|
|
|
Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) (1982) (DVD) |
 |
Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) (1982)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Edition: 
List Price : $14.96
Amazon Price : $11.22
Used Price : $6.29
 |
Avg. Customer Rating:
|
| Reviews for Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) (1982)
Amazon.com essential video
When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. 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. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson
|
|
Read customer reviews about Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) (1982) at Amazon.com |
|
Buy Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) (1982) at Amazon.com |
|
Customers who shopped this item also shopped for
|
 |
Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition) - Harrison Ford
Avg. Customer Rating:
Amazon Price :$45.49
|
 |
Dark City (New Line Platinum Series) - Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly
Avg. Customer Rating:
Amazon Price :$9.97
|
 |
The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition) - Elijah Wood
Avg. Customer Rating:
Amazon Price :$23.99
|
 |
2001 - A Space Odyssey - Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
Avg. Customer Rating:
Amazon Price :$15.98
|
 |
Kill Bill, Volume 1 - Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Michael Madsen
Avg. Customer Rating:
Amazon Price :$13.99
|
|
