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This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
As a display terminal for the wizardry of Designers Lawrence G. Paull, Douglas Trumbull and Syd Mead, the movie delivers.
This definitive print should be the last little push that "Blade Runner" needs to complete its 25-year journey from box office failure to cult favorite to full-blown classic.
The film still represents the cutting edge of dark science fiction.
Blade Runner: The Final Cut plays better now than ever.
Open the champagne: Blade Runner is finally just the way Ridley Scott wanted it. And it only took 25 years.
[VIDEO] Blade Runner is one of the most enigmatic yet problematic science fiction films ever made.
A quintessential film noir of the 1980s, much underestimated at the time of release.
A dark, philosophical sci-fi drama. Older teens +.
...a hopelessly overrated piece of work.
From the opening shot of a Los Angeles cityscape at night in the year 2019, it is clear that Scott has conjured up something special.
For all its armor of brutalizing urban dystopia (and, boy, is there a lot of that -- you could fund a war on terror with the fog- and rain-machine budgets alone), Blade Runner has a gooey center.
It may be a quarter of a century old, but Blade Runner still seems like the future . . .
Paradoxically, Scott's crowded, misty, neon streetscape seems even murkier; fuzz I chalked up to VHS tapes is production designer Lawrence G. Paull dumping ashtrays in the air.
Probably close to being on par with Fritz Lang's Metropolis in terms of grandeur -- although of a stunningly different and far more unsettling kind.
The new version helped me see the soul because, ironically, this rendering is so much brighter. Noir or not, a film you can't see properly is a film you can't fully appreciate.
Though it's a triumph of visual futurism and an ornament to sci-fi cinema as well as to cinema in general, I resist it on some level.
It's an overwhelming, immersive experience, a total creation of a possible future so complete that you don't need exposition to know how we got from here to there (2019).
This "Final Cut" is full of minor adjustments (with subtle reverberations) and major corrections, and the digital enhancements both refine the special effects and deliver a sparkling image.
Science fiction with thought...few sci-fi films pose such significant questions. (HD DVD Edition)
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