Blade Runner [Director's Cut]

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Summary: Why only the Director's cut?
Review: This is my favorite movie - there is so much more to see if you understand or look for the fundamental questions of humanity this movie raises. I get something new out of this movie every time I see it.

(The saxophone in the love theme is just about the sexiest music I've ever heard, and I'm not a great fan of the sax. Listen to the soundtrack by Vangelis! )

In my opinion the Director's Cut unfortunately removed some very key elements, such as the gum-shoe like narration by Harrison Ford throughout the movie, which I felt this was very important to the overall feeling of the movie. Other aspects of the DC version I just didn't see the point in adding.

I very much prefer the original version of the movie, and have not seen it as available on DVD. Sadness. :(

Still, it is a great movie in D.C. version and definitely worth the money.

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Summary: .
Review: Interesting and stylish, but painfully overrated if you ask me. Other than some of the visuals, there's just nothing particularly engaging or memorable about it. Shrug. I had high expectations, but it's just not a very big deal.

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Summary: Now a Classic...forget the original version.
Review: With the release of the Director's Cut for this film, it has now attained classic status. I would argue that those who prefer the original didn't understand the point of the movie in the first place. Ford's voice over in the original was directly contradictory to the "who's the hero?" theme of the movie (by the way, it ain't Ford). The cheesy ending in the original also buried this theme.

Some have argued that the removal of Ford's voice over makes the film hard to follow, but the voice over makes the film *impossible* to follow on the thematic level by burying the main theme and making Ford look like your typical action movie hero. So however "hard to follow" the Director's Cut is, it's vastly preferable to the incongruent original version.

Of course, the original version was notable for its imagery and cinematography, but if you want to understand this film, the director's cut is essential.

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Summary: an unclear cut
Review: The released version is easier to understand. The voice-overs add to the clarity, and reassure the viewer. Mr. Scott leaves too much to the viewer to "get", where it is just as likely he will "miss". His director's cut also seems to linger on the murky and maudlin, though it is clear he feels it is the romantic and poetic. I'm certainly glad they went over the movie with a steel comb before they released it. It never would have been my favorite science fiction movie if I had seen this director's cut first.

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Summary: No self respecting Child of the 80's would be without this.
Review: There are a few standards out there, Gone with the wind, Mad Max, Godzilla movies, Titanic, you get the picture. If you don't have THIS picture, you're incomplete. now, where was that Matrix link....

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Summary: sensational
Review: i find it amazing to find people preferring the original rather than the directors cut. The fact that people prefer the voiced over edition shows the undemanding audiance the film business has produced. for a start the original has no real point to the story. it might be quicker and easier to watch but it loses out in the intensity. The directors cut holds so many tragic meanings that it surely is a piece of art rather than the original, which is just a contempory.

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Summary: Get This Movie
Review: I heard a funny story about the voice-over in the theatrical version of Blade Runner- not sure whether or not it's true. Apparently Harrison Ford liked it no more than director Ridley Scott- he did as poor a job with it as he could manage, in the hopes that the studio would decide to drop the whole idea. Unfortunately they put it in anyway, and it's a testament to the quality of the movie that it didn't ruin the film. The Director's Cut is definitely better, though.

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Summary: Bring the original back on DVD
Review: The original was better. I found the director's cut to be utterly boring. Someone should start a petition or something...

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Summary: Somewhere between hypnotic and immensley boring
Review: This film is one of the biggest sleep inducers I've seen so far. I rented it, hearing it was a sci-fi classic of some sort, and found myself constantly wondering why. I first must admit that I really loved the visuals. The special effects and excellent photography are a delight. This film demostrates Scott's trademark gloomy photography and snail pace. The film is shot almost entirely at night, and everything looks as gothic as you can get in a 21st century setting. This is all arresting at first, but as the movie settles down for it's overlong, confusing, feckless, and totally BORING story, not even the visuals are able to save it. I had read once that Ridley Scott had originally planned to direct TOTAL RECALL, another short story by Philip K. Dick, when the screenplay was still in the works. I felt relieved that he hadden't. It also made me wonder what Paul Verhoven would have done with this movie. That thought leaves a lot to be desired.

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Summary: Amazing movie...now even better with Director's Cut
Review: Blade Runner has always been a great movie. The sheer atmosphere is oppressively powerful, and the moral issues brought up throughout the movie are just as strong. Harrison Ford, normally a bit cheesy in his acting, is just fine here, as is Rutger Hauer in one of his best roles. Ridley Scott, as always, does a practically flawless job of directing as well.

However, the movie had always been a bit marred by the cheesy voiceovers(and even if they had put in a few of them, did they have to plaster Ford's voice over EVERY SECOND of the movie???). Also, that happy ending really didn't belong, no more than a happy ending would have fit in Casablanca(surely you don't disagree there?). Many times we like whatever version we see first and consider all others perversions of the "original" vision, but I have to say that this version is SO much better that it's shocking. The languid, downbeat feel of the movie is emphasized a bit more, which lets the atmosphere sink in even more, and the lack of those jarring, tacked-on bits helps the flow of the film immensely. I hadn't watched the original version for years before I first saw the director's cut, so I had forgotten the plot(beyond the fact that there's replicants and Decker goes out and kills 'em). However, despite what some people say, I had no problem following the plot without the voiceovers. To detractors of this cut, I really don't see what you like about the original that's better than this one. For the person who likes the slow, dark, atmospheric sci-fi film, this is the best one ever made(beats Dark City by a longshot).