[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Blade Runner (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 10/11/2012 10:03:47 PM EDT
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I am watching Final Cut for like the 6th time this year. I know there are other versions of the movie. What is the best one? |
Buy the set. My wife got it for me for Christmas a couple of years ago. You get a police spinner model. 
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Disc-Ultimate-Collectors-Edition-Blu-ray/dp/B000R6PKP2 |
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Quoted: Buy the set. My wife got it for me for Christmas a couple of years ago. You get a police spinner model. http://www.amazon.com/Five-Disc-Ultimate-Collectors-Edition-Blu-ray/dp/B000R6PKP2 nerd |
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Buy the set. My wife got it for me for Christmas a couple of years ago. You get a police spinner model.
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Disc-Ultimate-Collectors-Edition-Blu-ray/dp/B000R6PKP2 nerd
Apparently rich nerd. I'm not spending over $100.00 on something that doesn't run on gas or bullets.
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I'm as confused as I was the last time we had a thread on this.
There are a couple new releases coming out on Oct 23rd. If I want to get it on Blu-ray, which one do I want to get? I haven't seen it since the original a long time ago, and I don't care if it costs $6 or $60. I just want to get a good copy that covers everything, and watch the best version without watching them all, yet still have them all. 
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Worth watching is Confused Matthew's movie review of Blade Runner - note it's one of his favorite movies:
http://www.confusedmatthew.com/Blade-Runner.php He breaks it down for all of its good elements (and the few bad ones). |
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Quoted: I'm as confused as I was the last time we had a thread on this. There are a couple new releases coming out on Oct 23rd. If I want to get it on Blu-ray, which one do I want to get? I haven't seen it since the original a long time ago, and I don't care if it costs $6 or $60. I just want to get a good copy that covers everything, and watch the best version without watching them all, yet still have them all. New releases????  I am intrigued... |
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I'm as confused as I was the last time we had a thread on this. There are a couple new releases coming out on Oct 23rd. If I want to get it on Blu-ray, which one do I want to get? I haven't seen it since the original a long time ago, and I don't care if it costs $6 or $60. I just want to get a good copy that covers everything, and watch the best version without watching them all, yet still have them all. New releases????
I am intrigued... I think they're repackaged ones, but Amazon says the new BD stuff comes out on the 23rd. The expensive one comes with a toy I think. |
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Director's Cut is the best. That movie is the reason I am in the biz. From what I read, it seems the Final Cut is the highest video and audio quality. But how is the Final Cut different from the Director's cut? Director's cut is Ridley's vision, final cut is what he ended up giving over to the studio. Director's Cuts tend to have all the superfluous scenes that never made it into the theatrical release. |
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There's lots of opinions on which cut is best. Realistically, the most popular choices are the theatrical cut (Ford's voice-over throughout, happy ending driving off through the hills), the director's cut (no voice-over, the unicorn sequence is added in, ends with the elevator), and the final cut (virtually identical to director's cut, a few seconds of additional footage here and there). The workprint and the international aren't as commonly discussed, but they vary in the removal/addition of small amounts of material as well.
