BLADE RUNNER IV

Harrison Ford in Blade Runner

BLADE RUNNER Review: Part I
BLADE RUNNER Review: Part II
BLADE RUNNER Review: Part III
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 – 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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