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Blade Runner (Signed Senitype Collector's Edition)

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When, oh when, will they release a REAL Blade Runner DVD? This classic deserves a heck of a package with it's legendary status and enduring popularity. Yet we sit around with an inferior version. Hey, you folks at the studios KNOW there is a market for this film - why not give us (and believe me, there are many of us) what we want? I promise you will get the dollars that you crave. Just give us a decent release and soon? You did it with LEGEND and heaven knows that film deserves nothing more than the crumbs of Blade Runner.

A person always has an all-time favorite movie that they have watched so many times that they can almost lip-sync the dialogue. Blade Runner is MY all time favorite. The music is haunting and the plot.... although a bit un-nerving.... is believable. Will we end up like the Earth portrayed in the movie? Certainly we are heading that way with the extermination of animals in the wild. Will there come a time when what we call "robots" will be as human-like as those in the movie? Who knows. Will the climate on earth become as rotten as seen in the movie? Will people leave Earth to find a better life? SO many questions were raised in this movie. I thought that the directors cut was vastly inferior to the original verson with Ford's voice-over explanation.... and I have a copy of both versions. One of the most intricate and disturbing movie plots ever done. I LIKE it!

Whether you prefer the original theatrical release or the director's cut of Blade Runner, and there are many in both camps, to not include the narrated version is a huge mistake and the reason I will not be buying this DVD. This time the studio had it right. Not for the right reason, perhaps, but the VO convention ties Deckard to his 1930's noir kin and makes Blade Runner timeless. The happy ending is unfortunate but the unicorn image in the director's cut is as well. Not including the version of the film that originally compelled audiences to love it is just puzzling.

I'm one who has seen and own both versions of Blade Runner, unfortunately the original (or "Criterion's" version) is unavailable on DVD. The movie as a whole is excellent for a film of 1982, its graphic imagery and imagination matches that of Lucas and the Star Wars Saga of the same time period. It's visually stunning with more unveiling suspenseful drama than action, to keep you glued to the film.

Where the film falls short however is in the "Director's" choice of presenting the film. Alot of Harrison Ford character's thought dialog (found in the Criterion Collection) is axed from the film, in favor of the Director's cut. This can leave the viewer, who has never seen the film, lost as to what is going on. The thought dialogs add ALOT to the film, as to who the replicant's are, his knowledge of the replicant's history (when he picks up a set of photos, his thoughts ask "why... because replicants don't have families" for example. Information that makes the direction of his search more understandable, "vital", and less confusing.), his thoughts to why he retired from the Blade Runner force, and more. The Director's Cut is a real hack job to the original and makes the new script very weak. I can only hope that the "Criterion" version may soon be released, as Blade Runner is an excellent film and NEEDS to maintain its original strong storyline. To those who may be searching, the "Criterion" version may only be found on the large laser discs (as it's been phased out after the Director's Cut release).