Blade Runner [Director's Cut]

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Summary: Classic Detective Shows
Review: In classic detective shows the detective would narrate as the show went on. This is seen in many of the early detective shows, and can be felt in novels. Watching the directors cut left long silences and almost put me to sleep, but the original version, with the detectives input from his perspective, was enjoyable and kept me watching. I would never buy the directors cut on DVD, but put the original one in print and I am there.

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Summary: Not as great as everybody says.
Review: Out of an Impulse i rented this movie. Never having seen it before only hearing about it. Director Ridley Scott shows us a rainy metrop that is Los Angeles in the future. It stars Harrison Ford plays Decker who used to be a blade runner now who is on the hunt for a replicant. Supposed to be a great piece of sci-fi movie making that just about every sci-fi movie is based on today. I guess im 18 years to late to be blown away by the movie sure the special effects and cinematography were excelllent but i guess i needed to be in the 1980's to really be blown away by it. I was still wondering what a Blade Runner does and why were Replicants so bad they didn't seem like that.

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Summary: ZzZzZzZzZz...
Review: Everyone says its so great! I must have been watching a different movie. When it comes to movies I am one of those people that generally likes everything for what it is, if nothing else. This would have to be the exception to the rule. Boring, slow, cheesey effects, almost no plot, and the ending was unfulfilling at best. I've only seen the directors cut so I guess I can't appreciate the 'improvement', but whats so good about a polished version of a fundementally bad movie? Its like taking a class in remedial reading and getting an A; sure its an A, but its not a very tough class.

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Summary: Perhaps Androids Do Dream of Electric Sheep
Review: The one word that I very quickly associate with the directors cut of Blade Runner is, WOW! After having seen the original movie, I thought it was so-so, and I was really annoyed at being told the story by Harrison Ford's character, the choice to eliminate the voice-over was very intelligent.

The movie follows a detective-type character (a blade runner) in this case, as he chases down a gang of escaped killer androids(or replicants). However, during the process of tracking the replicants, our blade runner begins to uncover a disturbing truth about himself and those others around him.

The unicorn dream sequence that was added definetly added to the overall effect of the movie, the effect was absolutely jaw dropping. Such a clear message presented in such an abstract way.

The only thing that I would fault with this movie is the quality of the sound editing, I found that sometimes the voices could have used some jumping to contrast the sometimes very loud background music.

Overall however, I would highly recommend this DVD to any avid sci-fi DVD collector, and I think it did a respectable job basing itself off of Phillip Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

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Summary: Best film of the 1980's
Review: I've met people who didn't like this movie, but I've never met anyone who wasn't impressed by the visuals --Scott's vision of an early 21st Century retro-fitted Los Angeles is one of a kind. Along with the unique look of the film, there is also something else in this movie that I've never seen before --symbolism that actually works. In this case it's Christian symbolism: near the end of the movie Roy Batty sticks a nail through his palm (a symbol of Christ), and in his other hand holds a white dove (a symbol of the Holy Spirit). The meaning is clear. Although he is a replicant, he is still human, still possesses a soul. "Artificial" or not, he is just as human as anyone else (including Deckard, who, the film insinuates, is a replicant himself).

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Summary: Why buy it?
Review: I have seen the original movie, so "cut-and-paste" here the praises from others.

It is just that I do not see why I should pay to get a partial work.

Come on guys, our family members each spent an average of eight hours to view the bonus features of the Matrix, almost like watching four splendid movies. Go to a friend who has the Matrix DVD and request to "follow the white rabbit", you'll see what I mean.

This is how DVDs must be: Give you so much more to see and enjoy.

From what other reviewers say about this DC DVD, it should have more bonus features, plus multiple endings, plus... plus... You can forgive the directors for wanting to force their ideas in the original release, it is their prerogative, and they offered a good work there; but why "force" again here? Why not offer alternate versions, and /or alternated endings at least, not to speak of behind the scenes?

