Blade Runner | | Cast : | Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young | | Director : | Ridley Scott | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen, Director's Cut | | Released Date : | June 25, 1982 | | DVD Released Date : | September 14, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | A great film draged thorugh the mud! | Content
 | Blade Runner one of the greatist sci-fi movies ever made has been disgraced! don't get me wrong, I love the official version. It kicked major.....you know what. But the director's cut needs to get its you know what kicked by the official version. Here are the reasons you should see the offical version instead of the director's cut (spoilers ahead):
1.They made Deckerd a replicant in this version. Now you don't have anyone to cheer for. 2.They cut the happy ending. I mean come on...Ridley Scott thought that was a good thing? 3. The voice-overs gave the film a great Maltese Falcon feel. Are thay in the directors cut? NO! So there you have it. Go see the version that's good. And, yes, I am a 12 year old that has seen Blade Runner. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | The Movie, The whole movie, and nothing but the movie. Great | Content
| `Blade Runner', directed by Ridley Scott and starring, in one of his most important roles, Harrison Ford, is quite probably one of the best science fiction movies ever. I would easily put it in the top five with Fritz Lang's `Metropolis', Forbidden Planet', `2001 A Space Odyssey', and another Phillip K. Dick inspired story, `Minority Report'.
I was originally disappointed with this movie when I saw it in the theatre, as it was based on one of Dick's most famous stories, `Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' and the screenwriters took significant liberties with the story. But one of the surest ways of identifying a high quality movie is when it `grows' on you after repeated viewings. I have probably seen the original theatrical release on VCR and DVD and on broadcast TV at least five times, and I look forward to every viewing. The things which grow in my appreciation of the film as time goes by are Ford's performance and Ridley Scott's great invention of a very dark Los Angles some fifty years (from the time of the filming) in the future. The dark settings are a Ridley Scott trademark and they show up most dramaticly in `Alien', `G.I.Jane', and `Black Sun'. While the effect is great in the Sci-fi and Horror flicks, it really doesn't work in `G.I.Jane', but that's another movie.
`Blade Runner' seems to have embedded itself into our collective unconsciousness. I happened to see an Alton Brown / Food Network special on TV yesterday where our golden boy, AB quoted a line from Sebastian's geneticly engineered minatures in `Blade Runner'.
This movie seems to be the sort of work where everything just seems to hang together very, very well, from the set design to the music to the acting. Virtually all the roles in the movie are small compared to Ford's character, the Blade Runner, Deckard, but there are some which make one wish they had larger parts. Joe Turkel fits his part perfectly as the founder of the Tyrell Corporation. M. Emmet Walsh is also perfectly cast as Deckard's former captain of the Blade Runner unit who calls him back into service. Sean Young does well as Tyrell's closet replicant. The greatest little pleasure outside Ford's role is the performance of William Peterson, much better known as the Larry of the three brothers, Larry, Darryl, and Darryl on the `Newhart' TV show. Brion James, a lesser character actor similarly carries his part well. The two most difficult parts to assess are those by Rutger Hauer and Edward James Olmos. I suspect Olmos is given a major visibility in the credits for this movie more due to his widely recognized part in `Miami Vice' than to his role in this movie itself. Regarding Hauer, I often thought this was by far his best performance and that his whole career is based on the recognition he got from doing this movie. But, having recently seen `The Hitcher' again, I sense that while Hauer does well in these very sinister roles, his acting range is really limited and, like Whoopie Goldberg in `Ghost', the acclaim should go not to the actor but to the casting director.
Oddly, I suspect one of the biggest differences between the theatrical release and the director's cut is to make just a little more of Olmos' role in the movie. The theatrical release doesn't even add any lines for Olmos, just a few more for Ford / Deckard to explain Olmos' character. In general, the theatrical release added just a little more voiceover dialogue to explain things early in the movie and to give the ending a slightly more upbeat resolution.
I was really disappointed with the extras on these DVDs, as missing is my favorite feature, a voiceover commentary by director which explains the scenes in the movie. I suspect that unlike Kevin Smith's movies which make more money in DVD release than in the theatre (and who therefore puts a lot of effort into DVD extras) `Blade Runner' is so good, the DVD producers feel no need to pile on the goodies.
This is a truly great movie whose value increases as time goes by and other filmmakers are unable to top it's story and great atmospheric interpretation of a classic Sci-Fi hypothesis.
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| Rating | | | Date | August 06, 2005 | | Summary | I'll Stand In Line | Content
| I'll stand in line to be the millionth to review Blade Runner. I love both the first release with the voiceovers & also the Director's Cut - there were two ways to skin the cat in this case. Blade Runner is a brain wave opera that walks the line on love & anger,good & evil,male & female,beauty & grotesque. The cast was all wonderful - however extra credit for the agent that brought us Sean Young as Rachael, who walked the line on human & perfection. While we're on fantasy, how about Rachael & La Femme Nikita (the French one) walking into your bar? |
| Rating | | | Date | August 04, 2005 | | Summary | Best Film of All Time | Content
| This is my favorite movie ever made. The story is of such depth and thought that it is very hard not to be drawn into this film. The visual effects broke new ground for futuristic films, name a sci-fi film since that hasn't borrowed from Blade Runner in story, appearance and style. Harrison Ford delivers a nuanced and restrained performance and is fully believable. The questions this film raises are the questions that have been asked since the dawn of time and they are handled with much respect and consideration here, far better than any film since, what makes us human? What is the essence of life and what is it's purpose? This film is visually astounding and thought provoking. Every performance in this film is perfect. The ending is mind blowing when Ford's character faces down the films central villian, an android who dreams of being human. Films rarely reach this level of greatness, but when they do it is the cinematic equivalent puppy love, it may not last long but you'll always remember it. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | "You 'Brade' Runner Mr Deckard" | Content
| This film is one that had a deep impact on me - the set decoration alone is well worth muliple viewings. The dark mood and sad, evocative sountrack by Vangelis add greatly to the experience of one writers bleak outlook on Los Angeles in the second decade of the 21st century.
For those of us who watched the original 'non-Director's cut' many times, the lack of narration at first leaves an empty feeling that is soon assauged by the visuals - this IS a movie afterall - and one can particiapate in the story more intimatley. |
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