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Still scheduled for a theatrical release? The latest info I can find says something vague like "sometime in 2007." Well, it's 2007. Where is it?

― kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

One of my top movies that I have never seen on anything but a television. Seeing it on a big screen, all cleaned up, would be like seeing Coltrane live.

― What mask (personality style) do I wear in the area of sex? (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 05:11 (eighteen years ago)

The one AICN entry I found about it said it would be released next year, and was from 2001. We're never going to see this, are we?

― kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

Bah. I'm sad now.

*kicks a can*

― kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

This was the last I read:

MY TWO CENTS - 5/26/06 - by Digital Bits editor Bill Hunt
...This coming September, there will be a new limited DVD release (HD-DVD & Blu-ray Disc are also planned) of the restored 1992 Director's Cut (you know... the one that isn't really a director's cut). This will be available for just four months. We believe this is basically the 2-disc release that Warner had originally planned to bow LAST year.

Then next year, just in time for the film's 25th anniversary, Ridley Scott's ultimate Blade Runner: The Final Cut will hit theaters for a limited run. This will be a REAL director's cut, with restored scenes and more - all the stuff that Ridley's always wanted to do with the film but hasn't really been given the chance to do before. That will be followed later in the year by an Ultimate Blade Runner DVD release. You can expect a multi-disc box set (again, likely with a simultaneous HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc release) that will contain at least four different versions of the film... ALL in full anamorphic widescreen, we might add. You'll get the film's original U.S. theatrical cut, you'll get the expanded international theatrical cut, you'll get the 1992 Director's Cut and you'll get the new Final Cut as well...

I bought that Director's Cut remaster, it's just single disc. Looks fine but I really want to see this new cut as well.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

imdb says original US theatrical release was 25 June 1982, so if they're doing an anniversary thing I'd expect it this summer.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 06:22 (eighteen years ago)

I bought that Director's Cut remaster, it's just single disc. Looks fine but I really want to see this new cut as well.

Yes. I have no doubt it will be better and different, assuming Scott's statements about the "Director's Cut" are any indication.

― kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 06:46 (eighteen years ago)

I wish they would bring the original cut out again. Oh wait, I see they are promising that.

― The Real Dirty Vicar (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

"all the stuff that [director x has] always wanted to do with the film but hasn't really been given the chance to do before" sounds like a recipe for disaster

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I can't see how this would improve upon the previous director's cut.

I thought the original version with the Harrison Ford monologue was perfectly fine, except for the upbeat ending and the missing unicorn dream. The voiceover added to the film noir aspect of the movie, and some things in the director's cut are left kinda unclear without it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomas, I am with you on the voiceover.

Film apocrypha says that Ford hated doing the voice over, and so delivered it in a bored drawl, which added to the whole "maybe Decker is an android" thing, without going all "It was Donald" like they did in the Director's Cut.

― The Real Dirty Vicar (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

... like they did in the Director's Cut, which I have never seen.

― The Real Dirty Vicar (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

The should do Blade Runner - The Final Solution, in which Stephen Knight proves that Decker is in fact Jack the Ripper, his identity reprogrammed by a cabal of freemasons keen to stop their secrets from ever becoming known.

― The Real Dirty Vicar (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

heads up: original cut with v.o. showing on AMC right now

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

I watched that the other day and was not very fond of it, the voice over is actually kind of awful.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

pretty classic example of "so then we went to Frank's house" followed by shot of them going into Frank's house.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

I hate that kind of narration so much that it took me more than a few episodes to really get into Arrested Development.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

yeah this just some "well, duh" exposition mostly

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

Who is Donald?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

This is Ridley Scott's least interesting film.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, come on. Even if you hate Blade Runner, you know that isn't true.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Come on, Alfred - UNDER THE CROWE SUN is interesting?!?!?!?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Ally, I even preferred the one with the "Party of Five" guy and Jeff Bridgers reenacting Hurricane.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

*er, Bridges.

I'd watch The Duellists, Alien, Thelma & Louise, Hannibal before Blade Runner.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

OK, that is extremely strong hatred of Blade Runner. But, I mean...Hannibal?

xpost haha well then.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

1492??

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Blade Runner is overrated, but it's more interesting than Someone To Watch Over Me or Black Rain.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

I think I hate Blade Runner because all those viewings as a child made me realize that Harrison Ford was a boring actor. I couldn't sympathize with his dilemma. And I didn't find Sean Young made up to look like a Visage cover that OHMIGOD HAWT either.

Whatever. I need to see it again.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Sean Young isn't hot at all! Oh well, I'm not trying to convert you to the picture, I really don't care, but I was just stunned by the assertion that you'd sooner watch 1492 and Hannibal again than Blade Runner. It seemed so...final. Fatalistic, even.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Rutger Hauer MORE than makes up for the boringness of Harrison Ford and the un-hotness of Sean Young.

