What's New in Blade Runner - The Final Cut?

tripper700 writes "25 years since its original release, a definitive version of Ridley Scott's science fiction masterwork Blade Runner, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, has been released. So what exactly has changed? And is it worth all the fuss? SFFMedia describes each change in detail. Is it just a patch up job attempting to cash in on a cult film? Or like an oil painter retouching a masterpiece, or a novelist polishing prose, is Ridley Scott simply trying to perfect his original vision?"

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Yet another cut...

[JackMeyhoff]

.. this movie has been cut more than a Jew.

Re:It's hard to imagine not hearing the voiceovers

[niktemadur]

In the scene where Batty confronts Tyrell, the line, "I want more life, fucker" has been replaced with "I want more life, father".

Oh man. What else, does Roy shoot first? Does Rachel carry a walkie-talkie instead of a gun?
Will every great sci-fi film made by a baby boomer disappoint with the clean yet unholy, sixty-something Disney retouch?

The only thing now missing from Blade Runner, already in the pipe for the next re-edit, is a wide-eyed kid, the cuteness factor, you know, so them Generation X slacker youngsters can relate. And BTW, get the fuck off my lawn!