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Blade Runner - THE FINAL CUT

DotCommunist said:
Cool. I have seen various different editions, but my oldest is Messiah, which has some wierd artwork of guys going over the desert on platforms with ornithopters in the background. My copy of Children is clearly done by the same dude,it shows the twins running across the desert, ghanima in front. I'd love to se the original Dune that had the art from those two, as all my later stuff and teh original are more recent editions.

Scan and post yer front cover mental, you know you want to. If you do I'll post up a picture of stingin the metal pants FTW
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Would do sweetie but alas i have no scanner........

My copy came in a box with Messiah and Children of Dune, though the box thingy has long since broken and gone......


would have been around 1975ish.....got it for christmas one year....like my copies of LOTR (got that earlier).


(lovely warm feelings of book nostalgia)


:)
 
Ming said:
Blade Runner is one of my all time favourite movies. So it’s a sacred text not to be fucked with so to speak. I thought the last movie’s ending was fucking diabolical. I know the ending of the first one is ambiguous but it wasn’t so obviously setting up for a sequel.
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I thought the replicant resistance subplot, which ultimately doesn't go anywhere, set up a sequel. The ending not so much. I can't see much dramatic mileage in The Further Adventures of Deckard & Daughter. I liked that the lead character who thought he is The One, for once turns out not to be.

I feel similarly as you about the original Blade Runner and think it's an untouchable masterpiece, but sequels and spin-offs don't change the way I feel about a great original. I didn't like BR 2049 the first time I saw it and while I still don't think it isn't anywhere near as good as the original, on a rewatch I warmed to it more.

Both of Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpieces are moving to TV now after recent, financially disappointing sequels. After what he did to the Alien franchise I hope he keeps out of them as much as possible. Blade Runner already got a rubbish looking animated spin-off, but I'll keep an open mind about this.
 
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Reno said:
I thought the replicant resistance subplot, which ultimately doesn't go anywhere, set up a sequel. The ending not so much. I can't see much dramatic mileage in The Further Adventures of Deckard & Daughter. I liked that the lead character who thought he is The One, for once turns out not to be.

I feel similarly as you about the original Blade Runner and think it's an untouchable masterpiece, but sequels and spin-offs don't change the way I feel about a great original. I didn't like BR 2049 the first time I saw it and while I still don't think it isn't anywhere near as good as the original, on a rewatch I warmed to it more.

Both of Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpieces are moving to TV now after recent, financially disappointing sequels. After what he did to the Alien franchise I hope he keeps out of them as much as possible. Blade Runner already got a rubbish looking animated spin-off, but I'll keep an open mind about this.
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2049 looks gorgeous, has some really amazing moments but it’s just the bloody ending. Following such a masterpiece was not going to be easy but it deserved a better sequel. I got the impression 2049 either got too much attention from the money people and/or got stuck in ‘script hell’.
 
Ming said:
2049 looks gorgeous, has some really amazing moments but it’s just the bloody ending. Following such a masterpiece was not going to be easy but it deserved a better sequel. I got the impression 2049 either got too much attention from the money people and/or got stuck in ‘script hell’.
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I have reservations about the film too, but I don't understand what your specific problems with the ending are. For a Hollywood blockbuster Blade Runner 2049 is a rather uncommercial film and I read nothing about it having been compromised by studio interference or screenplay troubles. It appears to be the film Denis Villeneuve wanted to make.

I have loved the original Blade Runner since the day it came out but that film had a notoriously terrible ending, till the directors cut corrected that a decade later. That was a film plagued by production problems and Ridley Scott later addressed all of those further down the line with his Final Cut
 
Badgers said:
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Blade Runner's Theatrical Cut Is The Best Version, Says Christopher Nolan

“I don't want to go up against [Scott’s] view…”
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Nolan says: "unless they literally pull the film out of the director's hands and recut it, and bastardize it in some way, I think really the authoritative version of the film tends to be the one that goes out there in theaters."
Ridley Scott didn't have final cut on Blade Runner and that's what he said about the studio imposed happy ending of the theatrical cut: "I contested it mightily at the time. It was not an organic part of the film."

I'd call that a bastardization of Scott's film.
 
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