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Watched Blade runner today
billlythekid
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Watched it in media studies the teacher was saying it is considered as one of the greatest films ever made. I thought it was ok not one of Harrisons best roles but it was fine. Dont understand why batty did not kill Deckard though 
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(not that the film is rubbish, it is good - well, the director's cut is)
In the original (and best) version, Deckard's voiceover explains why. Ultimately life of any kind, even Deckard's, had come to have value to Batty.
really we were told the original is the worst version because of the annoying voice over by harrison ford :eek:
I just like voiceover and it fits Bladerunner's film noir vibe perfectly. Also I'm a sucker for happy endings.
Ridley Scott's tinkerings, apart from removing the stunt double who looks nothing like Joanna Cassidy, don't really add much, except maybe to make it easier for Americans to understand.
I thought the original was stunning and still do.
Sadly, I don't think it's still available so we can't really compare.
I always thought people get carried away with the whole look of the film rather than the film itself.
Personally - I like the voiceover. My "ideal" version would be the original version (with voiceover) + the unicorn scene.
As mentioned by IronJade, The original Bladrunner is at its heart a film noir so the voice over was and is (if fans can appreciate this edition) an integral ingredient.
I cringed at the unicorn scene, wobbly horn and all. It looked like an outtake from "Legend".
Clearly, Ridley Scott wanted to make the best movie he could but sometimes one's first idea is the best.
Trowelling on imagery so even the slow kids at the back can understand it doesn't necessarily make for a better movie.
The fact that people still argue the toss about "Bladerunner" almost 30 years since it was released, points up the fact the most of Ridley Scott's subsequent movies have been beautifully made, well acted, devoid of ideas and duller than hell.:yawn:
which one of ~7 directors cut versions is that?!?!?
Am very much looking forward to Robin Hood though. Still think the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven is a tremendous film even if seemingly the majority (not included in this) regard the male lead as wooden and useless and Scott as past his best.
I think it's a mixture, I'm a massive PKD fan and I still can't work out if his work is sometimes too deep for me or if it's just drugged out nonsense, I presume it's the former
You may well be right. I gave up after "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch": life's too short.:)
Also, the original threatrical cut IS available (along with the Director's Cut, The Final Cut and a working print) in to 5 disk special edition (DVD or Blu)
Further irony in a studio exec actually being right about something.
I'd forgotten about the boxset.:o
I still have my copy from the original VHS.
These are always fun.
By who, your tutor? Surely it's not their job to dictate which version is better?
Film is a visual medium, so the look is a critical aspect of the "film itself". The cinematography contributes to the storytelling.
Bladerunner is lovely to look at for sure, but as a narrative it's pretty feeble and generally lacks the weightiness it aspires to. Always struck me as a bit of a bore, to be honest. But as someone else has said, Ridley Scott's films mostly are.
I found it strange, but perhaps film criticism has now become a case of "my opinion is the only one that matters". I am fed up of being told, for instance that I should worship Quentin Tarantino and to regard Pulp Fiction as the best film ever made or that I am wrong because I rate Alien3 above Aliens.
well it may have been his opinion i am going to check out the voiceover version today anyway
In this case, you are demonstrably, scientifically and objectively wrong to do so.