Blade Runner - The Final Cut

[coriolis]

Basically what I would want would be Bladerunner 1.5 -- bring back about half the voice-overs so you don't just have long, silent, rather pointless pans of the city (and also to underline plot points), but to leave in the proper "ambiguous" ending.

That's exactly what I would be looking for. I was surprised to find out that Ridley Scott didn't like the narration. This was my first film noir, and so it set my expectations for films in that genre. When I saw the director's cut later on, I was suprised at how much I missed it.

 

[Nifft]

Great... now I'm being accused of having a diet of creepy crawlies. Ugh.

If you had only said "Diet of Worms", there'd be a whole different breed of pedant on your back!

But that "porn jazz" soundtrack is one of the reasons why the film is so memorable. It fit in perfectly with futuristic noir atmosphere Ridley Scott created for the movie.

It fits perfectly MUCH of the time, but not ALL of the time. In particular, when the scene is "dude being awakened by piano music", it might be better to hear some quiet, and then some piano music. (Instead, we got loud porn jazz the whole time.)

It's one of my few complaints.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Umbran]

I know what my brother is getting for X-mas now

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Great... now I'm being accused of having a diet of creepy crawlies. Ugh.

I'll have you know that the Diet of Worms was very important event in the formation of Protestant religion. As a kid I had the same image of the event that most folks do, just hearing the name....)

The Auld Grump

 

[Mark Hope]

I know what my brother is getting for X-mas now

Totally. Just ordered the 5-disc uber edition for my PKD/Blade Runner fanatic gf

 

[trancejeremy]

I'd like to see a cut where Deckard wakes up as Arnold S. in Total Recall.