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."

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[empaler]

Yay for Blade Runner! The plot may be a bit iffy, but the style is awexome.

I know I am probably in the minority

[Shivetya]

but I want the voice over.

If not something I can select then please include that version. For some reason I like the version of the film I saw first, the voice over to me put me in the mood. Very 50s like and that is what I best remember. I actually never liked subsequent releases simply because of that feature being missing. Yes I know the arguments against but we are irrational beings and well...

Final?

[aldheorte]

So is this the final director's cut or the final ultimate collection or the final on HD-DVD or the final but we'll add some new useless commentary in the next edition final, no truly final cut? I jest, but the continual trotting out of new editions of old movies to get people to buy the same thing over and over again is a tad ridiculous. I can acknowledge that there might be a theater release and a director's cut for timing reasons, but once that's done, it's time to move on and create something new.

Also, does anyone else share the feeling that the extra commentaries and features on DVDs are pretty much completely worthless? I remember thinking that it was very nifty when I first got a DVD player, but after watching a few, I haven't watched any in years. The only ones of any value I have seen are sometimes animated shorts that go with animated films. If anything, special features generally detract from the enjoyment of a good movie as you struggle to reconcile how a group of such insipid and insincere people could have pulled it off.

Re:Final?

[Scrameustache]

Also, does anyone else share the feeling that the extra commentaries and features on DVDs are pretty much completely worthless? Some are worthless, some add value.
I highly recommend the commentary on Robocop, with the director, writer and producer. It's hilarious.
I also really appreciated Whedon's commentary on the last episode of Firefly (objects in space), but some of the commentary on the other eps were, well, pointless.
I was glad to see the "making of" of A Scanner Darkly, I was sure they had some kind of automated process doing most of their rotoscopy by algorithm, turns out they did it by hand, the maniacs.

Where the fuck is Deckards goat?

[Oktober Sunset]

If Deckard doesn't have a goat, a penfield mood organ and a close relationship with Mercer, then I don't wanna know.

Re:How many final cuts are there?

[Basehart]

I'm wondering whether it will even sync up with the original Vangelis soundtrack. They had some new music accompanying the trailer I saw on youtube. I'd bet that without Vangelis the film wouldn't have become the classic it has.

I finally buckled last year and bought the Gongo Records version of the soundtrack on Ebay and it was glorious to hear the original soundtrack although I do hope that Vangelis can one day release an "official" pristine remastered version from the master.

In the meantime there are a few versions to choose from here.

Re:am i the only one?

[Dun Malg]

The week previous we had watched apocolypse now redux..this has hands down got to be one of the worst movies of all time..it is long, it is pointless and it is very very boring My wife jokes about how no one in this town reads. You must be one of them. You know, people who, when you strike up a conversation and ask "do you read?", they say "yah, I read like, USA Today, and magazines and stuff". I'd bet you've never read any classics, like The Great Gatsby, or Heart of Darkness, unless you were forced to by your high school English teacher--- part of the 58% of americans who never read another book after graduating high school. Perhaps you might've gotten more out of Apocalypse Now if you had read Heart of Darkness, or at least had a more developed education and were capable of being intrigued by complex questions of morality. I suppose you were disappointed that it didn't have as much action as Rambo II, or The Kingdom. Clearly, you are the class of person they're aiming at when they green light another movie with Bernie Mac or Tim Allen. People like you are the reason Lost is going to irritate us with inane "didja see Lost last night?" chatter for 3 more fucking years while Firefly got the axe after only one. People like you are how Phillip-Morris, McDonalds, and Hummer dealerships stay in business.

If you get the idea that I am perhaps insinuating that you're stupid, that's because I am.

Re:am i the only one?

[callmetheraven]

Perhaps you might've gotten more out of Apocalypse Now if you had read Heart of Darkness,
You should also read "Dispatches" by Michael Herr if you want to understand Apocalypse Now. The movie is a blend of the two books.