Blade Runner fans... its that time again!
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Blade Runner fans... its that time again!
Now that I'm a few months past my wedding I finally have some time on my hands, and its time for me to borrow someones LaseDisc player . I'd prefer one with s-video output since it is far superior quality than composite. I do have a 4.1GB DVD I made from VHS over composite, but I know I can do far better with LD and s-video.
just reply here...
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just reply here...
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Originally Posted by mmboost
Dan304k is 100% correct. However, this isn't help 
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Originally Posted by dan2304k
Okay, well, my original question still stands... Why are you trying to do this at all? Is there something wrong/different/missing on the Blade Runner DVD?
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Originally Posted by nKoan
Yeah, the DVD is the directors cut, and for some reason some people prefer the theatrical release.
Reviewer: J. Currier
Like I said there are editing mistakes in this film, at least two really horrible ones. Ridley Scott was quoted at saying he did a quick edit for this dvd release and has plans to do a better job for a more complete (one would presume special edition) release.
I too bought this, drooling in anticipation of the director's cut of one of my most beloved films. While I do believe that the lack of narration improves the film (although this never really bothered me all that much, perhaps because my first several viewings were when I was a kid), the bad editing means you should wait for a better DVD release.
Like I said there are editing mistakes in this film, at least two really horrible ones. Ridley Scott was quoted at saying he did a quick edit for this dvd release and has plans to do a better job for a more complete (one would presume special edition) release.
I too bought this, drooling in anticipation of the director's cut of one of my most beloved films. While I do believe that the lack of narration improves the film (although this never really bothered me all that much, perhaps because my first several viewings were when I was a kid), the bad editing means you should wait for a better DVD release.
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.
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Basically, Ridley Scott is a cranky asswipe who decided that he wanted his version of the film to be the only available version so that he might complete, in one fell swoop, a distortion and stamping out the original intent ot the film: A 'film noir' detective story of the future which focuses on Deckerd as he forced to outwardly deal with an internal struggle between life and death, human and non-human, slavery and freedom, black and white, upper caste and lower caste. Scott takes the film and tries to turn it into a mystical cult of questions about Deckerd's own humanity. He ends up taking the film, from a clear, dark word about human behavior, and makes it into a tunnel-visioned, quest to investigate Deckerd's own personal instability regarding whether he's is in fact human or not.
Deckerd's humanity as physical fact was never the question of Phillip Dick's book nor of the original screen play. Although seemingly close on the surface, it is world's apart from the original question of Deckerd's sense of humanity towards others: his ex-wife, Bryant, Rachel, the fugitive replicants. This movie was intended to be more like Ghost in the Shell in its search for the human soul. "More human than human" was Tyrell's moto... what does that mean for how a technologically advanced society responds to its creations as it begins playing God?
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Deckerd's humanity as physical fact was never the question of Phillip Dick's book nor of the original screen play. Although seemingly close on the surface, it is world's apart from the original question of Deckerd's sense of humanity towards others: his ex-wife, Bryant, Rachel, the fugitive replicants. This movie was intended to be more like Ghost in the Shell in its search for the human soul. "More human than human" was Tyrell's moto... what does that mean for how a technologically advanced society responds to its creations as it begins playing God?
jason