The production and directory work is all top-notch, and the film's true standout feature is it's cinematography. With it's excellent, futuristic landscapes and prevading dark and gloomy atmosphere, Blade Runner was one of the first SF "film noirs." It has had an incalculable influence on subsequent SF movies (and been lovingly parodied in mass media, such as Sierra's Space Quest 6 PC game.) On the surface, it appears to be simply an action/adventure flick with SF elements. However, a deeper inspection reveals unexpected depth. The movie, in it's way, is actually quite profound, and begs of you (like the book it is based on) the allmighty question: what is reality? Speaking of the book, I have heard a lot of people complain that this is a bad adaptation of it, Philip K. Dick's masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? And, true enough, it leaves out some things from the book and changes others, but this is to be expected for any adaptation. One shouldn't expect a book's purely literary qualities to come across on the silver screen; rather, it is nice instead to see the particular qualities that movies can deliver better-i.e., visuals, cinematography, atmospherics, etc.-focused on instead. And Blade Runner does that to the utmost. It highlights the points of the book that could be made better by movie treatment, and still retains much of it's heft. This is not a bad movie adaptation, this, my friends, is a masterpiece. Watch it today.
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Summary: An Astonishing Masterpiece
Review: Ridley Scott has, with Blade Runner, defined a genre. Within this movie, you will find the roots of The Fifth Element, Terminator, and a hundred other films. The "gritty future" film was not invented by Scott; but it was perfected here. Further, the DVD finally restores Ridley's vision to the film, removing the "happy ending" and the voice-over that not even Harrison Ford could stand. The movie is finally viewable as it was always meant to be, and the story unfolds brilliantly. While lacking in extras, the quality of Blade Runner, the film, is more than enough to carry this disc into a permanent place in every serious film lover's collection.
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Summary: Brilliant Movie!
Review: This is one of the greatest films ever! Using the science fiction genre very effectively, it is really about 'man's inhumanity to man'. The rich and powerful, Capitalists once again, have 'created' 'androids', which they call 'replicants', which are human beings made bit by bit by genetecists, rather than in one go by natural means, and they have 'denied' them their humanity, and thus their human rights. In this way, they have 'created', effectively, a 'slave' 'race'/ people, whom they 'may' exploit as they will. Some, for example, they have made as 'pleasure models', 'used' for for sexual purposes, and psychologically shaped to fit the role, and others are 'used' for warfare, created solely to fight the battles of their 'creators', suffering in their places all of the horrors of the wars which their 'creators' chose be fought. Some of these 'androids'/human-made humans reach earth, intending to revenge themselves upon their 'makers' for creating them for exploitation, suffering, and an early death. One of them survives long enough to kill one of these 'people', but he dies soon afterwards, his lifespan having been determined by his genes at precisely thirty years. His victory feels empty, in a world where noone cares about it, except him. As he dies, he mourns the loss, so early at thiry years of age, and with noone to pass them on to , of his memories of the amazing cosmic sights which he saw in the heavenly battlefields where he was forced to fight. This film is very heartfelt, and its poignancy is all the more unmistakeable because of the selfish, survival-oriented, 'social' setting in which it is placed. It also contains a romance of the central character, bringing to the viewer an understanding of the humanity of the 'andoids', and an identification with their plight, as the central character finds himslef to be an android, and needs must flee his human pursuers with his android mate, in order to survive for however long he has been genetically programmed to.
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Summary: The original version was better...
Review: Let's face it. This is film noir and without the voiceover it plays as a very thin story with a lot of beautiful visuals (unless you have some nerdy friend who can sit next to you while you're watching the movie and fill you in on all the background stuff). As far as the ending of the movie, both versions end particularly well. A two disc set with both versions would be much appreciated, if highly unlikely...
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Summary: Two Words: What the hell where they thinking?
Review: This film didn't need to be re-cut, much less butchered into a "Directors Cut". I'm reminded of the words of Don Corleone after Santino was killed, "Look how they massacred my boy".
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