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Blade Runner - It sucks... give it another chance?
winter_combat_knight
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I saw this movie as a kid, and dint understand it. ISo i decided to buy it on DVD. I watched it and thought it was total rubbish. Ive bought the single disc, Directors Cut version, and i hear it's supposed to be crap compared to the original. Is it worth getting a copy of the original and giving it another chance?or will i be wasting my time? I can't imagine a directors cut transforming (what people call) a classic film into a piece of shit.
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Are you worried you're missing out on some essential life experience if you don't like this movie? It's just a movie.
This.
Sometimes even great movies aren't for everybody. This doesn't mean you have bad taste, nor does it make the movie any less great. It's just how it works. I know a guy whose opinion I generally respect who didn't dig The Godfather, for instance. It happens.
It's rare that a different cut of a movie will propel a movie from "total rubbish" to anything particularly good. The odds that you'll end up actually liking a different cut are nearly zero. Just chalk it up to one of those movies you just don't dig.
Full disclosure: I, too, was entirely unimpressed by Blade Runner. I wouldn't call it "rubbish," but I didn't see the big deal. I'm considering renting it on Blu-Ray and giving it another shot, but that's more because I hear the transfer was amazing more than out of an actual expectation of enjoying the movie more.
So I doubt the original version will improve things much for you, unless the problem was still that you were baffled and need more explanation.
don't worry about it
Eh, I'd have to disagree here. The book is fantastic, the movie is fantastic, and they might as well be unrelated for all they have to do with each other.
Funnily enough the adventure game combines the best parts of the book and the movie, which shouldn't really go together, and does it perfectly. Amazing game.
I really tried to like blade runner. But god it is just awful.
Not true.
After reading up on it... it's true that he didn't like the voiceovers. It was rumored that he did them badly on purpose. He denied it, but who knows? Either way, I'm sure it at least influenced his reading, intentionally or not, and he's admitted as much.
I like it tho...i like sci fi things. I can see this being the future. Basically, kinda like the 5th element.
In a certain way, the replicants see Tyrell as their father (or God) and the leader of the group demands from his god an extension of his life span (replicants cannot live as long as humans).
A replicant can only be identified by a flow in their eyes (the old saying that the eyes are the windows of the soul).
I must say I found quite amusing that after Deckard invited the beautiful Tyrell's assistant to that dirty bar for a drink, and even after she blatantly rejected his offer, she showed up after all.
I even like it. I think it's quite good, but a lot of it has quite a slow pace, and I must have some mild ADD or something and I just lose interest.
Probably has something to do with the fact that I know what's going to happen.
Yeah, sorry for the rumor mongering earlier. I need to read my copy of Future Noir again, because I'm pretty sure the author discusses the voiceover.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a classic more because of other films it influenced than because of its intrinsic quality. And that's coming from someone who actually kind of likes the movie.
Dangit it's a classic because it's a fantastic movie in its own right. This doesn't mean anyone will like it any more than everyone will like Shakespeare or Catch-22 or something but there are classics that are good and this is one of them.
You should watch that one instead. Or any movie with him in it.
From all that I have read and experienced in learning more about Blade Runner and how it was made, I know for a fact that Harrison Ford did not like the film for several reasons, and I'll list them:
1.Mr. Ford was initially sold on a premise that was never fully developed. He plays a detective who did no detective work engaging enough to be of interest.
2. The Director and Harrison did not work well together. Ridley chooses his actors carefully and prefers to take a hands off approach in actor involvement. I think Harrison wanted more direction from Ridley, but he chose to avoid Ford to get him in a proper mindset for the role he must play.
Plot spoiler regarding Harrison Ford's character "Rick Deckard".
3.
Yeah, I guess it's unlikely that he would actually fuck them up on purpose, when you think about it--but I do think he could have done a better job with the admittedly shoddy material, and that's probably because he didn't want to be doing the voiceovers in the first place, and it shows through in the film.
Please expound? I remember reading that Philip K. Dick himself liked the screenplay.
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It's not a "typical" movie, as it's pretty slowly paced. But the final cut does make it much better, with additional scenes added and better editing. One thing I really liked about it on Blu Ray is that the new cut is also fantastically cleaned up -- one of my complaints of it when I watched it way back was that it was too dark to see anything. So, once you can actually see all the light reflecting off the rain, the movie becomes quite pretty.
I also like that despite being sci-fi from the 80s, it's not too dated. But yeah, the "final" cut is the one to get. But if you don't like the movie, it's not a big deal. People like different things.
You might try the final cut, but Blade Runner seems to be one of these 'hate it or love it' movies.
Like I said earlier, the book and the movie are entirely different things that should not even be considered as related. They don't even share a title. Dick's stuff gets turned into movies all the time and it's always changed into something unrecognizable; with Blade Runner it just ended up getting changed into one of the best movies of all time instead of a piece of crap like normal.
I thought A Scanner Darkly was a pretty good movie, although I haven't read either of the books
Apparently! Never have I regarded the film to be so disliked as after having read this thread.
I'll say that I think it's a great film, but not really for the reasons a pretentious film student might give you. I found it enjoyably watchable at a less than cerebral age, if only for the action and mood of it.
And yeah, the PC game was awesome.