BLADE RUNNER IV

Harrison Ford in Blade Runner

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The DVD version of "The Final Cut" comes on two discs. The second disc offers only a three-hour-plus documentary, Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner. While Dangerous Days has some interesting information, its length is off-putting, especially considering the rather wan film it explores so deeply. The first disc contains the film, and it is certainly a visual stunner — Jordan Cronenweth’s cinematography is remarkable, though, again, there is no ’signature’ visual moment that raises Blade Runner above dozens of other sci-fi movies. On the downside, Vangelis‘ score, like all his film music, [...]

by Dan Schneider | January 21, 2009   
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BLADE RUNNER III d: Ridley Scott

Harrison Ford in Blade Runner

BLADE RUNNER Review: Part I
BLADE RUNNER Review: Part II
Also, even if the original version makes it rather clear he is not a Replicant, who really cares? Deckard is listless to the point that whether or not he is an android or just a malaise-ridden human seems of no great import. The more important question about Blade Runner is, Why is it so dull despite such a rich and complex potential to mine?
Additionally, numerous minor moments are taken to be symbolically significant despite the lack of any evidence. In the DVD edition of "The Final Cut," on his own commentary track, Ridley Scott himself ridicules all the [...]

by Dan Schneider | January 21, 2009   
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BLADE RUNNER II – Harrison Ford

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BLADE RUNNER Review: Part I
Deckard goes to see Tyrell, and meets his latest version of a Replicant, Rachael (Sean Young), who does not realize she is a Replicant. (They are supposedly outlawed, but let’s go with the film’s inconsistencies.) Meanwhile, Batty and Leon strongarm their way to get information on how to confront Tyrell. Batty, however, can sense his life is nearing its end. After some encounters that leave lots of humans and Replicants dead, Deckard and Batty face off in a rooftop melee over L.A. But instead of a final battle, Deckard watches as Batty’s life fades away. Before his last breath, Batty utters a cringe-worthy soliloquy:
"I’ve seen [...]

by Dan Schneider | January 21, 2009   
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BLADE RUNNER – Harrison Ford – d: Ridley Scott

Blade Runner (1982)
Direction: Ridley Scott
Screenplay: Hampton Fancher and David Peoples; from Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy, Brion James
 

 

By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Director Ridley Scott’s dystopian 1982 sci-fi drama Blade Runner is one of those Hollywood productions whose initially mixed reviews were actually closer to the mark than the decades of hagiography that followed. That’s not to say that Blade Runner is a bad film; it’s only a much-ballyhooed mediocrity — due mostly to its sluggish screenplay — rather than a great film.
Adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples [...]

by Dan Schneider | January 21, 2009   
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