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| Blade Runner (Four-Disc Collector's Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Ridley Scott
Actor: Harrison Ford
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (13 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1278
Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Original Recording Remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 117 minutes
Number Of Items: 4
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.7
MPN: 085391144830
UPC: 085391144830
EAN: 0085391144830
ASIN: B000UBMSB8
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 2007
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Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: R
Release Date: 18-DEC-2007
Media Type: DVD
Product description
In celebration of Blade Runner's 25th anniversary, director Ridley Scott has gone back into post production to create the long-awaited definitive new version. Blade Runner: The Final Cut, spectacularly restored and remastered from original elements and scanned at 4K resolution, will contain never-before-seen added/extended scenes, added lines, new and improved special effects, director and filmmaker commentary, an all-new 5.1 Dolby Digital audio track and more. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Joanna Cassidy, Sean Young, and Daryl Hannah are among some 80 stars, filmmakers and others who participate in the extensive bonus features. Among the bonus material highlights is Dangerous Days, a brand new, three-and-a-half-hour documentary by award-winning DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika, with an extensive look into every aspect of the film: its literary genesis, its challenging production and its controversial legacy. The definitive documentary to accompany the definitive film version. Disc One
RIDLEY SCOTT'S ALL-NEW "FINAL CUT" VERSION OF THE FILM
Restored and remastered with added & extended scenes, added lines, new and cleaner special effects and all new 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio. Also includes: - Commentary by Ridley Scott
- Commentary by executive producer/co-screenwriter Hampton Fancher and co-screenwriter David Peoples; producer Michael Deely and production executive Katherine Haber
- Commentary by visual futurist Syd Mead; production designer Lawrence G. Paull, art director David L. Snyder and special photographic effects supervisors Douglas Trumbull, Richard Yuricich and David Dryer
Disc Two
DOCUMENTARY DANGEROUS DAYS: MAKING BLADE RUNNER
A feature-length authoritative documentary revealing all the elements that shaped this hugely influential cinema landmark. Cast, crew, critics and colleagues give a behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the film -- from its literary roots and inception through casting, production, visuals and special effects to its controversial legacy and place in Hollywood history. Disc Three
1982 THEATRICAL VERSION
This is the version that introduced U.S. movie-going audiences to a revolutionary film with a new and excitingly provocative vision of the near-future. It contains Deckard/Harrison Ford's character narration and has Deckard and Rachel's (Sean Young) "happy ending" escape scene. 1982 INTERNATIONAL VERSION
Also used on U.S. home video, laserdisc and cable releases up to 1992. This version is not rated, and contains some extended action scenes in contrast to the Theatrical Version. 1992 DIRECTOR'S CUT
The Director's Cut omits Deckard's voiceover narration and removes the "happy ending" finale. It adds the famously-controversial "unicorn" sequence, a vision that Deckard has which suggests that he, too, may be a replicant. Disc Four
BONUS DISC - "Enhancement Archive": 90 minutes of deleted footage and rare or never-before-seen items in featurettes and galleries that cover the film's amazing history, production teams, special effects, impact on society, promotional trailers, TV spots, and much more. - Featurette "The Electric Dreamer: Remembering Philip K. Dick"
- Featurette "Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. The Film"
- Philip K. Dick: The Blade Runner Interviews (audio)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Cover Gallery (images)
- The Art of Blade Runner (image galleries)
- Featurette "Signs of the Times: Graphic Design"
- Featurette "Fashion Forward: Wardrobe & Styling"
- Screen Tests: Rachel & Pris
- Featurette "The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth"
- Unit photography gallery
- Deleted and alternate scenes
- 1982 promotional featurettes
- Trailers and TV spots
- Featurette "Promoting Dystopia: Rendering the Poster Art"
- Marketing and merchandise gallery (images)
- Featurette "Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard"
- Featurette "--Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers"
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 A PIECE OF ART August 18, 2008
I was a teenager when BLADE RUNNER was on Madrid's movie theaters.One Sunday I went to the theater and the film was retired! I had to wait two years and I saw the VHS at last. I bought Director's Cut DVD at the begining of this Century but this edition is impossible to overcome!
WOW!!!!! August 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
How good can a home theater DVD get!
This is everything a Blade Runner wanted AND MORE!
4 versions of the film in various cuts!
The bonus material alone is like, all the nitty-grittys you always wanted to know!
And Japanese subtitles! (I live in Japan and Japanese is my first language)
Now, all I need is that Blu-ray player!
Thank you PKD, Ricdley Scott and WB!
