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Blade Runner, The Final Cut
Bowman9991 writes "A new promotional website is up and trailers for Blade Runner: The Final Cut have been released. I've been waiting ages for this one. SFFMedia has some details about the Blade Runner Ultimate Collector's Edition on HD-DVD and Blu-ray with new footage. It's slated for a December 18th release. Apparently it's also being released in the cinemas again in the US."
If you want the voiceover then get the 5 disc set. It will contain all the released cuts of the movie, plus some extras.
This guy's the limit!
The workshop edit of the film is really the only thing that makes the super-huge edition appealing for me...
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
But too bad it won't contain this version...
This guy's the limit!
Gravitation is a theory, not a fact.
Apparently the Nexus 7 did not have the dying problem.
Deckard as a replicant with implanted memories is a crude, movie-friendly way of getting over one point of the book..
... in which Deckard isn't a replicant (probably - but he meets other unwitting replicants) but discovers that pretty much everything he knows and values is artificial (his religion, his favorite DJ, his pet animals...) so what is the difference?
Besides, the main evidence for the "inhumanity" of the replicants is their inability to participate in the bogus empathic communion of the fatalistic Mercerist "religion" which has been invented to keep the earthbound dregs of humanity content (the VK test is clearly inspired by Mercerism).
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
Saw it at the Ziegfeld in NYC. It looks and sounds incredible. Changes are quite minor, no Lucasing here. The best part was the remastered picture and audio. If you are a fan, you'll love it. If you are a nitpicking wiener, you'll hate everything, so stay at home and register your complaints on a message board.
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For shame, AC! What are you trying to do to my beloved quote?
Batty:
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
"Total destruction the only solution" - Bob Marley
i emailed my local theatre chain asking about blade runner. they responded that they had no clue about a theatre re-release. turns out that it is only being screened in new york and LA.
so, the theatrical release note is quite a bit misleading.
Because replicants are biologically identical to us. They're bio-engineering, not AI devices. So one way to tell them apart is the lack of normal emotional responses. Which is why implanting memories in them is such a big deal - "to create a cushion"...
Read the book- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It makes far, far more sense there.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
I got to disagree about the narration, it made it more reminiscent of a 50s film noir private eve detective movie. I mean, it was a 50s private eye movie complete with rainy city and hot dame with the bright red lippy. The narration was in keeping with all that.
.. actually, if they put Rutger's Guiness adverts on the disc, it'd be worth every penny!
The ending was better in the remake though. Perhaps the new one has bits of both, and to be honest they could put everything on the DVD so I could choose the options I want! Of course they won't, they'll just try to rip us off with the same movie, 2 deleted scenes, a voice-over from Rutger reminiscing about his Guiness adverts and charge us £15 for it.
The 4 disk set includes the original North American theatrical version (voiceover), the international cut (same as theatrical but with more violence), the director's cut (different ending, no voiceover, deckard's a replicant), and the new ultra-director's cut (no idea what's on it). There's also a 5 disk collector's set that includes the original workprint. 4 disk set is currently about $25 on Amazon.com, and the 5 disk collector's cut is roughly twice that. You *can* just get the new version for $15 or so, but why bother? This is the first time that the theatrical version's been on DVD.
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Future Noir quotes Katherine Haber, the Production Executive, as saying, "Bud Yorkin supervised that session, and Harrison hated it. He hadn't wanted to do voice overs in the first place and by now I think he was sick of the whole movie anyway. Harrison also didn't like what Kibbe had come up with. So he purposefully, I think, recited that narration badly. I think he was hoping they wouldn't be able to use it. And of course they did - that third narration was the one they released with the finished film."
Harrison was quoted in the same section of the book as saying, "It was in my contract that I do the voice-overs, but I hated them. Ridley hated them as well, but when the film went over budget, they made me do it. I went kicking and screaming to the studio to record it."
His attitude may have had an impact on the reading but I don't believe that he intentionally sabotaged the session.
-- QED