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
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Avg. Customer Rating:  598 reviews
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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: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 5
Running Time: 578
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: 18574
UPC: 085391185741
EAN: 0085391185741
ASIN: B000UBMWG4
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 2007
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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Product Description
Warner Brothers Blade Runner (Blu-ray) (Collector's Edition)
Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, "Blade Runner" returns in Ridley Scott's definitive Final Cut, including extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects. In a signature role as 21st-centurydetective Rick Deckard, (Harrison Ford) brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, Deckard hunts for fugitive, murderous replicants - and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul.
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"
Disc Five
WORKPRINT VERSION
This rare version of the film is considered by some to be the most radically different of all the Blade Runner cuts. It includes an altered opening scene, no Deckard narration until the final scenes, no "unicorn" sequence, no Deckard/Rachel "happy ending," altered lines between Batty (Rutger Hauer) and his creator Tyrell (Joe Turkell), alternate music and much more. Also includes: - Commentary by Paul M. Sammon, author of Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner
- Featurette "All Our Variant Futures: From Workprint to Final Cut"
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 Definitive Collection July 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's wonderful to have the original ending and voice over of the theatrical version!
Certainly one of the best restorations of the era. Great price, too! Blu-ray is generally too expensive.
 A sci-fi classic still wrecked July 6, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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(Note: This review is for the movie "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" (2 disc special edition) released in 2007.)
This movie is based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968) by Philip K. Dick (1928 to 1982).
This movie depicts a dystopian (opposite of a utopia) Los Angeles in the year 2019 in which genetically manufactured beings called "replicants" (visually indistinguishable from adult humans) are used for dangerous and degrading work on Earth's off-world colonies.
Following a small replicant (also called a "skin-job") uprising, replicants become illegal on Earth and specialist police called "blade runners" are trained to hunt down and "retire" (kill) escaped replicants trespassing on Earth.
Besides the plot, this movie seems to forecast important concerns of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries such as overpopulation, globalization, climate change, and genetic engineering.
The plot of this movie is simple. Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a semi-retired blade runner who's after four ruthless replicants illegally on Earth named Zhora (Joanna Cassidy), Leon (Brion James), Pris (Daryl Hannah), and Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer). Deckard accidentally develops a romance with the more sophisticated replicant Rachael (Sean Young).
I watched this movie ("The Final Cut" which is essentially the same as the rushed "The Director`s Cut") with a friend who did not see the original theatrical release that had Deckard's voice-over narration. Guess what? My friend could not follow the story!!! I could since I'd seen the original release but I found that I still missed Deckard's voice-over.
I especially missed the voice-over when the Roy Batty replicant "dies" at the end of the movie. This key scene was not as emotionally appealing with the voice-over absent.
I think I deduced the reasons why the voice-over is so important to this movie:
(1) It allows the viewer to follow the action
(2) It provides the human and emotional touch to counterbalance all the technological and visually-stunning special effects
(3) It adds a "retro" feel that reminded me of old-time detective movies
(4) The story drags without it.
Thus, the obvious question is, "Why wasn't there an option to have the voice-over?" Answer: I don't know but it may have to do with marketing. By having such an option, those who feel the voice-over is integral to the movie would have been satisfied.
The ending of the final cut, I felt, was too abrupt. The original ending gave the feeling that Deckard and the replicant Rachael would have a future together.
The special effects that highlight the steel-and-microchip jungle of twenty-first century L.A. and the background music provided by Vangelis are still fantastic and exhilarating.
The final cut has about a minute more of extended scenes and never before seen special effects than the original theatrical version and the director's cut. The entire movie has been digitally restored making the images clean and crisp. The audio is excellent. There is a thirty second introduction by director Ridley Scott and three audio commentaries. The second disc has a three and a half hour documentary making it perhaps the "definitive" documentary for fans of this movie.
BOTTOM LINE:
Without the voice-over narration, this movie (The Final Cut) loses its magnificence and emotional impact.
RECOMMENDATION:
Get the four or five disc "Collector's Edition" where one disc has the original theatrical released version (that easily is a five-star movie) with Deckard's voice-over narration. This will, unfortunately, cost you more money.
(1982; 2 hr; wide screen; 2 discs; 36 scenes)
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Almost more than you'd want. July 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
There's been a lot said about this set, so I'll just say that I was impressed with the quality of transfer, the choices and options of versions, and the additional material to see what happens in the actual production and post of a movie from a standpoint beyond the usual behind the scenes mini features.
Still glad I can get a few HD (not Blu-ray discs).
Perfect July 3, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This Blu-ray version is the perfect and now, the only right way to see this movie. Let's face it's just the best movie of all time
Great deal for the price, but... July 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
the "final cut" wasn't that great, in my opinion. Not really bad, but the changes were pretty minimal, the most memorable of which was a longer, more gory version of a scene that I thought worked fine in the "Director's Cut".
Of course here you get both of these versions, plus several others, in a sharp-looking HD transfer, plus loads of extras, for just over 20 bucks. It's hard to go wrong, especially with one of the great early masterpieces of cyberpunk cimema, and probably the best film adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story to date.
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