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."

The first director's cut removed doubt...

[Chmcginn]

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...

Beating a Dead Horse

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Damn the critics...

[Anonymous Coward]

I much prefer the original narrated version. The Director's Cut release a couple of years back just removed the narrative and reversed the order of 2 scenes - and was worse for it. As for Ripley Scott changing his story about Deckard being a replicant - he's full of it. Rutger Howard's character would have figured this out. Him leaving Deckard alive at the end of the movie would be pointless if Deckard were a replicant.

Flash video has its uses

[Jeremy Erwin]

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.

The Best

[Soiden]

The best of this movie is Vangelis.

Re:How many final cuts are there?

[no_pets]

The all can be summed up as the "Attempt to make more money Cut".

Humanity ftw

[childprey]

Too bad Deckard as a replicant invalidates one of the greatest moral points of the movie.

Re:am i the only one?

[mfnickster]

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 does anyone even care about blade runner? i doubt it

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.

Re:Material from the Sequels?

[Joe Tie.]

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.

Re:Damn the critics...

[Dun Malg]

I much prefer the original narrated version(1). The Director's Cut release a couple of years back just removed the narrative and reversed the order of 2 scenes(2) - and was worse for it(3). As for Ripley Scott changing his story about Deckard being a replicant - he's full of it(4). Rutger Howard's(5) character would have figured this out(6). Him leaving Deckard alive at the end of the movie would be pointless if Deckard were a replicant(7).

1) What could possibly be wrong with you that you'd think that?
2) ...and changed the ending, and added back the footage hinting that Deckard might be a replicant the studio suits removed.
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.

Re:Final?

[PCM2]

A lot of people seem to like Robocop, but it always seemed really camp to me. A sort of robotic nazi with lipstick with homoerotic overtones...was it supposed to be like that?

So far as I know ... yes, it was totally supposed to be like that.

If you watched "RoboCop" taking it dead seriously as a futuristic actioner, you missed most of the point. It's cruel, inky-black social satire. In "RoboCop," the world of the future is falling apart under the weight of its own decadence. Corporations run the show, even social services like the police and fire department. RoboCop superficially seems like a comic-book hero come to save the day, but if you stop suspending your disbelief for even a minute -- and the movie strains credibility so far that you're all but forced to do so -- it's obvious that a world "saved" by RoboCop would be a fascist nightmare. The extreme violence and gore effects only drive home the point. The world of "RoboCop" is thoroughly, utterly irredeemable -- yet disturbingly familiar -- and, just to rub salt in the wound, it's served up as a camp joke. I think it's brilliant. And, incidentally, it's a great bookend to Verhoeven's other sci-fi black satire, "Starship Troopers."

Re:Damn the critics...

[loganrapp]

This man speaks the truth.

Harrison Ford himself made it clear that he hated the voice-overs, that he intentionally did it so bad because he was hoping the studio execs would just throw it out on account of its shittiness.

He was wrong - they used the VOs. And I believe Ford, I doubt it's an excuse for his poor voice acting since he's been known to cop to it whenever he does something less-than-great.

Re:Flash video has its uses

[MouseR]

Absolutely everything is wrong with flash-based video. Skip, fast-forward, replay control is always fucked up. Buf... wait... buf... wait... buffering is a constant issue and I dont care about features to come. Right now, flash based videos is a bit to use, a bitch to watch and a bitch to listen to.

As far as awfulness is concerned, I put in the same spot as Real player.

I also prefer the original version - A Opinion

[gadlaw]

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.

Re:am i the only one?

[chuckymonkey]

Thank you for that, even though I work with a bunch of really smart people not a one of them can carry on a conversation deeper than what's put out by hollywood these days. They have no idea what a thought experiment is, don't understand what a moral dilemma is or why movies such as Apocolype Now and Bladerunner are great movies. It really saddens me and makes me lose faith in my fellow countrymen.