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 enlarge | Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer
Studio: Warner Brothers
Category: DVD
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Rating:  645 reviews
Sales Rank: 232
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Original Recording Remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 5
Running Time: 117 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: WARBR118574
UPC: 085391185741
EAN: 0085391185741
ASIN: B000UBMWG4
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 2007
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 12/18/2007
Product description
In celebration of Blade Runner's 25th anniversary, director Ridley Scott has gone back into post production to create the long-awaited definitive new version. Blade Runner: The Final Cut, spectacularly restored and remastered from original elements and scanned at 4K resolution, will contain never-before-seen added/extended scenes, added lines, new and improved special effects, director and filmmaker commentary, an all-new 5.1 Dolby Digital audio track and more. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Joanna Cassidy, Sean Young, and Daryl Hannah are among some 80 stars, filmmakers and others who participate in the extensive bonus features. Among the bonus material highlights is Dangerous Days, a brand new, three-and-a-half-hour documentary by award-winning DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika, with an extensive look into every aspect of the film: its literary genesis, its challenging production and its controversial legacy. The definitive documentary to accompany the definitive film version. Disc One
RIDLEY SCOTT'S ALL-NEW "FINAL CUT" VERSION OF THE FILM
Restored and remastered with added & extended scenes, added lines, new and cleaner special effects and all new 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio. Also includes: - Commentary by Ridley Scott
- Commentary by executive producer/co-screenwriter Hampton Fancher and co-screenwriter David Peoples; producer Michael Deely and production executive Katherine Haber
- Commentary by visual futurist Syd Mead; production designer Lawrence G. Paull, art director David L. Snyder and special photographic effects supervisors Douglas Trumbull, Richard Yuricich and David Dryer
Disc Two
DOCUMENTARY DANGEROUS DAYS: MAKING BLADE RUNNER
A feature-length authoritative documentary revealing all the elements that shaped this hugely influential cinema landmark. Cast, crew, critics and colleagues give a behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the film -- from its literary roots and inception through casting, production, visuals and special effects to its controversial legacy and place in Hollywood history. Disc Three
1982 THEATRICAL VERSION
This is the version that introduced U.S. movie-going audiences to a revolutionary film with a new and excitingly provocative vision of the near-future. It contains Deckard/Harrison Ford's character narration and has Deckard and Rachel's (Sean Young) "happy ending" escape scene. 1982 INTERNATIONAL VERSION
Also used on U.S. home video, laserdisc and cable releases up to 1992. This version is not rated, and contains some extended action scenes in contrast to the Theatrical Version. 1992 DIRECTOR'S CUT
The Director's Cut omits Deckard's voiceover narration and removes the "happy ending" finale. It adds the famously-controversial "unicorn" sequence, a vision that Deckard has which suggests that he, too, may be a replicant. Disc Four
BONUS DISC - "Enhancement Archive": 90 minutes of deleted footage and rare or never-before-seen items in featurettes and galleries that cover the film's amazing history, production teams, special effects, impact on society, promotional trailers, TV spots, and much more. - Featurette "The Electric Dreamer: Remembering Philip K. Dick"
- Featurette "Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. The Film"
- Philip K. Dick: The Blade Runner Interviews (audio)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Cover Gallery (images)
- The Art of Blade Runner (image galleries)
- Featurette "Signs of the Times: Graphic Design"
- Featurette "Fashion Forward: Wardrobe & Styling"
- Screen Tests: Rachel & Pris
- Featurette "The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth"
- Unit photography gallery
- Deleted and alternate scenes
- 1982 promotional featurettes
- Trailers and TV spots
- Featurette "Promoting Dystopia: Rendering the Poster Art"
- Marketing and merchandise gallery (images)
- Featurette "Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard"
- Featurette "--Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers"
Disc Five
WORKPRINT VERSION
This rare version of the film is considered by some to be the most radically different of all the Blade Runner cuts. It includes an altered opening scene, no Deckard narration until the final scenes, no "unicorn" sequence, no Deckard/Rachel "happy ending," altered lines between Batty (Rutger Hauer) and his creator Tyrell (Joe Turkell), alternate music and much more. Also includes: - Commentary by Paul M. Sammon, author of Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner
- Featurette "All Our Variant Futures: From Workprint to Final Cut"
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 Blade Runner-The Final Cut November 23, 2008
Earlie Work
I think Blade Runner was one of Harrison Ford's best movies.
The version I first saw when it came out in the theaters had the Harrison Ford voice over and I will probably purchase that some day if I can find it since my old copy on VHS has dissolved.
The second disc was interesting in all the background it gave, but I really enjoyed the original version with HR giving a from-the-gut narrative
like the PI's of old radio fame like Bull Dog Drummond et al.
 Imperfect Future November 22, 2008
Ron Braithwaite (El Indio, Texas United States)
'Bladerunner' is one of the greast Sci-Fi movies ever. It depicts a future both technically sophisticated but, at the same time, a morally degraded freak show. After so many great reviews I'll make no effort to condense this great film. The action revolves around the fact that technology has evolved to the point that it can produce artificial humans, or 'Skin Jobs', as they are contemptuously known. These individuals are basically biological robots but, instead of machinery, they are composed totally of human tissue. They have been produced with different purposes in mind and, in the film, we see...in the several 'Skin Jobs' depicted...advancing levels of technology. The most advanced model is 'Roy', blonde, powerful, beautiful and deadly [here we see a reflection of Nazi superman theory].