― franny (frannyglass), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

Heh heh, I didn't include THOSE, Ally. Or G.I. Jane.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

I see nobody's mentioned Someone to Watch Over Me yet. For good reason.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god G.I. Jane.

I am glad no one has mentioned Gladiator because Gladiator kind of rules.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

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"DEATH TO SOTO."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

Am I the only person who saw Matchstick Men? My excuse is I was on an airplane.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

Movies I forgot he had anything to do with:

White Squall
Matchstick Men
Kingdom of Heaven
Black Rain

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

At the time he was actually praised for attempting comedy – or doing a Nic Cage project that wasn't Con Air in 60 Seconds

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

It is not a comedy!

― Reineer Wolfcastle (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

The Miami Herald's critic put the director's cut of KOH in his top ten list last year! I've never forgiven my date dragging me to see this just cuz we were drunk and ORNALDO BLOOMPS was in it.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

I liked Matchstick Men! But if you subtract "I like Alison Lohman" and "I like Sam Rockwell" from that statement, I don't know if you have anything left.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, it's not a terrible movie.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

I am cranky today. I'm sorry.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

No need to apologize, I mean I was the one watching Domino expecting it to be anything but terrible.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Go for some ESSENTIAL Joanna Cassidy vehicles, like "Buffalo Bill"!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

The Late Show and Under Fire are better.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

I see nobody's mentioned Someone to Watch Over Me yet. For good reason.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), January 18th, 2007.

Ned don't read my posts no more.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

Love Someone to Watch Over Me. S'there.

― DavidM* (unreal), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ned don't read my posts no more.

I've heard of you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

You know how you guys feel about that narration, that's how I feel about scoring in movies. Music swells, music gets scary etc. It's like fingernails on a blackboard. I think in 100 years or whatever, musical scoring (and possibly narration?) will be the equivalent of, like, intertitles or something.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

ppfft - given the intolerable proliferation of using rock/pop/hip hop music in films, I''ve grown to actually MISS proper scoring! In a way it seems to require so much more foresight and effort and craft then just doing a "hey, let's use this Buzzcocks song here!" or whatever.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

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Final Cut is great. Ignore the haters, there's no reason to go back to the others. I mean, honestly, it's not hugely different from the Director's Cut except for some improvements that are actually good, and not film-mangling, George Lucas-style.

― Nhex, Saturday, 19 April 2008 07:05 (seventeen years ago)

I recently watched the Final Cut at home. Yeah, it wasn't the Ziegfield Theatre ...whateeeevs. It's GORGEOUS. The best version IMHO.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 19 April 2008 10:31 (seventeen years ago)

OK, looks like I'll hold out for the Final Cut (I have the Director's Cut here, but I'm not sure I'm in the mood for it tonight anyway...).

― krakow, Saturday, 19 April 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

If you just want to watch it to see if you like the film, the differences between Director's Cut and Final Cut are very small. If you want to OWN IT FOREVER, go the final cut.

― James Morrison, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

The happy ending is SO MUCH BETTER

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:33 (seventeen years ago)

controversy

― DG, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:37 (seventeen years ago)

challenging opinions

― latebloomer, Monday, 21 April 2008 00:24 (seventeen years ago)

"The voice over makes everything so much clearer."

― krakow, Monday, 21 April 2008 06:52 (seventeen years ago)

C'mon guys the end of Final Cut is like.. wha? It's like it's a TV show or something. Freeze frame! Cha changggg!

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 April 2008 10:05 (seventeen years ago)

yeah retreating to a beautiful wilderness that shouldn't exist in a polluted dystopian nightmare makes so much more sense

― latebloomer, Monday, 21 April 2008 10:40 (seventeen years ago)

Blade Runner is supposed to make sense????? news to me

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 April 2008 12:30 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

saw the Blu Ray edition of the Final Cut last night. was actually the first Blu Ray film I'd ever seen on a huge wall-sized flatscreen TV. and now I get the reason why the Final Cut exists -- it isn't even as much about the new footage, it's entirely about the digital cleanup & mastering.

Blu Ray is incredibly disorienting, it looks nothing like film. there's a 'film light' mode that's almost preferable, where suddenly the saturation returns and the color composition begins to resemble what you remember the 70mm print actually looks like projected in a theatre. the level of resolution on Blu Ray is so sharp it nearly feels like your eyes are being razored, you can nearly read the font on the Voight-Kampff machines & the police car's navigation system -- it's incredibly disorienting, there's almost too much information. Also, despite the cleanup, it's almost more clear than ever that you're looking at models, so it's more clinical less dreamy

it was still fantastic to see the new 70mm print in theatres again and I still think that's the best way to see this, but I didn't exactly get why this edition existed until last night -- this cut is all about HDTV

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I too just watched my first blue Ray film, of course it was Blade Runner also.

