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Summary: Big Mistake
Review: What happens when you take a dark and moody movie set in a futuristic Los Angeles, take out the voice over and add a few minutes of footage...? You get a cure for insomnia. I'm sorry, I think Harrison Ford is a very good actor and I love his role in this film. I realize he did not want to do the voice over in the original cut but this movie screams for it. Ridley Scott in my opinion is a hit and miss director. He seems to think he knows more about what we like to see as entertainment then we do. There is good news and bad news about this Directors Cut. The good news first. Artistically, this movie is incredible, absolutely stunning. The production design was worth every bit of praise. Never has there been to this day a better looking futuristic city in the movies. Visually it's timeless and beautiful. The characters and scenes are well shot and inspiring. The story is a good one, too. A small group of escaped manufactured humans looking for freedom. Ford is very good in his character as the Blade Runner who is sent to destroy them. This all sets the stage for a very intriguing morality play. They may be manufactured, but they are still human, shouldn't they have the right to live? This is basically what the movie talks about. Now the bad news. Scott's pacing is so slow and cumbersome (come on Ridley how long do we have to look at every scene?) that boredom sets in. I'm not asking for fast paced action or explosions, I realize this is Science Fiction and there is a story unfolding here, but there are scenes that don't even do anything to keep your attention. In addition, the original novels were inspired as pieces of futuristic Sci Fi detective film noir. The voiceover helped establish that, it also helped keep the movie going at the slower scenes. I am the first one to say that movie executives don't have a clue as to what movies are supposed to be like but in this one instance they were right. The movie needed a boost. Ford may not have liked doing it but even though he purposely did it poorly, it still fits the movie. His deadpanned tone and lack of inflections are a throwback to the detective stories like Philip Marlow and Mike Hammer. I was extremely disappointed in the directors cut, only because of the lack of voice over. I think it added more to the morality and substance, it brought to the front of the mind the questions the movie was trying to make you think about. I did like the alternate ending and the dream sequence, very interesting if not ambiguous. But it could have stood with the original. I still give this movie two stars because it's still a visually exciting movie to this day, but you can only look at a movie for so long before it pushes the boundaries of your attention.
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Summary: A great movie made even better with DVD
Review: Blade Runner is a movie that just cries out for the clarity of a DVD. This was the director's cut, so it is a little different, a bit darker than what was released in 1982. This story doesn't age with time, not just because of the great special effects but the story. It asks what happens when humanity creates replicants of itself and basically plays God. It gives them memories but only a limited lifetime - 4 years and sends them on assignmnets deemed too dangerous for human beings. They were banned from Earth and Decker, a Blade Runner, someone who hunts these replicants, is sent to find them and terminate them. The whole cast is very good but Rutger Hauer is outstanding as the head of the replicants. His final confronatation with Ford is almost too painful to watch. Buy it. IF not already considered a classic, it soon will be. And if you think the movie shows a bleak picture of a future earth, read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by the late,great Phillip K. Dick on which the movie was based.
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Summary: Moody
Review: Timeless, moody, dark and rainy. All of my favorite things! This is my favorite movie of all time. I only own two VHS tapes and this is one of them. Did I mention robots, action, and a future vision that makes you want to lock the door and ignore the sirens outside.
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Summary: One Of The Top Five Greatest Science Fiction Films
Review: "Blade Runner" is a hauntingly beautiful sci-fi film. I first saw the film on the Sci-Fi Channel about a month ago, and was so compelled by it, I bought the video. Harrison Ford is terrific as Rick Deckard, an ex-blade runner assigned to kill four rogue replicants. Replicants are artificial humans that were created by the Tyrell Corporation. When a bloody mutiny happened in the Off-world colonies, replicants were declared illegal on Earth, under penalty of death. Special police units, called blade runners, were assigned to kill any tresspassing replicant. This was not called execution, it was called retirement. Rutger Haur's performence as Roy Batty (the leader of the rogue replicants) sent shivers down my spine ("4! 5!, How To Stay Alive!). All in all, SEE THIS MOVIE RIGHT NOW!!!
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Summary: -2 stars for the Poor sound on the DVD
Review: OK. I love the movie. I like the directors cut. I hate the sound. This is great is you DON'T have a good sound system, but if you have it, you won't like what comes out of your speakers. Bah to the hollywood scum that cheesed out and didn't remaster the sound.
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Summary: Unfortunate deletion of important dialogue.