Unfortunately, all models, because of their perceived danger to the human race, have an inbuilt defect--they are limited to a very short life. They are sentient enough to resent it and active enough to do something about it. Four escape to earth to try to gain the secret of longer life. It's a desperate ploy, especially because Harrison as the 'Bladerunner' has been commissioned to destroy them. Great stuff really and better yet because no one has yet been wrong enough to try to serialize this great film.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Top Five Best Sci Fi Movies Ever Made November 10, 2008
D. Shor (Dallas, TX)
Add Ridley Scott's Alien to that list too. He's on to something here with the sci fi genre...
So basically I'm sitting here watching the director's cut on the sci fi channel and boy does it bring back memories. Plus I'm bored, and that's often a great combo for an Amazon review! (being bored and seeing or hearing something at the moment I either really love or hate) I saw this one back in the theaters in 1981 (not to date myself) and it still looks fresh and modern to this day. The movie simply will not age.
So, there's like 600 five star reviews and I'm not going to waste any more time on this one, since it's all probably been said already. I will say it's interesting this film was released in 1981 and is set in the year 2019, which I suppose at the time seemed like a million years away. Well here we are, about 10 years away and man we aren't even close to the technology featured in this film. Heck we can't even build a damn fully electric car to deal with our "current" gas crisis, no way in 10 years will have flying cars, perfectly replicated robotic humans, colonization on other planets, and much of the other tech featured in the film. I would say we're at the least 50 years away from the tech in this movie, and 50 years is optimistic, probably far more than that.
Anyway, great film. If you haven't seen it and you consider yourself a sci fi fan, or just love well made movies, buy it, like now!
the ultimate Bladerunner - don't miss November 3, 2008
Nikolai Vlasenko
Just everything you wanted to see and know about this outstanding sci-fi masterpiece, guys, I'm telling you. Amazing box-set.
 Blade Runner Never Rises Above Mediocre November 2, 2008
GFS3 (Boston)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Back in December, we listed our "8 Coolest Sci-Fi Flicks" and got some heat for not including "Blade Runner" (1982) on the list. We remembered Ridley Scott's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's science fiction classic "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" as being a disappointment - as well as a bit heavy-handed.
We recently revisited "Blade Runner" to see if the sands of time had softened our opinion of the movie. But we also wanted to see if Scott's director's cut version of the film would improve it.
It did, but our opinion of "Blade Runner" remains mediocre.
We agree with film critic Roger Ebert: "Watching the director's cut (of "Blade Runner"), I am left with the same overall opinion of the movie: It looks fabulous, it uses special effects to create a new world of its own, but it is thin in its human story."
Ebert gets this one right. "Blade Runner" is slick on production. The special effects are so impressive that Scott lets them take over parts of the movie as he pans the camera back to take in breathless shots of his futuristic version of Los Angeles. The movie, at times, is in awe of itself.
We'll give Scott credit here. He does a magnificent job in crafting his world. It's a bleak one, but it resonates as realistic: the driving, black rains, the pollution-scarred skies, the blinking, moving billboards, the strange fashions, and the crowds of vampire like citizens.
But this is all background.
The rest of the movie doesn't live up to the set. The plot is achingly mediocre and stolen from half-a-dozen film noir movies. It relies on characters hand-picked from central castings old stereotypes closet.
The usually dynamic Harrison Ford is wasted here. Ford sleepwalks through the role of a world-weary police officer who quits to crawl inside a whiskey bottle. But predictably his crusty, insensitive boss calls him back for one last job. Then there is Sean Young as the femme fatale - smoking cigarettes and looking both confused and earnest at the same time.
Ford plays Deckard -- a blade runner (a police officer assigned to hunt down and kill "replicants" also known as cyborgs). The replicants are illegal on earth and only used on other planets for jobs too dangerous for real human beings. It's never explained why the replicants are not allowed on earth (can't we all just get along?).
The movie carefully avoids another major problem: if they are illegal on earth then why are the replicants designed to look exactly like human beings? They are also designed to look differently from each other - no two are alike. In fact, the only way to tell a replicant from a real human being is to take a complicated oral exam which takes about 45 minutes to an hour to administer.
Wouldn't it be easier to design the replicants with blue skin, for example? Or make them all look exactly alike? That way they couldn't escape and hide among the population of real humans. Seems like an easy fix especially since the replicants have become such a dangerous nuisance that it's necessary to create the job of blade runner to hunt down and kill them.
But then, of course, we wouldn't have a movie.
Another problem with the replicants is that they only last four years -but no one - not the replicants or their creators - seems to readily know the expiration dates. Given that the replicants are used for dangerous off-world work wouldn't it be prudent to know when they "die"? After all wouldn't it be a disaster to send replicants on a mission and have them start expiring halfway through?
Deckard is assigned to kill four replicants that murdered a shuttle full of people and now are hiding out in LA. His investigation is riddled with holes and convenient consequences that only happen in movie scripts (he finds a tiny snake scale in the bathroom tub of an old haunt which lead him, of course, to a stripper who uses a snake in her act. She happens to be one of the replicants). He even calls them at their secret hideout and... they answer the phone.
We were also amazed at how Deckard never ever calls for back-up - even when he finally locates the replicants' hide-out and knows he will be up against two super powerful androids that have already murdered more than 20 people.
"Blade Runner" wants to be a film about the definition of humanity - an action flick with a philosophy. But it fails in both aspects. It spends too little time exploring the idea of manufactured life being real life because the characters don't really care about the answer. And the action sequences aren't even as good as the average fare on TV.
Want more "Literate Blather?" Then visit the Dark Party Review at http://darkpartyreview.blogspot.com/.
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