Actually I was fairly impressed with the sharp quality, the actual differences in the storyline/scenes was fairly subtle and almost missed me. I only noticed the extended talk between Roy and Tyrell.

The backdrops were just eyeball poppingly gorgeous, so much detail to be seen, but I can see what Milton is saying though - the colouring is a bit too vibrant and takes the original atmostphere away somewhat.

― Ste, Monday, 2 June 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

what a fantastic fuckin movie

― max, Thursday, 5 June 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

harrison ford is really great in this, perfect smirking wiseass

― max, Thursday, 5 June 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

He does have a lot of quietly great lines.

"...that's no way to treat a friend."

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 June 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

"Consider this a divorce!"

― s1ocki, Thursday, 5 June 2008 17:46 (seventeen years ago)

he looks kind of like stiffler

― max, Thursday, 5 June 2008 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

"Stick around!"

― latebloomer, Thursday, 5 June 2008 23:49 (seventeen years ago)

"Don't disturb my friend... he's DEAD tired."

― omar little, Thursday, 5 June 2008 23:52 (seventeen years ago)

I wonder if the TV Milton was watching was properly calibrated or if it was in "sports" mode or something - most sets have the contrast up way too high.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 5 June 2008 23:57 (seventeen years ago)

"Remember when I said I was going to kill you last? I lied."

― latebloomer, Thursday, 5 June 2008 23:58 (seventeen years ago)

so much choice dialogue in this flick.

― latebloomer, Thursday, 5 June 2008 23:58 (seventeen years ago)

<3 <3 <3

― gbx, Friday, 6 June 2008 00:31 (seventeen years ago)

yeah watching it last night every line was a quote

― max, Friday, 6 June 2008 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

too bad she wont live... but then again who does

― max, Friday, 6 June 2008 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

"I'm the party pooper."

― latebloomer, Friday, 6 June 2008 00:48 (seventeen years ago)

you nexus, huh? i design your eyes

― max, Friday, 6 June 2008 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

there are very few speaking parts in this flick! it could have been a small play

― max, Friday, 6 June 2008 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

"Have a better one."

― latebloomer, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

it still could be a small play, max.

― gbx, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

omg waiting for guffman + community theater production of blade runner

― gbx, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:04 (seventeen years ago)

that reminds me of the idea i had to write a very brief history of the principality of sealand and then have it performed by my friend kat's 1st graders

― gbx, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:05 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ if anyone cribs that i will fly a jet into your house

― gbx, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:05 (seventeen years ago)

i would watch blade runner performed by six-year-olds

― max, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:06 (seventeen years ago)

x-post -- Donnie Doofo

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:07 (seventeen years ago)

i would watch blade runner performed by six-year-olds

-- max, Thursday, June 5, 2008 8:06 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

absolutely.

you can make movies at yr school, right?

― gbx, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:08 (seventeen years ago)

i'll get the kids

― gbx, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:08 (seventeen years ago)

...somehow

― gbx, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:08 (seventeen years ago)

when i have kids i'm going to start subtly suggesting from a v young age, like in the womb, that they put on bladerunner as a backyard/livingroom/park play with their friends every year

― rrrobyn, Friday, 6 June 2008 02:19 (seventeen years ago)

by the time they hit 10 yrs old they can take it on the road

― rrrobyn, Friday, 6 June 2008 02:19 (seventeen years ago)

oh man i would love to do blade runner

my friends and i still talk about putting on crimes and misdemeanours as a play

― s1ocki, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:58 (seventeen years ago)

was Exorcist ever done as a play? because it should have been.

― latebloomer, Friday, 6 June 2008 11:48 (seventeen years ago)

"too bad she wont live... but then again who does"

i think deckerd says something similar in the original v.o. version, at the very end, as they're speeding off into the mountains - i really missed that in the updated version, i thought it tied it up nicely, restated the theme, and connected deckerd with olmos in a nice way

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 June 2008 11:54 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, and made the movie pretty stupid

― max, Friday, 6 June 2008 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

the original line really should have been "too bad she wont live... but then again who does LOL"

― s1ocki, Friday, 6 June 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ if anyone cribs that i will fly a jet into your house

-- gbx

too soon

― omar little, Friday, 6 June 2008 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

i loled

― rrrobyn, Friday, 6 June 2008 17:08 (seventeen years ago)

but then again who does ;-)

― max, Friday, 6 June 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

Thread Runner

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 June 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)

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