Blade Runner - The Director's Cut [VHS]
starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh
directed by: Ridley Scott
directed by: Ridley Scott
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When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phony happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson
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When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phony happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson
When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phony happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson
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When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phony happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson
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- "I never get tired of this one"!!
"When I first saw this movie, I hated it! As time went by, (and I got older...lol) I see that I was missing something...A classic movie that tells the future, the way it can be, without going too far! Blade Runner is terrific"!!
Rating: - An incredibly beautiful-looking film as one would expect with director Ridley Scott...
But it's almost like an art movie, the first science-fiction art film... It's a futuristic film beautifully put together... It's really impeccably made by one of the great visionary directors... And you really saw a future that looked very different from the future you had seen before... A future that looked very believable like the visual-effects shots of the flying car going over a futuristic city... The fight sequence doesn't prepare you for the traumatic emotional side that there is in the film, ... Read More
Rating: - Blade Runner - Director's Cut
I was pleased with this purchase.I received a prompt email with information about delivery.The CD was delivered exactly as stated
with no problem.I am happy with the way this worked.Linda
Rating: - "Runnin' But Not Necessarily Hidin'"
I have always been a sucker for blades of light coming through Venitian blinds, especially at sundown. Team that with some beautiful jazzy background music and I am a goner.BLADE RUNNER has a mother lode of these mood inducers, and all of the silhouettey, shadowy sci-fi special effects a person could want.I have also always been a sucker for 1940s pompadour hairdos especially when worn by Replicants in the Future.This movie is a feast for the senses.Harrison Ford and Sean Young are Young and ... Read More
Rating: 
- I would give it zero stars if i could.
Unbelievably terrible movie, and a terrible transfer.I'd go into more detail, but that would require that i think about the movie again, and i refuse to make myself do that.
- "I never get tired of this one"!!"When I first saw this movie, I hated it! As time went by, (and I got older...lol) I see that I was missing something...A classic movie that tells the future, the way it can be, without going too far! Blade Runner is terrific"!!
- An incredibly beautiful-looking film as one would expect with director Ridley Scott...But it's almost like an art movie, the first science-fiction art film... It's a futuristic film beautifully put together... It's really impeccably made by one of the great visionary directors... And you really saw a future that looked very different from the future you had seen before... A future that looked very believable like the visual-effects shots of the flying car going over a futuristic city... The fight sequence doesn't prepare you for the traumatic emotional side that there is in the film, ... Read More
- Blade Runner - Director's CutI was pleased with this purchase.I received a prompt email with information about delivery.The CD was delivered exactly as stated
with no problem.I am happy with the way this worked.Linda
- "Runnin' But Not Necessarily Hidin'"I have always been a sucker for blades of light coming through Venitian blinds, especially at sundown. Team that with some beautiful jazzy background music and I am a goner.BLADE RUNNER has a mother lode of these mood inducers, and all of the silhouettey, shadowy sci-fi special effects a person could want.I have also always been a sucker for 1940s pompadour hairdos especially when worn by Replicants in the Future.This movie is a feast for the senses.Harrison Ford and Sean Young are Young and ... Read More
- I would give it zero stars if i could.Unbelievably terrible movie, and a terrible transfer.I'd go into more detail, but that would require that i think about the movie again, and i refuse to make myself do that.
