Blade Runner: The Final Cut - Ultimate Collector's Edition

[Kid_Eternity]

It hardly compares to the expletives you dish out everytime anybody points out that you've been overreacting again.

If you know that's the case why rise to it and threaten to derail this thread?

 

[Gromit]

I had a quick look on amazon and couldn't work out which version has the theatrical release but isn't blueray or HD DVD..

I really need to buy a HD telly at some stage don't I?

I'll sign up to Sky HD if I do that though so that will be even more money Sky will get off me.

New TV £600-800
New Sky box £199
Installation £30
Additional £10 a month charge
New DvD player ?

I need to rob a bank.

 

[Dubversion]

It hardly compares to the expletives you dish out everytime anybody points out that you've been overreacting again. I thought you could take a term like "bitching" you old crybaby.

jesus wept

 

[stdPikachu]

I really need to buy a HD telly at some stage don't I?

HD sets are cheap at the moment, but the rest of the tech is superbly expensive for what it is IMHO. Wait until the HD-DVD/Blu-ray format war dies first. A nice upscaling DVD player in combination with a decent telly is pretty darned good by any standards.

 

[gsv]

Can you two take your flirting off-world

GS(v)

 

[Reno]

Can you two take your flirting off-world

GS(v)

Anything to spice up a boring day at the office.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

do they fucking PROMISE that's it now?

I think this is a fair enough question myself - you'd have hoped that something called 'the directors cut' and released in 1992 would be it really. Hey why not sequel the motherfucker while you're at it?

 

[Gromit]

I think this is a fair enough question myself - you'd have hoped that something called 'the directors cut' and released in 1992 would be it really. Hey why not sequel the motherfucker while you're at it?

You don't understand the history. The rights to blade runner have been in a legal battle for ages. Ridley had the rights to release the Director's Cut in any format he deemed fit but nothing else. Now it looks like the legal battle is over and we can finally have the theatrical version on DvD because of it. To make it worth while though they are beefing it up with a collectors release. Hurrah!

 

[lunatrick]

I've got the directors cut on dvd..I bought it from a second hand shop where there was much debate about which was the definative edition...does anybody ( well ok anybody apart from reno) please adivse.....

 

[Detroit City]

H. Ford thinking: "man this movie's gonna bomb at the box office..."

 

[Gromit]

I don't think there is one. Its down to personal taste and i like all versions equally.

People think the theatric version dumbs the film down but i think it has added flavour. If you want to debate happy ending over unhappy just treat it like any modern film with alternative endings on the DvD. Choose whichever end you want to believe in.

 

[mentalchik]

Can't wait !

This is one of my all time favourite films !

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

You don't understand the history. The rights to blade runner have been in a legal battle for ages. Ridley had the rights to release the Director's Cut in any format he deemed fit but nothing else.

You're right I don't understand the history - I'm just a hapless shopper looking at the labels on the tins. I don't trust this third version, I think the 4th or 5th cut might be better so I'm going to wait for them.

 

[stdPikachu]

I've got the directors cut on dvd..I bought it from a second hand shop where there was much debate about which was the definative edition...does anybody ( well ok anybody apart from reno) please adivse.....

I've only seen three editions (cinematic, extended cinematic and directors cut) and the directors cut is the only one I find watchable. The cinematic release has that dreadful voiceover and, IMHO, a storyline rendered utterly pointless sans unicorn and ambiguous ending.

 

[Reno]

You're right I don't understand the history - I'm just a hapless shopper looking at the labels on the tins. I don't trust this third version, I think the 4th or 5th cut might be better so I'm going to wait for them.

That's fine though. If this DVD release doesn't interest you don't buy it. This release is for the hardcore fans and I don't see why there are people who object to what amounts to being given a choice.

It's like people who buy, Alice in Wonderland just to read it and those who love the book so much, they buy a bells and whistles edition with annotations, introductions and whatnot.

 

[Gromit]

I am.

Get you fucking arse down there and buy it or i'll nut you

 

[Detroit City]

That's fine though. If this DVD release doesn't interest you don't buy it, nobody is frogmarching you to HMV and forcing you. This release is for the hardcore fans and I don't see why there are people who object to what amounts to being given a choice.

