Blade Runner - The Final Cut: The DVD (Updated thread)

[matrixman]

www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14724

And here's the trailer on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vOsSvkbRjA (Mind you, except for a split second glimpse of a new scene, there's nothing you haven't seen before)

Sorry, Spidey...sorry, Silver Surfer...sorry, Shrek...and get outta my way, Harry Potter...

This is my movie event of 2007! I am sooo pumped for this. Blade Runner has been an all-time favorite of mine ever since I first saw it way back in '82.

The film will be released theatrically in select major U.S. cities, followed by a multi-disc Special Edition DVD release which will also contain three alternate versions of Blade Runner: the Original U.S. Theatrical Cut, the Expanded International Theatrical Cut and the 1992 Director's Cut. Ample, ground-breaking bonus features will also be included.

This is equally as exciting! I always liked the original theatrical version.

Looks like The Final Cut might come out around the same time as Fatal Revenant, too. Happy, happy, happy!

[lucimay]

wooooo hooooo!!! i'll be there too MM!!! (as you might well imagine)

[matrixman]

Yes, Rachel, looks like just the two of us.

[danlo]

eh...

[Cail]

I'll get duped into the theater again to see the latest cut.

And once again I'll be reminded of how disappointing this movie is.

And then I'll go home and read the book and wax about what could have been.

[Menolly]

I'll get duped into the theater again to see the latest cut.

And once again I'll be reminded of how disappointing this movie is.

And then I'll go home and read the book and wax about what could have been.

Remind me, Cail.

Is it supposed to be based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Cail]

Exactly. It's an awesome book, and much of it's awesomeness never made it to film.

[lucimay]

whut? you missed the whiney wife?

"I don't feel like dialing anything at all now." Iran said.

"Then dial 3," he said.

"I can't dial a setting that stimulates my cerebral cortex into wanting to dial! If I don't want to dial, I don't want to dial that most of all, because then I will want to dial, and wanting to dial is right now the most alien drive I can imagine; I just want to sit here on the bed and stare at the floor." Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over her.

[wayfriend]

I like Rutger movies. So I'll probably try to see it.

[Cail]

Yes. The whiny wife, the drugs, the empathy box/mood organ, and the animals were crucial to the story.

The film is decent (not great) on it's own. I've never really understood why it was so well received.

[dlbpharmd]

You know, me neither.

[lucimay]

because it was a gritty detective story set in a vision of the future that seemed so familiar as to be possible?

i don't know why everyone else liked it, i only know i did. i hadn't read any pkd when i saw the film. this film led me to read pkd. when i read do androids dream of electric sheep i was amazed at the story. and i felt that the screenwriters of Bladerunner had "extracted" a portion of that story and Scott translated it to screen brilliantly. certainly there is a MUCH larger story in the book. but i'm a big detective story fan. this film satisfied me on that level.

i'm a stickler for screen adaptations sticking to the novel. most screen adaptations don't accomplish that half so well as Bladerunner. yes, the whole story is not there, but the "extracted" story stands alone beautifully.

so, i respectfully beg to disagree and say that, for me, the film is great.

[danlo]

So the story was better...BR rocks as far as Sci-Fi movies go and you guys know it! Ha, snooty easterners! (by "eh" I meant that there's more than two of you...I was a little more tuned into my backgammon game last night...if you know what I mean! )

[Usivius]

Blade Runner is quite a fantastic movie. Once again, this is a matter of "a book is a book and a movie is a movie"... This movie BASED on the book is a very good movie in itself.
Keep them separate as far as I'm concerned.

[Marv]

"Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a lesbian".

If any of you guys that go see it at the theatre could let us all know whether it's worth spending the extra money upgrading from the director's cut on dvd that'd be great.

[Cagliostro]

I love both. Just like I love both the books for Lord of the Rings and the movies. And those weren't word for word either. In fact, there was at least a few things each movie that irritated me that they didn't include or changed around. Then as I relaxed, and saw them as movies, I thought they were great.

[lucimay]

Yes. The whiny wife, the drugs, the empathy box/mood organ, and the animals were crucial to the story.

ps

that's why they called it Bladerunner instead of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?and the reason for the disclaimer "based on".

that tells you right there that the story the filmmaker wants to tell is not necessarily the same story that the author of the novel it's based on told.

is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? a better story than Bladerunner?
well it's more layered, has more social commentary, adds dimension to the characters and the world. yeah it's probably a "better" story literarily speaking. but we're talking about a movie based on that story.

i say they're BOTH good stories told in two separate mediums.

and Scott did an admirable job with the look of the film (film = visual medium) and much as i hate to say it...old harrison ford was pretty good. he wasn't the Decker in the book, but i didn't mind. i liked his Dekker. Dekker aint all that likeable in the book.

yeah. i'd like to see it on a big screen again. hell yeah.

[Menolly]

yeah. i'd like to see it on a big screen again. hell yeah.

It will be my first time seeing it on the big screen, period. The only time I ever saw it, it was playing in the back ground while I was in a meeting of the organizing committee of Omnicon many years ago. So I have never actually totally experienced it.

And, as far as I know, Beorn has never seen it either. I'll be glad to introduce him to it via the big screen.

[danlo]

I've always wanted to see it on the big screen.

[Cail]

As a film noir it works relatively well. Sure, the film look great, but that doesn't make it a good film.

Sorry Luci, but if you're going to pin one of those "based on" labels on your film to help with marketing it, you might want to actually base the film on the literary work. Other than the character names and the lowest-common-denominator part of the story, the film bears utterly no resemblance to the book.

It'd be like making a film of Lord Foul's Bane and spending two hours watching TC avoid the ignorant people in his town as they try to force him to move.

Yeah, Scott did a nice job with the look of the film, and it's easily Rutger Hauer's best role, and sure, as a straight detective film it works pretty well, but the original story is so much more.