Eddie and Ben Friday Night Neo-Noir: Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982) outro 20210730

[@rigsby1454]

Deckard being a replicant ruins that scene and the whole motivation for when Roy Batty saves him

[@Vlad65WFPReviews]

Interesting take - though it would be likely that Roy doesn't know who/what Deckard is - Deckard had a very tough time detecting Rachel and he had the V-K tester to do it. Of course these kind of "did Tony Soprano really get shot?" debates are what makes great open-ended fiction fun.

[@thorn262]

Sure agree on your angle, here. It simply becomes a disastrous wreck. It is chintzy, cheap, and totally destroys -- at the very least -- a profound death scene (in addition to those of all the other replicants) that has few contenders in the world of films. Scott, seriously, needs to adjust his gaze, especially as a filmmaker/artist. It's not that humans are more replicant than realized; it is precisely the opposite: replicants are more human than recognized. BR, at its best, is a variation on the idea of slavery and maltreatment of others, represented through a kind of prophetic guiding light of sci-fi, ie, the shape of things to come.

[@prairiedogsareextant]

@@Vlad65WFPReviews Yeah, how would Roy know. Deckard being a Replicant adds an interesting layer to a flick that is style over substance. Altho, the style is amusing as hell, old combined with new. Was that the first time that was done. First time I saw it. BR has always been a mixed bag for me. Walsh is hilarious, but then it has the scene where Deckard forces himself on the Replicant, but, of course, she really wants it. Really tedious. BTW, did they do The Long Goodbye in this series. Seems like it would fit perfectly.

[@kittymarch8455]

Can’t believe you missed Keira Knightly in Pirates of the Caribbean, filmed when she was 17. She had to have her mother on set!

[@koomo801]

I think all of their criticisms are valid. I saw it in the theater when it premiered and I also thought it was visually exciting and had some fantastic moments (mostly Batty's end), but people used to read back then. A lot. The ideas in this movie are nothing compared to what anyone who delved a little into sci-fi would have been exposed to. The special effects are nice but nothing ground-breaking at the time...there had been a steady advancement and expectation for good special effects since Kubrick's 2001. Ford comping off of two of the most charismatic roles in recent history was as drab and as uninteresting as he could be, and his apparently intentionally bad voice-over in the theatrical cut just made it worse. Finally, the title is meaningless. Friedkin also made that mistake with Sorcerer, another film that has finally outlived the meaninglessness of its title.

[@EasternRomeOrthodoxy]

What a horrible review wtf?? That film along with Siesta 1987 are the only true cinematic timeless films that were made after the golden era! Slow?? Soulless??? Wtf🤦‍♂️😂

[@jeshkam]

I could never understand Siesta. I love the soundtrack though.

[@EasternRomeOrthodoxy]

@@jeshkam Yes, the soundtrack is unseperable from the film, that is why that film is so perfect. And the fact that you didn't indicates how deeply spiritual that film is (though it's not necessarily proves it - see the pretentious David Lynch lol). It's a Christian tragedy about the meaning of life, love and sin