From Popular Mechanics.

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I havent read it all yet, but, I love the movie, and its place in genre film history.

Its a fine film - one of my top ten (but NOT the director's cut with that bloody unicorn)
Everything from the sets to the soundtrack are perfectly realised.
The only flaw IMO is the hokey feel good ending.

...which does feel quite so hokey -- or even good -- in the director's cut with that bloody unicorn.

I like the harsh and stark ending with teh door closing and that is it.

It will be good to see this on a big screen again!

I'll be happy when they finally release the original 1982 version on DVD. The reason I haven't picked it up on DVD is because the only version available is the Directors Cut, which while I don't exactly hate it, it's not as good.

The Peel cut would keep the voice over (which people said was pretentious but I liked it) and lose the bloody unicorn but retain the ambiguous ending.

I would love to see it on the big screen - I think I only ever saw it on video.

Just got back from seeing the latest all new improved restored final version director's cut of Blade Runner. It has been long enough since I last saw the original - so the voiceover wasn't playing in the background of my mind. There were a few moments that I missed it and I admit to liking the noir-ness of it in the original.
The set dressing still blows me away. It is amazing how well it has help up. The computers are both lower tech and higher tech than what is currently in use. The buildings, the crowds, the weather, the lights and fog and fug - all terrific. Should have won Best Art Direction-Set Decoration at the Oscars, but it was up against Gandhi.
And, of course, Vangelis - if ever music was perfectly suited to a film.
Sean Young is achingly beautiful and Ford doesn't smirk once.
Only thing I wonder was if the Nexus 6 androids have the red glint in their eyes as a telltale sign of androidness, why do they need the fancy shmancy test with questions and eyeball scanning?
I am glad I got a chance to see it at the theatre one last time. Altho I hurt myself eating popcorn. When will I learn.

I'm pretty sure he smirks once or twice during the scene in which his former boss convinces him to come back to work.

And yeah, Sean Young was really something at one point, wasn't she?

He guzzles, but I don't think he really smirks. It is sort of a resigned thing - not cocky. I think the closest he came was in the hallway when he found the origami unicorn. Altho, maybe it was just rueful contemplation.

Blade Runner without the voice-over narration is a travesty.

It's funny about the voiceover - I think the studio must have forced it onto Scott and he always hated it. But - it worked! I wanted to see if the movie stood up without it - and it does - but I missed it. It added something. I probably would not say, if I had seen this version and no other "That film really needs a film noir voiceover". But I am glad the original had it and now I am going to see if my old VHS tape still works and watch that puppy. But not right now, 'cause I have a board meeting in the morning and it is bedtime.

I haven't seen the latest version, but that was an issue in all releases so far, I think. I understood that the idea was that the red (or yellow) glint wasn't actually visible to humans or detectable by machine - it's just something shown to the audience for symbolic effect. Kind of like in Schindler's List, wass there really a lone girl in a bright red dress while everything else was in black and white? Or was that just a symbolic representation we were shown? Admittedly in that movie it's a bit more obvious that the world isn't really all black and white, so we're forced to consider more, um, creative explanations. But in Blade Runner, the only alternative is to assume that the police and most other humans are utterly unobservant idiots. It may be a minor stretch, but I prefer to believe that the red/yellow glint really can't be seen.

Travesty? I thought the movie worked well (indeed, better) without the voice-over narration!

You're one of "them" huh?

Feh to you sir.

Feh I say.

I've never seen the movie.

I did hear Harrison Ford say to Barbara Walters he disagreed with Ridley scott regarding his character as replicant. IIRC he doesn;t believe he was.

or something.

Yeah, I was never one for the Decker as a replicant idea. Don't see how it would enhance the story in any way whatsoever.

I don't know if there are any more ways this movie can bore me.

It's on one of the "making of" documentaries on the new release DVD. Harrison Ford basically says it ruins the character by making him a replicant when it works much better as a man learning how to be human again.

There was no call for that.