Classic... August 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You can even watch the original theatrical release in this to boot! Buy it! Watch it!
 Maybe it seemed great in 1982... August 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had from time to time heard that this was a movie of major importance, with an incredible world created in it. I finally rented it a couple of weeks ago in the "Final Cut" version. After watching it, I had to ask, "What was so great about that?" Four androids come to earth and must be killed by a bounty hunter. He goes out and kills them one at a time. End of story. So...?
I find nothing morally compelling about the story. The plot is very straightforward. Is it supposed to make us think about the ethics of android life? Maybe now the idea of androids is so commonplace (thanks to Mr. Data) that I am simply jaded to them. I think clones (The 6th Day) are a far more morally compelling issue these days, since it seems that it may actually become technologically feasible to create human clones in the foreseeable future.
As for the world created in Blade Runner, the only thing that really caught my eye were the two huge pyramid-shaped buildings that seem to be modeled on the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico.
What has actually compelled me to write this review is the fact that I just read the book Bladerunner, since I happened to find it in the library. There is nothing in the movie that even suggests the fact revealed in the book, that the earth has been through a major, hugely destructive war. The movie is packed with people, while the book sounds rather depopulated. The Mercerism religion that is so pivotal in the book is not even hinted at in the movie.
The relationship between the book and the movie is about the same as that between the book Logan's Run and the movie Logan's Run. In each case, the book and the movie share a title, a few general similarities between the fictitious worlds, and a faintly similar plot. But in fact, in each case, there is so little similarity between the book and the movie that you have to wonder whether giving them the same name is really justified. Both books are products of the late Sixties. Logan's Run is from 1976 and Blade Runner is from 1982, not too far apart. The relationship between the books and their movies is equally distant. There must have been something in the air in Hollywood around that time...
For True Science Fiction Fans August 7, 2008
Believe it or not, this is the first and only version of Blade Runner that I've seen. I understand that there have been many different versions over the years, but this one, The Final Cut, is supposed to be the end-all-be-all.
Supposedly, the director, Ridley Scott, never intended the studio-mandated Harrison Ford narration in the original version. In this new, definitive release, Scott cuts the narration, adds a few scenes, and cleans up a lot of the special effects. Reportedly, other than the narration, there isn't a whole lot different (though I've been told the omission of the narration makes the movie far more ambiguous).
I'm sure you already know this, but Blade Runner is about a man named Rick Deckard who is brought out of retirement to hunt a pack of rogue replicants, androids who appear human in every way and are forced to do the labor in space that humans won't or can't. It's obviously set in the future, 2019 to be exact, and Scott provides a terrifying but realistic take on a world overrun by people, pollution, and commercialism. Every scene is dark and wet, and the film really suffocates the viewer with its dystopian outlook.
(Spoilers Ahead)
In his hunt, Deckard runs across a replicant played by Sean Young who doesn't even know she's a replicant, and he takes a love interest in her. After a brutal and violent showdown with the last of the rogue replicants eerily played by Rutger Hauer, Deckard must deal with the fact that no replicants are to be left in public, and so what is he to do with Young's character?
(Major Spoilers Ahead)
I suppose a major argument against The Final Cut is that the omission of the voice over no longer makes it obvious that Deckard is a replicant himself. Allegedly, at the end of the movie, Edward James Olmos' character leaves a paper doll unicorn outside of Deckard's apartment when Deckard returns to run away with Young's character. This unicorn, some say, is an obvious clue that Olmos knew Deckard's memories because Deckard dreamt of a unicorn, thus making him a replicant.
I don't see it that way. Olmos left paper dolls everywhere of various animals throughout the entire movie. I believe Olmos left the paper unicorn outside Deckard's apartment as a sign his character could have killed Young's character, but chose to let Deckard try to live a life with her instead. The unicorn is coincidental in the literal sense, but I believe it figuratively is a metaphor representing Deckard's dreams now have a chance at reality with the sparing of Young's character and a chance at love.
(End Major Spoilers)
I was surprised at all the big names in this movie, though I guess, other than Ford, they weren't very big names at the time. I found Ford's acting stiff and difficult to watch, but everyone else did an adequate job. The real pleasure of this movie came from the sets. The special effects were impressive in their day, but I've never seen such a realistic depiction of a city gone to hell.
I don't know if I'd recommend Blade Runner: The Final Cut to the general movie audience, but I think any science fiction fan would really enjoy it on a variety of levels.
~Scott William Foley, author of The Imagination's Provocation: Volume II: A Collection of Short Stories
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