People who believe Deckard was human tend to prefer the theatrical cut. If you go by the director's cut as being the "true" canonical depiction of the film, then it's pretty fucking hard to argue that Deckard isn't a replicant - it's spelled out too clearly (by the unicorn sequence in particular). Between the director and the final cuts, there's some definite technical improvements made in the final cut, yet it seems unsatisfying to a purist like me. Very subtle changes, like the altering of Roy's line "I want more life, fucker" to "I want more life, father" seem to be a cheapening of the effort, like changing your answers to the test after you've already turned it into the professor. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing what we might call an "enhanced director's cut" at some point, but the director's cut is already of far more than acceptable quality, I don't particularly care if it ever occurs or not. |
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Director's Cut is the best. That movie is the reason I am in the biz. From what I read, it seems the Final Cut is the highest video and audio quality. But how is the Final Cut different from the Director's cut? [url[http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4589p[/url] The father/fucker change, and the rainy sky at Roy's death, are probably the most emotionally significant changes. Additional gore adds to the immersion, but it doesn't have the same impact (at least for me) as the simplifying of Roy's line and the degradation of the escaping bird. In the director's cut, that one brief shot is the only time in the film that we see blue skies above, and the significance of its appearance at the moment of Roy's death - his soul taking wing into the blue yonder - is far more potent than a CGI backdrop of towers and stormclouds. Why bother showing the bird at all? It speaks of someone trying to CGI away little details in hopes of Lucasing his film for profit, sadly enough. |
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When I first watched the movie, I could have sworn that there were a couple of Hungarian lines in it (it's what we spoke in the house growing up). I found that I was in fact correct years later: Edward James Olmos speaks Hungarian in the movie "Blade Runner" as Gaff. His lines are the following: "Monsieur, azonnal kövessen engem, bitte." which means "Follow me immediately, please." (the last word is in German), and "Lófaszt, nehogy már. Te vagy a Blade Runner." which means "Bullshit, no way. You are the Blade Runner". "Lófaszt" actually means "Horse cock". 
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Director's Cut is the best. That movie is the reason I am in the biz. From what I read, it seems the Final Cut is the highest video and audio quality. But how is the Final Cut different from the Director's cut? Has some extra scenes. Unicorns.  That's my only gripe. I don't like that Deckard is supposed to be a "Replicant". If he is a Replicant, why is he getting his ass kicked by other Replicants, when he should be just as strong as them. Bad plot hole by Ridley Scott. Plus the fact that Deckard is supposed to be a seasoned Blade Runner but has to be explained in the brief by Bryant what a Nexus 6 is and explain to him the 4 year life span, which he should already know. |
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Director's Cut is the best. That movie is the reason I am in the biz. From what I read, it seems the Final Cut is the highest video and audio quality. But how is the Final Cut different from the Director's cut? Has some extra scenes. Unicorns. That's my only gripe. I don't like that Deckard is supposed to be a "Replicant". If he is a Replicant, why is he getting his ass kicked by other Replicants, when he should be just as strong as them. Bad plot hole by Ridley Scott. Plus the fact that Deckard is supposed to be a seasoned Blade Runner but has to be explained in the brief Bryant what a Nexus 6 is and explain to him the 4 year life span, which he should already know. Except the Nexus 6 was a new kind of replicant. He was being brought up to speed. That said, Philip K. Dick is by far one of my favorite writers. His work, especially the VALIS series, was some of the best sci-fi (head-fuck type) I've ever read. Up there, IMHO, with Robert Anton Wilson. |
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Director's Cut is the best. That movie is the reason I am in the biz. From what I read, it seems the Final Cut is the highest video and audio quality. But how is the Final Cut different from the Director's cut? Has some extra scenes. Unicorns. That's my only gripe. I don't like that Deckard is supposed to be a "Replicant". If he is a Replicant, why is he getting his ass kicked by other Replicants, when he should be just as strong as them. Bad plot hole by Ridley Scott. Plus the fact that Deckard is supposed to be a seasoned Blade Runner but has to be explained in the brief Bryant what a Nexus 6 is and explain to him the 4 year life span, which he should already know. Except the Nexus 6 was a new kind of replicant. He was being brought up to speed. That said, Philip K. Dick is by far one of my favorite writers. His work, especially the VALIS series, was some of the best sci-fi (head-fuck type) I've ever read. Up there, IMHO, with Robert Anton Wilson. If Deckard is a form of disposable replicant hunter-killer who is preprogrammed to think he's human, then he's going to be built and designed to be believable, both to himself and others. He isn't going to know information that could compromise his own brainwashing or reveal him to his prey. In the police station scene we see stats given on each replicant, and some are clearly rated as being stronger or smarter than others. It would seem that the true Blade Runners of the story, who created and operated Deckard, intended him to be lesser in ability, on par with that of an average human. That puts Deckard at a disadvantage when facing Batty, but allows him to believe that he's human. |