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| Blade Runner (Five-Disc Complete Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray] | ![Blade Runner (Five-Disc Complete Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61UuM4DakzL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer
Studio: Warner Brothers
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (649 reviews)
Sales Rank: 465
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Original Recording Remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Running Time: 117 minutes
Number Of Items: 5
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: WARBR118574
UPC: 085391185741
EAN: 0085391185741
ASIN: B000UBMWG4
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 The Original the Best!! October 23, 2008
Blade Runner is a wonderful movie that explores issues and possibilities that are more and more relevant every day, and some that we'd just rather not discuss. Visually, it is very appealing and tremendously atmospheric.
I originally saw it at a midnight showing in a theater and loved it. I had been very disappointed that the DVD releases were all "director cut" types and they removed the original narration by Ford throughout. This set has everything and it is a pleasure to watch each version. Of course, the original is still my favorite. I highly recommend this set :)
One of the best SciFi movies October 16, 2008
This is still one of the best SciFi movies out there. I can watch it over and over again. The movie is set in the future of 2019, really not that far off for so much to happen by then. But, even after 2019, people will be watching this movie.
A look at life, eleven years into the future... October 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Remember that scene at the end of `The Silence of the Lambs' where Clarice is in the creepy old house and you just know that Wild Bill is lurking around every dusty corner? Remember how your heart all but stopped while the scene was running, how you gripped the arm rests in fear as you told yourself over and over again that it was all going to end well; that Clarice was going to get the bad guy and save the girl and whatever else you had to tell yourself in order to make it through?
Gather those feelings and relish in them, because that is precisely what every moment of `Blade Runner' feels like.
The film takes place in the near future (eleven years to be exact) in the year 2019. Man has created an equal to themselves, human clones known as replicants, who, equipped with fixed life-spans, can work in the colonies outside of Earth. When a bloody mutiny breaks out these replicants are labeled illegal. When a few of these clones escape their Off-World Colony by stealing a ship and make their way to Earth, an ex-Blade Runner (police officers dispatched to hunt down and terminate replicants) named Deckard is asked to come back into the game in order to get rid of them.
The kicker with the film, and really what makes it so much more than just a science fiction/action film is the fact that the replicants don't know that they are not human. They are practically human (except they are not programmed to express human emotion, although they have the capability to learn how to) and so they fear death just as much as you or I.
If one looks at `Blade Runner' simply as an action film or a science fiction masterpiece they are bound to be satisfied. As far as run of the mill blockbusters are concerned, Scott's visionary epic is at the top of the pack; by a long shot. It is beautifully shot, it is fast paced and thrilling. The acting is actually very good considering the genre and the usual messy performances that come with. But, if you take a minute to look at `Blade Runner' as something deeper than all that you come to experience an entirely different and ultimately more rewarding film. Yes, if you dissect the humanity captures within the films core you will find a very thought provoking film that gropes at our very feelings towards life and death.
I remember recalling Sean Penn's devastating words at the end of `Dean Man Walking', where he said that killing is never okay.
Instant chills.
`Blade Runner' has a style that is probably the films greatest focal point. To say that Ridley Scott (totally snubbed of an Oscar) is the star of the show is an understatement. The film is like a really gritty `Fifth Element' with enough horror and even a little noir thrown in for good measure. Scott effortlessly pans across a universe that seems strangely distant yet almost too real. We can see ourselves there even if we don't want to. My best friend told me that `Blade Runner' is his favorite film because it seems too probable.
Harrison Ford is brilliantly cast, lending the film his masculine charm. Rutger Haur is terrifying yet overtly sympathetic at the films end, and Sean Young is devastatingly powerful as Rachael, the `special' replicant who is coming to terms with her own reality. Daryl Hannah also turns in a great performance as Pris, a beautiful replicant who is as dangerous as she is intoxicating.
Everything about `Blade Runner' is stunning, from the set pieces to the actors who inhabit them, and to judge a film on pure surface value alone would place this picture towering above many; but when you add the satisfying substance that marks this films core you can see why `Blade Runner' is considered one of the greatest films of all time. It has everything, and it delivers everywhere.
AWESOME! October 6, 2008
This set is the best box set I have so far. With all the different versions, I have no idea where to start. Well I got mine in August. I still have yet to watch everything on the DVDs but I'm getting there. I'm not very good with reviews but I have to say the versions are not that different from each other but still worth watching.
Perfect! October 5, 2008
This is possibly the best box set I've seen yet. All five versions of the movie are presented in this set beautifully remastered and in 5.1 surround. I cannot complain about anything about this. The extras included also are in perfect form. It is definately worth the extra money to get this set especially since it includes the workprint version only available here and in the blueray edition.
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