Review: It is very unfortunate that they deleted the film noire dialogue. It was very important to the story and was important to give a philosophic view to the story. The unicorn scene seemed unimportant to me, apparently it hinted that Decker was a replicant, but i do not get how. And I am lucky I still have the original so i can watch it, because in my opinion it is far better, and the simple implementation of the unicorn scene did little for me, since i do not understand how it proves his true identity as a replicant. This is still a great movie. But i also suggest you get the original and watch it first.
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Summary: woh
Review: this is a cool movie. i admit i was confused when the dude said to deckard that there were still four remaing replicants after he already had killed on. (thanks to amanons quotes and triva i discovred and deckard himself was really a replicant. woh. man. they should've made a sequal). really cool movie and pris looks so freaky in makeup. i especailly liked the scene where the doctor is showing pris his "friends", these odd objects with body parts from different things. like a teddy bears head in i think a generals uniform. it was so cool because it looked so real.
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Summary: Great movie, so-so DVD.
Review: First off, I'm surprised to see so many people arguing for the Theatrical Cut. The idea of narration to make the story clearer (it can be a bit overwhelming at first, due to the visual spectacle) is superb on paper, but in practice it really doesn't illuminate much, and Ford's deliberately-flat delivery of the lines hurts the product as well. The "happy" ending is a cop-out, featuring an upbeat twist with no precedent in the film, and being much too sappy given what we've seen before. I'd be fine with the theatrical cut being available (after all, the BRAZIL deluxe box set includes the "Love Conquers All" cut), but it's in no way superior to Scott's true vision.Okay- the movie itself is one of the great science fiction films, with an astoundingly atmospheric portrayal of a run-down L.A. of the future- the Art Direction and visual effects are superb. However, there's substance to go with the style- like Philip K. Dick's original novel DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP (quite different from this film version, highly recommended in itself), it's a story about what it means to be human. Are the "real" humans in this movie really any better than the Replicants? Do they have the right to exterminate their own creations? And which is which anyway? Another highlight is Rutger Hauer's astounding performance as Roy Batty, alternately passionate, crazed and sympathetic. It's a shame his career hasn't gone better. The flick has a lot to recommend it, but unfortunately the DVD seems to have been produced when Warner Bros. was just getting the hang of this newfangled technology. Picture and sound quality are adequate, enough to show off an already great-looking movie, but there are no special features of note- not even a trailer! The greatest flaw on this DVD is that the "Jump to a Scene" feature doesn't even cover all the chapter stops in the movie- if you want to get to, say, chapter 6 or chapter 12, you're going to have to crack open the manual that came with your DVD player. I suppose I wouldn't have a problem with all this if the disc weren't so expensive, as Warner Bros., if nothing else, is usually pretty reasonable on pricing. I can name several DVDs released by the company which are better-presented and cost less- heck, just do a search and you'll find them. Fortunately, BLADE RUNNER is a good enough movie that it's worth the purchase price- if you've got a DVD collection, you should probably consider adding this. However, it's a shame that WB didn't wait just a tad longer to give this a better treatment. I have a feeling that some time from now, we're all gonna have to buy this movie again...
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Summary: Blade Runner
Review: This movie is not one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever done, it's one of the greatest movies ever done, movies like this should be topping all time box office charts, (this movie barely gave any profit when originally released). Harrison Ford chose wisely when commiting to this project another great movie, director Ridley Scott transports us to the future, I wish so badly that time could be changed and this movie would have made lots of money and spawned a couple of good quality sequels. K.W. Jeter wrote three novels that are sequels to this movie, check the first novel Blade Runner 2: The Edge Of Human.
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Summary: how to ruin a classic
Review: What does Ridley think he is doing here, besides ruining one of the few 'serious' Sci-fi movies ever made. The original Blade Runner, with voiceover, creates an incredible vision of a future world in a classic Gumshoe format. The Director's cut creates a much blacker and, unfortunately, incomprehensible future where people stumble from scene to scene with little explainable detail for the viewer to pin a story to. Try watching it as if you have never seen the movie before, and then try to work out whats going on, you probably won't. It's not often that movie studios are right about artistic content, but boy did they get it right with the original Blade Runner. The Directors ending and extra scenes are better suited to the movie, it should not have had a happy ending, but the look and feel of the original have gone to be replaced by brooding silence. Unless the studio releases the original in DVD, however, this great work will be lost forever, "like tears in the rain", what a waste! If you are a Rutger fan you should also watch "Salute Of the Jugger", another apocalyptic Sci-Fi classic with a black story-line, the best game scenes since Rollerball and absolutely NO Director's Cut.
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