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Blade Runner directors cut 9.80 shipped

I prefer the original....with Harrison's commentary.... I've seen both.... when watching the directors cutl, it's like watching the matrix without the techno during fight sequences....feels empty. But then again, the Directorcut has other features the orig doesn't.......

"Scott's 1992 director's cut edition contains notable alterations, including the absence of Ford's narration, which significantly heightens the ambiguity of key moments in this stunning cinematic landmark. "

 

Owning both the Director's Cut and the version with the voiceover (the later on VHS), I think I prefer the Director's Cut. I think Ford did a good job with the voiceover, but there's something that just seems kind of artificial about having voiceovers in that kind of movie. I think the version without the voiceover is a little more powerful even though it might be harder to follow. I think it's a little darker.

One thing that I have noticed is that the Director's Cut DVD still seems to have some grainy-looking images. I thought that it was just that I had an old VHS copy that I had purchased used from a video store, but now I'm wondering if the original film itself just came out having some grainy images. It was shot in the early '80's after all.
 
I have the directors cut and I kind of like the original version with the voice over. It would have been nice if there was the option to have the voice over or not.
 
The director's cut is far inferior to the original IMHO. The original was a great movie and the directors cut was interminable.

Joe M.
 
I prefer the one with James Earl Jones voiceover. It gave the movie a much more noir side feel.
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I prefer the one with the Gilbert Goddfried voiceover. It gave the movie a much more "nails on chalkboard" feel. :evil:

Gracias for the DDD deal, picked it up.
 
Just incase you folks didn't know, Deckard was a Replicant!


and I too wish I could find a non-directors cut dvd

hotdog!
 
They really need to come out with a special edition that would add:

1) Optional Deckard voice over.

2) Alternate endings since the directors cut I think sort of cut the flim a bit short IMHO.

3) Some other (director or otherwise) commentary, not the same as Deckard voiceover.

4) Perhaps a audio (6 channel) workover would be a nice, but not really needed bonus.

All this is possible with DVDs today. To bad these options, or at least a subset, was not included with the original director's cut DVD. I kinda hate the process of release then some time later (when they need more money), they release a special edition version.
 
It's true, the transfer to DVD was done poorly.🙁
There is a new edition that has been completed, but legal wrangling is holding up it's release.
I hope they include deleted scenes, like when Deckard goes to the hospital to visit the blade runner shot by Leon in the beginning. There are still frames of this scene floating around the net.
 
Originally posted by: Souka
I prefer the original....with Harrison's commentary.... I've seen both.... when watching the directors cutl, it's like watching the matrix without the techno during fight sequences....feels empty. But then again, the Directorcut has other features the orig doesn't.......

"Scott's 1992 director's cut edition contains notable alterations, including the absence of Ford's narration, which significantly heightens the ambiguity of key moments in this stunning cinematic landmark. "
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I agree. The thing is that the directors cut tries to imply that Decker himself might have been a replicant (so says Ridley Scott) but the thing was that in the book (which the movie was based off of) it never even eluded to the fact that he might be a replicant.

I recently won the Embassy Uncut Edition off of ebay. I've not had a chance to watch it yet.

 
Harrison Ford has been quoted as saying he intentionally tried to narrate the movie terribly in hopes that it would get cut out. I forget where I read that from. In all honesty, I liked the narration myself.
 
Originally posted by: shurato
Harrison Ford has been quoted as saying he intentionally tried to narrate the movie terribly in hopes that it would get cut out. I forget where I read that from. In all honesty, I liked the narration myself.
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Funny. but I read the opposite: that Harrison Ford was in favor of the narration, liked that version better and wasn't happy that it was cut out.
 
Regarding Deckard being a replicant it opens such vast implications that I believe once realized you just can't go back to thinking of him as human.

Here are some of the very profound implications.

When you first see Deckard he could have just been released minutes before.

What was Tirrell's motto? "More human than human."
So, how was Deckard more human than human? The humans were unable to forgive the replicants which were banned from earth. Deckard was so-more-human than human that he could not only forgive Rachael for being a replicant, he could even fall in love with her and try to spend his life with her. Thus, Deckard fullfilled Tirell's dream, 'more human than human".

How I figured it out was the Origami that Gaff made. They showed that he knew what Roy dreamed of by making the bird origami that he put on the Police desk in the beginning of the movie and Roy released doves as he died. The last origami Gaff made was of a Unicorn, dreamed of by Deckard at the piano in his appartment. Gaff not only knew what they dreamed of, he even spared Rachael's life.

I thoroghly believe that Gaff knew about both Rachael and Deckard and was Tyrell's own agent in the mission of introducing Deckard to Rachael and to bring into being a 'breeding pair'. Replicants would become, eventually, part of the human race.

Roy and his clan may have never actually visited space and have been dumped out to help bond Deckard to Rachael. Roy could have had his memories planted and have had a shorter life of only days programmed into him. Sparing Deckard could have been hard-wired into Roy who saved Deckard's life in the movie.

This may seem like a too much conjecture, however it is the purpose of fiction to provoke an emotional response. The undeniable intended emotional response of Blade Runner is sympathy for the replicants who like anyone just want to live and know where they come from and where they are going. To see Deckard as a replicant is more than an accident, it is the underlying truth that makes this movie such a masterpiece.

Now if you can briefly be "more human than human" it'll all become clear.

Hotdog

 
Originally posted by: yougotdeals
Originally posted by: shurato
Harrison Ford has been quoted as saying he intentionally tried to narrate the movie terribly in hopes that it would get cut out. I forget where I read that from. In all honesty, I liked the narration myself.
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Funny. but I read the opposite: that Harrison Ford was in favor of the narration, liked that version better and wasn't happy that it was cut out.
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I read the same thing shurato did.
 
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