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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."
Yay for Blade Runner! The plot may be a bit iffy, but the style is awexome.
My entire adult life, every few years there are expanded cuts, director cuts, ultimate cuts, supercuts, etc. of this particular movie. I'm waiting for the best boy & gaffer cut after this one.
Gaff knew who the replicants were, and he marked Deckard as such. I don't see the need for having somebody come out and say it...
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
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...
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
Does Rachael shoot first in this one?
torrent plz
Silly wabbit, DVDs weren't invented yet, it was VHS.
Now I can stop calling girls Rachel in bed and instead dry hump my HDTV...this will save me tons of money on hookers that look like Sean Young.
How many cuts are there going to be released? Okay, so we get another 2 minutes of unseen footage? Oh, we *finally* know Deckard is an android? Please, make us buy another overpriced DVD with promised new scenes and remastered video. I'll go ahead and add this one to the other 2 copies that are sitting on my shelf.
Yeah, I know, I'm old. Do you guys even know what a drive-in is?
;-)
Yes, its a parking lot equipped with a large movie screen and speakers at each parking space. People either (a) drink lots of booze with their buddies or (b) get laid in the privacy of their car with fogged up windows. Either way people do not remember the movie.
but movie trailers are not one of them. I'd like to see this trailer in quicktime, perhaps even HD. It's unfair to subject the brilliant cinematography to the muted color gamut and harsh artifacts of youtube.
Admittedly, the paper unicorn is not present in the original cut, nor the unicorn dream. Nonetheless, subsequent releases made it quite clear that Deckard is in fact a lesbian. Why are we still debating this?
-konstant
Yes! We are all individuals! I'm not!
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.
If Deckard doesn't have a goat, a penfield mood organ and a close relationship with Mercer, then I don't wanna know.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
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.
Maybe you find it boring, but it is FAR from pointless. That's why people still love it after all this time. Personally I love it because Ridley Scott puts so much detail on the screen, always giving you something interesting to look at while simultaneously giving you time to think about what's going on in the movie. It's not all slam-bang action. This is the kind of movie that's only boring if you try to watch it passively. Put some effort into watching it and it's far more rewarding.
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Do they ever bring up Mercerism in it? I thought that was one of the best parts of electric sheep, and a shame to have it fall out of the movie storyline.
Everything will be taken away from you.
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.
Once a blade runner named Deckard
Whose childhood memories were checkered
Found a hot babe
that he wanted to save
only to end up hen-peckered!
How's that?
The CB App. What's your 20?
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3) Only for those too dim to follow the story, like you, and those studio suits.
4) RS didn't change his story, the studio morons did. The DC version restores it to what it was originally.
5) Rutger Hauer. I begin to see your difficulty, watching films through that fog of illiteracy.
6) Who says he didn't?
7) Why kill him if he's going to die just like Roy? You really didn't understand the movie. See, Roy wasn't a Blade Runner, he was a replicant soldier. Deckard was the Blade Runner, and his job was to go find escaped replicants like Roy and "retire" them. Roy only wanted to live. He had no particular reason to go after Deckard, regardless of Deckard's status as human or replicant.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
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.
If you get the idea that I am perhaps insinuating that you're stupid, that's because I am.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
Lousy maple-sucking puck-slappers, coming here taking all the good jobs...
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
You should also read "Dispatches" by Michael Herr if you want to understand Apocalypse Now. The movie is a blend of the two books.
You can have my SIG when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
You know everyone has an opinion. My opinion is that I like the original version, not the directors cut, the second directors version, the laser disk version, the version without the narration, the version released only in Nambia, the version released to the airlines, the tv version or any of that. Does that make me an idiot because my opinion differs from your self described superior opinion? Calling people illiterate or otherwise belittling their opinions to prove how smart you are or how superior you believe your own opinion to be is just sad. It's a movie, buy the super deluxe version and pull it off your shelf every once in a while and lecture your cat about how your opinion is better than anyone else's opinion. I'm sure the cat will be impressed.
Enjoy your Karma, after all you earned it. Feel your Karma Joe, feel it burn.
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