I'm a hardcore fan of the movie and even I wouldn't buy it....i'll rent it from the video store or borrow from a friend. I've already spent enough on bleedin' blade runner

 

[Gromit]

Call yourself hardcore. Pah! You are just a weekend fan. Not a 24/7 fan.

 

[Detroit City]

Call yourself hardcore. Pah! You are just a weekend fan. Not a 24/7 fan.

a 24/7 fan would be asking when is the prequel or sequel coming out? not when are they issuing the 30th version of the same damn movie

 

[Reno]

a 24/7 fan would be asking when is the prequel or sequel coming out? not when they are issuing the 30th version of the same damn movie

A 24/7 fan wouldn't have to ask, they would know.

 

[Reno]

I've just pre-ordered mine. Five discs for £18 is very reasonable.

 

[The Groke]

I've just pre-ordered mine. Five discs for £18 is very reasonable.

Did you not order the super spanky one in the case with the toys?





Is that not available from the UK sites?


In dollars, it only worked out at 25 quid for that (though I admit I chose the 15 quid postage option rather than the 4 quid one...... )

 

[Reno]

Did you not order the super spanky one in the case with the toys?





Is that not available from the UK sites?


In dollars, it only worked out at 25 quid for that (though I admit I chose the 15 quid postage option rather than the 4 quid one...... )

I'm not into toys or novelty packaging, I'm just interested in the DVD content.

 

[CJohn]

I've been waiting on this for years. There had been talk of it almost since the directors cut ed., came out on DVD - which is a shit package. I really don't think this is a scam at all, for all the reasons already outlined. Can't wait!

 

[The Groke]

I'm not into toys or novelty packaging, I'm just interested in the DVD content.

Yeah....but toys anna big shiny hitman-style case


You have no soul






(Oh, I think I get some additional DVD content too )





What was weird is that in the very first play.com link provided, the list of contents doesn't actually say that it includes the "Final cut"......


I mean, it must do, but it didn't say so.......

 

[Reno]

Yeah....but toys anna big shiny hitman-style case


You have no soul






(Oh, I think I get some additional DVD content too )



What was weird is that in the very first play.com link provided, the list of contents doesn't actually say that it includes the "Final cut"......


I mean, it must do, but it didn't say so.......

I'm not bothered about some Harrison Ford wallpaper and a link to the offical website.

Play have always been rubbish with accurately listing content.

As important as the Final Cut is the long discussed workprint which was previewed to a bewildered audience who expected another Star Wars. After that disastrous preview the studio added the voice over and happy end and re-edited the film into what is now known as the Theatrical Cut. The workprint was also seen by some journalists which gave cause for a long article in the then influential Cinefantastique magazine claiming that the film had been ruined by the studio. Apparently it's the most radically different edit of any of the versions included

 

[stdPikachu]

A 24/7 fan wouldn't have to ask, they would know.

But do they know because they experienced it? Or are these merely implanted memories?

Anyone have any info on whether this is a remaster or just a rehash of old prints? I'm similarly unswayed by the shiny things in the box, I just rip the DVD's and put 'em in storage.

 

[DotCommunist]

I never liked the voiceover version that much, but the documentaries might be interesting. I'll wait around and pick it up scnd hand on teh eBay

 

[Reno]

Anyone have any info on whether this is a remaster or just a rehash of old prints? I'm similarly unswayed by the shiny things in the box, I just rip the DVD's and put 'em in storage.

It's one of the most extensive projects of film restoration ever undertaken, going as far as re-shooting scenes which they didn't get right the first time around. Zora's shooting and slow motion death, which was one of the most obvious substitutions of a stunt double ever, has been re-shot and the new Unicorn dream sequence has been added instead of using off-cuts from Ridley Scott's Legend. There is plenty of information around if you care to google Blade Runner and Final Cut, it's been one of the most discussed film topics on the internet for the last few years.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I'm getting very excited about this now, as much as i was trying not to. Roll on October.