Ah, I see. (I've read the novel, which makes marginally more sense than the movie, btw. )

This. But, as has been said, they'll still make pots of cash.

*loses hope*

Let them. But take the moral high ground and simply don't watch it. Ever. Not even out of curiosity. Knowing you know what's right and what's wrong. Easy.

From Wikipedia:



Difficult to express my thoughts on this without a lot of swearing, so

I hope this is just a rumour.

How many people here first watched Blade Runner on/near it's original release (or DC version)?

I only ask cos I saw it years later and maybe it was just it's rep, but it just didn't do much for me

I can totally understand why people like it (even I can appreciate the Batty dialogue, setting etc), but it was just too clinical or something for me

+1

I got the the Final Cut version when it came out and if I'm honest I wasn't exactly blown away by it. I've seen it a couple of times before many years ago and I enjoyed it then, and I can appreciate that in its day it was a masterpiece, but by today's standards I found it a bit dated, dull and lifeless.

But I still think a sequel or prequel would be a huge mistake.

Some vids that might interest:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48712

I first saw the original theatrical version on pan and scan VHS (there wasn't a widescreen version commercially available before the '92 director's cut) a few years before the Director's Cut version was released.

Mark

+1, i can see it now: just as Dave is about to start tearing HAL apart, they both have a sudden change of heart and become best of friends. they reach the monolith through working together as a team, and everyone lives happily ever after in a world of super-trippy VFX. the end



im too young to have seen Blade Runner when it was first released, i caught it on TV once though. they had better not ruin it

Nope I was only little

i still like it and have the metal tin boxset

I think I saw it on the big screen around the time of its first release, so 'my' version of Blade Runner is the often-maligned original with the voice-over, etc. The unusual thing about it was the details of the near-future Los Angeles and its inhabitants which I hadn't seen in an SF film before. That's the thing about Blade Runner, it has to be placed in the context of a 1982 movie. No-one had really done a view of the future quite like it. I can see how it would be somewhat underwhelming when viewed today, but Scott's Alien and Blade Runner did a lot to change the way SF films looked.

Same as mine then, only I never saw it at the pictures, being only 11 at the time.

Mark

I wasnt born in 1982

Tsch, young people.

Mark

I was only around three months old on it's American release, apparently