Blade Runner: The Final Cut

[ellen_datlow]

Yeah, sure it is. I don't think Scott will ever finish fiddling with it. However, I did want to see it on the biiiig screen at the Ziegfeld, so caught the 2pm show today. (which is why I was so late responding to all the comments on my previous post ;-) ).
This whole post is a spoiler so if for some odd reason you haven't seen the movie's most recent incarnations, do not read on.

First of all, the only change I could discern from the last "director's cut" was more graphic violence in the killing of Tyrell. I suppose there might have been a few seconds added here and there, but I didn't notice them.

I still love the movie--it's my favorite sf movie--and it's kind of lovely seeing Harrison Ford and Sean Young and Rutger Hauer and even Daryl Hannah in their prime.

I am not particularly willing to argue about the "is he or isn't he a replicant" issue because frankly, at this point, I don't give a rat's ass what Scott says. For me, if Deckard IS a replicant, none of the rest of the movie makes sense. To me the point has always been that the replicants have evolved towards humanity and humanity has moved more towards behaving like replicants.

(yes, of course I know about the unicorn stuff--I just....don't....care) :-)

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[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Remember when George Lucas rereleased the whole Star Wars series up to that point a decade ago, and John Waters put out a 25th anniversary rerelease of Pink Flamingos just to mess with the Cat Piss Men? Seeing as how we're now in the fourth (fifth? sixth?) rerelease of the "director's cut" of Blade Runner, when are we going to get a revised director's cut of Brazil?

(Of course, I have no right to talk about Blade Runner, seeing as how I'm responsible for the original cut and the subsequent collapse of the timeline (http://web.archive.org/web/20010717233745/http://www.hpoo.com/columns/hells/news46.html). And where did the last quarter-century go?)