Sorry, I will suffice with my old deteriorating VHS.

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Summary: Could anyone please explain me this film?
Review: Oh god, I almost fell asleep when I watched this film, perhaps my mistake was that I watched the director's cut first. I choose rent this DVD 'cause the critics say this one is an excelent sci-fi story and the director's cut is the best way to see it (?), I read that the scene of the unicorn fell over the audience's head like a dump of freezing water, well, maybe for them that meant something special but for me it meant absolutely nothing, can anybody please explain it to me? I know it has something to do with the question: Do the androids sleep with electric sheep? or something like that, and the critics here say that maybe Deckard was a cyborg, but why? I don't get it. The film for me was awful slow. Well, who knows? maybe I need to watch the original edition first in order to understand this movie.

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Summary: Androids dreams
Review: May still be my favorite all-time movie - and I think the directors cut is just fine. My only problem is that i have seen Blade Runner over a hundred times at the very least with the Harrison Ford Voice-Over (since it was first in the movie theatres way back in the dark ages) - so every time I watch the movie - I still hear the faint echoes of Harrison Ford's voice in my head while he's sitting under the overhang waiting for a place to sit at the noodle stand. Of course it might not be Deckard's voice I'm hearing - but that's besides the point. GREAT MOVIE!

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Summary: Destined to never own one of my favorite movies on DVD!
Review: It's really hard giving Blade Runner just one star. I know it deserves more...at least the movie I watched in the theater should. But this is what the Director's Cut deserves.

I remember seeing it when it first came out. I really didn't like it at all. I ended up seeing it again several months later when it was the bottom part of a double feature (they still had them in those days!) because I went with a friend who hadn't seen it. This time around, even though I knew what was going to happen, I found myself reveling in the little nuances in the movie, the performances, the strange quirks of this sci-fi/romance. It then became one of my favorite movies.

When it came out in video, I got a copy. A few years later, Ridley Scott came out with his "director's cut." When I saw it, it seemed so much deader than the original release. I didn't like it and never bought the video or the DVD.

One reviewer stated that Harrison Ford, when called in to read the "narrative" did it very poorly so the studio wouldn't use it. In my opinion, he was still trying to develop his own style between Star Wars and Blade Runner. He had already done two Star Wars and an Indiana Jones by this time, as well as Hanover Street, Force 10 from Navaronne, Apocolypse Now and Frisco Kid. I haven't seen the latter two but, other than the Indiana Jones movie, he seemed really wooden and hadn't developed the ease in roles that began with Blade Runner and became apparent with his next non-Lucas/Spielberg movie "Witness."

I generally like buying "director's cut" movies. I especially like the ones that add more but retain the flavor of the original release. But this DC really presents you with a clearly different and drearier movie. It feels like listening to a re-recorded hit song; it may have one or two of the original singers but it's certainly not the hit that I remember even though the artist may feel that it's truer to what he originally had in mind!

It seems that the LE Collector's Edition will also be the Director's Cut and I'm extremely disappointed. At the least, they could have released both versions. If Scott is the reason that the only version we have now is his DC, then he ought to be ashamed of himself. It may not have been "his movie" that was released but for many of us the original release WAS the movie. Would I have liked his cut if that was the original release? It's hard to say but I really like the melancholic edge of the original which was missing in the DC. I would wager to say that it may NOT have taken on legendary status had the DC come out instead. I'm really disappointed that there is no version of the original theatrical release out on DVD. I guess I'm destined never to own a copy of one of my favorite movies...

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Summary: Where are the extras?
Review: I love this movie, its my all time favourite. Given all the supplementary extras available on the Criterion Laserdisc, why weren't these included in the DVD? I guess I'll have to shell out $... for the 'limited edition' version. I like the director's cut but also like the originally released version with the film noir voice over by Harrison Ford that was deleted in the DC. Its DVD, I'd like to get both versions!