Blade Runner fans - It's now the month the movie takes place

[Hawaii Hiker]

https://laist.com/2019/11/05/blade-runner-november-2019-los-angeles-future-is-here.php

Anyone watch it recently?....They have the special version to without narration from Deckard and the different ending, but i still prefer the original narrated version...

[pbmus]

2. i would say you are tooooo generous with the word almost...

[dweller]

3. my kids bought me the 6 dvd collection

with all versions and extra added the making of Blade Runner, etc

so yes watched it often and the original narrated is the best, imo

✌🏼

[Arthur_Frain]

4. Depending on the edition of the book we've got til 2021 though

nt

[Aristus]

5. 'Real' fans are supposed to like only the Director's Cut, without the narration.

It's how they prove their 'authenticity'.

I don't care. I like the narration. The film is essentially a hardboiled detective story in a cyberpunk setting. World-weary narration is almost a requirement. Also, the narration has a way of pushing into the background Ridley Scott's insistence that Deckard is secretly a replicant. I really think it's ridiculous to assert that he is. The movie doesn't make any sense if he is, unicorn dream and origami sculpture notwithstanding.

[Hawaii Hiker]

6. Yeah, i never accepted that Deckard was a replicant

He did not have the physical strength of the other replicants (Batty, Leon). Also they were aware they were replicants...So somehow Deckard is replicant yet he isn't aware of it ?...

[Aristus]

7. Rachel didn't know she was a replicant, because Tyrell gave her artificial memories.

And she was a brand-new experiment in replicant technology.

And we're supposed to believe that Deckard is the same way? That he was secretly built years before, gifted with the memory of an ex-wife, then put into the system to be a real Blade Runner with colleagues who think he is human? The mental twists one has to do to accept that Deckard is a replicant are countless; and if one does accept them, I can't see how it enhances enjoyment of the film.

[Ron Obvious]

8. I actually like the narration

For some reason, it strikes just the right note, intentionally or not. That happy ending, though, had to go. For me, that was the biggest improvement in the subsequent cuts.

And no, Decker is not a replicant.

[Aristus]

9. I only like the original ending in an aesthetic sense, not a narrative one.

Narratively, it makes no sense. If there's this beautiful, pristine world beyond the city, why are people going off-world, instead of returning to the outlying areas?

But from an aesthetic viewpoint, I like it. That wide open, lovely, serene vista relieves the dreary, stifling claustrophobia of that nightmarish city.

[Hawaii Hiker]

10. The Vangelis theme at the closing credits is classic

I have that theme on my phone!..

Why do you think Batty spared Deckard?....I mean Leon would have ripped his head off and was incapable of showing mercy, pity, or remorse....But Batty seemed to acquire human emotions in the end..

[Aristus]

12. The best explanation I ever heard was simply that, counter to the narration, Batty didn't

"love life more than he ever had before".

He wanted to be remembered. And saving Deckard's life was the only way that was going to happen.

[Harker]

11. Not lately.

I do prefer the version without Deckard's hard-boiled narration and 'happy ending.'

[hunter]

13. Stifling human technological progress hasn't been easy.

We had to pay off guys like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, and don't even ask about people who discovered anti-gravity or kitchen science fusion power.

It's all fun and games until some asshole builds a mirror-matter bomb in their basement.